Quotes:Oak, sacred

H. P. Blavatsky

Sacred Oak. With the Druids the oak was a most holy tree, and so also with the ancient Greeks, if we can believe Pherecydes and his cosmogony, who tells us of the sacred oak “in whose luxuriant branches a serpent (i.e., wisdom) dwelleth, and cannot be dislodged”. Every nation had its own sacred trees, pre‐eminently the Hindus.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Oak, sacred