Symbols - What does heaven look like
Clothes
Numerous items of clothing have a symbolic significance. In the table below, some of the items of clothing that have symbolic significance are listed. If the item is not in the list it may still be in the symbol section.
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Incarnated or not?
When seeing any entity - Intelligence or Spirit Being or Higher spirit, the state of the clothes – if any are worn at all - provides an indication of the last time that the Intelligence or being was incarnated. The clothes are often a saved image related to the template the person had when they were last living. Thus very old clothes means an Intelligence or being that was last incarnated a considerable time ago.
The type of clothes may also indicate the role that person/being played.
In the same vein, offering clothes to a spirit being is tantamount to a gross insult, as it is threatening him with incarnation – a feature few if any spirit beings want.
To demonstrate this I will take a folk tale from Thomas Keightley’s compendium of International fairy folkore [the World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and other little people]. This one is from Germany, but the same type of story seems to be almost universally told.
At Seewenweiher, in the Black-Forest, a little Waterman used to come and join the people, work the whole day long with them, and in the evening go back into the lakes. They used to set his breakfast and dinner apart for him. When, in apportioning the work, the rule of " Not too much and not too little " was infringed, he got angry and knocked all the things about.
Though his clothes were old and worn he steadfastly refused to let the people get him new ones. But when at last they would do so, and one evening the lake-man was presented with a new coat, he said,
‘When one is paid off, one must go away. After this day I'll come no more to you’ And unmoved by the excuses of the people, he never let himself be seen again.
Observations
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- 1 Corinthians 15
- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 05
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - Spiritual interactions
- Beuys, Joseph - Clothes
- Bhagavad Gita - Death
- Blithe spirit - Behind the veil
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Caravaggio - Musicians
- Chelan - Native American Indians - Creation myth
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Cohen, Leonard - Going home
- Count of Eulenburg – 20 1915, November 19th
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest awakes
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Karma and reincarnation - from Immortality and Reincarnation
- Desnos, Robert - Identity Of Images (Identite des Images)
- Diane Sherman's near death experience
- Dickinson, Emily - She died at play
- Dickinson, Emily - The only ghost I ever saw
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - The Red Heifer
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Dress
- Healer H - I’m the Fagan with the kids
- Healer H - Babies everywhere
- Healer H - Having a board meeting
- Healer H - The lights upon them is what keeps them connected
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay
- Hodgson, Roger – Crime of the Century - If everyone was listening
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 04 The Story
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 043 Section 3
- Keightley, Thomas - Brownies
- Keightley, Thomas - The pranks of the Nis
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1400
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Knight, Dame Laura – Ballet and theatre – 02
- Leighton, Frederick Lord
- Li Po - Coming down from Chung-nan mountain to the hermit Hu-Szu’s
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 01 Ritual humiliation of those in power
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 09 Ignudi 1
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 09 Ignudi 2
- Michelangelo - Sonnet XLIV - Oh night, oh sweetest time although obscure
- Mircea Eliade - Unravelling the symbolism of a strange custom
- Morrells, Luce and a little box like a TV
- Morrells, Luce and the poodle
- Moses Cordovero – Shi’ur Komah
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The Sleeper
- Poussin - Et in Arcadia Ego
- Rebecca Martin's near death experience
- Revelations 04 :2
- Russell, George William - The Vesture of Soul
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Stilling of the rain
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 14 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Samavedas – Book 06 Chapter 01, IX Soma Pavamana
- Sarah near death
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 19 - The Lovers (The Dustman)
- Sterry, Peter - On annihilation
- Sting - Shadows in the Rain
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3122
- The Book of Taliesin - Buarch Beird - Llyfr Taliesin III
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 3 The Fight
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 05 - 1 Wool and Water
- What Happens After Death: Sadhguru and Shekhar Kapur
- Zohar - Bamidbar 183a - Aaron
- Zohar - I 221b – Perfumes and clothes