This was partly because it has a strong connection with the devas, the nature spirits that look after trees, plants, rivers, mountains and all aspects of nature.
Here, too, were vast plantations, and east of the mountains were regularly planted groves of the rubber tree, the genuine Siphonia Elastica of botany.
Here also flourished the Cinchonas, as well as many other trees now indigenous to South America, colonized plants from Poseid.
Until planted abroad by Atlanteans, these vegetable treasures never grew outside of Poseid, and today, the wild forests of peculiar South American trees and shrubs are the direct descendants of our regularly cultivated farm and plantation products in Umaur.
Thus the tree of life was not a tree but a book that spoke.
Aubrey Marcus: Well, I mean the tree of life is the encoding of divine value and the tension between those values.
Like everything in the tree is an architecture of reality and how we make sense of virtue, value, and the balance and tension between these—the male and female aspects, masculine feminine.
Of course it’s not a real tree.
I’ve studied the tree very deeply and it’s an incredible map.
It’s iterated in different levels of complexity, but this is a way to understand the complexity through the symbology of these that are in the tree.
You know, one piece that I can add here is when God in Genesis is punishing the snake for actually encouraging Adam and Eve to eat from the fruit of the tree of life, He says “from henceforth you will crawl on your belly.” Which means that the snake had legs.
The Guanches revered dragon trees as sacred.
They held important gatherings, councils of elders, and justice ceremonies under these trees.
The trees were seen as sources of magic, wisdom, fertility, protection, and divination.
The dragon tree in La Orotava (often called the Dragon Tree of La Orotava or Franchy's Dragon Tree):
The dragon’s blood spilled on the ground and gave rise to the dragon trees.
The Tree of Knowledge certainly helped me to see how high the Elohim were - even archangels are called Beni Elohim - Sons of the Elohim.
The Tree of Knowledge reminded us that everything in Creation is balanced.
Submerged forests: Ancient tree stumps (oak, pine, birch, etc.) are regularly exposed at low tide or after storms on beaches like Borth and Ynyslas near Aberdyfi.
In one survival motif, a virtuous couple climbed a tall palm tree (like a pindó or eternal palm) and clung to its top until the waters receded.
As more years passed, we who safeguarded these secrets were branded heretics, and in the name of God, the fruit of our family tree was burned at the stake.
Hast thou not robbed the tree of its fruit in order to feed the body?
Yet thou seest a tree come up out of the ground, ten thousand corporeal pounds, and stand erect in the air.
Thou seeth a tree grow, but puttest Jehovih away, and sayest: Behold it groweth by natural laws!
Now, thou utterest a falsehood, for it is only a piece of cloth painted, whilst the place thou speakest of, is land, and trees, and water.
When Tae had completed his labors he made a tablet of events, and classified them, and he called the tablet Orachnebauhgalah, because it was of the line of the tree of Jehovih, being the last of the fruits of the Hebrew language.
Here, too, were vast plantations, and east of the mountains were regularly planted groves of the rubber tree, the genuine Siphonia Elastica of botany.
Here also flourished the Cinchonas, as well as many other trees now indigenous to South America, colonized plants from Poseid.
Mango tree leaves have powerful antiviral properties that can help protect your family from viruses.
She is also associated with symbols like the olive tree, which persisted in Eastern Orthodoxy.
In Genesis 3, the serpent tells Eve that eating from the Tree of Knowledge will open her eyes and make her like God, knowing good and evil.
In contrast, God commands avoidance of the tree to keep humans in a state of innocence and simplicity.
You can begin with the first level of mastery: sitting between a tree and a brook, matching heartbeat and breath to the wind and babbling water to enter an altered state.
I sat in a babbling brook flowing from mountains, with a mystical tree behind me, as you described.
The tree was huge, semifloating on a boulder with air roots.
During the tree and brook meditation, the environment changed—a white mist enveloped the room, and I focused on the body channeling now.
I spent 17-20 years camping in woods, trees, rivers, lakes across US and Europe.
