Tree of life pendant of real gemstones set in a beautiful case.

The biblical tree of life or tree of life (Hebrew: עץ החיים; Etz haChayim) is mentioned in the Bible book of Genesis in verse 2:9 as the tree that was planted by God along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden (Paradise) and whose fruits give eternal life (immortality). After Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Bible records that both were banished from the Garden of Eden to prevent them from eating the fruit of the tree of life: "Then God thought O LORD: Now man has become like us, and now he has knowledge of good and evil. Now I will prevent him from plucking fruit from the tree of life, for if he eats it, he will live forever." — (NBV, Gen 3:22), According to the Bible story, Adam and Eve were thus separated from the tree of life and made mortal. In the Christian New Testament, this banishment from the Garden of Eden is compensated by the 'planting' of the new tree of life (Jesus) on man's side. In the book of Revelation of John, the Koinè Greek phrase xylon zoës (ξύλον ζωής) is used three times (2:7, 22:2 and 22:19), which is literally translated as 'tree of life' or 'tree of life' in Dutch translations. (22:19 is also translated as 'bu(c)k of life' in some translations). The "tree of life" is used several times in connection with Wisdom in the Bible book of Proverbs. As an image it describes the value of Wisdom. Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace it (Prov 3:18). A righteous man plants a tree of life (Prov 11:30). Fulfilled desire (as opposed to unfulfilled hope) is a tree of life (Prov. 13,12). Calm words (as opposed to a false tongue) are a tree of life (Prov 15:4). The author of Proverbs seems to display a fondness for the image of the tree of life, but it is nowhere explicitly stated. The image as such probably has sufficient expressiveness for the writer. The Tree of Life appears in several examples of sacred geometry and is a central point in Kabbalah (the mystical study of the Torah), where it is represented as the Sephiroth. The Germanic tree of life. The Irminsul was an important sanctuary for the Saxons of the eighth century AD. probably with great symbolic significance. It is mentioned and briefly described in the Annales regni Francorum, the Translatio St. Alexandri of Rudolf of Fulda and in the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Book I, Chapter 8) of Adam of Bremen. The latter two use exactly the same words and describe the Irminsul as a large, erect wooden trunk that, according to the Saxons, supported the entire world. However, Adam van Bremen says that he has taken over the data from Einhard (c. 770-841). However, his work has not survived. In Einhard's words according to Adam van Bremen: Truncum quoque ligni non parvae magnitudinis in altum erectum sub divo colebant, patria eum lingua Irminsul appellantes, quod Latine dicitur universalis columpna, quasi sustinens omnia. Translated, this means: They also used to worship a wooden trunk of no small size raised in height under the open sky, which they called Irminsul in the language of their native country, which in Latin is universalis columna (= all-column). called, which, as it were, supported everything. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a model by which Hermetic Kabbalists symbolically represent the entire universe and its origin. This tree of life has a different form from the one known to the Jewish kabalists. The first publication in which this tree of life appeared was Athanasi Kircher's Oedipus Aegypticus in 1652. Robert Fludd adapted this diagram in his Complete Works of 1617.