The Biblical Garden of Eden is one of antiquity's most tantalizing stories. Since Adam's expulsion man has continually looked for Paradise lost.
The garden of Eden with the fall of man (detail) by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615. • Follow: Instagram | Pinterest
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This is a summary of the Biblical account of Adam and Eve. Learn the theological meaning of the first humans created by God and their significance for us today.
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Only a handful of gardens around the globe are real must-visits for garden lovers. Ayrlies, on a large country estate near Whitford, southeast of Auckland
Genesis describes the Garden of Eden in relation to the convergence of four rivers. While two of the rivers are unknown (the Pishon and Gishon), the nearly universal identification of the other two rivers as the Tigris and the Euphrates suggests a possible location for Eden at either their northern or southern extremes. Source: ESV Study Bible
Slowly, as the earth carved itself, The tree grew. But each night it swelled it size with spirit And all who saw it at Mid Summers eve Never came back at all View On White
Only a handful of gardens around the globe are real must-visits for garden lovers. Ayrlies, on a large country estate near Whitford, southeast of Auckland
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DIGITAL PRODUCT DOWNLOAD - NO SHIPPING The digital file is a high quality instant downloadable printable wall art. YOUR ORDER WILL INCLUDE A JPG FILE WITH A DOWNLOAD LINK. Original 2199 x 3722 px 150DPI Springtime by Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873 - Classical Painting of Adam and Eve in Garden of Eden "This flirtatious duo in classicizing dress, painted with notable technical finesse, reflects Cot’s allegiance to the academic style of his teachers, including Bouguereau and Cabanel. Exhibited at the Salon of 1873, the picture was Cot’s greatest success, widely admired and copied in engravings, fans, porcelains, and tapestries. Its first owner, hardware tycoon John Wolfe, awarded the work a prime spot in his Manhattan mansion, where visitors delighted in "this reveling pair of children, drunken with first love ... this Arcadian idyll, peppered with French spice." Wolfe’s cousin, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, later commissioned a similar scene from Cot, The Storm, now also in the Metropolitan’s collection (87.15.134)." - Met Museum
Or, “Letting Go of Other People’s Emotional Garbage” I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the 7 Chakras lately. My favorite book right now is The 7 Healing Chakras by Brenda Davies. Whether or not you’re skeptical about Chakras, there’s some powerful concepts, exercises and meditations folded into this model which I think have pretty significant application. Most especially for Highly Sensitive People who deal with other people’s emotional garbage all the time. If you fall into the category of a Highly Sensitive Person and think Chakras sound too woo-woo for you, pretend they don’t and read this blog post anyway. It’s going to have some good stuff for you. I’ll probably write in more detail about Chakras soon when I feel intellectually ready to, so this isn’t intended to be a full breakdown of the model. I simply couldn’t wait to share what I suspect is going to a very helpful exercise for many Feelers in our audience, whether they be iNtuitive or Sensory. (Though I’m looking mostly in your direction, INFJs and ENFJs.) At the very base of your spine between the coccyx and the pelvic bone is where the first of the 7 main Chakras is located. It’s called the Root (or Base) Chakra, and its main function is to keep you grounded in the physical realm. The energy of this Chakra is pointed downward, toward the ground, and its purpose is to keep us alive no matter what. While it’s connected with many things in the physical realm (how we take care of ourselves, the food we eat, our motivation for living, etc.), there are more abstract implications that stem from this Chakra. Things like our self-esteem, our sense of balance and well-being, and our ability to appreciate our innate beauty and unique worth are impacted by the health of this Chakra. And though it’s connected to so much in the physical realm, if your Root Chakra isn’t robust it will impact your ability to sustainably connect to the spiritual/metaphysical. When we’re assaulted (or feel assaulted) by other people’s ‘stuff’ – their emotional or psychic garbage, whether they intended to dump on us or not – it’s very easy to hide ourselves away, slowly letting go of this toxic energy until we feel good enough to reenter society only to have it happen again. For those of you who have these sensitivities it’s also very easy to see it as a curse, especially since there’s very few resources available 1) acknowledging