Symbols - What does heaven look like
Fruit
All fruit where it has a stone in the centre, a fleshy layer and a skin is an alternative symbol for the Egg. It can also be an alternative symbol for the Atom because Atom and Egg are mirrors of each other.
The skin represents the Earth layer.
The kernel represents the Aether layer.
The soft fleshy part represents the combined water, air and fire levels.
One should not forget that many trees have fruit which is still fruit even thought it is inedible. Thus for example the Horse chestnut and the ‘conker’ is frequently used in symbolic tales because it so very closely matches the Egg – it even has little cones around its outer rim [the prickles].
In another context – that of the spiritual path, the Autumn of our years is symbolically the time when we get the benefits from earlier efforts - we ‘gather the fruits of our labours’.
This is one reason why fruit figures so strongly as a symbol of wisdom.
Observations
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- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - My youth was a dark storm
- Blithe spirit - Strawberries and blackberries
- Bouguereau - Le Baiser
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - 01 The Second Dialogue
- Caravaggio - Basket of fruit
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures - 01 Preface
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Peaches
- Dante - Paradiso - The wood and trees
- Deng Ming-Dao - Each day
- Dowson, Ernest - The Garden of Shadow
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Mary with child
- Frost, Robert - The rose is a rose, And was always a rose
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- George Meredith - Dirge in Woods
- Grandma Moses - A solemn thing within the soul
- Holderlin, Johann - Mnemosyne
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Garden of Alcinous
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Fields and meadows
- Ikkyu - My love's dark place is fragrant like a narcissus
- Julian of Norwich - He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut
- Kabir - I know of a strange tree
- Kabir - Student do the simple purification
- Kipling, Rudyard - Just So Stories - The Crab that Played
- Lalla - Three times I have seen the lake
- Little Jack Horner
- Lyrics from the Chinese - Peach blossom after rain
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 07 The Story of Blood Moon
- Millais, John Everett - the Return of the Bridesmaid
- Mirabai - The Plums tasted
- Morrells, Luce and glace fruit and ambassadors
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 01
- Onigashima
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Dream, 28th August 1954
- Peale, Raphaelle - Still life with strawberries
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 23 Fifth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 25 Fifth Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 48 & 49 Tenth Elegy
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Venus Verticordia
- Rudd, Xavier - The Letter
- Saint Brendan - 10 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Samavedas – Book 04 Chapter 01, XXI Soma Pavamana
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 85 - The Egg and Intelligence hierarchy
- Simple Simon
- Song of Solomon 6
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 3 Falling off
- Tirgereh - Prayer to the Celtic goddesses
- Twelve drummers drumming
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - I visit the orchards of God
- William Seabrook - White monk of Timbuctoo
- Yerka, Jacek and William Ernest Henley - Echoes
- Zhang Guolao - Secrets of Embryonic Breathing
- Zohar - III 202a - Tree of Life