Symbols - What does heaven look like
Bride and bridegroom
The Bride and Bridegroom also called The Lovers, Mystic marriage, Hieros Gamos, Chemical wedding plus a host of other synonyms is in part a symbol of having achieved balance. The act of attempting to achieve balance is usually represented by scales.
In effect it represents the balancing of the two aspects of the mind – the Conscious male principle and the Subconscious feminine principle – see Brain split [left brain, right brain].
By balancing the two principles one has achieved a unity of character – a ‘wedding’ in which the Subconscious side [unknown but light] is united with the Conscious side [known but dark]. See Darkness and Light. Clearly the two sides are aspects of the same person so they are simply two aspects of the same thing but by uniting, they make it possible to access the Higher spirit.
Thus by implication a Bride and Bridegroom can indicate the spiritual experience of Ecstasy and Moksha or nirvana – see Types of spiritual experience.
Observations
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- Abu ‘L-Mawahib Ash-Shadhili
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 02
- Bernard of Clairvaux - The grace of going forth in spirit
- Burne-Jones, Edward - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Pygmalion
- Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with Zodiac symbols
- Canistris, Opicinus de - Diagram with 'Crucifixion'
- Canistris, Opicinus de - Man as Pyramid
- Cayce, Edgar - Meets his Higher spirit
- Chagall - Cheval rouge
- Chagall - danse
- Chagall - midsummers night dream
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Water Ballad
- Crowley - 06 The Lovers
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Peaches
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Oyster
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The gorilla
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The Positive and negative powers
- Desnos, Robert - Dove In The Arch
- Dionysos - Villa of Mysteries Pompei - Eros
- Dionysos - Villa of Mysteries Pompei - The Bride
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 04 East Coker I
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Experience - The universe is the bride of the soul
- Ernst, Max - L’Ange du Foyeur and The Dressing of the bride
- Escher - Bond of Union
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - Mystic marriage
- Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite - Norwegian Bridal Procession
- Guru Granth – Tukhaari chhant
- Healer H - Babies everywhere
- Heine, Heinrich - Oft he sat in the gloomiest corner at home
- Hokusai -shunga
- Isaac Luria – Hymn for the Friday evening meal
- Jami - Mist from the cushioned air
- Jan Thorn Prikker - the Bride
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 161 Poem
- Judee Sill - When the Bridegroom Comes
- Jung, C G - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - The sweet smell of the Holy Ghost
- Mircea Eliade - The role of the feminine spirit helpers
- Nerval, Gerard de - El Desdichado
- Norse - Tollund Man
- Plotinus - The Enneads - To see and to have seen that Vision
- Rider-Waite - 06 The Lovers
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 10 The Union
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 11 The Fermentation
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 14 The Fixation
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 15 The Multiplication
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Dante's Dream
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Three Wise Virgins
- Schwabe, Carlos - Les noces du poete avec la muse ou l'ideal 1902
- Shih Ching - Osprey's call
- Simon, Paul - Hearts and bones
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 16 - Bride and bridegroom
- Sri Aurobindo - Bride of the Fire
- Symeon the New Theologian - You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven
- Tarot - 08 Minor Arcana - 02s Balance
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - For woman is not undeveloped man
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 06
- van Ruysbroeck, Jan - The Three Worlds
- Vaughan, Henry - The World
- Wirth, Oswald – 06 The Lovers
- Zohar - I 034a – The Letter Samekh
- Zohar - I 049b – Masculine and Feminine