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Symbolism of the Tree

by Jonathan Pageau

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Published 25 Jan 2018

The Tree can be seen as a symbol of order as it converges into the one, but it can also be seen as order as it separates into the many. Support this channel: patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pageauvideos paypal: https://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau website: http://www.pageaucarvings.com facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathanpageau twitter: https://twitter.com/pageaujonathan

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@squallada5866 years ago No matter how much you dig, there still more and more meaning in this book. How is it even possible? 214
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@James-ky8gh6 years ago As an Arborist this explanation touched me deeply.
I remember the day I choose to work with the trees and the feeling I had looking up into a huge white pine in a meditative state deep in the forest. I felt that up there between the crown and the sky was a connection I needed to explore to find myself(something like That?).
Best decision I could of made at the time , shortly there after I left the military, started working with trees. 12 years later I have a great outdoor job I love and a family with two healthy children.
Thanks, love your insight. ... 134
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@elusivemayfly75342 years ago When you talked about Jesus wearing the crown of thorns, it struck me in the heart. I will spend my life, and I am sure my afterlife, drinking in the truth of His sacrifice, love, and absolute glory. I will be always feeling for His parameters, but He absolutely exceeds parameters. Thank you, Jonathan. When I learn about Jesus, with the Spirit’s help, I am soaring. ❤️ ... 33
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@PresterMike6 years ago Johnathan i fell to my knees the moment you connected christ being on the cross as being the embodiment of the whole garden of eden story. The surge of understanding that washed over me was pretty f*ckin intense. I mean my goodness THIS is why christianity has endured and should. This is what i was missing when was a teenager dedicating my time to atheistic arguments and christianity bashing...i didnt fully see the deep symbolic understanding of the christian* tradition. ... 252
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@davidMflores6 years ago I have always been perplexed by the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree. As soon as you mentioned it being in the garden my mind went to that story. It makes so much more sense now. 14
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@Keeronin6 years ago I got very emotional towards the end there, that was fascinating Jonathan thank you.
The more I listen to your videos, the more I begin to understand what Jesus means, and the closer I feel to God, or at least understanding what his word means.
These are really great videos. Please keep it up. ... 81
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@kh2186 years ago Dude, I've literally been searching for years for someone on your level. A living person on this level anyway. Jordan Peterson had me excited at first but not so much anymore as he gets distracted easily. Found you through him. Great stuff. First time I've ever considered supporting someone for their YouTube work since 2008. Really good work. Thank you. ... 26
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@lizbec10853 years ago I’ve been drawn to trees for as long as I can remember. I’ve always loved drawing and painting trees…climbing them…finding myself staring at them for long periods of time. I’ve become obsessed with growing things and since COVID lockdowns.
This podcast is a gem! It’s become one of my favorites! Thank you for this topic….It popped up today and made me smile immediately! God Bless You All! 🌸🙏🏽🌻 ... 12
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@PaulVanderKlay6 years ago This was very helpful to me both in accessing the conversation of the Bible and opening up more of the Eastern tradition to me. Very cool. Thanks. pvk 54
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@SlLVERFAWKES5 years ago Tree/Brain
Words/Fruit
Seeds/Ideas r />Heart/Garden
Light/Knowledge
Water/Thought
Plant/Hear
A tree produces fruit and when consumed there are seeds within and get planted in the garden, with water and light the seed will spring forth.
