On this episode of Symbolic World podcast, I am playing for your discussion ahead around the symbolism of the Christmas tree.

Now, once again, as I said in the last episode, it might seem strange that this is appearing in the middle of the year,

but hopefully within a few months we'll have all caught up our podcast and videos so that they're coming out at the same time.

But I think you will find this discussion

on the symbolism of the tree and the particular form of the Christmas tree, how it manifests

an image of reality to be enlightening, to say the least. And so just to remind you, as usual,

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This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So like me, you've probably heard several times this notion that so many of our Christian traditions, including the Christmas tree, has a pagan origin.

Either that or they'll say that it's recent, that it's not very ancient.

It doesn't really matter.

All of these are strategies to somehow

get some attention for discrediting the Christian tradition. But what's important to understand

if you look at it in the right way is that the mechanical reasons why a tradition becomes important.

Sometimes it matters.

Sometimes there's a reason why it's important to track, let's say, the historical

or, let's say, mechanical way in which something comes into our lives.

But sometimes it isn't.

What's important is rather you can you know what

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