RELIGIOUS ART EAST AND WEST — ^ROWLAND 585 



of and iconography of mystical Buddliism: that world tree whose 

 branches flower into space, towering upward to .infinity to bear us all 

 at last to our astral home, is a scientifically explained miracle em- 

 bodied in the ancient ideas of the world-axis, of Yggdrasil, and the 

 all-embracing cosmic person who is at once Christ and Buddha. 



