Personality of plants

PERSONALITY OF PLANTS
flowers. Along with fire, water, stars, sun, moon,
animals, birds and graven images, our wood-
roving ancestors ascribed supernatural attrib-
utes to many trees and flowers. In various places
and at various times, many different plants
have been idolized as the material substance of
an ethereal or spiritual being. Certain plant
growths have been repeatedly designated as
sacred, and even in the present day, untutored
races have many plant superstitions. Tree wor-
ship was common among the Celts and Teutons.
The present day Christmas tree is a relic of
primitive tree veneration. Even the American
Indians worshiped trees at times. Man has
been groping for God all through the ages. His
tendency has been to deify those elements and
things which he did not understand or which
contained mystery. As soon as he became ac-
quainted with the causes of these mysteries, the
supernatural collapsed into the natural and he
went searching after new wonders to call God.
From the beginning of literature, the bards
of every land have sung to and of the flowers;
the prophets have used them as instruments for
their sooth-saying; the believer in resurrection
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