12 different miniature gemstone trees on gemstone base. In beautiful presentation box.

The Biblical tree of life or tree of life (Hebrew: עץ החיים‎; Etz haChayim) is mentioned in the Bible book of Genesis in verse 2:9 as the tree that, together with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was planted by God in the Garden of Eden (Paradise) and whose fruits give eternal life (immortality). After Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Bible records that both were banished from the Garden of Eden to keep them from eating the fruit of the tree of life: “Then God thought , the LORD: Now man has become like us, and he has knowledge of good and evil. Now I will prevent him from gathering the fruit of the tree of life, for if he eats it, he will live forever.” The Germanic Tree of Life. The Irminsul was an important sanctuary for the Saxons of the eighth century AD. with probably great symbolic significance. It is mentioned and briefly described in the Annales regni Francorum, the Translatio St. Alexandri by Rudolf of Fulda and in the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Book I, chapter 8) by Adam of Bremen. The latter two use exactly the same words and describe the Irminsul as a large, erected wooden trunk that, according to the Saxons, supported the entire world. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is a model with which Hermetic Kabbalists symbolically represent the entire universe and its origins. This tree of life has a different shape than the one known to the Jewish Kabbalists. The first publication in which this tree of life appeared was Athanasi Kircher's Oedipus Aegypticus from 1652. Robert Fludd copied this diagram in an adapted form in his Complete Works from 1617.