A brain speaks words with ideas and when heard, with thought and knowledge you can manifest. ... 20
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@CraigHinrichs6 years ago Awesome, I wish it were longer! Can't get enough of this. 11
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@michaeldavidnvitales5 years ago I can feel my heart getting enlarged and filled with thanksgiving hearing this message explained. Thank you. 2
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@patrickc38716 years ago Great video. I have also done some investigation into this symbolism and come across another fascinating connection. I'll try to keep it brief. The Hebrew word for tree is "etz". When the LXX translators came to this word they had to decide between two greek words for "tree", dendron and xulan. For most uses they put dendron. However, for verses referring to a cursed tree (cursed is everyone hung on a tree), they would use the word xulan. Now fast forward a few hundred years, the book of Revelation never mentions the cross, however, it often mentions the tree of life, specifically, the "xulan" of life in greek. We can see here that John is making a connection between the tree of life in the garden and the cross. But it gets better. The rule from the garden is that if you eat the fruit of the tree of life you live. And in John 6 Jesus tells us to eat his body and blood, in other words, to partake of the "fruit" of the "tree of life", that is, his body on the cross. But what is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Well, knowledge of good and evil comes through the law, and Moses represents the law. He also had a tree, specifically, his staff. And his staff turns into a snake, just like there was a snake in the tree of the law in the garden. So the two trees represent the two covenants. The tree of the law, which is supposed to impart life, actually brings death (see Romans). And the xulan, which is supposed bring death and a curse, is actually what brings life. ... 44
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@jasonroberts22495 years ago So a tree is like a fractal. An infinite pattern essentially, representing many ‘independent’ yet inseparable things.
The symbolism in the world we live in, and how it all fits in with the Christian symbolism, is so profound it boggles my mind... ... 16
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@markocms6 years ago Awesome eye opening video Jonathan. Looking forward to many more. 1
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@Yelena5044 years ago Thank you. This was so heartbreakingly beautiful. This transcends language. Christ is beyond words. Opposites together at the same time. Mind-blowing. 12
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@wjcj12343 years ago Awesome explanation. Thank you. Needed an everything belongs moment tonight and the Holy Spirit allowed me to not feel the lonely dryness I've been carrying lately. I get so much joy when in the mystery of symbolism. Thanks again for being a good voice. ... 5
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@thefreerangehuman48046 years ago This was beautiful and illuminating, thank you for making this. 2
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@davidgusquiloor26656 years ago The moment you mentioned the crown blew my mind. He put on top what was at the bottom, just like he is the Alpha and Omega. 3
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@samwisegrangee6 years ago I remember a Greek Orthodox professor saying that when the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened, they saw—not only their own nakedness but also—Christ on the cross. Turning their eyes from the cross, they then saw how all the world followed the cycle of cross-tomb-resurrection, and rather than participate in this cosmic order by embracing any cross or vulnerability themselves, they instead tried to flee this order and return to the non-being from which they came—if only through hiding themselves. I want to say he attributed that to Maximus, but after years of searching (and a bit of thesis research) I still can't track down which of the fathers came up with this gloss. ... 25
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@alfredosauce16 years ago This just blew my mind. Wow. Thank you Jonathan 3
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@BasFolmer6 years ago Jonathan this was a phenomenal video! Unbelievable how great the mysteries in the bible are. I love how you take a thread or a theme in the Bible and show its manifestations and meanings like this and like in your video "Following a Symbolic Thread | Heaven and Earth From Genesis to Christ".
Awesome man. Wow. We have a great God ... 25
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@sunbro69986 years ago Great video. I learned a lot. Still processing. 44
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@tjjordan89946 years ago Thank you, Mr. Pageau, for sharing your knowledge.
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@dcoburn886 years ago Not too obscure at all! Absolutely fascinating and you presented everything very well! I can't get enough of this. Keep them coming!
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@MadFrenzy5826 years ago wow. i love how you brought it all together in the end. beautifully done.
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@philcowan54566 years ago I'm re-watching this video on Good Friday. Nearly brings me to tears when Johnathan talks about the Crucifixion. Would love to have a video all about the Crucifixion and Resurrection around Easter time. 7
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@ronishchaudhary2 years ago This is still one of the most amazing videos to introduce people to symbolism! I share it everytime anyone asks about understanding symbolism. Simply incredible!! 2
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@uncompromisedfreedom86176 years ago Thanks, Jonathan. I had to laugh, at the end of the video you talked about how you went on longer than you'd intended. As I could feel you wrapping up I(!) was thinking, "Oh man, he's wrapping. I'd love to hear more about ..." Keep up the great work, brother. ... 11
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@amyannwowk29226 years ago Thank you so much Jonathan! May God grant you many blessed years!
