Symbols - What does heaven look like
Eagle
The Eagle is the bird associated with JUPITER, one of the symbolic Planets and thus one of the Intelligences in the Intelligence hierarchy.
The symbolism is based on their ability to rise to very high levels, and the fact that they are very powerful birds capable of defending and attacking prey [fighting ‘demons’ - evil]. The beak is used for tearing flesh, as such it is a symbol of both Rebirth and the dissolution of the body.
Carlos Castaneda – Wheel of Time
The Eagle devours …awareness …… disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them, for awareness is the Eagle’s food
Their extremely good eyesight indicates their ability to ‘spot’ what is happening on the Earth level. Their Nests are also built very high in trees – in effect they have their home extremely high in the Tree of Life.
There is also another very subtle symbolism. Many species lay two eggs but the older larger chick usually kills its younger weaker sibling. The dominant chick is usually the female one – so the eagle can be representative of Union - the suppression and sublimation of the Conscious [male] self by the Subconscious [female] self in order that union with the Higher spirit can occur.
There is then a type of eagle – the Fish eagle that can be associated with all the symbolism of PISCES – again a symbol of dissolution.
The eagle is also the symbol of the spiritual searcher. The person who would like to ‘soar like an eagle’ in the spiritual heights.
Left: Visigothic Eagle brooch with Garnets
Eagle Sheild Mount |
It is worth noting that the symbol has been misappropriated by men of power see the section on the eagle as the symbol of power
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 02 - 3 The Mouse
- Apocalypse of Esdras – 05 Chapters 11 and 12
- Aurora consurgens - 04 An allegory of Union
- Bird shamans and celestial messages
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Butterflies
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Meets an eagle
- Blake, William - I was in a Printing house in Hell and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Bruno, Giordano – A general account of bonding - On lightning, thunderbolts and pubic hair
- Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with 'Crucifixion'
- Canistris, Opicinus de - World map 2
- Castaneda, Carlos - Wheel of Time - Describes rebirth
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - Platform of the Jaguars and Eagles
- Cirlot on bird size symbolism
- Cirlot on cardinal directions and animals
- Cirlot on eagles
- Constance Oliver - Magpies in Picardy
- Crowley - 04 The Emperor
- Crowley - 05 The Hierophant
- Crowley - 06 The Lovers
- Crowley - 14 Art
- Crowley - 21 The Universe
- Da Vinci, Leonardo - Allegory with Wolf and Eagle
- Daniel 07
- Dioscorides and De Materia Medica - Black Hellebore
- Ella Clark - Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest - Raven steals the sun
- Eriugena, Johannes Scotus - Homilia on the Prologue to the John Gospel - Eagles
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 1 - The Living Creatures and the Glory of the Lord
- Ezekiel 1 and 2
- Gaudi - Professional work - 03 0 The Güell commissions
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Gray, Thomas - A Pindaric Ode II
- Hadewijch - Visions - One Pentecost at dawn I had a vision
- Hammond, Bill - Eagle and bone
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Quest of the Sangraal - The Queen, The Queen how haughty on the dais
- Healer H - The lights upon them is what keeps them connected
- Holderlin, Johann - Patmos
- Hughes, Ted - Crow - When the eagle soared clear
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Anchor and rope
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Eagle
- I became a fox in a meadow
- Khnopff, Fernand - Sleeping Medusa
- Kish - The Myth of Etana – Tablet 2
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- Maier, Michael - Atalanta fugiens 1618
- Maisie Yarrcali Barlow - Jirrbal - a rainforest dreamtime story
- Martineau, Harriet - Arise, My Soul And Urge thy Flight 1
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 14 The shape shifting of Plumed Serpent
- Mayan - Xbalanque
- Mircea Eliade - On animals and birds
- Mircea Eliade - The Eagle in Buryat and Yakut legend
- Misc. sources - Native American Indians - Head dress
- Mutus Liber 03
- Nerval, Gerard de - Horus
- Norse - Jelling
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The World Clock Vision
- Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
- Poe, Edgar Allen - To One in Paradise
- Poetic Edda - Grimnir's sayings [extract]
- Ptolemy after 150 AD - Aquila
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The Yaje ceremony
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - The Milky Way
- Rider-Waite - 10 Wheel of Fortune
- Rider-Waite - 21 The World
- Sheridan, Clare –The Terrifying power of the Horns
- Sri Aurobindo - Musa Spiritus
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium chemicum 1624
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium Chymicum Frankfurt 1624
- Tae-kon, Dr Kim – Shape shifting to animals and birds and flying out of body
- Tae-kon, Dr Kim – Yakutian trance possession by animal spirits
- The Book of Taliesin - Marwnat Vthyr Pen[dragon] - Llyfr Taliesin XLVIII
- The Healing Wisdom of Birds – Lesley Morris - On Parrots
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 09
- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise
- Totem group – Picts – Elements - Eagle [Air]
- Tree, Isabella - Sliced Iguana – 04 The ceremony
- Various examples - 4 The Emperor
- Vaughan, Henry - The Star
- Vignoli, Tito - On birds
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - Animals as symbols
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - The Eagle archetype
- Vitebsky, Piers - Siberian shaman
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - It might have been
- Wirth, Oswald – 03 The Empress
- Wirth, Oswald – 04 The Emperor
- Wirth, Oswald – 21 The World
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Though logic choppers rule the town
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - What if I bade you leave the cavern of the mind