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Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 3:22-24 reveals a shift in the mind. The man 'becomes as one of us'—not a fall from grace, but a budding awareness that life is not a single, unchanging experience. The knowledge of good and evil marks the moment you wake to contrast, to choose, to define yourself by thought rather than by unbroken presence. When you know good and evil, you no longer remain content with the garden of immediate sensation; you seek immortality as a continuous state of awareness, and that longing calls forth a guard. The cherubim with a flaming sword is the disciplined guard of attention—your internal decision to stop identifying with the old consciousness and to focus on the life that is now. The expulsion is therefore a translation from a passive condition into an active self-authoring; you till the ground of your present sense of self, building a life from the new awareness. Notice that the Tree of Life remains within reach provided you keep your consciousness centered in the I AM rather than in stories of separation.