Symbols - What does heaven look like
Musical instrument
The symbolism of all musical instruments is multi-faceted.
Many stringed instruments are strung to look like the templates of a human being. Some look like the web. Some look like the loom. What specifically they look like is perhaps of less importance than the fact they represent a symbolic aspect of the spiritual landscape.
There is also the connection with the songlines.
Furthermore the meridians in particular look like the strings of an instrument – all of these are of course inter related there is no contradiction by using the musical instrument as a symbol of all these.
Furthermore music itself and musical instruments are capable of producing spiritual experience – see Listening to Sound and music and Singing and humming.
Observations
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- Athanasius Kircher - Ars Magna Lucis 1665
- Aurora Consurgens - 03 An allegory of disorder
- Beuys, Joseph - Crosses and crucifixes 01
- Böcklin, Arnold - Pan im Schilf (Pan in the Reeds) 1858
- Böcklin, Arnold - The Bagpiper 1861
- Brian Boru's harp
- Browning, Robert - Abt Vogler
- Burne-Jones, Edward - The Golden Stairs
- Burne-Jones, Edward - The Madness of Sir Tristram 004898
- Caravaggio - Amor victorious
- Caravaggio - Musicians
- Celtic - Diodorus Sicilus and Pindar - Stonehenge
- Chagall - birds
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cheyne, George - A mystic conversion and the healing path
- Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love
- Davy, Sir Humphry - Sublime emotions, vivid ideas and feeling like the sound of a harp
- Delville, Jean - Orpheus
- Delville, Jean - Prometheus
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - The bagpiper
- Engel, C - Arion of Lesbos
- Engel, C - Bakala and the bagpipes
- Euripides - The Bacchae
- Gentling the Bull – 06 Returning home on the back of the Bull
- Godwin, Joscelyn - On Shabda Yoga
- Hammond, Bill - Ancient Pitch
- Harunobu - 8 Views: Flight of the Wild Geese
- Harunobu - Shunga
- Harunobu - Shunga
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Instruments
- Hiroshige’s bell
- Huai nan tzu - The Great Merging
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Cornucopia
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Nymphs and the Songlines
- Joan Baez - Dream Song
- Jonathan Ott - Journal of Psychedelic Drugs - Mushrooms and no toast
- Judaism and the Kabbalah - Mishnab sukkah 5 - Water Drawing Ceremony
- Kabir - Inside this clay jug there are canyons
- Kabir - The flute of interior time is played
- Kabir - What comes out of the harp? Music
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1155
- Klimt - Music
- Lame Deer - Native American Indians - The Elk Dreamer
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Idyll
- Lethbridge, T C - ESP Beyond Time and Distance – The Harmonics of the cones
- Li Po - Drinking with a gentleman of leisure in the mountains
- Li Po - Longing
- Loyola, Ignatius of - Vision of a harp
- Michaux, Henri - Report from Poddema
- Moreau - Dead poet born by Centaur and Victim
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Getting back into the body
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Out of body interrupted by too much light
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Harlequins and Jesters
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
- Plato - Crito - Humming and buzzing
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The prayer is answered
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Poussin - Bacchic scene
- Poussin - Dance to the music of time
- Riding The Wet Horse: On Onsen Orbital Orgasm Hot and Cold Bathwater by el forestero
- Rig veda - Tree of Life
- Rimbaud, Arthur - Roadside on warm September nights
- Rops, Felicien - Grande Lyre
- Rops, Felicien - the Rocking horse
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Portraits of Fanny Cornforth 1
- Samuel 10
- Samuel 16 - David and Saul
- Schwabe, Carlos - Ange
- Schwabe, Carlos - Faun
- Schwabe, Carlos - L'Homme et la Mer
- Schwabe, Carlos - La femme au luth
- Schwabe, Carlos - Les Champs-Elysées 1903
- Shinto
- Shinto
- Siren of Cannossa
- St Vincent - Marrow
- Sumerian poems and lamentations – 02 In Praise of Shulgi
- Tarantella
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Vivien's song - In love, if love be love, if love be ours
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Maid 4
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - The Strains of a Cithara attract Hyperborean Swans
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1891 Orpheus
- Waterhouse, John William - A Tale from the Decameron
- Waterhouse, John William – Daphne and Apollo
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray