Symbols - What does heaven look like
Gate
A gate is an entry point or exit point of a cone. A gate is thus a portal. Thus we would expect to see gates associated with tunnels.
As the cone is a spiritual representation of our bodies, there are gates that are applied to the chakras but you may also see symbolic reference to the gates of our mouth, eyes and other physical orifices, since they too are gates to beyond the body – the main entry and exit points for the 5 senses and physically the main entry and exit points for viruses, bacteria and other pathogens as well as food, smells and so on.
Gates and doors have a similar role in both preventing entry and preventing exit. They may prevent us from going out of our cone or entering another cone, but they are also there to protect us from ‘outside’ interference.
Some gates have guardians.
The Bible and older texts describing spiritual experiences are full of gates rather than doors, reflecting both the time they were experienced and the prevalence of out of body experiences. Gates and castles [or in the Bible symbolic temples] are of course closely linked – they are the entry and exit points of physical castles as such they are a good symbolic image to use for symbolic castles.
Observations
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- 1 Chronicles 9 17 The gatekeepers
- Aurora consurgens - 09 An allegory of the citadel
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 01
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 02
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 03
- Bhagavad Gita - Ruler of the nine gated castle
- Blake, William - And the North Gate of Golgonooza toward generation
- Blake, William - I will give you the end of a golden string
- Blake, William - In deluge o’er the earth born man, then turned the fluxile eyes
- Bloomfield, William - The Dreame of Mr Blomefeild
- Braveheart - Parallel bars
- Braveheart - Rivers, locks and nymphs
- Braveheart - Rivers, locks and nymphs continued
- Celsus
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Come to my garden
- Coronary at 37 years old
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 03 & 04
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 09
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 28
- Dickinson, Emily - My wheel is in the dark
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Olive Morrogh, of Birmingham has an OBE
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 109
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 144
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 40 - The New Temple Area
- Fourteen year old has NDE from pneumonia
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 03
- Hiroshige - A shrine among trees on a moor
- Hiroshige - Amanohashidate Peninsula
- Homer - The Iliad - The Hours
- Isaac Luria – Hymn for the Friday evening meal
- Jesus - Matthew 7 - The Narrow and Wide Gates
- Jules Lyons and her near death experience
- Kabir - I know all the gates of his palace
- Kabir - The woman who is separated from her lover
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Lalla - You won’t find the Truth
- Lyrics from the Chinese - I went out at the Eastern Gate
- Lyrics from the Chinese - The willows by the Eastern Gate
- Measles
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 10 The Four Pendentives 4
- Mircea Eliade - Shamanic bridges
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Music Bureau - The new wife
- Ninety year old remembers his teenage NDE vividly
- Observing vessels
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Phaeton 1
- Peace from a stroke
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Israfel
- Proverbs 24
- Ramakrishna - Hymns of Ramakrishna - The narrow channel first is made
- Revelations 21 - The New Jerusalem
- Rumi - The Book of Love - The way the soul is with the senses
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 26 - Gates of Zion
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 37 – The Patach
- Songs of Valley Spirit 01
- Songs of Valley Spirit 03
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan – Gates as symbols of deeper states of consciousness
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 05 - The Nativity
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 14 - Farms, gates and cows
- Steve Rushton has a near death from drowning
- Taoism - The body as a castle and city
- Temple Mount
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Book of Taliesin - Buarch Beird - Llyfr Taliesin III
- The Complete Book of Principal Contents of Human Life and Temperament: Nourishing the Origin
- The near death experience of Thomas Say, the Quaker
- The Supreme Teaching from the Upanishads
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - Cities and castles
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 4 Both using the same helmet
- Tzu, Lao - In keeping the spirit and the vital soul together
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Fata Morgana
- Yu Xuanji - Late spring
- Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter - Moan
- Zohar - Bamidbar 121A - Union
- Zohar - II 099a-b - An allegory of princes and princesses