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[Alexandr Korol]

by Christian Kabbalah, and then appearing in the occult Hermetic Kabbalah. These adaptations of the Jewish Tree of Life are syncretic through association with other religious traditions, esoteric theologies, and magical practices.” Well, fine, there they are all just playing magic. So, next. “In Eastern Christianity the Tree of Life represents the love of God. St. Isaac of Nineveh said that ‘Paradise is the love of God, in which is enjoyment of all beatitudes,’ and that ‘the Tree of Life is the love of God.’” That’s it, simple, everything explained. Wow!

Well, and my favorite — the World Tree. The World Tree in mythology is the “universal tree uniting all spheres of the universe.” That is, you see, it seems like, as it turns out, it is in the Garden of Eden, in paradise, in the sky. That is, it is there somewhere, but at the same time, though it is there, it touches all the worlds. So if it touches all the worlds, then it is in all the worlds — but no, it is only there. That is interesting. “The universal tree, uniting all spheres of the universe. As a rule, its branches are correlated with the sky, the trunk with the earthly world, the roots with the underworld. The most widespread representation (image) of the mythological center of the world is the sacred center of the universe, performing a harmonizing role.” Here it is precisely about this center, that only the crown reaches the heavens. Yes, everywhere, precisely, what is most interesting, the World Tree in all mythology, now I am reading what the internet gives me, and everywhere it is immediately divided into three parts. And there again they write, in one of some mythology, that the roots of the tree are in the underworld, the tree itself, its trunk — is earthly, and the crown — is in the heavenly. That always it is located, this tree, somewhere in the center of the world, that there is the throne of world rulership.