As Eve first tasted the fruit of knowledge, we must too, and we know that there will always be good and evil in our lives. The phoenix bird rose from the ashes in paradise and so we know we can too.
The phoenix bird visits young children and gives them contentment, innocence and hope for the future, before they grow up to taste the fruit of knowledge and learn about the hardships and troubles they will face in life. It visits everyone and fills lives with light, beauty, colour, music, poetry and song. However, it rises again from its own ash in even greater splendour. It crashes and burns to death in a burst of flames. The bird that rose from the ashes in that nest renews itself every year. The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death, and in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology it is associated with the sun god. It visits babies in their cradles, children in schools and workers in the offices and factories. It visits our villages, towns and cities. It travels from north to south and over land, sea, deserts and mountains. It came from Paradise and it will be with mankind forever. We never see it, but we know of its presence. We all meet the phoenix in our own lives. Get the best deals on Bird Phoenix Porcelain & Pottery Antique Chinese Figurines & Statues when you shop the largest online selection at. Then a miracle happened! From an egg in the nest, a new bird flew into the sky and that was when the one and only phoenix bird came into the world. The nest caught fire and the bird was lost in the flames. A spark of fire fell from that sword into the bird’s nest. Its feathers were brilliant.Īdam and Eve were chased from Paradise by an angel wielding a flaming sword. Beneath the tree, a new bird was born from the first rose to bloom on a rosebush. This was very sad, but the story does not end there. They learned about lies, pain, hunger, cruelty and hate. Eve shared this knowledge with Adam and they were banished from the garden into the world we now know. Paradise had been all purity and goodness but, from the tree, Eve learned the meaning of bad and evil. She ate the forbidden fruit and life would never be the same again. Why not eat the fruit? What does it mean? What could the tree tell her? What harm could it do?Įve was tempted. Then one day Eve began to hear a voice inside her head. They were told never to eat the fruit from a tree called ‘The Tree of Forbidden Knowledge’.įor many years Adam and Eve lived happily in Paradise and never went near the tree. They were created to be part of a perfect world, to live there in Paradise but they were forbidden one thing. The sun kept them warm, they ate the fruit from the trees and they bathed in the warm, clear waters of the lake. They took care of the garden and it provided them with everything they could wish for. They were surrounded by fruitful trees, beautiful flowers and plants, colourful birds and contented animals. They lived together in perfect harmony with nature. The garden gave them everything they needed. Find a huge variety of new & used Phoenix Mythical bird books online including bestsellers & rare titles at the best prices. Adam and Eve lived in that garden and life was wonderful and good. Because of its obedience, God not only allowed it to stay in the Garden of Eden but also gave it immortality.At the beginning of time, there was a beautiful garden called Paradise. He uses it, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, as a symbol of Jesus' resurrection from the dead (History of the Christian Church, Volume 2, Clement of Rome).Īccording to the Talmud, the phoenix (Hol) was the only animal who refused to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He is possibly the first person to use this bird to teach Christian doctrines. " (Early Church Fathers: Second Series, Volume 7, Lecture XVIII).Ĭlement of Rome, who died around 100 A.D., is considered one of the "fathers" of what would become the Roman Catholic Church. becoming fledged and a full-grown Phoenix. Then from the decayed flesh of the dead bird a worm is engendered, and this worm when grown large is transformed into a bird. "For it makes itself a coffin of frankincense and myrrh and other spices, and entering into this when its years are fulfilled, it evidently dies and moulders away. God knew men's unbelief, and provided for this purpose a bird, called a Phoenix. "But the Greeks ask for a resurrection of the dead still manifest and say that, even if these creatures are raised, yet they had not utterly mouldered away and they require to see distinctly some creature rise again after complete decay.
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