Example: Seed to sprout logical; seed to tree too far—many attempt unsuccessfully.
Taught communication: sit like rock, move like tree.
One tiny fairy-like taught tree/stone souls, their language.
You become comfortable eating from the tree of all knowledge, no longer punishing yourself.
It manifests the power of God who speaks to us through sun and moon and stars;3. Through mountain, hill and vale; through flower, and plant and tree.4. God sings for us through bird, and harpsichord, and human voice; he speaks to us through wind and rain and thunder roll; why should we not bow down and worship at his feet?5. God speaks to hearts apart; and hearts apart must speak to him; and this is prayer.6. It is not prayer to shout at God, to stand, or sit, or kneel and tell him all about the sins of men.7. It is not prayer to tell the Holy One how great he is, how good he is, how strong and how compassionate.8. God is not man to be bought up by praise of man.9. Prayer is the ardent wish that every way of life be light; that every act be crowned with good; that every living thing be prospered by our ministry.10. A noble deed, a helpful word is prayer; a fervent, an effectual prayer.11. The fount of prayer is in the heart; by thought, not words, the heart is carried up to God, where it is blest, Then let us pray.12. They prayed, but not a word was said; but in that holy Silence every heart was blest.13. And then Elihu spoke.
I took the wand and touched the sand, and every grain of sand became a living thing; the beach was all a mass of beauty and of song.8. I touched the waters at my feet, and they were changed to trees, and flowers, and singing birds, and every thing was praising God.9. And some one spoke, I did not see the one who spoke, I heard the voice, which said, There is no death.10. Grandmother Anna loved the child; she laid her hand on Jesus' head and said, I saw you stand beside the sea; I saw you touch the sand and waves; I saw them turn to living things and then I knew the meaning of the dream.11. The sea of life rolls high; the storms are great.
Lo, God is Thought, and Thought is God.18. Then Vidyapati wrote the second postulate:19. Eternal Thought is one; in essence it is two--Intelligence and Force; and when they breathe a child is born; this child is Love.20. And thus the Triune God stands forth, whom men call Father-Mother-Child.21. This Triune God is one; but like the one of light, in essence he is seven.22. And when the Triune God breathes forth, lo, seven Spirits stand before his face; these are creative attributes.23. Men call them lesser gods, and in their image they made man.24. And Kaspar wrote the third:25. Man was a thought of God, formed in the image of the Septonate, clothed in the substances of soul.26. And his desires were strong; he sought to manifest on every plane of life, and for himself he made a body of the ethers of the earthly forms, and so descended to the plane of earth.27. In this descent he lost his birthright; lost his harmony with God, and made discordant all the notes of life.28. Inharmony and evil are the same; so evil is the handiwork of man.29. Ashbina wrote the fourth:30. Seeds do not germinate in light; they do not grow until they find the soil, and hide themselves away from light.31. Man was evolved a seed of everlasting life; but in the ethers of the Triune God the light was far too great for seeds to grow;32. And so man sought the soil of carnal life, and in the darksomeness of earth he found a place where he could germinate and grow.33. The seed has taken root and grown full well.34. The tree of human life is rising from the soil of earthy things, and, under natural law, is reaching up to perfect form.35. There are no supernatural acts of God to lift a man from carnal life to spirit blessedness; he grows as grows the plant, and in due time is perfected.36. The quality of soul that makes it possible for man to rise to spirit life is purity.
and every tree that bears not wholesome fruit is cut down at the roots and cast into the fire.15. And then the people asked, What must we do?16. And John replied, Accept the ministry of helpfulness for all mankind; spend not upon your selfish selves all that you have.17. Let him who has two coats give one to him who has no coat; give part of all the food you have to those in need.18. And when the publicans came up and asked, What must we do?
and Peter is your name.7. And Philip found Nathaniel sitting by a tree, and said, My brother, come with me, for I have found the Christ!
