Eating of the "tree of life" is the same as the joy or happiness of manifesting neighbourly love, and leads to "cosmic consciousness" or the ability to be awake day-conscious in the "physical" world and the "spiritual" world at the same time
1552. This "eating" is in turn the same as the inspiration, joy and happiness of loving one's neighbour. Here we do not mean manners that have been merely schooled and practised in accordance with so-called "good breeding" or "etiquette", which is largely just a practised ability to camouflage or hide the inhumane or unloving aspects of the being's nature, so that they to a certain extent actually give its originator a tinge of culture or "neighbourly love". Neighbourly love is, indeed, something far more profound and heartfelt than that. It implies living and working in such a way that one's life and work caresses mankind as a whole. To desire this, to find joy in devoting one's life and energy to manifesting this is to "eat of the tree of life". It amounts to really living. It is being "one with the Father in His image after His likeness". And this real life begins thus to be fundamentally evident in the individual's exercise of will when and after it has a total experience of the "great birth". After this experience or "initiation" the being is awake day-conscious in the spiritual world, while having an awake day-conscious ability to experience on the physical plane.
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