Symbols - What does heaven look like
Nakedness
Nakedness is a symbol of being spirit and not physical it is the opposite of having Clothes.
A person who is spiritually far advanced or out of body often perceives themselves to be naked. More spirit than soul.
Nakedness is also a state of mind. People who have reached this stage on the spiritual path, usually don’t feel themselves to be a part of any one group of people, but simply a person like any other person. Thus the composer figuratively strips them of all ‘badges’ – clothes, hairstyles, decoration etc which might show some affiliation with a religion or racial or national bond.
They are not ‘an anything’, they are simply a person, part of the whole. In the Jain religion for example, this fact is celebrated by the digambaru monks – the ‘sky clad’ who literally adopt this state as a celebration of their state. It is also represented in numerous statues from Greek, to Buddhist, to ancient cultures.
Observations
For iPad/iPhone users: tap letter twice to get list of items.
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 03
- Blithe spirit - Behind the veil
- Böcklin, Arnold - Der Kampf auf der Brϋcke 1892
- Böcklin, Arnold - Roger and Angélique 1874
- Bonnard, Pierre - Marthe de Meligny various
- Bonnard, Pierre - Nu-accroupi-au-Tub 1914
- Bouguereau - Idylle
- Bouguereau - The Nymphaeum
- Bouguereau - The Oreads
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Braveheart - Bridge to the tunnel
- Braveheart - Columns and ankhs
- Braveheart - Crossing the bridge
- Braveheart - Flying on pencils
- Braveheart - Follow the yellow brick road
- Braveheart - Forest of bright birds
- Braveheart - Islands, bridges and pencil cases
- Braveheart - Lifting tree trunks
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Braveheart - Parallel bars
- Braveheart - Rivers, lochs and nymphs
- Braveheart - Rivers, locks and nymphs
- Braveheart - Rivers, locks and nymphs continued
- Braveheart - Steam cleaned and broccoli
- Buhlman, William - Adventures beyond the body - October 2, 1982
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Phyllis & Demophoon
- Burne-Jones, Edward - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
- Caravaggio - Musicians
- Chagall - danse
- Chagall - le reve
- Chagall - the rooster in love
- Chagall - trapeze artist
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Crowley - 01 The Magician [or Magus]
- Crowley - 06 The Lovers
- Da Vinci, Leonardo - Beautiful women - Leda and the Swan
- Dali - Dream caused by the flight of a bee
- Degas - Woman combing her hair
- Delos - 04 Statue of Dionysus
- Delos - 06 Ivory plaque
- Delville, Jean - Satan's treasures
- Delville, Jean - Plato’s disciples
- Denis - Trinity evening 1891
- Dionysos - The Dionysian frenzy
- Genesis 09 - The Aftermath
- Gentling the Bull – 10 Entering the Market-place with Bliss bestowing hands
- Giuoco delle Minchiate Fiorentine and Visconti-Sforza - 7 - The Chariot
- Hodler, Ferdinand - Communication with the Infinite 1892
- Hodler, Ferdinand - The Truth 1903
- Hokusai - Images of Bathers
- Hokusai - shunga
- Hokusai - shunga
- Hokusai - shunga
- Hokusai - shunga
- Hokusai -shunga
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Sirens
- Howard Storm - And his terrifying rebirth experience
- In the nick of time
- Jacolliot, Louis - Occult Science in India - The third degree of initiation
- John William Godward - The Delphic Oracle
- Klimt - Nuda Veritas
- Klimt - Allegory of Sculpture
- Klimt - Water Snakes
- Knight, Dame Laura – Ballet and theatre – 02
- Lalla - Dance Lalla, with nothing on
- Lalla - Don't let your donkey wander loose
- Lalla - I wearied myself searching for the Friend
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Icaros
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Venus disrobing for the bath
- Magritte, Rene - Beautiful World
- Magritte, Rene - Discovery
- Magritte, Rene - La Magie Noire
- Magritte, Rene - Painting painted
- Mallarme, Stephane - Small air
- Matisse - Blue nude
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 09 Ignudi 1
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 09 Ignudi 2
- Michelangelo - 1534 Sistine Chapel - 05 Last Judgement
- Michelangelo - Sonnet XV - The marble not yet carved can hold the form
- Mircea Eliade - Rebirth In the cave of the Reindeer woman
- Miro - Nude with Mirror
- Morrells, Luce and crystal eggs in a viscous sea
- Mutus Liber 07
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Thus did my wise longing
- Norse - Tollund Man
- Nuremberg Chronicle - 'The Hairy Woman'
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Noah and his sons
- Parrish, Maxfield - Dinkey Bird
- Pelley, William Dudley - Seven Minutes in Eternity With Their Aftermath 02
- Poussin - Bacchic scene
- Poussin - Midas and Bacchus
- Poussin - Sleeping Venus and Cupid
- Poussin - Sleeping Venus surprised by a satyr
- Poussin - The nurture of Bacchus
- Poussin - The Triumph of Flora
- Rassenfosse, Armand - La Marchande Masque
- Rassenfosse, Armand - Le peignoir jaune
- Rassenfosse, Armand - Nudes various
- Rassenfosse, Armand - Nudes various
- Rassenfosse, Armand - Poyette
- Rimbaud, Arthur - This idol, black eyed and blonde topped, without parents or playground
- Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - The Potter
- Rops, Felicien - Dans les coulisses
- Rops, Félicien - L'entr'acte de Minerve
- Rops, Felicien - Le bibliothécaire
- Rops, Felicien - Les Diaboliques
- Rops, Felicien - the Key
- Rops, Felicien – La Sorciere
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 03 King and Queen
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Portraits of Alexa Wilding 3
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Venus Verticordia
- Rubens - Judith with the head of Holofernes
- Rubens - Triomphe de la Veritee
- Rumi - Whispers of the Beloved - If you can’t smell the fragrance
- Saint Brendan - 16 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Power, nature and contemplation
- Schwabe, Carlos - Lotte and Nude amongst Flowers
- Schwabe, Carlos - Les Fleurs du Mal illustrations
- Segantini - Die Eitelkeit 1897
- Segantini - Punishment for Lasciviousness
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Mountain
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Nakedness, Ash and Rainbows
- Song of Solomon 5
- The poltergeist in the top floor flat of the house in Harrington Gardens, SW7, in the spring of 1946
- Typhoid
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1887 Amor imperator
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1891 Orpheus
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1927 Judith and Holofernes
- Von Stuck, Franz - Cupid at the Masked Ball
- Von Stuck, Franz - The seesaw
- Waterhouse, John William - A Naiad
- Waterhouse, John William – Daphne and Apollo
- Whiteman, J H M meets the Old Man
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - It is in my mouth forever
- Wirth, Oswald – 17 The Star
- Zohar - Bamidbar 183a - Aaron