And Philip answered, Come and see.9. When Jesus saw Nathaniel come he said, Behold an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile!10. Nathaniel said, How can you speak about me thus?11. And Jesus said, I saw you as you sat beneath the fig tree over there, before your brother called.12. Nathaniel lifted up his hands and said, This surely is the Christ, the king, for whom the harbinger has often testified.13. And John went forth and found his brother James, and brought him to the Christ.14. The six disciples went with Jesus to the place where he abode.15. And Peter said, We long have sought for Christ.
Lift up your eyes and look; the fields are golden with the ripened grain.8. Lo, many sowers have gone forth to sow the seeds of life; the seed has grown; the plants have strengthened in the summer sun; the grain has ripened, and the master calls for men to reap.9. And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will rejoice.10. And Philip said to Jesus, Stay now your work a time and sit beneath this olive tree and eat a portion of this food; you must be faint for you have eaten naught since early day.11. But Jesus said, I am not faint, for I have food to eat you know not of.12. Then the disciples said among themselves, Who could have brought him aught to eat?13. They did not know that he had power to turn the very ethers into bread.14. And Jesus said, The master of the harvest never sends his reapers forth and feeds them not.15. My Father who has sent me forth into the harvest field of human life will never suffer me to want; and when he calls for you to serve, lo, he will give you food, will clothe and shelter you.16. Then turning to the people of Samaria, he said, Think not it strange that I, a Jew, should speak to you, for I am one with you.17. The universal Christ who was and is, and evermore shall be, is manifest in me; but Christ belongs to every man.18. God scatters forth his blessings with a lavish hand, and he is not more kind to one than to another one of all the creatures of his hand.19. I just came up from Judah's hills, and God's same sun was shining and his flowers were blooming, and in the night his stars were just as bright as they are here.20. God cannot cast a child away; the Jew, the Greek and the Samaritan are equal in his sight.21. And why should men and women fret and quarrel, like children in their plays?22. The lines that separate the sons of men are made of straw, and just a single breath of love would blow them all away.23. The people were amazed at what the stranger said, and many said, The Christ that was to come has surely come.24. And Jesus went with them into the town, and tarried certain days.
1. The fruitage of the tree of life is all too fine to feed the carnal mind.2. If you would throw a diamond to a hungry dog, lo, he would turn away, or else attack you in a rage.3. The incense that is sweet to God is quite offensive unto Beelzebul; the bread of heaven is but chaff to men who cannot comprehend the spirit life.4. The master must be wise and feed the soul with what it can digest.5. If you have not the food for every man, just ask and you shall have; seek earnestly and you shall find.6. Just speak the Word and knock; the door will fly ajar.7. No one has ever asked in faith and did not have; none ever sought in vain; no one who ever knocked aright has failed to find an open door.8. When men shall ask you for the bread of heaven, turn not away, nor give to them the fruit of carnal trees.9. If one, a son, would ask you for a loaf, would you give him a stone?
They clothe themselves in skins of sheep, while they are vicious wolves.16. They cannot long conceal themselves; men know them by their fruits;17. You cannot gather grapes from thorns, nor from the thistles, figs.18. The fruit is daughter of the tree and, like the parent, so the child; and every tree that bears not wholesome fruit is plucked up by the roots and cast away,19. Because a man prays long and loud is not a sign that he is saint.
The trees of Juda, and the flowers of Heth?
