Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges: The World Tree, The Canon and the Cabala
Comic Tree
The World Tree: The archetype - Ygdrasil - the Tree in the Garden of Eden - the Tree of the Crucifixion - other world-trees ...
Travers has noted that: "Coming to [the Christian] tradition, we can think of the cross as the world tree par excellence.
The most important example of this peculiar conception is found in the Odinic rituals where Odin hangs himself for nine nights from the branches of the World Tree and upon the same occasion also pierces his own side with the sacred spear.
Eihwas represents the spinning World Tree, Yggdrasil. It is the axis about which all else revolves and spins out of. It contains the mystery of life and death. It is a life giving force which has its roots in the Underworld and death.
illustration (left) from World Trees by Hazel Minot
Kircher's Tree from Oedipus Aegyptiacus published in 1652 by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest and hermetic philosopher
Occult Kabbalah ...
To further complicate their doctrine, the Qabbalists created another tree, which was a composite of all four of the world trees but consisted of only ten globes.
 See also: World, Christ, Magic, Symbol, Spirit
  
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