C-BTB08 (Sep 7, 2022)
Puzzle
“Knowledge.”
Knowledge | 3 Words
Clue
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Clue 1: Knowledge caused the Fall...or did it, exactly?
Clue 2: What exactly does Knowledge represent?
Clue 3: In the Bible, it wasn't the 'tree of knowledge', it was the tree of...
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Good And Evil
Explanation: This is a reference to 'knowledge of good and evil', which in the Bible comes from the Tree of Good and Evil - and, in both it and CaD, is what caused the Fall.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[BRANCH] THE LAST CAFE
[SERVER] VIII
[DATE] 9/7/22
[INDEX ID] BTB08
[SECURITY] CAFE
What a pity. The Enochian Bible was right there—so tantalizingly close—and yet, just beyond my reach. If only we could have wandered through those memories at will—better yet, if only we could have received all of Abraxas' memories regarding the Spire and how it operates. It would have saved me so much trouble. But no matter. I can always dig through his old notes another day. The priority now is stopping Eve, and at least we finally know what makes her so damn dangerous—just like the legends say, she ate the apple. She truly has full knowledge of "good and evil."
As I understand it, we were never witnessing the actual events as they originally played out. I know, I know, it rather undermines No. I's entire premise, doesn't it? What I mean to say is, we were observing the effects of a sealed time loop. A cycle before cycles. The very act of sending the Serpent back with the apple before the forging of the Pocketwatch was bound to create a paradox. Fortunately, we don't have to worry about such absurdities in our own cyclical existence. But before time was shaped? Anything goes. Eve eats the apple, sees all that is to come, and then—to ensure she gets the apple in the first place—doesn't change a damn thing.
Yes, the charitable interpretation of what we saw is that Eve was overwhelmed with love for her children and Abraxas. Charity, of course, is for fools. Eve had one goal—knowledge. She was stagnant in her Utopia without it. Forever fated to be Demiurge's idle worker—never a Master in her own right. If she had altered her fate, if she had stopped Secret then and there, she would never have had the chance to become anything more than what she already was. Mm… that, and the little matter of the Paradox. Good or evil, once Eve changed the course of events, everything would have unraveled anyway—it's not like she could just waltz into the safety of the Pocketwatch's temporal flow.
Eve did what she did to ensure her survival and, more importantly, her ascension to the rank of Master. Sure, call me cynical, say that Eve acted out of love for her children. But don't forget, I too have dined on the forbidden knowledge of "good" and "evil," and to me, it's crystal clear why she did what she did. She chose to be trapped in her rotting insanity, banking on the assumption that some well-meaning idiots would eventually find her a loophole back into the cyclical flow of time.
And, by the way, congratulations on being played, idiots.