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I tend to disagree with the "Eve was made of a rib from Adam" premise as well, but it's what's written in the Bible and who am I to claim the Bible is wrong ?
Well, some people made a deal with the Romans, part of the deal was to murder the Essene and to remove or distort every hint that could lead to the feminine principle in the bible.
When you read older scriptures around the world you can see that this happened.
It was not the birth of the patriarchy, this had been going on for some time (in the later Egyptian dynasties)
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the deeper you delve, the more the amazement grows... until it becomes so complex, you no longer can wrap your head around all of it. That may be the reason why I never completed my masters degree
Congratulations, to me it means that you have a mind of your own.
The mind cannot grasp the spirit / nagual, nor describe this, it can only be experienced.
The Gods of the ancient people are no Gods at all strictly spoken, they are symbols for the manifestations of Great Mystery, the natural laws.
So when you start thinking on this you will always end up with a short circuit in your brain.
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Would you mind telling more about the three trees (or provide some links) ?
It's the first time I hear about this and I'm quite intruiged.
I'm still struggling to fully grasp the meaning of the two trees (life and knowledge), so now it gets even more complicated

I could write for the rest of my life on this, but that would be a waist of energy, modern language has no power and what counts is the own experience.
If there were only two trees, how could you then walk in the middle?
The creating principle (for this world) is one that becomes two.
The universal intelligence (God), woman/man (the son), the Self (holy spirit)
Man, woman, androgyn
Breath in, breath out, the silence (where) they meet.
You may want to control sexual energy, you may be controlled by sexual energy, you mastered sexual energy.
So it is three, a triangle.
There are four directions / elements / dragons, another important 'number'.
Multiplied you get for instance the 12 signs of the zodiac ( 3 signs for every element, so three 'levels' in one element)
Added you get for instance the seven chakra's or the seven notes? of an octave. The 8th note is the end of one octave and the beginning of the next. This 8th is the shock, meaning there is no gradual grow, every cycle ends with chaos / shock.
You can see this also in cell splitting? (when the egg is fertillized) The cell splitting goes on for seven steps, then there is a movement inwards (to attain direction) then the splitting / growing continues and breaks out of the border /diameter of the egg.
When you take a deeper look at this you will find it to be more simple then the stuff we have today.
So there are three trees, different trees.
Though all is connected mankind is closer connected to trees then tho other beings.
Natives call trees the standing people, cause that's what they are, their 'spine' is just like ours upwards. So when you look at this trees you see what you are and what you can become again, unwinding yourself.
In Egypt the Nile stands for (though the flow has changed) the spine, the pyramids in the north for the glands in the head, the temples along the Nile for the chakra's.
In Komombo is the temple for the second chakra, you will find crocodiles here.
The second chakra is about sexuality and safety, easy to understand that when you keep people in fear they will never / ever grow to individuation.
A little warning : Just as enlightenment strikes you like a bold of lightning burning downwards, so will awakening of the Kundalini be as the flow of lava upwards.
Don't try to force either of these with your (ego)will.
Ps : sorry for the misspelling of some words.