Page "Tree of life" Paragraph 18

The nature of the tree, or quality of the tree, is dependent on our inner state.

It is described as the tree of life, when our will is focused on what is good and true ( spiritual truths or truths of faith ), yet as the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when our will is focussed on mere natural memory knowledges and a ' seeing is believing ' attitude.

The result of us relying and living our life according to our own understanding is that, from that moment ( the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil ) on, we are to rationally consider what to believe and filter with our natural understanding, rather than accepting what is good directly in our will, which was depicted of the Most Ancient people by Adam.

Eve then represents a separate will being given to us, and the two ( will and understanding ) are separated.