that this happens to you, and 2) sharing strategies for dealing with these sensitivities. People like you become human dialysis machines for the rest of humanity, and other people unconsciously take advantage of this. They don’t know they’re doing it. In fact, if you explained to other people what they were doing they’d dismiss you. (As you may have actually experienced in the past.) What our conscious minds can accept as real is a very different thing than what our unconscious minds take for granted. We’re compelled by unconscious motivations even when they make no ‘logical’ sense. Utilizing you to purify icky emotions isn’t something another person is intending to do, it’s something they’re unaware of themselves. Lūpų putlinimas hialurono rūgštimi gera kaina Vilniuje, PRP ir mezoterapija https://oblakasalon.lt/mezoterapija/ Knowing there’s no ill intent can cushion the blow, but it doesn’t remove the result of the transaction: you’re still dealing with their ‘stuff’, and you still need a strategy to process it (since you just caught the ‘hot potato’ of their emotional garbage). This is where an understanding of the Root Chakra can be helpful. According to the theory, this Chakra gives us a direct, rooted connection to the earth. That’s why it’s ‘grounding’ – it is connecting you to the ground. The earth can bounce back from some pretty major damage. We see this all the time in areas of environmental ravage, and the surprising quickness of the earth’s ability to heal itself. When you’ve absorbed (or taken on in any other manner) someone else’s ‘stuff’, the earth now provides for you the same service you consciously or unconsciously serve for others – it can absorb the poison inside of you, and you can rest assure that it will deal with it. Chakra Exercises Exercise #1 – Letting go of bad energy: Sit or stand with your back erect and your feel flat on the ground, a little apart to create balance. Let your body’s weight sit in your pelvis and distribute equally down your legs with your knees slightly bent. Close your eyes if you’d like. Take a few deep breaths and relax as much as you can. With a single thought send a beautiful golden root from the sole of each foot deep down into the earth. Send another from the tip of your spine so that you are now sitting on a tripod of golden roots. Just as a lightning rod grounds electrical energy, if there’s anything you don’t need, allow it to discharge now into the earth. Just let it go. The earth can handle anything, neutralize and recycle it. Now with each breath draw up the wonderful energy of the earth. Feel it hold you and cherish you as it comes up through those roots in to your body. See it begin to fill you with wonderful golden light. Strong, earthy, robust energy. Feel held by the earth. Like a wonderful strong tree, know that you too are strong and that you’re fine. Stay as long as you like. When you’re ready, gently withdraw the roots, but know that you remain in constant, intimate contact with the earth through the soles of your feet and Root Chakra, which should remain open. Exercise #2 – Filling the self with empowered energy: With bare feet on the earth, repeat Exercise #1. Now put your hands up to the sky and draw the energy of the sun and the sky through the palms of your hands and the top of your head. Let this wonderful silver energy fill you, streaming in and down to your heart where it mingles with the energy of the earth. Silently or aloud give thanks for all the good there ever was, for the good there is and for all the good that’s to come. Feel the strength from both earth and sky flow into you and hold you, mingling the earthly and the spiritual, the perfect marriage of your human self with your soul. Feel with wonder the current of energy flow through you. Enjoy it. Feel the strength. Feel the power. Feel refreshed and renewed. Know that you are a powerful being, your physical self enriched by the spiritual and your spiritual self humble in its human form. Feel the magic of that amazing union. Feel whole, be aware of your immense potential. Feel energized. When you are ready, bring down your arms and cup your hands around your heart. Say whatever you need to say in thanks. Holding on to the wonderful energy of both earth and sky, withdraw the roots from the earth, but know that you always remain in intimate contact with it through your open Root Chakra. Protection Exercise: If you anticipate being in a toxic environment or if you’re spending time with someone who ‘drains’ you, take a moment to protect yourself and your Chakras. Take a couple of deep breaths and as you do so relax as much as you can. Imagine a beautiful white flower at the top of your head with its petals wide open. With a thought see them close. Let the flower become a tight bud. Let your focus drop now to your brow. See there a beautiful deep blue or purple flower and, with a thought, allow its petals to close into