An honest evil man is more esteemed by guardians of the soul than a dishonest pious man.30. If you would curse the son of man, just curse him out aloud.31. A curse is poison to the inner man, and if you hold and swallow down a curse it never will digest; lo, it will poison every atom of your soul.32. And if you sin against a son of man, you may be pardoned and your guilt be cleansed by acts of kindness and of love;33. But if you sin against the Holy Breath by disregarding her when she would open up the doors of life for you;34. By closing up the windows of the soul when she would pour the light of love into your hearts, and cleanse them with the fires of God;35. Your guilt shall not be blotted out in this, nor in the life to come.36. An opportunity has gone to come no more, and you must wait until the ages roll again.37. Then will the Holy Breath again breathe on your fires of life, and fan them to a living flame.38. Then she will open up the doors again, and you may let her in to sup with you for evermore, or you may slight her once again, and then again.39. You men of Israel, your opportunity is now.40. Your tree of life is an illusive tree; it has a generous crop of leaves; its boughs hang low with fruit.41. Behold, your words are leaves; your deeds the fruit.42. Behold, for men have plucked the apples of your tree of life, and found them full of bitterness; and worms have eaten to the core.43. Behold that fig tree by the way so full of leaves and worthless fruit!44. Then Jesus spoke a word that nature spirits know, and lo, the fig tree stood a mass of withered leaves.45. And then he spoke again, Behold, for God will speak the Word, and you will stand a withered fig tree in the setting sun.46. You men of Galilee, send forth and call the pruner in before it is too late, and let him prune away your worthless branches and illusive leaves, and let the sunshine in.47. The sun is life, and it can change your worthlessness to worth.48. Your tree of life is good; but you have nurtured it so long with dews of self, and mists of carnal things that you have shut the sunshine out.49. I tell you, men, that you must give account to God for every idle word you speak and every evil deed you do.
the flesh is but a transitory thing, and soon, by natural law, will pass;13. Their slaughter only hastens nature's work a little time.14. And when they kill the flesh they reach their bounds of power; they cannot kill the soul.15. But nature is the keeper of the soul as of the flesh, and in the harvest time of soul, the trees of life are all inspected by the judge;16. And every tree that bears no fruit of good is plucked up by the roots and cast into the flames.17. Who then shall you regard?
He numbers stars, and suns, and moons;22. He numbers angels, men and every thing below; the birds, the flowers, the trees;23. The very petals of the rose he knows by name, and every one is numbered in his Book of Life;24. And every hair upon your head, and every drop of blood within your veins, he knows by number and by rhythm.25. He hears the birdling's call, the cricket's chirp, the glow worm's song; and not a sparrow falls to earth without his knowledge and consent.26. A sparrow seems a thing of little worth; yea, five of them are worth two farthings in the market place, and yet God cares for every one of them.27. Will he not care much more for you who bear his image in your soul?28. Fear not to make confession of the Christ before the sons of men, and God will own you as his sons and daughters in the presence of the host of heaven.29. If you deny the Christ before the sons of men, then God will not receive you as his own before the hosts of heaven.30. And more I say, Fear not when men shall bring you up before the rulers of the land to answer for your faith.31. Behold, the Holy Breath shall teach you in your hour of need what you should say, and what is best leave unsaid.32. And then the Christines went again to teach the multitudes.
He explains the unfoldment of the kingdom by parables: the good seed; the growth of the tree; the leaven; the hidden treasure.
The evil things of men are all consumed in fire; the gold survives.17. The inner kingdom of the soul I may explain in parables:18. The son of man goes forth and scatters seeds of truth; God waters well the soil; the seeds show life and grow; first comes the blade, and then the stalk, and then the ear, and then the full wheat in the ear.19. The harvest comes and, lo, the reapers bear the ripened sheaves into the garner of the Lord.20. Again, this kingdom of the soul is like a little seed that men may plant in fertile soil.21. (A thousand of these seeds would scarcely be a shekel's weight.)22. The tiny seed begins to grow; it pushes through the earth, and after years of growth it is a mighty tree and birds rest in its leafy bowers and men find refuge 'neath its sheltering boughs from sun and storm.23. Again, the truth, the spirit of the kingdom of the soul, is like a ball of leaven that a woman hid in measures, three, of flour and in a little time the whole was leavened.24. Again, the kingdom of the soul is like a treasure hidden in a field which one has found, and straightway goes his way and sells all that he has and buys the field.25. When Jesus had thus said he went alone into a mountain pass near by to pray.
