Symbols - What does heaven look like
Torch
The torch is just one of many symbols that represent the Ecstatic state.
The symbolism is based on the symbolism of the spine. The torch handle is the spine and the top of the torch with its flame represents the Higher spirit.
It is why it was chosen as a symbol of the Olympic games.
Thus an upright torch with a flame is an enlightened person. A downward pointing torch which is extinguished means a person who is living in the physical world and not enlightened.
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Cautes and Cautopates are very frequently shown, one with his torch pointing upwards and the other with his with his turned downwards; the one is alight, the other extinguished. |
Observations
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- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - from Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda 02
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cohen, Leonard - The Guests
- Copan - Mayan - Overview and plan
- Desnos, Robert - Demain
- Eleusinian Mysteries - Thesmophoria - 03
- Eliphas Levi and Mudvayne
- George Darley - Unicorn
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Garden of Alcinous
- Judaism and the Kabbalah - Mishnab sukkah 5 - Water Drawing Ceremony
- Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
- Li Ho - Lament That the Days Are So Short
- Moreau - The young man and death 1865
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the Ascension
- Poussin - The Triumph of Neptune and birth of Venus
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 2
- Revelations 04 :2
- Rider-Waite - 15 The Devil
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Seven Ages of Man - 02 The Centaurs/Homo heidelbergensis - various sources
- The Lotus Sutra - 10 The Emergence of the Treasure Tower - 2 Many Treasures Thus Come One