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Cirlot on death
Identifier
004817
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
A Dictionary of Symbols – J E Cirlot
The ‘return home’ or to the ‘motherland’ … is symbolic of death not in the sense of total destruction but of reintegration of the spirit into the Spirit. As the Chinese thinker Lieh-tzu observed, ‘when the soul leaves the form, both are restored to their true essence, and that is why they are said to have returned home’