Spiritual concepts
Air
One of the levels and layers that go to make up the Egg. As can be seen from the diagram below it can be found between the vibrational levels of Fire and Water.
The vibrational levels of Fire, Air, Water and Earth together constitute what is sometimes called the Outward court and in Neoplatonic terms is called the World soul
The functions allocated to each entity occurrence in the physical world are stored at various levels.
The Air level contains systems and functions which are far more pleasant. Some of the functions which have been suggested for this layer include love and beauty, as well as humour.
Visually it does not look like the sky. It is often 'seen' as supremely beautiful, in soft shades of pink and cream, with a marked stillness, and slight haziness. There may be layers of cloud, the lower one is often of white thick opaque cloud, the upper of thicker denser and often darker clouds. There are also, it appears, several cloud layers, one above the ‘Water’ level, another above that and yet others.
The 'sky' itself may not be blue in visions, but there is the predominant feeling that the symbolic colour associated with this ‘area’ is blue. The area produces pleasant sensations , it ‘ kindles the fire of the heart and gives ecstasy’.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Jajauring initiation
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Ta-ta-thi medicine men
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Jawami al-kalim - Behind them the barzakh until the day when they will be raised up
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - Earth, Water, Air and Fire
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - Seraphiel’s Trumpet
- Alexander, Dr Eben - has to go back
- Ancient Egyptian - The Creation Myth of Heliopolis
- Aristotle - The Elements
- Asclepius - The Elements - fire, water, earth, air
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Atharvaveda - IX 1 from Hymn to the Honey lash
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 02 Give us this day
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 12 Expansion out of time
- Attar, Fariduddin - All pervading consciousness
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Levels and layers
- Babbage, Charles - The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Above ponds, above valleys Mountains, woods, clouds, seas
- Bhagavad Gita - Strung like pearls on a thread
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Werk Gottes map
- Blithe spirit - I almost reached the Light
- Blithe spirit - Thought palaces in pink and gold
- Böcklin, Arnold - Die Lebensinsel (Isle of Life) 1888
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Holy spirit and Holy Ghost
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - The Elements
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - The interior or hollowness in the body of man
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - For I have swift and speedy wings
- Borri, Giuseppe Francesco - Between Crucibles and Salamanders - Massimo Marra
- Braveheart - Crossing the bridge
- Braveheart - Follow the yellow brick road
- Braveheart - Lifting tree trunks
- Braveheart - Steam cleaned and broccoli
- Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad
- Brittany - Isle de Sein and the Realm of the Dead
- Bronte, Emily - The Philosopher - I saw a spirit, standing
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - Sees the ghosts of Mount Cicadas
- Cameron, Norman - My soul is some leviathan in vague distress
- Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 07
- Chandogya Upanishad
- Christmas cocktail
- Cirlot on eagles
- Cirlot on music
- Cirlot on the caduceus
- Cohen, Dr Sidney - A woman patient's experience
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Dali - Dream caused by the flight of a bee
- Dali - The Temptation of St. Anthony
- Dickinson, Edmund - When Phoebus with his rayes bright
- Dickinson, Emily - Because the bee may blameless hum For Thee a bee do I become
- Dogon - The Order of creation
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 068
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 149
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Nature - Nature is the incarnation of a thought
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - And now my chains are to be broken
- Empedocles - On Nature - 233-364
- Escher - The Four Elements
- Evans-Wentz, W Y - Alchemical and Mystical Theory [1911]
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel's vision from the Bear Bible
- Fabre d Olivet, Antoine - 02 La Langue Hébraique restituée
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Creation
- Fludd, Robert - De Elementorum forma
- Fludd, Robert - Integrae Natura
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 2
- Fludd, Robert - Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris - 4
- Forman, Simon - Of the Division of Chaos
- Frost, Robert - Builder, in building the little house
- Genesis 01 - The Creation
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - Midrash ha-Ne'elam
- Godwin, Joscelyn - Harmonies of Heaven and Earth - Levels and layers
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Great Chain of Being
- Goethe - Faust Part 1
- Grant Gronewold - HTML Flowers - Moving house
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - And the Island of Whistling Spirits
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 01
- Hallucinations are most frequent and intense when she is under stress, ill or sleep deprived
- Hermes Trismegistus – Treatise XVI
- Hiroshige
- Hiroshige - Descending geese at Katada
- Hiroshige - Famous views Mount Fuji
- Hiroshige - Rough sea at the whirlpools of Awa
- Hiroshige - View of a long bridge across a lake
- Hiroshige’s waterfall
- Hokusai - Mishima pass in Kai province
- Hokusai - Mt Fuji
- Hokusai - Red Fuji
- Hokusai - Shichiri beach in Sagami province
- Hokusai - shunga
- Hokusai - Tama river in the Musashi province Katsushika
- Hokusai - Views of famous bridges
- Hokusai’s floating world
- Holst, Gustav - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26 and Two Eastern Pictures (1911)
- How sweet the heavens are
- Intelligences - ELEMENTS AIR Sud
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Eggs and Bubbles
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 130 Section 12
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Henry Corbin - Al-Insan al-kamil
- John Milton - Il Penseroso
- Joscelyn Godwin - On Plutarch, Ptolemy and Canobus
- Judee Sill - Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos
- Karnataka and South India - 02 Temple architecture
- Karnataka and South India - 06 Ekambareswarar Temple
