From the Kabbalah: Cosmic Trees

“I am the one who planted this tree for all the world to delight in. With it I spanned the All, calling it All, for all depends on it, all emanates from it, all need it, all gaze upon it and await it. From here souls fly forth in joy.

Alone I was when I made it. When I spread out my earth, in which I planted and rooted this tree – giving them joy in one another, rejoicing along with them – who was with me? To whom could I reveal this secret of mine?”

– God

– The kabbalah, twelfth century, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy.