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OAK-TREE
A symbol of the Divine Life of the Universe.
"The Great Oak-Tree is a theme about which hundreds of variants have been collected in Finland and Esthonia. The contrast between the baleful influence of the tree and the beneficent qualities of its fragments is very curious."-W. F. KIRBY, The Quest, Vol. I. p. 326.
“This "God's tree," or tree of heaven," grows from an acorn planted by “Tursas, the water-giant," 8 symbol of Truth, which when mature obscures everything. The explanation is that this growth from the germ of the Spirit, represents the process of involution. It signifies the descent of Spirit into Matter to endow it with all the qualities which are to evolve from it. The "baleful influence means simply the obscuration of Spirit and the cessation of manifest life prior to evolution. The tree is felled by a dwarf, who grows to be a giant, signifying the same as Purusha (the Spirit), for both are described as smaller than small, and greater than great, and of the size of a finger or thumb." The tree is broken up, and the fragments have the same signification as the fragments of the bodies of Lemminkainen, Osiris, Dionysus, and Pragâpati, and the members of the body of Christ (1 COR. xii. 27) the Archetypal Man. They represent the "beneficent qualities " of the soul, which evolve to completion.
"The Keltic Magi, or Druids, the priests of the religion of the oak (deru), regarded this tree as symbolical, or even representative, of the Almighty Father. Under it was the sanctum; here they performed their most solemn rites. . . The (oak) monarch of trees in our northern flora, as indicative of living strength and power, was an appropriate symbol of the living God." - BARLOW, Essays on Symbolism, pp. 88, 90.
"You are like an acorn in which a as mighty oak lies folded up waiting to come forth, as come forth it will if only it can ally itself with the limitless forces of the universe-invisible as well visible, for it is something behind the visible universe that makes an oak-tree grow, or produces a soul." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Freedom of Son of God.
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See Also
ARCHETYPAL MAN
DISMEMBERMENT
DWARF
EVOLUTION
FIG-TREE
GERMS
INVOLUTION
MEMBERS
PRAGÂPATI
PURUSHA
SEED
TREE OF LIFE
YGGDRASIL
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