a tight bud. Drop your focus now to your throat. See here a sky-blue or turquoise flower. Allow its petals to close and then allow your focus to drop to your heart. Here there is a beautiful green flower. Let its petals close also. Now to your solar plexus. Here there is a yellow flower. Let its petals close to a very, very tight bud. Now focus on your Sacral Chakra. Here is an orange flower. Let its petals close also. Your Root Chakra stays open to keep you constantly grounded and nourished by the earth. Cross your arms across your chest. Bow your head slightly. Now imagine that there is a beautiful midnight blue cloak beside you. Allow it to drape around you and over your head to fully protect you. Breathe. Know that you are protected. Again, it’s not really about ‘believing’ in the Chakra model. It’s more about utilizing a strategy that has helped many sensitive people protect themselves from toxic energy as well as ‘let go’ of energy that has been thrust upon them. Do you have any great exercises, meditations or visualizations that have helped you? Share them in the comments section so others can benefit! -Antonia p.s. I took these exercises directly from Brenda Davies book The 7 Healing Chakras. If you’re interested in learning more about this model, I recommend checking out her book! Want to learn more? Discover Your Personal Genius
The Back to Eden gardening method is the easiest way to start a garden. With no tilling and almost no weeding or watering it makes flower and vegetable gardening in your backyard easy! Learn how to start a Back to Eden garden step by step.
Back to eden gardening is a more natural way to garde, with less watering, weeding and tilling. We show you how easy it is to get started.
"Eat of me, for I am your sin." 8x10" print of an original ink illustration by Heather Rose. Inspired by Eve and the Garden of Eden. Image size: 8x10" Paper size: 8.5x11" with a white border. Signed and dated in the bottom margin. Shipped flat, in cellophane sleeve. (Please note, this listing is for one print, shown in the first photo. Any other prints show are for illustration purposes only, and will not be included.)
Ferenc Helbing (Hungarian, 1870 – 1958) Garden of Eden Ernach on the Milky Way The Stag
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Welcome to the Garden of Eden where you can leave your inhibitions behind! Spirited characters frolic amongst brightly coloured flora and fauna. With an abundance of quirky and playful details, this design is sure to inspire a cheerful atmosphere. Shown here in the Popsicle colourway, with bright pastel shades and a fresh white background. Sorry samples currently out of stock.
Barbara Worl's life was one long, joyous love affair—with gardens and garden makers, with plants and roses, with her dear neighbors, with her Indiana family and the Bell family, with the cats who sunned themselves on the paths, and with the songbirds who swooped and chirped all through the garden.
God’s four Eden rivers in Genesis 2:10-14 God planted Garden East of Eden put man formed in Garden. In Garden of Eden Adam and Eve created by four rivers flowing from Genesis 2:8-14 brings li…
In this post I share my previous experience as a gardener and our process for starting our own Back to Eden garden at the farm.
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Garden of Eden - St. Austell, Cornwall, EnglandThe artificial biomes of the Eden Project would be more at home on the exotic terrain of a foreign planet than nestled in the Cornwall countryside. The biomes house plants from around world, with visitors being able to visit the Tropics and the Mediterranean without ever leaving England.
Desde que éramos niños soñábamos con los maravillosos lugares de los cuentos de hadas, castillos cuidados por dragones, islas perdidas, casas arriba de las nubes, diminutas cabañas de duendes y bosques encantados; todos con una sobredosis supernatural de color y fantasía. Te presentamos aquí los 5 lugares llenos de magia que parecen salidos de un […]
About The Artwork Modern paraphrase of the biblical story about Eve and the Forbidden Fruit on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Printed with 5cm white border. Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed Certificate of Authenticity included. Original Created:2017 Subjects:Fantasy Materials:Paper Styles:ConceptualPhotorealismFine Art Mediums:ColorDigitalManipulatedPhoto Details & Dimensions Photography:Color on Paper Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1 Size:35.4 W x 47.2 H x 0 D in Frame:Not Framed Ready to Hang:Not applicable Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube Shipping & Returns Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments. Handling:Ships rolled in a tube. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines. Ships From:Hungary. Have additional questions? Please visit our help section or contact us.
