Symbols - What does heaven look like
Dew
Dew is symbolic principally as Spiritual output, because it rises from the heat from the Sun and rises to ‘heaven’.
But, under certain circumstances it can also signify spiritual input, for the simple reason that it not only ‘rises’ but also ‘falls’.
A Dictionary of Symbols – J E Cirlot
All that comes down from the heavens – the thunderbolt, the aerolite, the meteorite, rain or dew – has a sacred character. But dew has a double significance, alluding also to spiritual illumination, since it is the true forerunner of dawn ….
The clear, pure water of dew is, according to some traditions, closely connected with the idea of Light. There are occasional references in the Far East to the Tree of the Sweet Dew situated on mount Kuen-Lun, the equivalent of the Hindu Meru and other sacred mountains. Light spreads outwards from this tree. It has come to be known as the 'singing tree' of legend and folklore.
Observations
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- Bai Zi Bei - The Hundred Character Tablet - Lu Dongbin
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Kisses
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Dewdrops
- Dickinson, Emily - I rose because it sank
- Dickinson, Emily - The Sun retired to a cloud a woman’s shawl as big
- Eizon - The Ganmon - excerpt
- Elijah - 1 Kings 17 01 - The brook dries up
- Frost, Robert - The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Great Work
- Goethe - Selected poems - The water lapped, the water swirled
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Virtual candle
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - RISING EARLY
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - Behold those winged images, Bound for their evening bowers
- Li Po - Marble stairs grievance
- Lyrics from the Chinese - On the moor is the creeping grass
- Lyrics from the Chinese - The Dew is heavy on the Grass
- Mallarme, Stephane - The Window
- Miro - A Dew Drop Falling from a Bird's Wing Wakes Rosalie, who Has Been Asleep in the Shadow of a Spider's Web
- Mutus Liber 04
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 03
- Ogotommeli - Spirals
- Poetic Edda - The Ballad of Alvis [exract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - The paths on death
- Rider-Waite - 18 The Moon
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 08 Second Elegy
- Rimbaud, Arthur - Roadside on warm September nights
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 02, XX Soma Pavamana
- Song of Solomon 5
- Symeon the New Theologian - How are You at once the source of fire
- The Liezi - 列子 "Book of Master Lie" - Chapter 2
- The Lotus Sutra - 23 Perceiver of the World's Sounds - 1 Brahma's sound, the sea tide sound
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 04
- Traffic - Hole in my shoe
- van Ruysbroeck, Jan - To be wounded by love is the sweetest feeling
- Verlaine, Paul - GREEN
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Vacillation
- Zhang Guolao - Secrets of Embryonic Breathing
- Zhu Zi - The Complete Book of Zhu-Zi - An essay on regulating the breath
- Zohar - I 221b – Perfumes and clothes