Symbols - What does heaven look like
Beehive
The beehive is related to the symbolism of the bee and honey.
In order to understand the symbolism we need to go back to what hives once originally looked like. These days they are rectangular, but in olden days they were shaped like a cone and made in a spiral shape. Thus a beehive is a symbol of the cone with its levels and layers. There is added symbolism created by the fact that as one gather more honey more layers are added to the hive. [called supers]. Thus one ‘ascends’ using honey up the cone as more levels and layers are symbolically added – thus a beehive is also a symbol of the spiritual path.
 Making a skep beehive |
 A skep hive |
Observations
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- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - Swarms as a symbol of reincarnation
- Beuys, Joseph - Honey
- Beuys, Joseph - Honey Pump 04
- Beuys, Joseph - The Beehive as a symbol of the ideal society
- Beuys, Joseph - The Queen Bee Sculptures
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - A Letter April 4th 1802
- David Lewis-Williams - Native American Indians - Isaac Tens
- Homer - The Odyssey - The nymphs
- Intelligences - TRINITY WORLD SOUL Tammuz [and Ishtar]
- Judges 14
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - The Life of the Bee
- Russell, George William - Aerial clashings in an ever-changing musical silvery sound
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 2741
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 2 The White Knight and the beehive
- Unusual cards - 16 The Tower
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - The Lake Isle of Innisfree