flower of life

plural flowers of life · alternative Flower of Life

1. countableuncountableA hexagonal pattern of overlapping circles, associated with the New Age movement and sacred geometry.

   This image of the Flower of Life (Fig. 2-20) is not only found in Egypt, but all over the world.

   2000, Drunvalo Melchizedek, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, volume 1, Light Technology Publishing, →ISBN, page 40

2. countableuncountableA flower on the tree of life.

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   The lotus was in some Eastern countries imagined blossoming upon the Tree of Life, as the Flower of Life, and is thus represented in Assyrian bas-reliefs. Because the Rose, the flower sacred to the Virgin Mary, and the flower that Apuleius’ adventurer ate, when he was changed out of the ass’s shape and received into the fellowship of Isis, is the western Flower of Life, I have imagined it growing upon the Tree of Life.

   1908, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, volume 1, Notes

3. figurativelyuncountableYouth.