The Tree of Knowledge and the Christmas Tree. The Christmas spirit in Stifter's novella “Bergkristall”

The Christian would have answered him, perhaps not out of theoretical understanding, but out of emotional understanding: You may be right, that is what would have happened to the earth if the tree had been allowed to unfold its power, from which humans unlawfully enjoyed the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil through Lucifer's seduction. And when one thinks in this way about the development of the earth with this earthly goal after the desolation and loneliness of winter, after the cold and frost, also in relation to the soul life that would await everything earthly, and when one can connect this to the consequences of Lucifer's seduction, to the effects of the enjoyment of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then one can feel on the other side what the Christian idea actually means.