Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wine
Yet another symbol to represent Spirit Input is wine. This symbol is of course used by the Christian church during communion.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
While the Rose blows along the river brink
With old Khayyam, the ruby vintage drink
And when the Angel with his darker draught
Draws up to thee – take that and do not shrink
If wine is used symbolically to convey the idea of spiritual input, then the source of the wine may be referred to as the ‘wine cellar’.
The symbol of wine was sometimes combined with bread [also symbolic], as in the Last Supper and the expression Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus. Without Ceres (bread) and Bacchus (wine) Venus (love) freezes, meaning that without spiritual input Love dies - access to Eros withers.
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- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 02
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 23 Sufi poetry and ecstatic states
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 07 - 1 A Mad Tea Party
- Anacreon - Eros
- Ancestors, the - Art - Beakers
- Attar, Fariduddin - Intoxicated by the wine of love
- Bai Zi Bei - The Hundred Character Tablet - Lu Dongbin
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Tell me, Agatha, does your heart, at times, fly away
- Bayard Taylor - Poems of the Orient – A Pledge To Hafiz
- Bernard of Clairvaux - The grace of going forth in spirit
- Bruno, Giordano – A general account of bonding - On lightning, thunderbolts and pubic hair
- Cartwright, Sir Fairfax Leighton - The Mystic Rose - Unity
- Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 02
- Chagall - double portrait with wine glass
- Charles Burnett – Spiritual medicine, music and healing in Islam – The Maqam
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Cohen, Leonard - Alexandra leaving
- Cohen, Leonard - Here it is
- Cohen, Leonard - That Don't Make it Junk
- Cohen, Leonard - The Guests
- Count of St Germain - A Philosophical sonnet
- Crescent moons and lanterns
- Dickinson, Emily - Through those old grounds of memories
- Euripides - The Bacchae - First they let their hair fall loose
- Euripides - The thyrsus and the ivy [interpretation]
- Genesis 09 - The Aftermath
- Gentling the Bull – 10 Entering the Market-place with Bliss bestowing hands
- Grandma Moses - I had been hungry all the years
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Boy hand me the wine
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - For years my heart had been searching
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Here is a flower that lifts up a cup
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - I stood on the edge of things
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - In the snare of your locks
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - Like Hafez drink your wine
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Quest of the Sangraal - He dwelt in Orient Syria; God's own land
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Vine - Hearken, there is in old Morwenna's shrine
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - A Glass
- Herbert, George - from The Collar
- Hockney, David - Li Shangyin - 1 Swallow terrace, Spring
- Holderlin, Johann - Patmos
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Garden of Alcinous
- Ibn al-Jazzar - The Guide for the Traveller and the Aid for those who Stay at Home
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They mounted the howdahs on the swift camels
- Isaac Luria – Hymn for the Friday evening meal
- Jami - Fatihat al-Shabab
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 05 The Story
- Jami - The Nightingale
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 090 Section 8
- Julian of Norwich - I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the Head
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1037 [extract]
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1155
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1400
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 155
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 288
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 313
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Lal Shahbaz Qalandar - The juice of the grape
- Lalla - I didn’t believe in it for a moment
- Lalla - I wore myself out, looking for myself
- Lalla - So many times I’ve drunk the wine of the Sindhu river
- Li Ho - Lament That the Days Are So Short
- Li Po - Abandon
- Li Po - Coming down from Chung-nan mountain to the hermit Hu-Szu’s
- Li Po - Drinking with a gentleman of leisure in the mountains
- Li Po - The Guild of Good Fellowship
- Li Qingzhao - Night comes, and I’m so drunk it takes forever to undo my hair
- Lowell, James Russell - I have drunk of the wine of immortals
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - Symbolism
- Mircea Eliade discusses the Epic of Gilgamesh
- Mircea Eliade – Mishna and the Tree of Knowledge
- Miro - Bottle of Vine
- Nerval, Gerard de - Myrtle
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Noah and his sons
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Leaden Metal into Gold
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - A Ruby kindles in the Vine
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Dreaming when Dawn's left hand was in the sky
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The flower that once has blown for ever dies
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - The last Dawn of Reckoning
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The Dream of the New Church
- Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
- Philo - On drunkeness
- Po Chu-I - Autumn across the frontier
- Poussin - Midas and Bacchus
- Proverbs 9
- Revelations 06 : 1-8
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 10 Second Elegy
- Rimbaud, Arthur - Roadside on warm September nights
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Golden Water 1858
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Damsel of the Sanct Grail
- Rubens - Drunken Silenus
- Rubens - The drunken Hercules
- Rumi - Misc - Drink up
- Rumi - Misc - Festival of Spring
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - There is no wine without You
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - Walking on your path
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The attack of the Saints
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Ocean of Wine
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 17 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Saint Brendan - 10 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Sheik Mauji - The Durud
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - I pant for the music which is divine
- Song of Solomon 1
- Song of Solomon 4
- Song of Solomon 5
- Song of Solomon 7
- Sri Aurobindo - Bliss of Identity
- Ssu-Kung Tu - The Colour of Life
- Sting - Soul Cages
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – The guardians of the doors
- The Book of Taliesin - Caer Sidi
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 04
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - Wine by its moisture
- Watson, Lyall - Blood
- Yassawi - 01 HIKMET 1
- Yassawi - 04 from HIKMET 7
- Yassawi - 17 from HIKMET 64
- Yeats, W B - All Souls Night - Midnight has come
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Cumhal called out bending his head
- Yu Xuanji - Free of all those hopes and fears
- Yu Xuanji - Orchid fragrance, sent far away