Symbols - What does heaven look like
Fish
A fish can have many symbolic and very specific meanings, especially culturally and within various religions, but here I wish to concentrate on the more generic meaning of the fish.
One of the ways we can view perceptions is as a series of interconnected threads – the loom. Our perception logs are interconnected by links that cross relate shared action and activity. The loom is one symbolic name given to this vast network of interconnected thoughts, but the other name given to it is the net.
Fish live in water and they are silver [moon] which means they are symbols of the feminine and the Subconscious. The subconscious contains our perceptions and emotions thus fish take on this symbolism – they are of the spirit and are symbols of emotions – feelings and perceptions.
But we can be more specific.
A fish looks like a bobbin, thus it is a symbol of weaving – the weaving of the net. In effect, a fish is a symbol of a thought – a thought that can travel all over the net and construct the links between us all. It can be an idea that travels and creates a great network of connected thoughts and ideas.
Thus if you see a lot of fish in a pool or tank you are seeing a mass of ideas ready to spring forth and break loose from their pool!
When Jesus talked of making his disciples fishers of men – he was talking about the spreading of the net – capturing people’s minds through ideas – his ideas and those of his disciples – fish weaving through the perceptions of his followers. The Fisher king of the Holy Grail was there to spread ideas. When Jesus fed the crowds with only 5 fishes – he was feeding them with only 5 main ideas – but he still kept them happy.
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 02 - 2 Know thyself
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 06 - 1 Pig and Pepper
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 10 - 1 Lobster quadrille
- Ancestors, the - Art - David Lewis-Williams from The Mind in the Cave
- Ancient Egyptian - The Paradise gardens and their symbolism
- Attar, Fariduddin - Invocation
- Aurora Consurgens - 03 An allegory of disorder
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Sea Nymph
- Chagall - danse
- Cirlot on fish
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 02
- Crowley - 13 Death
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Caviar
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- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 153
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- Escher - The Three Worlds
- Fechner, Gustav Theodor - The Little Book of Life after Death 02
- Gentling the Bull – 10 Entering the Market-place with Bliss bestowing hands
- Hadamard, Jacques - Fishing in the waters of ideas
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- Hiroshige - Red Snapper, Sea Bass and Perilla
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- Klimt - Fishblood
- Led Zeppelin - Down By the Seaside
- Lucian of Samosata – De Dea Syria
- Lyrics from the Chinese - If there are fish within the trap
- Magritte, Rene - The Collective Invention
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- Mayan - False pregnancy in a man
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- Morrells, Luce and the domes
- Morrells, Luce and the horseshoe shaped island
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - The Hidden Lake
- Ninjutsu - Summoning
- Norse - The Night journey
- Ogotommeli - Egg and Atom layout
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Glaucus and Scylla
- Ramakrishna - Hymns of Ramakrishna - The narrow channel first is made
- Saint Brendan - 12 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 02 - Boatyards
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 01 - Mending Cowls Cookham 1915
- The Book of Taliesin - Buarch Beird - Llyfr Taliesin III
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Joining Yin and Yang 02
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World 10
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - The Strains of a Cithara attract Hyperborean Swans
- The Tiger pulled down her pants
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 6 In Winter when the fields are white
- Totem group – Picts – Elements - Fish [Water]
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- Zhang, Jing-He - The Secret of Embryonic breathing
- Zhu Zi - The Complete Book of Zhu-Zi - An essay on regulating the breath