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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was lustrous greens with ebony wood that glittered with deeper hues of obsidian, fire opal, lapis lazuli, azurite, bloodstone, ammolite, malachite, alexandrite, all the -ites, and a rainbow of quartz and agates. It was beautiful, stunning, awe-inspiring and above all else–seductive. The magnetic draw of its richness was not a mystery to those who have seen it. To lay your eyes upon it. To run your hand along the bark and into the ridges of its dark rainbow is to understand why it was forbidden and to understand that, if you had a dragon at your disposal, you would guard it jealously. A dragon…or a malicious God.
Chuck sent the Serpent to guard it. The Serpent was the gatekeeper of knowledge and Chuck did guard it jealously, but he also craved the exaltation and adoration for his Good Works. So, he had to tell someone he created it. And he told Adam and Eve. Of course, he forbade it. He expected his children to be obedient. He expected his children to be adoring and loving without compunction. He expected them to listen and trust his decisions implicitly.
But don’t children always break your heart?
Eve ran her hand along the beloved tree. The tree that set her free from her Father’s Garden. The tree that gave her her heart’s desire. She knew it’s every ridge and stem. She watched it grow over the millenia. She didn’t guard it jealously. She didn't guard it all. It existed. It will always exist and she loved it. God had forgotten it. God had shut them all away in Purgatory like so many scrapped papers in his pursuit for Perfection. Everything that ever stood in his way, he locked up and cast out. Amara, his equal. Whole universes. And Eve. Eve was cast out where Adam left because she adored The Tree. I am a jeal9us God. Truly he was. When Chuck “cast her out” of the Garden–meaning locked the gates and shoved the universe aside (and inside another) for bigger and better things–Eve danced.
Chuck was incensed.
He cursed the whole Garden in his rage. His ire created the monsters that Eve calls her children. She loved them…when The Creator was appalled by the consequences of his own rage. And much to her delight, she found she could create more and she became The Great Mother.
And she waited in Purgatory doing her small acts of creation and loving them. She waited for Chuck to no longer be the dominant force in this universe…and then the Mother of Monsters would be free.