Symbols - What does heaven look like
Rope
The rope takes some of its symbolism from the thread or cord and some from the stairs, it is a means of Ascent or ascension.
Although ladders, ropes and wings all appear to be similar as means of ascent, there is a very distinct difference symbolically. The ones with wings are those who are capable of having spiritual experiences with little difficulty. In a sense they are the ‘mystics’, but they are also naturally able to ‘fly’.
Those with ladders and stairs have a rather slow upward climb that involves stages and steps towards the goal of enlightenment.
The ones using ropes have to have assistance from above and occasionally below and are always having to pull themselves up by sheer hard work against the ‘gravity’ of the pull to the earth – the physical. It means the person is much more attuned to the world of physical perceptions and the physical, and is not naturally a spiritual traveller. If they make it, it will only be through sheer force of will and perseverance.
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 04 - 4 The Lizard flies
- Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of Min
- Braveheart - Guardians and keys
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Clare, John - Old customs, O I love the sound
- Codex Azcatitlan - Aztecs and Mexica - Adepts
- Degas - Miss Lalla
- Gentling the Bull – 04 Catching the Bull
- Healer H - Having a board meeting
- Herbert, George - from The Collar
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Anchor and rope
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Bull and Twin horns
- Into The Flood Ibogaine, iboga Total Aklaloid Extract by Xorkoth
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 042 Section 3
- Jung, C G - The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - Harlequin
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1186
- Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven - live
- Lull, Raymond - Breviculum
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- Mircea Eliade - Australian Aboriginal Initiation ceremony
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal ropes and stairs
- Mircea Eliade - On 'magical flight'
- Mircea Eliade - On Hindu flight
- Mircea Eliade - The Chain of arrows
- Mircea Eliade - Tibetan Buddhism - Ropes
- Miro - Rope and People I
- Myōe – There was a pole made of lapis lazuli hanging from the sky
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - He who wisheth one day to fly
- Rops, Félicien - L'Enlèvement 1882
- Shinto – Shimenawa
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 07 - A village in heaven 1937
- Suhrawardi - Book of Elucidations - Hermes
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Tolstoy, Leo - Confessions - The thread of life
- Turvey, Vincent – The beginnings of Seership – Down the rabbit hole or through the mirror
- Xam bushmen - Num dom
- Yerka, Jacek and Rashani Rea - The Unbroken
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 5th Book of Magnesia picture 2