Original Sin

The Original Sin and the Elixir of Life

In Genesis Eve is asked by the Serpent if she can eat of every plant in paradise. Her reply is:
“We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.”
Then the Serpent urged Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, but Eve was fearful of Gods wrath and would not do what the Serpent commanded so he assured her:
“You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  In Hebrew be opened can be translated broadened. The word eyes in Hebrew is not plural but singular and is translated knowledge. So what the Serpent actually said was:
“You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eye will be broadened by knowledge, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The eye is not a physical organ in the Bible but the eye of the mind or the soul. In the Hindu religion the singular eye is called the Third Eye of clairvoyance, as with the eye of Osiris in Egypt and the All-Seeing Eye in Freemasonry. Remember this because it won’t be the last time this will be mentioned and it is important. Theospohist Helena Petrova Blavatsky writes in the second volume of The Secret Doctrine that the Divine Race of Men fell “not because they had eaten from the Fruit of Knowledge and knew Good from Evil, but because they knew no better.”
The Gnostics had a different view, from the Christians, of what took place in the Garden of Eden that day. To them Paradise had been created by the Demiurg to keep people happy, content and ignorant. The statement: You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die, was in fact a lie because the Demiurg knew that man would transform when eating the Forbidden Fruit and see that he was a tyrannical god subject to the divine Light. The serpent, widely regarded in the old days as a source of wisdom and transformation, actually tried to help free Adam and Eve from their bonds of the Demiurg. Jesus said (Matthew 10:16):

"Be ye as wise as serpents."

When they ate from the fruit they saw what Demiurg didn’t want them to see and so they rebelled against him and were cast out of Paradise into a world of sufferings. A guardian prevented man from returning to eat from the Forbidden Fruit and attain immortality and become free from all worldly bonds, where he is greater than the Demiurg.
If the Gnostic’s version of the story is taken into account together with the views already expressed then clearly to eat from the Tree of Life, Tree of Good and Evil, or from the Forbidden Fruit (whatever you may call it) would open the Third Eye and reveal the true reality of the Demiurg, the Creator in the Old Testament, that is imperfect just like his creation. So in a sense Demiurg, or the God and Almighty Father of the Old Testament is infact, by Christian standards, Satan! A statement I am sure to be burned at the stake for writing had I lived in a different time.
There is more to tell about the eating of the Forbidden Fruit and it concerns a metaphorical secret that might not only give human beings spiritual immortality, but also physical.
After Eve had eaten from the Forbidden Fruit the Serpent made her promise that she would also give Adam the fruit to eat of, which she did. If Orginal Sin is the origin of death or if it’s Adam’s actions, which we imitate, that leads to the sin and death can be argued. Death and Sin does not necessarily mean the same thing in the scriptures, but what is important is that the symbolic act of eating caused sin and eventually death, or to put it in another way; to eat is the beginning of decline.
When we eat from the Forbidden Fruit we awake and die and become reborn and/or by not eating, or eating right as shall be discussed further on, we might become as a God because we would attain immortality, or at least longevity. Now H.L. Mencken stated in his creed:

“I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.”

But he also said:

“I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race.”

Maybe because of this failure in trying to resist eating that in Christianity and Judaism fasting is a symbol of sadness, mourning and punishment for sins. Fasting is symbolically ‘not eating’ and perhaps it is because of the Original Sin and beginning of death by digestion that this ritual emerged? Contrary in the Islamic faith the act of fasting is an annual ritual, the Ramadan, of worship and joy.
Alchemists have sought, what some are said to have found, the Elixir of Life. If this is drunk it is believed to prolong life, but not prevent death, and restore health and youth. What could this elixir be? Could it be more scientific than at first believed. More technical than mythological? Is the Holy Grail, supposedly containing the blood of Jesus Christ, a symbol of the truth behind immortality and not just a legend concerning it? Or is the Holy Grail the actual Emeral Tablet that holds the recipe for this Elixir of Life? Maybe what we eat and how we eat are more important than we give it credit? Not just for the gain or loss of weight, but the actual gain or loss of years of life.
In modern times the sales of books dealing with recipes and diets have the highest sales figures than any other genre. This clearly shows that the human race love and fear food, knowing perhaps unconsciously, that it will bring about their ruin just like it did for Adam and Eve.
In conclusion the story of the Forbidden Fruit can be looked at in two ways.

1.    A warning and a guide to reach physical immortality i.e. not eating, or eating right.
2.    An encouragement to open the Third Eye and see the Demiurg in all his falsehood conquering the shackles of the world and reaching spiritual immortality.

The following paragraphs will deal with the first of these points, after which the second point will be further developed on. It’s a larger and more complex issue and the concepts of Third Eye, Logos and Gnosticism will pop up here and there throughout history so be prepared.

Free Radicals, Antioxidants, Telomeres and Calories

Free radicals are a toxic byproduct of the body’s metabolism. When food is metabolized it burns oxygen, a process called oxidation, which produces free radicals that combine and form toxic molecules that attack and burn everything they touch at a molecular level. They can destroy cell membranes, disrupt bodily processes, reprogram DNA, form mutant cells and more. Mainly free radical damage is the major cause of aging and of all degenerative conditions. In fact around 80 per cent of damage to the body is the result of free radicals.
The more difficult the digestion is, like meat, the more oxidation is required to break it down. More oxidation, more free radicals.
In the Gnostic text The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, which is similar to the Christian gospels, Jesus repeatedly talks about the importance of vegetarian food and speaks out against the cruelty of animals. Perhaps he knew more than what his so-called modern-day followers dare to admit?
Free radicals are produced in response to many different everyday things, such as:

Food:
All foods subjected to high heat especially animal products made from cows, pigs, lambs, fishes, chickens and other birds, eggs, dairy products, animal fats and proteins, metabolic waste products contained in animal tissues and organs. Refined foods like white sugar, white flour and hydrogenated oils. Preservatives, colorings and other food additives. Leftovers. Tap water.

