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This tree appeared to some who had psychic senses, as if it were glowing with fire, and this fire coiled itself for him who could see into the letters B, the first letters of two words that I am not authorized to pronounce here, but the meaning of which is: “I am who was, I am who is, I am who will be.” This tree divided into three limbs. Seth took wood from it, and it was used in many ways in the evolution of the world. A staff was made from it; the magic wand of Moses, legend says. It was the same wood that was used to form the beams of Solomon's Temple. They remained there as long as people understood the ancient secrets. Then the wood was thrown into a pond in which the lame and the blind were healed at certain times. After it had been taken out again, it formed the bridge over which the Redeemer passed as he made his way to the cross. And finally, so the legend goes, the cross itself, on which the Redeemer hung, was made from the wood of this tree, which had grown out of Adam's mouth after the seeds of the entwined trees of life and knowledge had been placed in his mouth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Notes on the Design and Decoration of the Congress Hall","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-05-21","location":null,"word_count":323,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/284/1907-05-21/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Images of Occult Seals and Columns","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA284/English/SOL2024/19070521c01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Dieser Baum zeigte sich manchem, der psychische Sinne hatte, wie in Feuersglut erstrahlend, und diese Feuersglut windet sich zusammen für den, der sehen konnte, zu den Buchstaben ] B, den Anfangsbuchstaben von zwei Worten, die ich hier auszusprechen nicht befugt bin, deren Sinn aber ist: «Ich bin, der da war, Ich bin, der da ist, Ich bin, der da sein wird.» In drei Glieder teilte sich dieser Baum. Seth nahm Holz von ihm, und es wurde in der Weltenevolution mannigfaltig verwendet. Ein Stab wurde daraus gemacht; der Zauberstab des Moses, sagt die Legende. Es war dasselbe Holz, aus dem die Balken am Salomonischen Tempel geformt wurden. Da blieben sie so lange, als die Menschen die alten Geheimnisse verstanden. Dann wurde das Holz in einen Teich geworfen, in dem zu bestimmten Zeiten Lahme und Blinde geheilt wurden. Nachdem es wieder herausgenommen worden war, bildete es die Brücke, über die der Erlöser ging, als er seinen Weg zum Kreuz antrat. 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