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@lucaspedroso33513 years ago So edifying to learn it all, my worldview has been drastically impacted with these symbolic interpretations! 1
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@nathandoan38626 years ago Your best video yet. This stuff gets very deep 3
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@ErloBrown14 years ago I started watching this video not thinking that I would even watch a minute. I watched all the way through. Such good stuff, thank you.
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@barbaraeng99236 years ago Thank you for this presentation. I appreciate all your efforts in this project. Perhaps the absence of the fig tree in the Crucifixion is significant in that Christ is naked, totally vulnerable without any attempt to hide behind fig leaves like Adam and Eve. Rather he embraces his vulnerability "despising the shame". ... 9
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@MatthiasPendragon6 years ago Not too obscure at all! I love this stuff. These videos on symbolism are quite literally changing how I look at the world. 2
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@SteelSongbird4 years ago Just beautiful interpretation and study. Thank you, kindly. This rich description of the Garden just gave me a sweet creative idea....
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@christopherwhite85246 years ago “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” -- C.G. Jung 54
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@Kinabus23 years ago Wow! Thank you! I've never been disappointed watching your videos. God bless! 1
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@newkingjames17576 years ago Amazing video, as always. LOVE the idea of Paradise being on the top of a mountain with its rivers flowing down. Makes perfect sense! 6
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@juggy6666 years ago Very thought invoking, bringing a lot of ideas into focus and I liked the threads of continuity!!!
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@tombanjo73926 years ago Perhaps the most concise and persuasive articulation of Scripture's pragmatic integrity. In a nutshell (from a tree of course, and in its season, speaking only for this squirrel). Excellent. Thank you. No questions. 1
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@vicsummers94313 years ago I relisten to this video every now and then and I always hear something I could’ve sworn wasn’t in the video the previous times I watched. One of my favorite ones you’ve ever done! Your commentary on the parable of the sower is one of my favorites as well. Oh yeah, and the one on the symbolism of 666. ... 1
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@alkistis-irenewechsler12704 years ago Thank you so much! I will have to return to this more and more times!
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@vicsummers94312 years ago I must have watched this particular video thirty times or more. Each time I hear something a didn’t hear before.
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@HumanDignity106 months ago This was excellent, thank you! More like this please.
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@jakeepler52183 years ago I’m someone who has been thinking and learning about both the Garden story and the Crucifixion for years. But this video has added so many things I didn’t see before. I was recently listening to Northrop Frye (a genius) speak bout the tree and the water. But you have gone further than even he did! God bless you and keep up the good work! ... 1
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@tadawsey6 years ago Whoaaaa. I've been reading the gospels and the creation story repeatedly this month, and this was incredibly illuminating. Thanks! 1
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@thecenterofinter-religious4220last year beautiful presentation. Thank you so much
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@sork37646 years ago Clear. Useful. Lovely. Unspeakably dear that our ancestors spoke with and on symbols to crack open and conceal the structure of reality. You, as their presenter, are thanked by us, the receivers.
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@soare51822 years ago Wow... amazing. I love every part of it. Thanks
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@Mathswart6 years ago Thank you for providing soulific edification. If I am allowed to propose suggestions for future content - what about Lord of the rings 36
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@watrewks5 years ago Bro I've been thinking about the symbolism of trees and the Garden of Eden for months now and you've explained everything for me and connected everything neatly together
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@Jimmymcgee26 years ago Not too obscure, it was a great insight. Thanks, and keep it up!
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@essivallbacka32136 years ago I'm a new subscriber and I really like and admire your work on this channel. Blessings to you and your family. Love from Finland!
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@almyaraujo4470last month Thankfull for have known professor's Jonathan Pageau content. Thank you, Professor. from Brazil.
