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What Does Tree Of Life Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 3:18 · World English Bible

What does tree of life mean in the Bible?

Tree of life: the living source within the mind that restores and nourishes it, the presence of love that a mind can reach for and be renewed by

Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 3:18

Where tree of life appears in the Bible

Revelation 2:7

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Genesis 2:9

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Tree of life through 2 lenses

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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 3:18

Christian Psychology

Love is not something to admire from a distance but something to take hold of and keep, and the mind that reaches for it finds a source that steadily restores it. To lay hold is to decide, again and again, that the gentler teacher will be trusted, and in that holding the mind is nourished by a life the ego could never give.

Happiness here is not a mood that comes and goes but the natural state of a mind that has stopped letting go of love, remaining close to what heals it rather than wandering back into fear.

  • Tree of life: the living source within the mind that restores and nourishes it, the presence of love that a mind can reach for and be renewed by
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Esoteric · Revelation 2:7

Esoteric

The ear that hears is the inner hearing, awake only in the one who has turned attention inward. What is promised to the one who overcomes the lower nature is the tree of life, the spine itself standing at the center of the body, up which the awakened energy climbs.

Paradise is that inner garden, the body restored to its first order. To eat of the tree is to draw on that living current rising through the backbone until the whole system is fed by it.

  • Ear: the inner hearing that wakes when attention turns away from the outer world.
  • Tree of life: the spinal column at the center of the body, the channel the awakened energy rises through.
  • Paradise of God: the inner garden of the restored body, its original order regained.

What tree of life means in each story

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  • PsychoanalysisTree of Life: This tree stands for the inexhaustible life of the Self. It is guarded later, showing that wholeness cannot be grabbed; it must be grown into.Genesis 2:4-25
  • EsotericThe tree of life (verse 9): the same tree when your higher right side is in charge.Genesis 2:4-25
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