Surrender, God, the Tree of Knowledge, Emerson, Adam and Eve, and symbolic life

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Surrender includes the necessity of losing any idea of right and wrong, for you never know what God will ask of you, and thus by losing such preconceptions you cease to eat the fruit of The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and instead eat from the Tree of Life.

To make no errors makes no gains.

‘The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’ is the symbol of duality in which the mind is bound.

“That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is what it is.

This is not this.

The wave moves  but not the water.

To look with judgment is to judge God, and who is capable of that?

Adam (atom) enters (i.e. ‘falls’ into) Eve (the event), in the lowering of energetic vibrations from the fluidity of pattern (Pater) to the consistency of matter (Mater).

The symbolic is manifest, the manifest symbolic. Which is to say that something seemingly profane and linear- a couch, for example-when viewed with built-up symbology (i.e. as perhaps a couch with a flamingo standing upon it, eating a spatchula while juggling ancient Greek busts), and then denied these add-ons, so that one has again only the original event (the couch)- is in fact subtly, though absolutely, symbolic. To strip away the additions is to see the symbol in light of its built-up presentation. This does not imply that one now understands the symbology of the event, for that ignorance itself is more a characteristic of the symbolic than the manifest, thus supporting the original argument.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.