02-29-2012, 12:59 PM
Don't have anything to offer your quest to understand the symbolic meaning of the Tree of Knowledge, Pickle. I have little idea what it was originally intended to symbolize, or even what the popular conception is.
Just wanted to add that my favorite film, "The Fountain", depicts a version of the Tree that grants immortality through the death of the separate self and embrace of the all-self.
In the film the protagonist ingests what looks like Elmer's Glue issuing forth from the tree, and subsequently starts sprouting grass and flowers from his abdomen, much to his dismay. : )
Perhaps the film's creator drew on other traditions? Or perhaps what was depicted was intended to represent the Tree of Life rather than Knowledge, presuming those are two different things.
Just wanted to add that my favorite film, "The Fountain", depicts a version of the Tree that grants immortality through the death of the separate self and embrace of the all-self.
In the film the protagonist ingests what looks like Elmer's Glue issuing forth from the tree, and subsequently starts sprouting grass and flowers from his abdomen, much to his dismay. : )
Perhaps the film's creator drew on other traditions? Or perhaps what was depicted was intended to represent the Tree of Life rather than Knowledge, presuming those are two different things.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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