A Concordance by Thornton Ladd

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Kabbalistic Sefirotic Tree
Clementine creation image

Jung draws our attention to the peculiar theory of world creation in the Clementine Homilies in CW9.2: par. 400 :

Persian tree of life
city as a woman

The city is a maternal symbol, a woman who harbours the inhabitants in herself like children:

tree has bisexual character
goddesses as libido-symbols

Goddesses as libido-symbols may be understood as follows:

ash-trees
motif of embracing and entwining

Osiris comes to rest in the branches of a tree, which grow up round him. The motif of embracing and entwining is often found in the sun myths and rebirth myths, as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, or the legend of the girl who was imprisoned between the bark and the wood of a tree:

tre' as tree wood
motif of embracing and entwining

Osiris comes to rest in the branches of a tree, which grow up round him. The motif of embracing and entwining is often found in the sun myths and rebirth myths, as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, or the legend of the girl who was imprisoned between the bark and the wood of a tree:

tree of life
father as cause of fear

The threatening of new-born infants by snakes (Mithras, Apollo, Heracles) is explained by the legend of Lilith and the Lamia. Python, the dragon of Leto and Poine, who devastated the land of Crotopos, were sent by the father of the new-born:

tree of life
meaning of the cross

The cross has various meanings in addition to that of the tree of life:

hammers holes in trees
woodpecker

The woodpecker happened to be the “mama” of Romulus and Remus, for he put food into their mouths with his beak:

embedded in the tree
myth of Osiris

One account of the myth of Osiris relates a sequence of events which involve the following:

decorate the Christmas tree
protective wall of dogma

Dogma takes the place of the collective unconscious by formulating its contents on a grand scale. The Catholic way of life is completely unaware of psychological problems in this sense:

trees have individuality
Spirit Mercurius

In my contribution to the symposium on Hermes I will try to show that this many-hued and wily god did not by any means die with the decline of the classical era, but on the contrary has gone on living in strange guises through the centuries, even into recent times, and has kept the mind of man busy with his deceptive arts and healing gifts. Children are still told Grimm's fairytale of “The Spirit in the Bottle,” which is ever-living like all fairytales, and moreover contains the quintessence and deepest meaning of the Hermetic mystery as it has come down to us today:

tree not completely destroyed
mortificatio

Mortificatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 006.00) of mortificatio is shown below:

tree struck by lightning
mortificatio

Mortificatio constitutes one of the seven major alchemical operations as distinguished by Edinger, each one a center of an elaborate symbol system making up the principle content of all culture-products. The author's cluster diagram (fig. 006.00) of mortificatio is shown below:

freshness of the tree
Jolande Jacobi (10-27-1936)

(No location given.)

Tree expresses development
Patrick Evans (9-1-1956)

Ruchwick, near Worcester, England. E., describing himself as a schoolmaster, happily married, aged 43, reported a dream:

tree images from alchemy
Enigma of Bologna

THE AELIALAELIACRISPIS

ass and tree as power of life, procreation, healing
tree and animal

The ass and the tree are evidently related, because they both represent the power of life, procreation, and healing:

tree in West's power-to-change attributed to Mercurius
tree and animal

The ass and the tree are evidently related, because they both represent the power of life, procreation, and healing:

Father-God had tree of life growing out of his breast
tree as man

Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree:

secret moon-plant is `like a tree in the sea
habitat of the tree

The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:

sun-and-moon tree stands on an island in the sea
habitat of the tree

The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:

tree's connection with water, salt, sea-water
habitat of the tree

The philosophical tree usually grows alone and, according to Abu'l Qasim, “on the sea” in the Western Land, which presumably means on an island:

tree has significance of a life, death, rebirth mystery
tree as man

Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree:

tree in alchemy hung with sun-and-moon fruit
aspects of the tree

What the tree meant to the alchemists cannot be ascertained either from a single interpretation or from a single text:

tree of life bore red and white fruit that were worlds
tree as man

Like the vision of Zarathustra, the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, and the report of Bardesanes (A.D. 154-222) on the god of the Indians, the old Rabbinic idea that the tree of paradise was a man exemplifies man's relationship to the philosophical tree:

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