Symbols - What does heaven look like
Perfume
Perfume can simply symbolically mean spiritual experience - a whiff of heaven! But there is another intriguing side to perfume that is not symbolic but 'actual'.
Occasionally in spiritual experience people can smell glorious perfume smells, the smell is unlike any smell that exists in 'reality' often a sort of mix of flowers and trees. It appears to be given to people who are not blessed with the gift of vision, or whose gifts lie elsewhere [intuition, healing, wisdom, inspiration etc] or are directed by the spiritual world elsewhere because their destiny is not helped by visionary experience.
For those who have been given a serious challenge and who are largely alone on this challenge, the restriction of experience to only invisible input can be at times deeply depressing. There is no real confirmation that everything you are getting isn't just some flight of fancy or mental hiccup.
But somehow smelling that smell says, 'you are not alone'.
I have no idea whether the perfume is a universal one or not - a single smell used on all occasions for everyone, or whether we each get a different perfume. But I have noticed that there is possibly more than one perfume - perhaps one for each spirit helper so that you can recognise them. I am guessing, but it is a reasonable hypothesis to work with until someone comes up with a better idea.
Observations
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- Agnes of Jesus, Prioress of Langeac – Certain exceptionally favoured individuals were conscious of her heavenly fragrance
- Anna Maria Castreca - Marked with the stigmata and died as Abbess in the odour of sanctity
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - In his locks he had a thousand hidden curls
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - Dharma
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - On Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 05 Make us fragrant with perfume
- Attar, Fariduddin - The angels have bowed down to you and drowned
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - A room which resembles a dream
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Tell me, Agatha, does your heart, at times, fly away
- Beausobre, Iulia de - out of body in the steam baths
- Blessed Maria degli Angeli – An incomparable fragrance made itself manifest in the place where she lived or through which she passed
- Blithe spirit - The exit of the giants August 2015
- Böcklin, Arnold - Isle of the Dead (1880-1886)
- Book of Enoch-24
- Corbin, Henry - The Book of Theophanies
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 03 & 04
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 07
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 28
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest awakes
- Eleusinian Mysteries - Thesmophoria - 07
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - Guide Me Home
- Gentling the Bull – 01 Searching for the Bull
- Gentling the Bull – 02 Finding the Traces
- Gentling the Bull – 04 Catching the Bull
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 03
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - For that amber scented strand
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - In the snare of your locks
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - A smell of incense flooded the room
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Fields and meadows
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - As I kissed the Black Stone
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - Flashes of lightning gleamed to us
- Incense smell in Raynham Hall
- Indriðason, Indriði – Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research Vol 57 – 13 – A Perfume fills the air
- Jami - Lucky is the one who realises the secret of being nobody
- Jami - Perfume of the Desert - Hidden behind the veil of mystery
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 04 The Story
- Julian of Norwich - AFTER this the Fiend came again with his heat and with his stench
- Jung, C G - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - The sweet smell of the Holy Ghost
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea – The Tea Room
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Keats, John - Ode on the Poets - Bards of passion and of mirth
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1012 [extract]
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1424
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 417 [extract]
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Lewis, C S - Prince Caspian - The Water wall
- Li Po - Bathed and washed
- Li Qingzhao - As the day comes to an end
- Li Qingzhao - Night comes, and I’m so drunk it takes forever to undo my hair
- Li Qingzhao - Thin mist and thick cloud
- Macmillan smells perfume
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - The Treasure of the Humble - Silence
- Monsieur Deleuze smells a vulnerary
- Morrells, Luce and thunder and perfumes
- Music therapy - The Gnawa, the hadra, gumbri, ganga, and qeraqeb
- Neruda, Pablo - Every day you play with the light of the universe
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
- Oliver Sacks - Smells that come from 'beyond the mind'
- Poe, Edgar Allen - For Annie
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The Haunted Palace
- Poe, Edgar Allen - To Helen
- Qu Yuan - The Land of Exile
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 08 Second Elegy
- Rumi - Love poems - Already, don't you rush toward the garden
- Rumi - Misc - Love is the Treasure
- Rumi - The Book of Love - Don’t put blankets over the drum
- Rumi - Whispers of the Beloved - If you can’t smell the fragrance
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – A Vision of Mecca in the Bath
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 01 From the Introduction
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 02 from the Panegyric of the Padsham of Islam
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 09 from The Manners of Kings Solitude
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 16 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 24 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Sai Baba - Howard Murphet – Sai Baba of Puttaparti gives visions of Shirdi Sai Baba
- Saint Brendan - 10 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Lidwina of Schiedam – Emitting perfumes and light
- Saint Servulus hears celestial music as he lay dying
- Samavedas – Book 09 Chapter 02, XIII Vena
- Scott, Selina - An interview with Canon Paul Greenwell about his ghost work
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Mountain
- Sister Giovanna Maria della Croce of Roveredo – The choir were aware of her approach from the perfume which was wafted before her
- Snell, Joy – Ministry of Angels – Hears celestial music. No earthly music that I have ever heard is half so gladsome
- Song of Solomon 1
- Song of Solomon 3
- Song of Solomon 4
- Song of Solomon 5
- Song of Solomon 8
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 04 - Scarecrow Cookham 1934
- St. Catherine de' Ricci – Her body exuded a scent resembling vivuole mammole
- Stainton-Moses, William - Letter to The Spiritualist - The ‘odour of sanctity’
- Stapledon, Olaf - Sirius - Why are we here?
- Szalay, Attila - Pouring perfumes out of his chest
- The Ceasing of Notions – 13 Emptiness
- The Death of a baby suffering from Fallot's tetralogy
- The Haunted Bingo Hall - The Theatre Royal Margate
- The Lotus Sutra - 10 The Emergence of the Treasure Tower - 2 Many Treasures Thus Come One
- The poltergeist in the top floor flat of the house in Harrington Gardens, SW7, in the spring of 1946
- The terrifying haunting of 16 Waterdales
- Thomas, John F - Case Studies Bearing Upon Survival - Violets
- Thomas, John F - Case Studies Bearing Upon Survival – The smell of a pipe
- Thompson, Francis - Daisy
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 05 - 4 Moving eggs
- Usborne, Cecil Vivien – A communication from him after his death
- Vaughan, Henry - from Unprofitableness
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 20 Account of Manifestations at Stockton.
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 22 He placed his face right among the burning coals, moving it about as though bathing it in water
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 36 I have never seen a table sustained in the air for so long a time
- Was this heaven?
- Whiteman, J H M flies out through the window
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - Perfume
- With my eyes open, I saw my dead husband before me, in a suit of clothes which he had worn out a long time before. His expression was mild and calm and I smelt menthol
- Yassawi - 23 HIKMET 106
- Yeats, Georgie - A Vision - Sweet smells
- Yu Xuanji - Orchid fragrance, sent far away
- Zohar - Bamidbar 121A - Union
- Zohar - I 221b – Perfumes and clothes
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Fire 04