I've been dreaming about this garden since 2012 and it's finally a reality. Come with me and see how we installed our new Back to Eden garden step-by-step!
The first post in this series talked mainly about the Tree of Knowledge/Death, and the second post talked about the Tree of Life. In this post we will look at the two trees together, (along with digressions). It’s kind of a Lutheran thing. That is, §3 below has over a dozen different images derived pretty directly from the beliefs of Martin Luther, and §4 is also tied to Luther and German Protestants. And two trees. §1. We’ve Seen This… Some examples of the two trees together were shown in the previous post. Here is a little recapitulation, as background for something more interesting. The 15th-century Salzburg Missal conflates the two trees, with the Serpent representing the trunk of the Tree of Knowledge. As an aside, a tree with apples and Hosts was a prop in Paradiesspiel (Paradise Play), a late medieval mystery play about the Fall, which was performed before Christmas. Because we will return to this topic below, this quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica entry seems worth including along with the Salzburg Missal image: Christmas tree, an evergreen tree, often a pine or a fir, decorated with lights and ornaments as a part of Christmas festivities. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands to symbolize eternal life was a custom of the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. Tree worship was common among the pagan Europeans and survived their conversion to Christianity in the Scandinavian customs of decorating the house and barn with evergreens at the New Year to scare away the Devil and of setting up a tree for the birds during Christmastime. It survived further in the custom, also observed in Germany, of placing a Yule tree at an entrance or inside the house during the midwinter holidays. The modern Christmas tree, though, originated in western Germany. The main prop of a popular medieval play about Adam and Eve was a “paradise tree,” a fir tree hung with apples, that represented the Garden of Eden. The Germans set up a paradise tree in their homes on December 24, the religious feast day of Adam and Eve. They hung wafers on it (symbolizing the host, the Christian sign of redemption); in a later tradition the wafers were replaced by cookies of various shapes. Candles, symbolic of Christ, were often added. The Paradise Play about the Fall and Expulsion was performed prior to Christmas, which celebrates the Incarnation. (We will return to that pairing as well.) The 16th-century woodcut below has the two tree trunks intertwined, and again we see the deadly apples and life-giving Hosts. Again, from Germany. The matched pairs of trees, with arbor vitiorum, (rooted in Superbia and crowned by Luxuria), and arbor virtutum, (rooted in Humilitas and crowned with Charitas), are another example. There are many of those pairs. The Liber Floridus has one of the earliest and most striking examples. The Liber Floridus of St. Omer, Ghent, c. 1120, contrasted the fruit of two similarly shapped trees which are explicitly captioned “arbor bona – Ecclesia” and “arbor mala – Synagoga”. They appear on the spectator’s left and right respectively in a double-page image; the arrangement is that of Ecclesia and Synagoga in crucifixion iconography (i.e., to Christ’s right and left). The burgeoning arbor bona bears twelve varigated fruits, alluding to the Tree of Life in Rev. 22.2 and labelled as the fruits of the Spirit(1) listed in Gal. 5.22-24.(2) The arbor mala is of identical shape but barren of leaves and with withered figs identified as the fruits of the flesh. The cursing of the unfruitful tree in Mt. 21.19 is recalled and the axes laid at the root of the arbor mala hint at other literary origins of the image: John the Baptist’s sermon on repentance, warning of the fire and axe awaiting “every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit” (Mt. 3.10), repeated in Mt. 7.16-20, “Wherefore by their fruits you shall known them.”