Throughout there is the same life, the same consciousness, the same laws. He who dwells within the lotus of the heart . For this reason, as G. de Purucker once explained to his students, All spiritual illumination comes to you now, and ever will come to you, from the Master within yourself. There is no other possible pathway to the light. Golden Precepts of Esotericism , pp.
Trees are powerful symbols found in many scriptures.
In India, it was under the Bodhi or Wisdom Tree that Prince Siddhartha became enlightened and conceived the Noble Eightfold Path by which human beings can free themselves from the suffering of old age, disease, and death. The Bible has its Trees of Life and of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Zoroastrian scriptures tell of the tree that rose from the sea on the first day of creation, and which contained and dispersed the seeds of all life. Even scientists have used the tree to symbolize the relation of various forms of life to each other and to their origins. The Hebrew Sephirothal Tree of Life is also a Tree of Knowledge, in that it reveals the divine plans of the creation, and operations of cosmic and human life.