Knowledge of good and evil

Du Bartas, Forman, and the elusive I.W. probably drew on similar sources and traditions and their lists suggest an association of the Fall, disease, and alchemy across a spectrum of literature, medical, alchemical, literary, and moral, in sixteenth-century Europe. Forman perused this material in pursuit of information about man, the cosmos, medicine, and disease. He documented what happened when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge and sowed the seeds of disease within their bodies. Banished from Paradise, they kept free will and the knowledge of good and evil, the two vehicles by which humankind had thereafter tried to return to the tree of life, once again to eat the food of angels and achieve eternity. 

Understanding is the attribute which corresponds to vision, intuition, penetration and information. As such. Understanding is the knowledge (gnosis) of Absolute Divine Things the Knowledge of Good and of Evil, but as their ind istinct perception. 

The Royal Secret, of which you are a Prince, if you are a true Adept, if knowledge seems to you advisable, and Philosophy is, for you, radiant with divine beauty, is that which the Zohar (Kabbalah) terms The Mystery of the Balance. It is the secret of the Universal Equilibrium. .. Of that Equilibrium between Good and Evil, Light and Darkness in the World, which assures us that all is the work of Infinite Wisdom and of an infinite Love... 

He, therefore, who now hears my words, let him search into them, which are to justify no evil-doer, but to benefit the good therefore I have discovered all things that were before hidden concerning this knowledge, and disclosed the greatest of all secrets, even the Intellectual Science. 

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