Symbols - What does heaven look like
Candle
The physical body of a person is represented by the candle whereas the flame takes on Flame symbolism, thus representing their Higher spirit. Thus the symbolism of the candle is relatively straightforward, the body of the candle is our body [form] and the wick is the link between the body and the spiritual world – this tends to be the spine hence there is a connection herr with the various forms of spiritual practises such as sexual stimulation and stimulation of trigger points to induce kundalini experiences.
The soul as a small flame occurs again and again in poems as well as visions. It has such universal symbolic meaning that to’ light a candle’ for a person means something world-wide – it is a symbolic act of respect, perhaps at a time when they need support……
Young – Love of Fame
Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell
How science dwindles and how volumes swell
How commentators each dark passage shun
And hold their farthing candle to the sun
If the candle is in a holder the link with the sexually based systems of invocation is even stronger.
Observations
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- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 20 Death, the soul and immortal soul
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 01 - 4 Drink me
- Arthur Osbourne - The Few
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Dullard Sage
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Moths and the Flame
- Baudelaire, Charles - Hymne à la Beauté
- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - Revering the existence and conduct of bees
- Beuys, Joseph - Lightning with Stag in its glare
- Blithe spirit - Candle in the wind
- Bowie, David - Black Star
- C P Cavafy - Candles
- Chagall - Cheval rouge
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cohen, Leonard - You want it darker
- Crescent moons and lanterns
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Candles
- Deng Ming-Dao - Each day
- Dickinson, Emily - A moth the hue of this Haunts candles in Brazil
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Edward Young - Love of Fame - extracts
- Goethe - Selected poems - Tell it to the wisest only, For the mob will mock such learning
- Goryeo sijo - Yi Kae
- Grandma Moses - The spry arms of the wind
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Bright threadz
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Chance meeting 'hind the shrubs
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Endless mansion
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Virtual candle
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Love's fire
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - MY CANDLE GUTTERS IN A SUDDEN GUST
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Soliloquy
- Healer H - A ring of daisies forming a daisy chain
- Healer H - The lights upon them is what keeps them connected
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay
- Hyangga of Korea – 03 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo
- Isaac Luria – Hymn for the Friday evening meal
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 04 The Story
- Judaism and the Kabbalah - Mishnab sukkah 5 - Water Drawing Ceremony
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1151
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1155
- Magritte, Rene - Time Transfixed
- Maier, Michael - Themis Aurea - Fires and mountains
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Describing the night and cognising the heart 02
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 03
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 02
- Oranges and lemons
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The Dream of the Flaming Mountain
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Prosperine
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Dante's Dream
- Rubens - Judith with the head of Holofernes
- Rubens - Night scene 1617
- Rudd, Xavier - The Letter
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - When you fast for a while
- Saint Brendan - 06 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 07 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Nirvana
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Three Wise Virgins
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 05 - The Nativity
- Sri Aurobindo - Musa Spiritus
- Sterry, Peter - Didst thou ever decry a glorious eternity
- Sterry, Peter - Rebirth and Higher spirit described
- Stockhausen - Momente
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium chemicum 1624
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 368
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 371
- Swift, Jonathan - On A Candle
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 04
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 03 - 3 The Gnat
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 3 Falling off
- Tree, Isabella - Sliced Iguana – The Church of San Juan Chamula
- Wirth, Oswald – 15 The Devil
- Yeats, W B - The Phases of the Moon - And now he seeks in book or manuscript What he shall never find
- Yu Xuanji - Farewell
- Zohar - Bamidbar 183a - Aaron
- Zohar - I 050b – Sacrifice and the making of a ‘god’
- Zohar - I 050b – The allegory of the candle
- Zohar - I 083b – Wisdom