Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    educations. The Pre-Adamites were not in the Garden of Eden, and did not eat of the Tree of Knowledge. With reference to the origination of “ Evil ”— it becomes evident that from the very first both good and evil were existent; they were present ab initio,'' and the “ Tree of Knowledge,” which Yahveh Elohim “ made to grow,” as well as the “ Tree of Life,” both gave to the eater the “ Know- ledge of discriminating between good and evil ” : the difference between the two being that the “ Tree of Life ” caused the eater to “ live for ever,” and the “ Tree of Knowledge ” gave the eater the germ of death. Death was in existence in the world before Adam, and probably it depended upon Adam and Eve’s action whether they lived for ever, or whether their bodies died. Both good and evil therefore existed before Adam, otherwise the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil would have had no meaning, and we see in Chapter vi. verse 5, that Elohim saw that the wickedness of the Pre-Adamites was great, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. This statement is confirmed by Yahveh in Chapter viii. verse 21, and it is evidently an attribute of the Gods to know good and evil, for in Chapter iii. verse 22, “ Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil,” plainly states this ;