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@funnyredditdaily7776 months ago Those who become like children will know the kingdom: so children are vulnerable, and fearlesss. In eden they were vulnerable at first ... 2
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@agentkhaine22046 years ago As a person with a forensic-focused brain, this makes my head hurt, but in a good way. Thank you for helping expand how I think. 1
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@krishnan0423 months ago Hey Jonathan. Your'is the best ever explanation I ever came across in decades.
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@eli80696 years ago Great video and thanks for the book recommendation.
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@candacellias4 years ago MY MIND IS BLOWN you are incredible thank you
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@jessedphillips2 years ago So incredible that there is so much symbolism that can be drawn out of the reality of God in the flesh, his creation and order, and His preordained plan. Amazing!
Thank you for your interpretation. I look forward to appreciating all this in eternity as well. ... 1
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@EmilioSanderson6 years ago Thank you for this video. It's amazing how many authors and artists understood this symbolism and proceed to illustrate it in their craft over the centuries. 9
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@annoelzinga791last year This blew my mind and touched my heart
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@juliagriffiths32912 years ago Amazing. Going embroider this. Thank you.
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@davidg42396 years ago Amazing video thanks Jonathan! Just blew my mind at the end with Christ encompassing all the elements.
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@eurodelano3 years ago Oh my goodness! This was amazing! Thank you for explaining this. It’s Jan 10 and we still have our Christmas tree up. Jesus will climb that tree by Easter. Glory to God in the Highest! 1
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@betweenearthandsky40912 years ago Wow, such a mind-blowing interpretation! Drank all of it like a clear stream~
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@jacobkocken19216 years ago Loved this! I would watch another hour if you have more to expand on with this stuff
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@artemkarnaukh4 years ago Man... that was ... something. This whole story is far more mysterious than I have ever thought. 2
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@ruslpit2615last year You are just unbelievable. You're so good at explaining all these things that are never explained properly
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@owlnyc6662 years ago I learn more about the person telling the story than the story itself. I am always amazed at the creativity of people retelling interpretive ability. 🤔
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@scrids6 years ago Thank you for your videos on symbolism, Jonathan. For years, I have been enraptured by mythology and its symbolic significance, though I don't have quite the brain-power to tie these concepts together.
As an Orthodox Christian and writer, I am sometimes hesitant to dive too deeply into the symbolic meaning of events in the Bible because I'm afraid of being labeled a heretic or just another liberal Christian who doesn't have enough faith to believe in the events, and so I'm attempting to "spiritualize" them. ... 4
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@brady1576 years ago I think certain types of people have a need for the sublime and others have a need for the literal or practical. As a former atheist I always had the idea the literal was the truest and religion was claims of the literal. And that works for the more literal minded people, they see science and materialism as the best tool for their lives, but I've always been hungry for the sublime and which is I found new age stuff appealing in my teens. I've since recently discovered the sublime in christiananity and western culture as a whole and I must say I'm saddend I was never sold the sublime aspect of both as a kid, I feel robbed. ... 4
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@newbreed94542 years ago Thank you so much,I thought I was alone🤗🙏
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@TheRsmits6 years ago I was inspired by an N. T. Wright lecture to look up the tree of virtue and the same day I'm seeing it at in this great video.
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@Krentiles6 years ago my mind just exploded. Thank you. 1
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@VACatholic6 years ago Just wow Jonathan. This is incredible. Absolutely incredible.
Pontius Pilate ate from the Tree of Good and Evil and cast us out of the garden once more.
Whoever wrote these stories must have been super geniuses. This is so incredible I haven't even processed all of it. It's absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for this. ...
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@tonka-ti6rg6 years ago Whoa. Pascha tomorrow will be seen with new eyes this year! XB in advance, and many thanks for the amazing content :) 1
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@iaianthompson64045 years ago I love this! I would also love to know your sources. You mentioned one at the beginning of the video, but the symbolism you’re speaking of is harder to find than I first imagined. 1
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@Hugex974 months ago I am so grateful for mr Peterson, not only for what he's done, but because on exodus he introduced me to you. Big fan Dr. Pageau! I hope my symbolic analysis can reach the quality of your's someday.