God Only Knows What God Was Up To

There's gnostic speculation that the original god, this one, was not really a very good god. He wanted his creation to be unconscious, and so forbade them from developing consciousness. And there's an echo of that here, even though it's from independent tradition. The thing isn't quite real till you name it. It's certainly in a strange form where everything's using a mass of confusion before you put your finger on it. Gady, his tricky character n't in the story of adam and eve, it's like, ok, if we can't eat the damned thing while wy put it in the garden to begin with, that would be one question.