"Behold a tree. Outwardly it has a hard and rough shell, appearing dead and encrusted; but the body of the tree has a living power, which breaks through the hard and dry bark and generates many young bodies, branches, and leaves, which, however, all are rooted in the body of the tree. Thus it is with the whole house of this world, wherein also the holy light of God appears to have died out, because it has withdrawn into its principle, and therefore it seems dead, although it still exists in God. But love ever again and again breaks through this very house of death and generates holy and celestial branches in this great tree, and which root in the light." (Aurora, xxiv. 7.) — Jacob Boehme
The Tree of Life
The Map of the Soul, Cosmos, and Royal Ascent
It gathers:
the two Trees of Paradise
the Kabbalistic Tree of Life
the Ten Sephiroth
the Twenty-Two Paths
the Three Pillars
the Four Worlds
Jacob’s Ladder
ascent and descent
the path from Malkuth to Kether
the relation between Kingdom and Crown
the structure of the soul
the architecture of the Western Mystery Tradition
The Tree of Life as a primary archetypal symbol: Axis mundi, cosmic structure, ascent and descent, genealogy of being, with the Ten Sephiroth, Twenty-Two Paths, Three Pillars, Lightning Flash, Serpent Path, Eden Tree recovered, and Four Worlds.