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===Judeo-Christian mythology=== [[File:Lucas Cranach (I) - Adam and Eve-Paradise - Kunsthistorisches Museum - Detail Tree of Knowledge.jpg|thumb|upright|The Tree of Knowledge depicted, with [[Adam and Eve]], where the [[Tree of life (biblical)|Tree of life]] is described as part of the [[Garden of Eden]] in the Hebrew bible.]] The [[Tree of the knowledge of good and evil]] and the [[Tree of life (biblical)|Tree of life]] are both components of the [[Garden of Eden]] story in the [[Book of Genesis]] in the [[Bible]]. According to [[Jewish mythology]], in the [[Garden of Eden]] there is a tree of life or the "tree of souls" that blossoms and produces new [[souls]], which fall into the [[Guf]], the ''Treasury of Souls''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dRi8v-j7OMC&pg=PA153|title=Origins of the Kabbalah|via=Google Books|access-date=2014-05-01|df=dmy-all|isbn=0691020477|year=1990|last1=Scholem|first1=Gershom Gerhard|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref> The Angel [[Gabriel]] reaches into the treasury and takes out the first soul that comes into his hand. Then [[Lailah]], the Angel of Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/95135842/224/THE-TREASURY-OF-SOULS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030044612/http://www.scribd.com/doc/95135842/224/THE-TREASURY-OF-SOULS|archive-date=2012-10-30|df=dmy-all|title=The Treasury of Souls for Tree of Souls|series=The Mythology of Judaism|website=Scribd|url-status=dead|access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref>
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