All selfish acts and sensual deeds spring from the heart.27. To eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.28. And Peter said, Lord, What you said to-day has grievously offended scribe and Pharisee.29. And Jesus said, These scribes and Pharisees are not the scions of the tree of life; they are not plants of God; they are the plants of men, and every foreign plant shall be plucked up.30. Let all these men alone; they are blind guides; they lead a multitude of people who are blind.31. The leaders and the led together walk; together they will fall into the yawning pits.
Relates the parable of the little seed and the great tree.
Upon the Sabbath day you take your beasts of burden from their stalls, and lead them forth to eat and drink; is this not work?35. This daughter of your father Abraham, who has been bound for eighteen years, has come in faith to be made free.36. Now, tell me, men, is it a crime to break her bonds and set her free upon the Sabbath day?37. The ruler said no more; the people all rejoiced and said, Behold the Christ!38. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, The kingdom of the Christ is like a little seed that one put in the ground;39. It grew and after many years became a mighty tree, and many people rested in its shade, and birds built nests and reared their young among its leafy boughs.
1. The great passover of the Jews, the feast of spring, was calling every loyal Jew up to Jerusalem.2. Ten days before the feast the Lord and his disciples left the Ephraim hills and by the Jordan way, went down to Jericho.3. And as they entered Jericho a wealthy publican came out to see the Lord; but he was small in stature and the throng was great and he could see him not.4. A tree, a sycamore, stood by the way and he climbed up the tree and found a seat among its boughs.5. When Jesus came, he saw the man and said, O Zacheus, make haste, come down; I would abide with you to-day.6. And Zaccheus came down and joyfully received the Lord; but many of the stricter sect called out and said,7. For shame!
Jesus rebukes a barren fig tree.
1. Next day, the Monday of the week, the master with the twelve, went to Jerusalem.2. And as they passed along the way they saw a fig tree full of leaves without a sign of fruit.3. And Jesus spoke unto the tree; he said, You useless cumberer of the ground; you fig tree fair to look upon, but a delusive thing.4. You take from the earth and air the food that fruitful trees should have.5. Go back to earth and be yourself the food for other trees to eat.6. When Jesus had thus spoken to the tree he went his way.7. And when he reached the temple, lo, the rooms were filled with petty merchants selling doves and animals, and other things, for sacrifice; the temple was a mart of trade.8. And Jesus was indignant at the sight, and said, You men of Israel, for shame!
They note the withered fig tree; its symbolic meaning.
1. On Tuesday, early in the day, the master and the twelve went to Jerusalem.2. And as they went the twelve observed the tree to which the Lord had talked the day before, and lo, the leaves were withered, just as if they had been scorched with fire.3. And Peter said, Lord, see the tree!
Its leaves are withered and the tree seems dead.4. And Jesus said, So shall it be with those who bear no fruit.
When God shall call them up to give account, lo, he will breathe upon them, and their leaves, their empty words, will wither and decay.5. God will not let the fruitless trees of life encumber ground, and he will pluck them up and cast them all away.6. Now, you can demonstrate the power of God.
