Which fruit Eve did offer to Adam? Apple, Fig or Orange, we will never know it. And where did they find the sheet intended to hide the small difference of which they had suddenly felt shame? There too, we could argue in vain.
For the Celts, who were unaware of all the Old
Testament, the
fig tree was the tree of the knowledge of the good and the evil, not that
of the difference of the sexes, without which we would not have come in
the world.
The apple tree (Malus) symbolized, the perfection, the link of love which
links nature and the man, the life and death, the here and beyond. No Celt
would have dared to be caught with the one of the seven crowned trees:
birch, willow, alder, oak, holm oak, hazel tree and apple tree.
This respect appears very reasonable to us.
Missionnaires, in their fanaticism, saw it of another eye. Called quert
in Celtic, the apple tree was renamed by
them Malus sylvestris
. Wanting to fight the worships of alleged pagan, they made this tree of the
love and immortality the symbol of the original sin.
Today, we do not have to request the permission any more to eat an apple
or of drinking its juice, as tells it Ken, a Celtic poet.
He extorted from the god of the winds the right
to gather a last apple; clinging to the apple tree, it thus avoided being carried
by the storm and saved its poetic immortality.
Because it is known as: that which, when the storm thunders, sucks the
juice of an apple by intertwining the tree trunk, is immunized against
the pangs of the hell, even if he fails to deserve Heaven.
The Celtic calendar includes/understands only two fruit trees: the fig tree
and the apple tree, which frame to some extent the summer
solstices and winter. They are not their sheets, their flowers or their fruits
which theirs were worth to occupy this place:
they flower about May - June already and their fruit are ripe in September.
Tree of the achievement, the apple tree follows
the birch, tree of initiation.
" Too much of a sinner to deserve Heaven, but invulnerable with the hell ":
such was the saying applied by the Celts to those which were born between June
25 and July 4, the summer, or between December 23 and January 1, the winter.
Link linking all antagonisms, the natives of the apple tree serve mediators
between the sky and the ground, the ideal and reality, the good and
the evil.
Never they aspire to " celestial " ideals so that they would come from there
to scorn the terrestrial existence. They dream of a life
reconciled, without divisions, according to the rate/rhythm of their impulses,
they are attracted sometimes by a pole, sometimes
by the other. On their premises, reason and feeling do only one. Similar with
a couple of lovers, they are based one
in the other or withdraw one of the other with the liking of their desires.
Their moral tolerance is exemplary. They seem to accept that each being lives
with its own way and is responsible for its acts in
its hearts and conscience. Refusing the unrealizable dogmas, they prefer to
exert the art of possible and moderate as much as
to make may be the attitudes and the extreme value judgments.
The natives of the apple tree like the contact of the people whom they can help,
but not the reverse. Frequently confronted with
the dilemma of the security and independence, they end up choosing the latter
without the help of anybody. In that they resemble
has their tree of life, extremely robust and pushing on all the grounds.
In spite of its whims, the " apple tree " is the man more balanced who is. It
will only be lost very seldom in a passive pain. It will
always find somebody more unhappy than him than it will help and, by doing this,
it will help itself to come out of his bad
master key.
Writers like Hermann Hesse or Henry Miller are typical representatives of this
sign. The life and the work of Pearl S. Buck also
prove that the opening to the world by no means excludes the small joys from
a simple life.
Small Prince d' Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry and the Book of the jungle of Rudyard Kipling bring
back both the univers of the adults and that of the
children. Other natives of the apple tree, finally, reach the highest responsibilities
and deploy their unifying aspirations there.
Other famous Natives of the apple tree:
Marlène Dietrich, Mao Tsé-Toung
And Franz KAFKA, which is born the same day as I, but in 1883.
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