1180. The "Bible's" story of "Adam" and "Eve" is thus in principle a beautiful story about a great existence in the light, in which "Adam" and "Eve" lived with the Godhead, and about how this existence in the light was dependent on one not eating of the "tree of knowledge", which means, not carrying out dark actions or promoting the killing principle. Indeed, it shows us that not even there did reincarnation exist in the drastic form it takes on the terrestrial plane. If it really had the same rough or robust appearance in the existence in the light, there would have been no basis for the Godhead saying that "Adam" and "Eve" would "die" if they "ate of the forbidden fruit". It is a well-known fact that during the existence in the darkness or the zone of the killing principle the idea of reincarnation is lost, this loss being the reason why "death" then must seem to be an absolute "death" for the individual, which means, a total cessation of life and consciousness. That it was not such an absolute "death" that the Godhead had intended when He spoke to "Adam" and "Eve" became established as a fact through the words of the "serpent" to "Eve", where it said: "Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil". In truth, these are words that leave no doubt whatsoever about the identity and rank of their originator as a real "world redeemer". Indeed, cosmic clear-sightedness shows us that "Adam" and "Eve" or the living being shall not "die" in the absolute sense, but its heavenly or superterrestrial existence in the light shall "die" when the terrestrial, physical state of darkness becomes a vital necessity. The nature of the principle of memory is of course such that it allows everything that has been outgrown to the point of nausea and that therefore lies outside the being's temporary, vital sphere of interest, to be forgotten in favour of the fulfilment of its vital interests. And is that not precisely what has happened? The terrestrial human being during its culmination of darkness does not of course believe in an "eternal life"; in fact, it cannot even grasp the possibility of, or the justification for, the existence of such a life. As we see here the words of both the Godhead and the "serpent" are a revelation of the "truth". Is "Adam" and "Eve's" knowledge of light, of their own high cosmic identity and of eternal life, not "death" in the same way as their knowledge of the sufferings and darkness of the physical world was "death" before they "ate of the tree of knowledge"?