In Jacob Boehme we find the image of two trees of fire:
One is the fire of the Holy Ghost, the other the fire of God's wrath. “The tree of life was kindled in its own quality by the fire of the Holy Ghost, and its quality burnt in the fire of heavenly joyfulness, in an unsearchable light and gloryThe tree of the fierce quality, which is the other part in nature, was kindled also, and burnt in the fire of God's Wrath in a hellish flame; and the fierce source rose up into eternity, and the prince of darkness with his legions abode in the fierce wrathful quality, as in his own kingdom” ( Boehme, Aurora. pp. 24ff. )
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AS A TREE OF FIRE
The tree of life as a tree of fire alludes to the passage in Genesis ( 3 : 24, RSV ): “He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.” The sword belongs to the symbolism of separatio and mortificatio. In this passage there is thus an overlap of the latter images with the calcinatio. The Zohar says the flaming sword symbolizes the trials with which God overwhelms man, that he may be restored to the way of goodness
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