Symbols - What does heaven look like
Grapes
There are two alternative symbolic associations for grapes but both have the same meaning, grapes are the source of spiritual input. The video explains this more fully
Grapes hanging down
When the grapes are hanging down spirit input is being given to us by the gods. There is some good symbolism at work here, because grapes produce Wine and wine is spirit input
Here we see the god who was called by the Greeks Dionysos and by the Romans Bacchus. He has a bowl holding grapes, the grapes are pointing down because he is a god [the cone is upended]. He is also holding a Crystal glass, which has the shape of a Cup or chalice. |
Grapes pointing up
When the grapes point upwards they can also represent the pineal gland and shows you are in receipt of spiritual energy.
In a literal sense, wine helps lower the inhibitions and also aids in the increase of calcification of the pineal gland and hence in the likelihood of more sexual energy.
But wine is associated with Dionysos and Dionysos is the god of wine. He may also personify an actual person who brought wine and wine making to Greece.
So all the symbolism ties in, there is spiritual wine from gods like Dionysus when the bunch of grapes is pointing down and upturned grapes to receive that energy where they represent the pineal gland.
2nd century Roman statue of Dionysus,
after a Hellenistic model in the Louvre.
Notice the mix of male and female
characteristics [androgyny] and the
grape bunches.
Observations
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- Boehme, Jacob - Theosophische Wercke Amsterdam 1682
- Caravaggio - Basket of fruit
- Crowley - 0 The Fool
- Crowley - 02 High Priestess
- Eleusinian Mysteries - Thesmophoria - Opium
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Vine - Hearken, there is in old Morwenna's shrine
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Garden of Alcinous
- Khnopff, Fernand - Maske
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1012 [extract]
- Lal Shahbaz Qalandar - The juice of the grape
- Lowell, James Russell - I have drunk of the wine of immortals
- Mircea Eliade discusses the Epic of Gilgamesh
- Mircea Eliade – Mishna and the Tree of Knowledge
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Leaden Metal into Gold
- Qu’ran - Symbols and signs - Surah Al An’am
- Ripley, Sir George - Philalethes exposition of Ripley's Vision
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Damsel of the Sanct Grail
- Rubens - Drunken Silenus
- Rubens - The drunken Hercules
- Rubens - Two Satyrs
- Saint Brendan - 10 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Song of Solomon 7
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Vision of Zosimos - 05