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Cirlot on obelisks
Identifier
006656
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
A Dictionary of Symbols – J E Cirlot
The obelisk is a symbol of the sun-ray, by virtue of its shape. Because of its substance, it is bound up with the general symbolism of stone. It is further related to the myths of solar ascension and of light as the penetrating spirit, in consequence of its upright position and the pyramidical point in which it terminates