What The Fire Said: And Ye shall be as Gods

What The Fire Said

What The Fire Said is the portal for my own art and writing. It is necessarily a work in progress, and you are welcome to return anytime to see what has been added here.

In my header you will see both contemporary calibration dials and centuries-old symbols used in the practice of alchemy. My art tends to operate at the interface between such extremes: between our shared distant past and an unknown far future, between the realities of history and the at-times greater realities that lie over the threshold in the world of myth. At these extremes science and magic, myth and history turn into each other, become indistinguishable from each other – as in the far future they well might. ~ Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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Hawkwood (David Bergen)

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"And ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:5. The promise made by the serpent to Eve as a way of persuading her to eat of the fruit of the Tree. Intriguingly, only in Genesis is it called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Book of Enoch, which contains many details lacking in Genesis - including the actual appearance of the fruit - refers to it simply as the Tree of Knowledge, with no attached moral values. This is what true knowledge is; it is up to us how we use that knowledge, and how we apply our own moral values to that knowledge. The Deity wished to keep the insights and experiences which come with such knowledge for himself. The serpent, the friend and ally of humankind, knew in his wisdom that humans would need to possess that knowledge as a necessary means for the soul to progress. But the wise serpent also knew that the price that he would pay would be to be cursed in doctrine for the coming millennia, damned like Prometheus for stealing fire from the gods for mankind's benefit. I have here incorporated into my painting the geomantic symbols for good and evil. It falls to us to stand at the fulcrum of these opposing forces.

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