(3) Seven centuries later, (c. 1850s), the matched pair of Currier and Ives prints were another example. The Sinner’s Tree of Death receives Wrath from above, while the Christian’s Tree of Life basks in Grace from on high. We’ll get back to that pair, after... §2. New Hieroglyphics A brief digression about rebus puzzles. “Rebus” is a general term used loosely to refer to writing interspersed with, or even replaced by, images of some sort. It offers limitless flexibility: the connection may be direct, (a hand represents a hand), or indirect, (a hand represents pointing), or based on the sound of a word representing the pictured subject, (a hand represents the word “and”), or punning from the word, figures of speech, or anything else the inventor devises. In the image to the right the Reaper and Homo Bulla figures are conventional allegories referring to Death and Life, while the crown simply refers to the word “crown”. The rebus is a throwback to pictograms, a primitive form of written language which continued to be used and incorporated into more advanced writing systems. Being childishly stupid playful, they have great appeal. Rebus works have taken many forms, from Renaissance heraldry to modern game shows. Rebus puzzles were especially popular in the English speaking world during the 18th and 19th century. They were used for political complaints and social commentary, romantic epistles, children’s books, satirical broadsides, etc. Examples survive of rebus letters written by famous authors including Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll Notably, they remain popular today in the form of emoji being used in lieu of words in text messages on cell phones or on the Internet, linked together by orbiting satellites. Pictograms survive. So, what’s that rebus shit got to do with our walk in the woods? Well, back in the first tree post was a Tree of Death image titled The New Hieroglyphical Bible, dated 1794. And what the hell is a hieroglyphical Bible? It was a rebus Bible. Children’s Bibles of various sorts have been produced, usually being heavily illustrated extreme abridgements – the “good stuff” with pictures. Rebus bibles were a natural outgrowth of that market for entertaining children’s Bibles. Rebus puzzles were known as hieroglyphic puzzles, and so the resulting books were called hieroglyphic Bibles. Are we there? Let’s go on. The Tree of Wrath and the Tree of Grace, two Currier and Ives designs from the 1850s, above, were used a half century earlier in the 1794 edition(4) of A New Hieroglyphical Bible for the Amusement & Instruction of Children: Being a Selection of the Most Useful Lessons, and Most Interesting Narratives; (Scripturally Arranged) from Genesis to the Revelations: Embellished with Familiar Figures & Striking Emblems Neatly Engraved. In a later edition (1818), the angels and demons were omitted, along with the skeletal Death and his axe. The trees themselves, however, are nearly identical to the earlier designs, or to the later Currier and Ives prints. There is a world of potential associations in these two trees, as trees of Wrath (Judgment) and Grace. §3. Martin Luther and Lucas Cranach Genesis was written by Jews, for Jews. Jews were the good guys, the Chosen People™ who would lead the world to redemption. The Torah or Law of Moses was a great gift from God and mankind’s path to redemption. “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.” (Ge 4:7.) The epitome of the Law was embodied in the Ten Commandments and its essence was expressed in the Golden Rule. However, this was usually not conceived in terms of bodily resurrection and immortality in an afterlife. These were later, Hellenistic accretions. For Christians, the Jews were the bad guys who denied the divinity and supernatural significance of the mythical Christ. Christians demonized the Jews, and constantly compared their Ecclesia, with its saving Grace, to the barren Synagoga, lacking such salvation. This is clearly expressed in the Liber Floridus, (above), where Ecclesia is explicitly identified with the Tree of Life and Synagoga with the Tree of Knowledge/Death. Even something as superficially non-denominational as the hieroglyphic trees of Grace and Wrath are implicitly denouncing the Jews as sinners deserving hellfire. Those who do not accept Jesus as the Jewish messiah do not receive God’s saving Grace, and are accordingly judged as sinners on the Day of Wrath. Then came the Protestant Reformation. The same two trees, and the associated two paths or choices in life, were redefined again. