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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (25)
The early Fathers of the church sometimes used the tree to symbolize Christ. They believed that ultimately Christianity would grow up like a mighty oak and overshadow all other faiths of mankind. Because it annually discards its foliage, the tree was also looked upon as an appropriate emblem of resurrection and reincarnation, for though apparently dying each fall it blossomed forth again with renewed verdure each ensuing spring.
Gospel of Philip
Joseph the Carpenter (Joseph the Carpenter)
Philip the apostle said, “Joseph the carpenter planted a garden, for he needed wood for his trade. He is the one who made the cross from the trees he...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (60)
Now Christians know how they can, by the power of this Tree, press out from their death, through his death, to him into his life, and reign and live...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Use of the Symbolic Style By Poets and Philosophers. (4)
The branches either stand as the symbol of the first food, or they are that the multitude may know that fruits spring and grow universally, remaining...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (59)
II. Secondly, There is this difference between the Christians, Jews, Turks, and Heathen: the Christians know the Tree of Life, which is CHRISTUS,...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LIX (4)
The same kind of imagery is still current in Europe. German authorities tell us about the ‘Wetterbaum,’ which in some places is called ‘Abraham’s...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...