Acacia or Cassia
Eternal life and resurrection - immortality of the soul.
In the Mediterranean countries Acacia symbolizes eternal life and immortality. Christian: Immortality, a mortal life. Egyptian: Rebirth, immortality, initiation, innocence.
Masonry symbol: https://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/sof/sof30.htm
The acacia, in the mythic system of Freemasonry, is preeminently the symbol of the IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
The sprig of acacia, then, in its most ordinary signification, presents itself to the Master Mason as a symbol of the immortality of the soul, being intended to remind him, by its evergreen and unchanging nature, of that better and spiritual part within us, which, as an emanation from the Grand Architect of the Universe, can never die. And as this is the most ordinary, the most generally accepted signification, so also is it the most important; for thus, as the peculiar symbol of immortality, it becomes the most appropriate to an order all of whose teachings are intended to inculcate the great lesson that "life rises out of the grave."
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