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) adopted the idea illustrated in the Liber Floridus trees, identifying the Tree of Life with the good guys and the Tree of Death with the bad. Reformed Christianity (Luther’s followers or, more generally, Protestants), became associated with the Tree of Life, salvation via Grace, while the Roman Catholic Church was identified with the Tree of Death, damnation through mankind’s failure to live up to the Law. Cranach expressed this in a series of paintings and prints, usually titled either The Law and the Gospel or Allegory of Law and Grace. These works by Cranach convey a generic concept of choice and the Two Paths motif, but also imply a condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church. The designs were based on the theology of Martin Luther (1483-1546), who had a particular set of distinctions in mind, and they were more didactic than merely devotional. Unfortunately there does not seem to be an English translation of the broadsheet online, so I’ll just fake it. There are eleven (or more) vignettes in this image. Chronologically, we start with (1) Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man. This, as we’ve seen in various works, leads to (2) Death and the Devil hounding man to Hell. Some 26 generations later, (3) Moses came along with the Law and God’s promise that (4) if we were good enough we might be saved on Judgment Day. However, only perfect obedience would merit the perfect reward of eternal life, so we seem doomed to fail. We need God’s help. Note that the tree dividing the two panels is half-dead, half living. The side facing the Law is barren, while the side facing Grace is leafed out. On the right side we see (A1) the Tabernacle in the desert, home to the Old Testament “presence of God”. “And they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them”. (Exodus 25:8.) From the perspective of Christians, this is a foreshadowing of the Incarnation: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us”. (John 1:14.) This echoes the pairing of the Paradise Play with Advent/Christmas celebrations, discussed above. We also see (A2) the bronze serpent (Nu 21:8-9) which was another type of Christ.(5) In the next background scene, (B1) an angel appears to shepherds below, heralding the Incarnation – the New Testament presence of God. Another (B2) angel appears to Mary, shown on a hilltop. This leads to (C) Christ’s redemptive sacrifice and (D) resurrection to triumph over Death and the Devil, permitting (E) baptism in the Blood of the Lamb, via the Holy Spirit. We need merely accept the saving Grace from God. That’s the gist of it, iconographically. It seems perfectly conventional, and in fact it is. Any Protestant heresies lie in the text and interpretation rather than the images per se, implicit rather than explicit. In many other images by Cranach his anti-Catholic views are explicit. Getting back to our topic, notice how the composition puts the tree from the Garden near the left edge, the “tree” of the Cross near the right edge, and uses another tree to divide the two dispensations. There were a number of such works, paintings and prints, made by Cranach, his son, and other followers including Hans Holbein, and copies of the copies. Here are a half dozen that are online. My favorite is by Hans Holbein the Younger. (Below.) Notice how many of the details are maintained from Cranach’s design. Some things are moved around within the composition: Moses is put on a mountain top, and the Tabernacle and Brazen Serpent are moved to the Old Testament side. (The Serpent is labeled Mysterium Justificationis, indicating justification by faith.) The more egregious allegorical elements are toned down, notably the literal Lamb is replaced by Christ, and the firehose spray of blood is merely implied by the Baptist’s gesture. This is the caption from the National Galleries Scotland display of Holbein’s An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments, from the 1530s. The images and inscriptions provide a painted sermon. The central theme, encouraged by the Reformation, is the contrast between the unforgiving Old Testament Law (LEX) on the left, and the forgiving Grace of the New Testament (GRATIA) at the right. Man (HOMO)'s failure to obey the commandments God gave to Moses, led to sin (PECCATUM) and death (MORS - the skeleton). However, man is forgiven and achieves salvation (VICTORIA NOSTRA) through Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection. Man sits between the Old Testament prophet Isaiah and St John the Baptist, who points the way forward to Christ 'the Lamb of God' (AGNUS DEI). Just for fun, check out the little Devil underneath Death in the lower-right corner, under Christ’s foot. It looks more like a space alien than a typical devil or demon. Other printed versions of the composition were also made, like this one by Pieter Nagel, circa 1567. Each composition is unique, but all share a number of the same features listed above. Protestants loved this composition. They used a version of it as the title page for some editions of the Bible. The Lutheran theologian Johann Hess (1490 -1547) is buried in front of the