Sanskrit अश्वत्थ, The Holy Fig Tree

The Tree of Knowledge of Purity and Impurity, the mystical tree of Cosmic Life and Being, represented as growing in reverse position: The branches represent the visible cosmosWhenever a theosophist speaks of the cosmos or the universe,… More, and the roots signifying the invisible spirit world.

In Ancient cultures, The Universe was depicted under the symbol of a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More tree which the roots sprang from the Divine Heart, the trunk and branches and the leaves of which were the various planes and worlds of the CosmosWhenever a theosophist speaks of the cosmos or the universe,… More, the fruit bearing the seeds of future “trees”, being the entities which had evolved as such to achieve being smaller Universes in their own rights, explaining the massive cosmic dance, of which everything is a“The Sanskrit prefix ‘A’ means ‘not’, the negative… More reflection of the whole in part.