Tree of knowledge

Motif

Tree of knowledge.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J165

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Purgatory 32
Mesopotamian The Babylonian Legends of the Creation (Enūma Eliš) , Tablet 7
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 7: The Glory of the World, or Table of Paradise
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 14, Section XLVII

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Jewish *Neuman.
general Dh I 212ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

Filed beside it

Wisdom from old person Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher) Wisdom from holy man Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience Wisdom (knowledge) from women Wisdom from fools Wisdom (knowledge) from dream Wisdom from angel Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree Wisdom purchased Wisdom from God Wisdom from books Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just Inscription on walls for condensed education Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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