Is the Tree of Life a real thing?

By admin · Saturday, July 11th, 2009

The tree of life is symbolic. Metaphysically trees represent nerves and nerves represent expressions of thoughts. The nerves connect the thought centers. The tree is also seen as the connecting life or link between heaven and earth, between body and mind. There was no actual “tree of life” nor was there a garden of Eden. The writer of these passages in the Bible was using symbolism.

If one turns to the metaphysical interpretation of the Tree of Life and it’s existence in a garden one may see that such a tree in a garden did not really exist. We see that the writer of the first book of the Bible used this metaphor to represent an absolute life principle that is established in human consciousness by Divine mind.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil as it is sometimes referred to is symbolic of the discerning capacity of mind. Unity co-founder Charles Filmore explains “the tree is closely related to individual free will, which is in direct touch with the serpent or self-hood.” In that state of consciousness one perceives himself as separate from God and therefore by “eating of the fruit of the tree” he will “surely die.” The tree then is our free will which is in direct touch with the serpent. The death the great I AM is referring to is separation. Until man eats from the tree of knowledge, he is pure and in complete understanding of his unity with all that is, and with God. Once the “forbidden” fruit is consumed, man cannot remain in the absolute. A separation occurs in mind and man begins to see himself apart from the creator, no longer one. Man looses consciousness of his Divine Spirit and so must begin again to lay hold of the potential ideas.

If we understand that this can not be a literal translation of an actual tree we can look deeper to see that the tree of life is the inherent life of an organism, symbolized in the physical by the nerves and the spinal column. The Spinal column represents the tree, the nerves are the branches and the leaves. When we are able to step aside and release our sense of self and ego (Edging God Out) we are able to eat if the fruit without fear of death as we recognize, we are one with God and there is no separation.

The “tree of life” exists in Divine Mind. We partake of the fruit when we appropriate ideas of divine life, and stop focusing on life as something that comes and goes. The “tree” becomes our ability to see life as everlasting, beyond birth and death.

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