The seed may seem to die, but from its grave the tree arises into life.18. So man may seem to die, but he lives on, and from the grave he springs up into life.19. If you could comprehend the word that Moses spoke about the burning bush that burned and still was not consumed, then you would know that death cannot destroy the life.20. And Moses said that God is God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel.21. God is not God of dead men's bones, but the living man.22. I tell you, men, man goes down to the grave, but he will rise again and manifest the life;23. For every life is hid with Christ in God, and man shall live while God shall live.24. The Pharisees and scribes who heard the Lord, exclaimed, He speaks the truth; and they were glad to have the Sadducees discomfited.25. And then an honest scribe came forth and said to Jesus, Lord, you speak as one whom God has sent, and may I ask,26. Which is the greatest and the first of the Commandments of the Law?27. And Jesus said, The first is Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul, with all your strength;28. And you shall love your neighbour as yourself.29. These are the greatest of the ten, and on them hang the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms.30. The scribe replied, My soul gives witness that you speak the truth, for love fulfils the law, and far transcends burnt offerings and sacrifice.31. And Jesus said to him, Lo, you have solved a mystery; you are within the kingdom and the kingdom is in you.32. To his disciples Jesus spoke, and all the people heard; he said, Beware you of the scribes and Pharisees who pride themselves in wearing long and richly decorated robes,33. And Love to be saluted in the market place, and seek the highest seats at feasts, and take the hard-earned wages of the poor to satisfy their carnal selves, and pray in public, long and loud.34. These are the wolves who clothe themselves to look like sheep.35. And then he said to all, The scribes and Pharisees are placed by law in Moses' seat, and by the law they interpret law;36. So what they bid you do, that do; but do not imitate their deeds.37. They say the things that Moses taught; they do the things of Beelzebul.38. They talk of mercy, yet they bind on human shoulders burdens grievous to bear.39. They talk of helpfulness, and yet they put not forth the slightest helpful efforts for their brother man.40. They make a show of doing things, and yet they do not anything but show their gaudy robes, and broad phylacteries, and smile when people call them honoured masters of the law.41. They strut about and show their pride when people call them father, so and so.42. Hear, now, you men, Call no man father here.
You know the way to reach the border of this cursed land.16. I have a little band of guards, well horsed and armed, and they will take you out beyond the reach of harm.17. You must not tarry here, young man, you must arise and go.18. And Jesus said, A noble prince has Cæsar in his Pilate Pontius, and from the point of carnal man your words are seasoned with the wise man's salt; but from the point of Christ your words are foolishness.19. The coward flees when danger comes; but he who comes to seek and save the lost must give his life in willing sacrifice for those he comes to seek and save.20. Before the pasch has been consumed, lo, all this nation will be cursed by shedding blood of innocence; and even now the murderers are at the door.21. and Pilate said, It shall not be; the sword of Rome will be unsheathed to save your life.22. And Jesus said, Nay, Pilate, nay; there are no armies large enough in all the world to save my life.23. And Jesus bade the governor farewell, and went his way; but Pilate sent a double guard with him lest he should fall into the hands of those who were alert to take his life.24. But in a moment Jesus disappeared; the guards saw him no more, and in a little while he reached the brook of Kidron where the eleven were.25. Now, just beyond the brook there was an orchard and a home where one, Massalian, lived, where Jesus oft had been.26. Massalian was his friend, and he believed that Jesus was the Christ that Jewish prophets long ago had said would come.27. Now, in the orchard was a sacred knoll; Massalian called the place Gethsemane.28. The night was dark, but in the orchard it was doubly dark and Jesus bade the eight disciples tarry by the brook,29. While he, with Peter, James and John went to Gethsemane to pray.30. They sat beneath an olive tree, and Jesus opened up the mysteries of life to Peter, James and John.
"There is the animal with a tree on its head." (I laughed.) That would be a buck.
There was a small tree sticking out of the mountain—the only one.
You are supposed to tie nylon flat webbing in a square knot, make a loop, wrap it around the tree, put the climbing line through the loops, and dangle it down.
Against reason, we put the rope around the tree and descended on the rope, figuring we could pull it off at the bottom.
Here, too, were vast plantations, and east of the mountains were regularly planted groves of the rubber tree, the genuine Siphonia Elastica of botany.
Here also flourished the Cinchonas, as well as many other trees now indigenous to South America, colonized plants from Poseid.
Until planted abroad by Atlanteans, these vegetable treasures never grew outside of Poseid, and today, the wild forests of peculiar South American trees and shrubs are the direct descendants of our regularly cultivated farm and plantation products in Umaur.
And in all this vicinity no herb, tree, or plant produced by nature is seen, but only heaps of rock, [some?] rough and others smoothed, by which we understood………[subversion?], because yet………of cadavers, which………of thisunfortunate………and desolated, perhaps by some earthquake.
The banks are clear of tree growth and logs, which floods tend to bring.
It is all full of peninsulas, which are covered in green grass, with some scattered trees, which make………Here we found………the lack of it………variety ofgame………many animals, propagated without hunters that run them down and pursue them.
