The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is a cosmogram which graphically depicts the order of the universe. It is a graphic compliment of the cosmology of the universe. The Tree is also a guide for creating any event and a guide for thinking and understanding the myriad things in the universe which illustrates the manner in which they all interrelate. The Tree highlights the steps a prospective initiate must take and the experiences she must undergo in order to achieve the apex of enlightenment.
Egyptian Tree
QUAF ?
According to E.A. Wallis Budge "The early Egyptians thought that Egypt was the world, and that it was surrounded by a chain of lofty mountains, like the Gebel Kaf of the Arabs, which was pierced in two places, one in the east and the other in the west. In the evening the Sun passed through the western hole, and travelling, not under the earth, but on the same place and outside the chain of mountains, it came round to the eastern hole in the mountains, through which it entered to begin the new day above the earth." So Budge would have us believe that an advanced, scientific culture that discovered Pi, intricately worked out the precession of the equinoxes, understood solstices, studied distant stars like Sirius and sent missionaries all over the planet "thought Egypt was the world" and that the sun "passed through" holes in mountains each day. It is astonishing that a "scholar" like Budge would not have seen immediately that such analogies were metaphors. To characterize such descriptions as "Egyptian thought" would be equal to saying Americans thought the world was flat because some of their maps are flattened out to show both hemispheres. The imagery of the world surrounded by a mountain chain became the Qaf Mountains among the Arabs. Quaf is the letter "Q" in the Arabic alphabet.