Symbols - What does heaven look like
Flame
A flame is symbolic of a Spirit Entity of some sort. The flame, if small, can represent a very minor Intelligence, or if large a very important Intelligence of great power. Your Higher spirit can also be seen as a flame. Size is an indicator of the position within the Intelligence hierarchy.
Flame and fire symbolism are closely related. Whereas Fire - sheets of flame or huge walls of flame - symbolises ‘destruction’, ‘creation’ and ‘purification’, flames are an aspect of Fire – a created spiritual thing – the result of the creative force. There is also a link between flames and the level of Fire for this reason.
Thus a flame is ‘of’ fire. It is a smaller part of the Creator [or Destroyer].
Flames can ‘dance’ in circles and spirals in groups. In fact in general observers seemed to notice that many of the things they saw danced and swirled circled and turned. The energy of the universe does appear to be circular and spiral round, appearing to ‘dance’.
The folklore practise [still existent in Scotland, India, Eastern Europe and so on] of lighting ‘Need-fires’, sacred fires designed to to ward off disease, or kindled on occasions of special distress is an example of how ritual has been used to incorporate the concept of flames and fire.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yaralde initiation
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - An allegory of glass
- Alexander Pope - Oh Death where is thy sting?
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 01 - 4 Drink me
- Aristotle - The Elements
- Ashoka
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 11 May her benevolence lead us to paradise
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Dullard Sage
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Moths and the Flame
- Auden, W H - September 1st, 1939
- Bailey, Philip James - from Festus I - Seraphim
- Baudelaire, Charles - Hymne à la Beauté
- Baudelaire, Charles - Rêve parisien
- Bax, Clifford - The Meaning of Man - And this is the meaning of man, The task of the soul
- Bax, Clifford - Turn Back, O Man
- Bayazid Bastami
- Bingen, Hildegard of - A vision of flames and stars
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Walls of flame
- Blake, William - Each man is in his spectre’s power
- Blake, William - He sunk down into the sea a pale white corse
- Blake, William - In deluge o’er the earth born man, then turned the fluxile eyes
- Blithe spirit - Candle in the wind
- Blithe spirit - Purple ink and whirlpool
- Blithe spirit - Thought palaces in pink and gold
- Book of Enoch- 14
- Brewster, Sir David - More Worlds than One (book 1854)
- Cameron, Norman - From lands where all the flowers have teeth
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - The Phoenix
- Castaneda, Carlos - Wheel of Time - Describes rebirth
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cirlot on butterflies
- Cirlot on fire
- Cohen, Leonard - You want it darker
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Kisses
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Nose
- County Limerick - Testimony from a Seer - A Collective Vision of Spiritual Beings
- Dante - Paradiso - Purification by Light
- Dante - Paradiso - Saturn
- Delville, Jean - Satan's treasures
- Dickinson, Emily - Delight is as the flight Or in the ratio of it
- Dionysius the Areopagite - Celestial Hierarchy - Fire
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – A man with a weak heart has a NDE
- Eleazar Ben Kaller - Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 06 East Coker IV
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 16 Little Gidding IV
- Empedocles - On Nature - 233-364
- Ernst, Max - Und die Schmetterlinge beginnen zu singen
- Ezekiel 1 and 2
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 1
- Flying in the clouds
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - The Fallen Priest
- Freddie Mercury and Queen - The Queen heraldic arms
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- George Darley - Unicorn
- Goethe - Faust Part 1
- Goethe - Selected poems - Tell it to the wisest only, For the mob will mock such learning
- Goryeo sijo - Yi Kae
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Love's fire
- Healer H - An enormous caterpillar unusually wide
- Healer H - Babies everywhere
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay
- Herbert, George - Love [1]
- Hi-ah Park – 03 The point of mu a, ecstasy, the death of ego
- How sweet the heavens are
- Hughes, Ted - Crow - Crow decided to try words
- Hyangga of Korea – 03 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - My lovesickness is from her of the lovesick eyelids
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They left me at al-Uthayl and an-Naqá shedding tears
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They mounted the howdahs on the swift camels
- Jami - Lucky is the one who realises the secret of being nobody
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - The Creation
- Keightley, Thomas - Djins
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On the stages of the mystic
- Khidr and Ilyas
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 490 [extract]
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Lawrence, D H - Sons and Lovers
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Flaming June
- Maier, Michael - Themis Aurea - Fires and mountains
- Manley Hopkins, Gerald - As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Mare, Walter de la - The Moth
- Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - Crystals
- Mircea Eliade - Tibetan Buddhism - Rebirth
- Moses - Exodus 3 - The Burning bush
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Musty smell of decay
- Neruda, Pablo - If you were to come into being suddenly
- Nestor, Russian Primary Chronicle - 11 February 1110, Pechorsky Monastery, Russia
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - He who wisheth one day to fly
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - The Great Noontide
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Paramahansa Yogananda - Kriya yoga
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The Dream of the Flaming Mountain
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - Ten years of therapy in one night – 04
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 01
- Quakers - George Fox - Now was I come up in spirit
- Revelations 04 :2
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Rig Veda - Death
- Rig Veda - Rain and Fire
- Rig Veda - Sun and Chariots
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - The Blessed Damozel
- Russell, George William - Miscellaneous quote
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Riding with the Prophets
- Saint Brendan - 07 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 15 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Pierced by an angel
- Saint Thomas Aquinas - 1273, Naples, Italy - A light enters the bedroom of the sick man
- Samavedas – 01 Book 02 Chapter 01, DECADE I Agni [extract verses 4-10]
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Three Wise Virgins
- Seabrook, William Buehler - Controlling the pain of toothache
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The Sun circles
- Seven Ages of Man - 02 The Centaurs/Homo heidelbergensis - various sources
- Sri Aurobindo - Jivanmukta
- Sri Aurobindo - The Dreamboat
- St Catherine of Sienna - The Divine Dialogue
- St Francis of Assisi - Mystical light and visitation
- Sting - Desert Rose
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 368
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Ribbons and rainbows
- Symeon the New Theologian - What is this awesome mystery
- Ta'ame ha-Mizwot - Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati
- Tarot - 07 Minor Arcana - 03s Love, Kindness and compassion [Intuition]
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - In Memoriam A H H - Be near me when the sensuous frame
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 08
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 05
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 06
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 12
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 03 - 3 The Gnat
- Tree, Isabella - Sliced Iguana – 04 The ceremony
- Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 48
- Tweedale, Reverend Charles – The death of Mrs. Mary Burnett
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 24 We heard Home go into the next room, heard the window thrown up, and presently Home appeared standing upright outside our window
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1889 Angel with the Flaming Sword
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - The Two Angels
- Waller, Edmund - Divine Poems - 03 Of Divine Love
- Waterhouse, John William - Consulting the Oracle
- Watts, Alan - A pool of dazzling flame
- Welsh Revivalists - There was shouting and rejoicing, even dancing in the meetings
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Vacillation
- Yeats, W B - The Wanderings of Oisin - Men’s hearts of old were drops of flame That from the saffron morning came
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Fire 01
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Fire 02
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Fire 03