There was no laurel as yet, so Apollo crowned his temples, his handsome curling hair, with leaves of any tree.
No pine tree felled in the mountains had yet reached the flowing waves to travel to other lands: human beings only knew their own shores.
Contented with food that grew without cultivation, they collected mountain strawberries and the fruit of the strawberry tree, wild cherries, blackberries clinging to the tough brambles, and acorns fallen from Jupiter’s spreading oak-tree.
They set sails to the wind, though as yet the seamen had poor knowledge of their use, and the ships’ keels that once were trees standing amongst high mountains, now leaped through uncharted waves.
They set sails to the wind, though as yet the seamen had poor knowledge of their use, and the ships’ keels that once were trees standing amongst high mountains, now leaped through uncharted waves.
Hesiod portrays the Bronze Age as the third race: warlike, made from ash trees, with bronze tools and homes, but no iron.
"from ash trees, a race both terrible and mighty, for whom the mournful works of Ares and violence were a care; nor in any way did they eat bread, but they had a dauntless heart of adamant, rough men; and great strength and invincible hands grew from their shoulders on their mighty limbs.
A recuring theme in creation stories, the human-tree relation.
the third race: warlike, made from ash trees, with bronze tools and homes, but no iron
The third race: warlike, made from ash trees, with bronze tools and homes, but no iron
The third race: warlike, made from ash trees, with bronze tools and homes, but no iron
The mycelial network, or fungal filaments connecting tree roots, facilitates communication and resource sharing in forests.
Fairy rings, including circular arrangements of trees or mushrooms, create vibrational states conducive to elemental communication, despite challenges like tree die-off in some regions.
For instance the Bible’s first man was “Adam,” while in Egypt “Atum” was the first man, in Babylon he was “Adamu,” in India he was “Adima” and he was always warned against eating the fruit of immortality from the Tree of Life.
“From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil [polarity] you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.”
at the east of the garden He stationed the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.”
There are suggestions in the ancient Sumerian texts that the cherubim are actual mechanical or robotic devices which, in this case, protect the tree of life.
What is the literal translation of the tree of life?
In Sumerian the word for the tree of life was GISH.TIL.
Instead of an actual tree, this may mean the “vehicle to life” — or a spaceship.
Instead of an actual tree, this may mean the “vehicle to life” — or a spaceship.
It seems clear that the action by the gods of stationing the cherubim to keep humans from the tree of life was actually denying the humans the knowledge of their heritage.
And there again, not knowing a word of Hebrew except the ones I've learned from you and these main ones, I would agree that if, again, the garden was not the garden—you speak about the tree, the trees; that's very interesting—everything is so interesting.
These two trees—there seems to be only one.
Radiocarbon dates have been corrected based on current correlations between radiocarbon and tree ring dates.
However, cross correlation of radiocarbon dating and counting of rings on thousands of ancient trees preserved mainly in Irish bogs and German rivers permits the conversion of carbon dates to an absolute chronology.
Elms and linden trees declined in Europe and Norht America.
Tree rings in Northern Ireland are narrow in 1153 B,c 1628 B,c 3199 B,c and 4377 BC.
#19. Sacred Woods and the Lore of Trees
A study of pollen analysis of the organic peat at the site by the great palynologist Arthur Knox show a significant absence of hemlock pollen at the weir level, (only one of 144 specimens of wood extracted from the weir proved to be Tsuga (anadiensis)) and a sequence of botanical changes correlative with pollen profiles in the nearby Wellington Marsh, which in combination suggest that the weir "was in use during a long dry period during which the Wellington Marsh in nearby Medford gradually dried up until shrubs and possibly trees began to grow upon the surface.
Oak twigs and driftwood found in the caves must have been transported by floodwaters from some other part of the shore many miles away since oak trees do not grow in salt.
2800 Sudden summer warming, bristle cone pine tree rings.
It was their way of allowing humanity to eat from the tree of life after all.