Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wood
Wood has different symbolic meanings depending on the system within which it is being used.
In eastern symbolism it is one of the 5 Chinese elements and is symbolically the beginning of any cycle of change. The alternative name for this stage is 'tree'. It is a time of growth. In the spiritual path it corresponds approximately to Dawn. The corresponding colour to this stage is Green see the 5 Chinese elements correspondences
In other symbol systems wood can be associated with 'grain' and can thus be a pun on the word. It means the body, or the husk of a person, the outer fabric within which the soul is to be found.
See also Tree.
Its colour too aids this symbolism as brown is often used to symbolise Earth.
It should also be noted that A wood - that is a group of trees takes on the symbolism of a group of trees! See both Tree and Sacred Grove.
Observations
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- Auden, W H - September 1st, 1939
- Benjamin, Walter - On Hashish - Out of the cracks grow great tufts of hair
- Braveheart - Enters a castle
- Cirlot on snakes and serpents
- Clare, John - I love to see these chimney sweeps sail by
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Picture
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Drooping Sunflower
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Vigil of St Hubert
- Green, Celia - A lucid dream
- Healer H - Babies everywhere
- Healer H - Having a board meeting
- Homer - The Odyssey - The city of the Laestrygonians
- London Bridge is falling down
- Magritte, Rene - Discovery
- Magritte, Rene - Time Transfixed
- Malevich, Kazimir - The Carpenter
- Millais, John Everett - Christ in the house of his parents
- Morrells, Luce and the egg
- Norse - Trollkyrka blot
- Ogotommeli - Drums
- Plato - Critias - Atlantis and Athens
- Rig Veda - Weaving the Matrix
- Ritsos, Yiannis – Selected Poems - Ancient Movement
- Saint Brendan - 02 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Sarah near death
- Segantini - Rückkehr vom Wald 1890