The Garden of Eden (2)

One of the institutions of Paradise, so it was pointed out, was the tree of life. This tree was good for food and nourished man's frame at its fountain head. It was capable of maintaining in man the powers of an endless life. However, man soon forfeited his privilege of eating of the fruit of this tree. He did so when he ate of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereupon disobedient man was expelled from the garden of Eden. And the way of the tree of life was kept...