- Kepler, Johannes - Gesam. Werke VII
- Key of Solomon, The – The different kinds of spirits
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Misc. Quotes - On God the engineer
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On levels and layers
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - On fasting
- Lalla - Dance Lalla, with nothing on
- Lame Deer - Native American Indians - The Power of Four
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – Using the pendulum and colour symbolism
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – Using the pendulum, correspondences
- Lewis, C S - Dawn Treader - Sea horses
- Lewis, C S - The Discarded Image - Daemons
- Lowell, James Russell - One step beyond life’s work day things
- Lucid dreams as a bridge between realities - Chongtul Rinpoche - TEDxFultonStreet
- Luis de Leon - On organs
- Magritte, Rene - Son of Man
- Magritte, Rene - The Castle of the Pyrenees
- Mahasatipatthana Sutta
- Maier, Michael - The Secrets of Alchemy - The Elements
- Maisie Yarrcali Barlow - Jirrbal - a rainforest dreamtime story
- Mallarme, Stephane - Small air
- Martineau, Harriet - Arise, My Soul And Urge thy Flight 1
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 02 Sky-earth, lake-sea
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 03 And then the Earth arose because of them
- Melville Jean Herskovits - The Dahomey god of snake like things
- Michaux, Henri - Report from Poddema
- Mircea Eliade - Kahuna symbolic Boat
- Morrells, Luce and air beds
- Morrells, Luce and the Amazing airy house
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Mutus Liber 03
- Myōe – Truly (such a thing as] one's own body does not [really] exist
- Nietzsche - Ecce Homo - Philosophy
- Norton, Thomas - Tractatus chymicus Frankfurt 1616
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Creation of the World
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Giant's War 1
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
- O’Keeffe, Georgia - Ladder to the moon
- Paracelsus - extract from Scritti alchemici e magici
- Paracelsus - The Elements
- Peake, Mervyn - The Wings 000141
- Philo - Out of time
- Plato - Phaedo - Energy recycling, streams and rivers
- Plato - Phaedo - The Expanding universe
- Plato - Timaeus - On the elements
- Plato – Parmenides - Ideas
- Pordage, John - Air is the third matter of eternal nature’s essence
- Pordage, John - On the Elements
- Prasna Upanishad
- Prasna Upanishad
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - The Elements and Contrast
- Redon, Odilon - Mystic series 2
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - The Elements
- Rig veda - Boats, Birds and Chariots
- Rig Veda - Death
- Rig Veda - Gone to the other shore
- Rig veda - In the Beginning [Muller transl]
- Rig Veda - Spirit travel
- Rig Veda - The Mist of Creation
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 01 First elegy
- Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Marie Spartali
- Rumi - Love poems - The whirling heaven, Ever seeking and searching
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 03 – The birth of Krishna
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 11, Chapter 03 – End of the world
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 05 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Saint-Yves d’Alveydre – The Archeometer – Revelation 06
- Samavedas – 01 Book 04 Chapter 01, DECADE III [extract verses 7-8]
- Seeing RED
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 51 – One, Two, Three
- Sefer Yetzirah
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The elements of water, air, fire and earth
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Descent and ascent
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Elements - earth, water, fire, and air [from Onbadukadir] and Aggregates
- Shinto – Kagura
- Sikhism – Japji 34
- Sikhism – Japji 35
- Sir James Fraser – The Golden Bough - Mistletoe in Italy
- Six Dharmas of Nāropa - 10 Gtummo - The Manner of the Arising of the Four Blisses
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - The Egg
- St Francis - The Sun, the Moon and the levels and layers
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Sylphs
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - The Earth band
- Steiner, Rudolf - Redemption and the Elementals [1909] - Fire
- Steiner, Rudolf - Redemption and the Elementals [1909] - The Elements
- Suhrawardi - Book of Oriental Theosophy - The double barzakh
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Atoms
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Elements and her dress
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Concentric circles [Complex site]
- Taittiriya Upanishad
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 03 The Knights
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Tithonus
- The Ancestors - Neolithic Orkney - Maes Howe
- The Book of Taliesin - Kanu y Byt Mawr
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 05 Love with visualisation
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 560 to 615
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 475 to 535
- The NDE of the man from Western New Britain, Melanesia
- The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa - The Epistle on Music
- The sun’s penis
- The wisdom of an old man
- Thorlacius - Noget Om Thor og Hans Hammer
- Totem group – Picts – Elements - Eagle [Air]
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - Within the regions of the air Compassed about with heavens fair
- Traherne, Thomas - On leaping over the moon - Adventure strange
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - Castles in the air
- Tzu, Lao - The sky attained Oneness and became clear
- Upanishads, the – Commentary by Mircea Eliade
- Uxmal - Mayan - Pyramid
- Valleys and lakes
- Various symbolic objects - Kudurrus
- Watkins, Allen – The Straight path in Wisdom teaching – The Stages of Initiation
- Watson, Lyall - Order of creation
- Watson, Lyall - Water
- Whitman, Walt - Song of Words - EARTH, round, rolling, compact
- Wirth, Oswald – 15 The Devil
- Yasna - The Divine Heptad
- Yeats, W B - Anima Mundi - The Elements
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - A Needle's Eye
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 04. States of Consciousness
- Yram - Ascent and descent
- Yram - Rain
- Yram - The invisible universe is formless
- Zimmer, Dr Heinrich - Karma-loka
- Zohar - I 015a - The Beginning
- Zoroastrian - Means of achieving spiritual experience - 02 Sex [Herodotus]
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Fire 05 [Strabo]
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 09 and 10