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...high and far over them and corrupted them with its wild power.

48. For the Prince of Fierceness in Nature gave the tree its power to destroy the people who ate of the shopkeeper’s wild fruit. Because they left the Tree of Life and sought their own cleverness, like Mother Eve in Paradise, their own innate quality ruled over them. They fell into such powerful error, as Saint Paul says original: "2 Thess. 2, 11.".

49. And the Prince of Fierceness stirred up war and storm winds from the wild tree in the North over the peoples who were not born from the wild tree, and they fell in their weariness and weakness before the storm that came out of the wild tree.

50. And the merchant under the good tree behaved hypocritically with the peoples toward the South, West, and North. He praised his wares highly and deceived the simple-minded with cunning. He made the clever ones into his merchants and shopkeepers so that they also had their profit from it, until he brought it to the point that no one saw or recognized the holy tree correctly anymore, and he gained the land as his own property.

51. Then he had it proclaimed original: "2 Thessal. 2.": 2 Thessalonians 2. I am the trunk of the good tree, and I stand on the root of the good tree, and I am engrafted into the Tree of Life. Buy my wares which I sell to you, and you will become healthy from your wild birth and live eternally. I have grown from the root of the good tree and I have the fruit of the Holy Tree in my power. I sit on the throne of divine power and have authority in heaven and on earth. Come to me and...

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Buy for yourselves for money the fruit of life.

52. Then all the peoples ran to him and bought and ate until they fainted. All the kings from the South, West, and toward the North ate of the shopkeeper's fruit and lived in great impotence; for the wild tree from the North grew ever larger over them and destroyed them for a long time. It was a miserable time on earth, such as had not been since the world began; but the people thought it was a good time, so severely had the merchant under the good tree blinded them.

53. But in the evening, the mercy of God took pity on the misery and blindness of men and moved the good tree once again, that magnificent, divine tree that bore the fruit of life. There, a branch grew near the root out of the precious tree and turned green. To it was given the sap and spirit of the tree, and it spoke with human tongues and showed everyone the precious tree, and its voice resounded far into many lands.

54. Then the people ran to see and hear what was there. The precious and virtuous Tree of Life was shown to them, from which people had eaten in the beginning and had been delivered from their wild birth.

55. And they were greatly rejoiced and ate from the Tree of Life with great joy and refreshment. They gained new strength from the true Tree of Life and sang a new song of the true Tree of Life. They were delivered from the wild birth and hated the merchant with his shops and false wares.

56. All those came who hungered and thirsted for the Tree of Life and those who sat in the dust, and they ate of the holy tree and became healthy from their unclean birth and from the fierceness of Nature in which they lived, and they were engrafted into the Tree of Life.

57. Only the shopkeepers of the merchant and their hypocrites, and those who had practiced their usury with the false wares and collected their treasures, did not come; for they were drowned in the usury of the merchant’s harlotry and in...