        Pollutions/Radiations:
Environmental pollution from chemicals, asbestos, pesticide residues, and other man-made pollutants including the out-gassing of plastic and other synthetics, lack of clean fresh air, smoking, passive smoking, radiation from outside power linesm TV’s, computer monitors and worst of all microwave ovens.

Drugs:
Alcohol, chemotherapy, medications, prescriptions and over the counter drugs.

Physical/Psychological:
Sunburn and sun exposure through the weakend ozone layer, exposure to excess heat or cold, metabolism, heart disease, strokes, inflammation, stress, non-positive mental states and excessive physical and mental exertion.

Other:
        Synthetic materials such as polyester, acetate, satin and plastic.

But nature has designed it so that the body produces substances called antioxidants, which convert free radicals into harmless molecules. Uric acid is one of the body’s most powerful natural antioxidants. The ability to produce this powerful antioxidant depends on factors such as age, gene inheritance, nutrition and stress.
Progreria is a rare disease that affects children. Its effect is an inability to produce metabolic antioxidant enzymes. Therefore a person suffering from this horrible illness age at an extremly accelerated rate where a ten-year-old child might have the same look and feel as a very old person.
There are foods that create plenty of antioxidants such as barely, wheat, kamut, chlorella, oat, raw and uncooked foods from the plant kingdom, grape seed, grape skin, pine bark, rosemary and green tea.
At the tips of the DNA molecule contain a chain of repeating enzymes called telomeres (kinda like the blank leaders on film or the plastic covering on the ends of shoe laces). These telomeres provide a shock-absorbing zone where replication errors will not result in any of the vital DNA sequence being lost. When cells die, due to free radicals, they duplicate and life goes on. But each time a small portion of the DNA molecule is lost and not copied.
This loss is usually to the telomere and it has been noted that as humans grow older these telomeres shorten till eventually they are so short that the losses in replication affect the vital DNA molecule sequence thus preventing the cell from its ability to duplicate, which brings about the aging process.
Only in the germ cells, that are the progenitors of sperm and egg, are the telomeres restored by an enzyme called telomerase making them basically immortal. Also in cancer cells are the telomeres restored and this is the reason why tumours are so deadly, because they can duplicate ad infinitum.     
Scientists, like Dr. Jerry Shay and Dr. Woodring Wright, have artificially lengthened the telomeres in cells and the result was a prolonged life the equivalent of an extra hundreds of years of human life. Now it has not yet been fully understood and is in no way a practice, yet, that could safely be applied to a living human being and cause him/her to become practically immortal - or more accurately to become indefinite. What is important to note, though, are the following five points:

1.    Eating, and eating wrong, causes excessive amounts of free radicals.
2.    Free radicals cause cells to die.
3.    When cells die they duplicate.
4.    Each time cells duplicate the telomeres in the DNA molecule are shortened.
5.    When the telomeres become too short the DNA data is lost and aging is the result followed by death.

All living things require energy to survive, including Homo Sapiens, and this energy is derived from the food that is consumed. The standard measure of heat energy is the calorie. One calorie (kcal) is the amount necessary to heat one gram of water to one degree Ceclsius.
Humans need three types of foods, macronutrients, which are carbonhydrates, proteins and fats (minerals and vitamins are also essential). When the macronutrients are broken down in the digestive system they are transported to the bloodstream that delivers them to cells where they are used for energy. Proteins yield 4 kcal per gram and fats yield 9 kcal per gram.
Since the 1930’s scientists have known that calorie-restricted diets of animals can increase a life span 50 per cent longer than normal. This means that a diet low in calories, but high in nutrients, would extend the length of a persons life and improves his/hers health.

The Eating Habits of Comte de Saint Germain

There are many men that has been believed to have gained immortality. One that shall be mentioned here, due to his peculiar eating habits, is the Wonderman who was an adventurer, an alchemist and a diplomat. His main position in history is in during the 18th century and there are many tales spun about and around him. One of great interest is that he is said to have possessed the Elixir of Life. The full details on this illustrious man will be dealt with further on but the following fits better here that anywhere else.
Although Comte de Saint Germain never ate or drank in public he had a very strict diet of oatmeal, groats and the white meat of chicken. He had a recipe of a purge made of senna pods and on rare occasions would have some wine. He took great precautions to minimize the wear and tear of the body always trying to avoid  getting a cold. When he slept he allegedly stopped the mechanism of the human clock. The physcial decay that occurs unknowingly within the body, like the free radicals spoken of earlier, were known by him in some form.
Now if eating is equal death than does this mean we should cease to eat? No, but we should definitly eat less. What then? Perhaphs the Elixir of Life holds some clue. If a potion could be made that held all that is vitally necessary for the functions of the body to keep working is regularly drunk, and if also the person puts himself in a meditating state where he projects and restores his energy to what suits him best then he would not need to consume the same amount of foods as the everyday man. By eating less the process of decay will take longer thus ensuring a greater life span of up to a minimum of double what is considered normal.
In northern China, amongst the mountains, lies a village (Sinhua) where the average life expectancy is 85 years and no case of serious disease have been registered. This is due to the fresh mountain air, the eating of foods with no chemical supplements and the drinking of pure spring water. Around the village over 200 kinds of medicinial plants grow, in ancient woods, which they use as food supplements.
Can such a place be found in the modern world?
If not is it doomed?