Talk:Tree of life

message: This article puts toghether reberberances of the druidical concept of Tree of Life as it reaches newly invented religions. While missing to cover the actual origin of the concept in European Druidism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.149.136.113 (talk) 10:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Tree of life has its origin in ancient Druidism

message: As with all world religions, philosophies, and mythologies, a non-biased multi-faceted, and neutral approach must be taken when discussing a topic of 'faith'.  This article is purely based on congecture, fiction, and should be removed or at least a placeholder set in it's place until a more knowledgeable article can be produced.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prxsii2010 (talk • contribs) 14:29, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: In General

message: Why are they seperate? Why not just combine the two and say Judo-Christian or something? Jaxad0127 17:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I simply merged them together. Christianity is a form of Hebraic monotheism. :bloodofox: 18:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is much too general - sure Christianity stems from Judaism, but their concepts of the 'tree of life' are very separate. This article is much too problematic - see my note at the end of this discussion page. --129.59.43.190 (talk) 23:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian vs Hebraic monotheism 

message: I may be terribly mistake , but I do believe Aristotle promulgated a version of the "tree of life", whereby all organisms "strived" to move from "lower" to "higher". Although undoubtedly rooted in earlier versions, I think Aristotle's version was used as a basis for later rejection of Darwinian evolutionary theories. Please correct me if I'm in error. Esseh 07:51, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aristotle? 

message: Actually the tree of life pictured on this page from the move "The Fountain" does not acutally represent the "tree of life" in that scene it represents the male characters dying wife whom he is trying to save from a brain tumor.
:That is just an interpretation. I would disagree - it is the Tree, the same one from the Mayan scenes, and/or the one discovered in the contemporary scenes. The Yeti 02:02, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Fountain" 

message: Someone should mention Tale's of Symphonia's Giant Kharlan tree which is a tree of life as well as the character Yggdrasil whose name is based on the tree.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.110.137.50 (talk) 21:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tales of Symphonia  

message: Under which heading of the "Modern Use" heading would a video game reference go? Fiction? And yes, I know that Warcraft is already on there, but that's more of the lore side of it, where as the addition I was about to make (the "Tree of Light" shapesift form for the druid class) is a more mechanical reference (grants bonus healing) than a fiction/lore/universe/etc. reference. Also, I was wondering if such a detail merits a mention.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrrodgers (talk • contribs) 03:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You would just mention the name of the game, Wiki link it (if one exists) and mention that the name of a ?ship ?character in the game's universe is called a tree of life. Anything further would be over detail - if there was more, consider creating its own page for the ?ship and/or game. The Yeti (talk) 13:50, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the game MythWar by Unigium there's an area called Tree of Life 87.212.16.222 (talk) 01:42, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Video Games

message: Modern interpretations
* The Tree of Life appears in the Book of Mormon in a revelation to Lehi (see 1 Nephi 8:10-12). It is symbolic of the love of God (see 1 Nephi 11:21-23), and sometimes understood as salvation and post-mortal existence.
* The Tree of Life sometimes refers to Jesus, as he died on a cross (often symbolically referred to as a tree in Christian imagery) and is understood to bring new life through the Resurrection.
* In Dictionaire Mytho-Hermetique (Paris, 1737), Antoine-Joseph Pernety, a famous alchemist, identified the Tree of Life with the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.
* In Eden in the East (1998), Stephen Oppenheimer suggests that a tree-worshiping culture arose in Indonesia and was diffused by the so-called "Younger Dryas" event of c8000 BCE, when the sea-level rose. This culture reached China (Szechuan), then India and the Middle East. Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.
Who is that ever said: " * The Tree of Life sometimes refers to Jesus, as he died on a cross (often symbolically referred to as a tree in Christian imagery) and is understood to bring new life through the Resurrection."???
This sounds absolutely silly!
Can anyone point to any examples of such a reference or interpretation other than this website???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.196.192 (talk) 00:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Interpretations of the Tree Of Life? 

message: There has been a significant rearrangement of this page from the previous 'cultural' groupings that it had, to one based on geographical and historical groupings. In my opinion this is to the detriment of the page, as it makes it look more like nonsense. Cultural groupings of the tree of life makes more sense and allows easy comparison between different interpretations. Splitting, in particular, the hewbrewic entries across multiple sections (even 'modern interpretations'!) is confusing, and renders the page pointless and meaningless. 
I am therefore reverting this page, unless a cohesive argument can be made for otherwise. (I have conserved into the text the minor other changes that were later made).
Further, if the user who made the changes is also proposing the article be split, it is better to leave the article as was, so the other users can make their own decision. Not rearrange it to support their view, then propose splitting, which is sort of like biasing the argument before anyone else can think about it.
And further still, the user/admin proposing the splitting has not made any arguments on this page to support their reasoning in support of a split. I hope therefore that nothing will happen until credible arguments and discussions over a reasonable time period are allowed to be made. The Yeti (talk) 00:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My vote. split the page into cultural definitions. Otherwise it will seem like confused gibberish.Dragonnas (talk) 17:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rearrangement of page

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Fountain tree of life.jpg

message: The Kroni is the first life; It was fragmented into six and each fragment took birth and went extinct one after the another until all the fragments were destroyed; See this chart - 61.3.157.202 (talk) 04:25, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tree of Life in Akilam 

message: The tree that is featured in Darksiders is the tree of knowledge. The tree of life is portrayed in Darksiders II. Love to help Wikipedia (talk) 22:48, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darksiders reference 

message: I would have thought this should also reference Yggdrasil from Nordic Legend. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil
I'm not quite knowledgable enough on the subject to edit it myself. 
VK2AFL (talk) 11:03, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yddrasil from Nordic Mythology 

message: Could someone please check if the two external links are related to the content of this page? Wiki-uk (talk) 12:28, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links related? 

message: The page for the church of the tree of life redirects here, but this page contains no information on the church.2600:1005:B12C:7024:8C95:A8CA:180E:FD93 (talk) 23:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Church of the tree of life 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There seem to be instances of both in this article but no clear source that unifies them as one concept.  I removed buddha's bodhi tree since I've only eer known it as a "tree of knowledge" and not a "tree of life"....the overall list seems to be a list of "theological trees" not a proper list of "trees of life" as defined by a good secondary source. Maneesh (talk) 18:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article seems to be mostly a list of theological trees, mixes trees of life and trees of knowledge 

message: Reference 11 has a dead link. 
Here's the correct URL - https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/media/articles/fruit-of-the-tree-of-life-albert-the-great/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elenatina (talk • contribs) 22:57, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link - Reference 11 

message: Where is the location of the tree of life 105.112.164.129 (talk) 21:52, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The tree of life 

message: This topic is nicely worded but unclear and conflates Lurianic Qabbalah with Hermetic Qabbalah.
The two branches share the shape of the glyph but not much else as far as i understand it.
While Lurianic Qabbalah is a mystical interpretation of the Torah and focuses on the Word of God with a special emphasis on the original Hebrew to understand and prove (biblically) the nature of the universe, Hermetic Qabbalah seems to have taken some of the conclusions of Lurianic Qabbalah out of context and presented them as a pathway to personal development and occult power.
They are closely related so should stay as one artivle but a clearer distinction should be made.
I would write it myself but i'm not sure i can write as well as the original author of that article! Tysonisms (talk) 13:01, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qaballah