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Shadow
This has two meanings.
It can mean in psychological terms the ‘dark side’ of the soul – equivalent to the masculine Intellect – the Conscious. See also Darkness and Light.
But it can also take on the meaning originally explained by Plato in one of his most quoted observations that the physical form based world is the shadow world and the spiritual world is the world of light and reality.
From this latter use of the symbol of the shadow come a whole host of other related symbols – shadow puppets for example.
Observations
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- Bax, Clifford - The Meaning of Man - Dear and fair as Earth may be
- Billy Rose - Me and my shadow
- Blake, William - And this is the manner of the Sons of Albion in their strength
- Blake, William - Each man is in his spectre’s power
- Blake, William - For all are men in eternity; rivers, mountains, cities, villages
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - Al principi di l'universo
- Crazy Horse - Native American Indians
- Crazy Horse - Native American Indians - Spirit world
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 07
- Devas, Hell and human love
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Nature of the Physical World - The shadow world
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton V
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Francesco Bandini
- Fleetwood Mac - Never Break the Chain
- George Harrison - Devil's radio
- Goethe - Selected poems - Tell it to the wisest only, For the mob will mock such learning
- Grant Gronewald - HTML Flowers - It's raining shadows
- Holderlin, Johann - The Ister
- Holderlin, Johann - To the Fates
- Jami - All that exists in the created universe is illusion
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The Word
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 043 Section 3
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 045 Section 3
- Johann Simon Mayr - The Zibaldone - Songlines
- John 1
- Jung, C G - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - The Shadow
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Points 1920
- Kepler, Johannes - from Somnium - Spirit helpers
- Lamb, Charles - Living without God in the world
- Leibniz - On the Higher spirit, soul and body
- Lewis, C S - The Last Battle - On configurations
- Linklater, Richard - On time and reality
- Lowell, James Russell - Now I can see thee clearly The dusky cloud of clay
- Lowell, James Russell - O dwellers in the valley land
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 28 Out of body [continued]
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 01 This is the beginning
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 13 Hymn to the Creators
- Mellery, Xavier - After Evening Prayers
- Miro - A Dew Drop Falling from a Bird's Wing Wakes Rosalie, who Has Been Asleep in the Shadow of a Spider's Web
- Nerval, Gerard de - El Desdichado
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Describing the night and cognising the heart 02
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from In praise of King Fakhrod-Din
- Odetta - Mr. Tambourine Man
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Magic Shadow Show
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Narcissus
- Plato - Republic - The Cave analogy
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Dream-Land
- Psalm 82
- Pythagoras - Misc. Quote - Above all things reverence thyself
- Reid, Christopher - Gossip of the gods
- Reverdy, Pierre - Entre deux mondes
- Segantini - Schattiger Ruheplatz
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Star of David
- Sri Aurobindo - Jivanmukta
- St Francis - On sunbeams
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - My Shadow
- Sting - Island of Souls
- Sting - Shadows in the Rain
- Sting - The Lowest Trees have Tops
- Ta'ame ha-Mizwot - Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Lady of Shallott
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Ancient Sage - More than once when I sat all alone
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Making of Man
- Tranströmer, Tomas - After a death
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Solitude II
- Vaughan, Henry - The World
- Waterhouse, John William - I am half sick of shadows said the Lady of Shallott
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - Brook, from whose bridge the wandering idler peers
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray
- Zohar - I 217b – Rabbi Isaac
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Theatre and puppets