Symbols - What does heaven look like
Thunder and lightning
Symbolically the connection between heaven and earth is via thunder as the voice and lightning symbolising the connection itself. The thunderbolt is then the combination of the two – hence the expression ‘bolt from the blue’ – for example ‘the idea came [inspiration] like a bolt from the blue’.
see Spiritual Input.
Anyone capable of having frequent spiritual experiences thus carries a ‘thunderbolt’ in his hand. All zig zag or wavy lines in pictures, rock art or cave painting then symbolises spiritual experience.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yaralde initiation
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - The Philosophy of Natural Magic – Chapter 03
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Attempted suicide
- Bai Zi Bei - The Hundred Character Tablet - Lu Dongbin
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - My youth was a dark storm
- Beuys, Joseph - Lightning with Stag in its glare
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Horses
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - The Arrow men visit
- Blithe spirit - OMENS!!
- Blithe spirit - The exit of the giants August 2015
- Book of Enoch-41
- Bruno, Giordano – A general account of bonding - On lightning, thunderbolts and pubic hair
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Cirlot on bird size symbolism
- Cirlot on eagles
- Cirlot on obelisks
- Crowley - 10 Wheel of Fortune
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- David Lewis-Williams - the Xam and Rain
- Dowden, Edward - The Initiation
- Dr L Sannella - Quaumaneq
- Eleazar Ben Kaller - Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses
- Eleusinian Mysteries - Thesmophoria - 07
- Enûma Eliš - Fourth Tablet
- Ezekiel 1 and 2
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Eclipses of the Moon
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Temple of Coricancha, Cuzco
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The god of Thunder
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazar 1760 5th illustr.
- Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
- Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
- Goethe - Selected poems - The sun proclaims its old devotion
- Gray, Thomas - A Pindaric Ode
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean
- Hesiod - Theogony - 02 Order of creation
- Holderlin, Johann - Out for a walk
- Hymn from the Stele in Memphis in front of the Temple of Hephaistos
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - At Dhú Salam and the monastery
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - Flashes of lightning gleamed to us
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - He saw the lightning in the east
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They mounted the howdahs on the swift camels
- Intelligences - PLANETS JUPITER Adad [or Hadad] and Šala
- Intelligences - PLANETS VENUS Ashtar and Ishtar
- Jung, C G - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Lightning symbolism
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience No 3
- Levi-Strauss, Claude - Twins
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shaman’s dress
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Concerning the spiritual in art - Wassily Kandinsky
- Malevich, Kazimir - Soldier
- Mark 3 - and Hesiod
- Masefield, John - Shakespeare and spiritual life
- Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - Crystals
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal Bunjil
- Mircea Eliade - Baiame, the supreme divinity
- Mircea Eliade - On rain, thunder and lightning
- Mircea Eliade - Struck by lightning
- Mircea Eliade - The Storm gods
- Mircea Eliade – We plough the fields and scatter
- Miro - Apres l'orage
- Morrells, Luce and thunder and perfumes
- Mullis, Dr Kary - The discovery of PCR
- Nicholle, Charles - The nature of blue sky thinking
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - The Great Noontide
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the Ascension
- Norse - Jelling
- Ogotemmeli - Ostriches, the Egg and teeth
- Ogotommeli - Order of creation
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Birth of Bacchus
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Cupid and Daphne
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Giant's War 1
- Paul Devereux - Sacred Places - Symbols
- Philo - On 'Seeing' God
- Picts – Type of experience - Snake and z-rod [general]
- Picts – Type of experience - Z rod or Zigzag line [general]
- Plato - Republic X - 06 Tale of Er
- Plato - Timaeus - On Fire and Water
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Alone
- Poe, Edgar Allen - To One in Paradise
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Jaguar symbolism
- Revelations 04 :2
- Revelations 06 : 1-8
- Revelations 19
- Rider-Waite - 16 The Tower
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Rimbaud, Arthur - I know skies split by lightning, waterspouts
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – The Rainy Season and Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 16 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Samavedas – 01 Book 04 Chapter 01, DECADE I Indra and others
- Samavedas – 01 Book 05 Chapter 01, DECADE III Indra [extract verses 8-10]
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 02, VII Maruts
- Seo Jung-ju - Beside a Chrysanthemum
- Simon, Paul - Hearts and bones
- Spenser, Edmund - Epithalamion, v. 340
- Sri Aurobindo - 03 Book III Canto II - 02
- Stobart, Henry - A view from the Bolivian Andes – The Yatiri and being struck by lightning
- Strindberg, August - The Inferno
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 1806
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Double disc and Z rod [Crannog]
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 560 to 615
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 620 to 655
- The Serpent power – Arthur Avalon
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 3 The Fight
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 4 Both using the same helmet
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - The Swamp of Existence
- Tracy D Snipe - Shango
- Various symbolic objects - Kudurrus
- Vignoli, Tito - On birds
- Vignoli, Tito - On Sacred groves
- Von Stuck, Franz - Water and Fire
- Yaqui Myths and Legends – collected by Ruth Warner Giddings - The first fire
- Yeats, W B - Anima Hominis - The Path of the Sun
- Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter – Mumon Ekai
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Vision of Zosimos - 06