main altar of the Breslauer Magdalene Church, in Breslau, Poland. A variation of the Cranach design is part of his marker... so, it got around some. §4. The Christmas Tree Before we leave Luther’s trees this bright December morning, we have to get back to the Christmas Tree. A legend suggests that Luther was responsable for popularizing the idea of an evergreen tree, decorated with red apples and lit candles, as an appropriate Christmas display. (Cf. the Paradise Play, above.) The image below is from the 1854 book, The Life of Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany. The modern custom(6) of decorated Christmas trees did (apparently) originate in Germany, although in Luther’s time it probably had not developed into the practice of household displays like that depicted. Also, some of the earliest published representations of an indoor Christmas tree were of Martin Luther and his family celebrating with a decorated and candlelit tree, so there is that much truth to the legend. However, these pictures are from the 19th century. In 1845 Carl August Schwerdgeburth depicted Martin Luther and his family gathered around a lighted Christmas tree. This engraving was copied and widely reproduced. In 1841, Youth’s Keepsake: A Christmas and New Year’s Gift for Young People, had a lighted Christmas tree picture. In 1848 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (a German) were pictured with a lighted tree in a Christmas supplement to the Illustrated London News. An Americanized version of this design appeared in Godey’s Lady’s Book in 1850. These depictions were significant in making Christmas trees a standard part of the holiday celebration in the English speaking world. So... Christmas trees were originally associated with a late-medieval mystery play about the Fall, performed during the Advent period leading up to Christmas. The popularization of Christmas trees appears to have gotten started in 19th-century Germany, spreading to England and America initially via German immigrants. One of the earliest depictions (below) comes from an 1831 German book titled The Christmas Tree: An Educational and Entertaining Gift Book for Girls and Boys.(7) In the frontispiece, the Christmas tree is explicitly contrasted with the Tree of Knowledge/Death shown on the Wall. The Christmas tree is presented by an angel, and is crowned by a radiant Eye of Providence above a radiant Sun. It is the Tree of Life or, more precisely, the combined tree of the Paradise Play. Maybe the modern ritual(8) of Christmas trees is less a Pagan survival than commonly assumed, and more a Christian innovation. Maybe not, but it’s a nice pic of the two trees. Fröhliche Weihnachten and Merry Saturnalia! (P.S., more trees to come.) ______________________ Notes: ✎ 1. The five leftmost virtues, from the top of the page, are longsuffering, patience, chastity, joy, and peace. The five in the center are faith, meekness, hope, sobriety, and goodness. The three at the bottom of the tree are restraint, charity, and modesty. ✎ 2. Ga 5:22-24: fructus autem Spiritus est caritas gaudium pax longanimitas bonitas benignitas fides modestia continentia adversus huiusmodi non est lex qui autem sunt Christi carnem crucifixerunt cum vitiis et concupiscentiis. ✎ 3. O'Reilly, Jennifer. “The Trees of Eden in Mediaeval Iconography”, in A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden, 1992, p.188. ✎ 4. The date, 1794, seems to be used online for different editions. It is presumably correct for one of them and incorrect for others, but do you really care? ✎ 5. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. (Nu 21:8-9.) ✎ 6. This section is all about the modern custom. Ancient celebrations of the Winter Solstice using trees, (cf. objections by Jeremiah 10:2-4 and Tertullian), medieval practices, and so on, are another matter. As actual precursors there are things like, “A Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 reports that a small tree decorated with "apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers" was erected in the guild-house for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas Day.” The modern practice appears to have become established in 18th-century Germany, and then spread widely in the 19th century. ✎ 7. Der Weihnachtsbaum: Ein Bildungs-und Unterhaltungsbüch, als Gefchenk für die Jugend beyderley Geschlechts, (The Christmas Tree: An Educational and Entertainment Book as a Gift for the Youth of Both Sexes); by Sebastian Willibald Schießler; publ. Josef Bermann, Vienna, 1831. ✎ 8. See note #6.
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