Symbols - What does heaven look like
Horse
The horse takes on the symbolism of all animals.
The horse has been for many cultures, a very key spiritual messenger and a means of transport around the spiritual world. In numerous societies the horse is the chosen means of transport for the ‘hero’, the knight and the shaman/magician, in other cultures it is the ‘divine messenger’.
There is some confusing symbolism surrounding the horse, as when a person transfers control of the physical body to the Intelligences, or in effect goes into a trance state in which he is ‘guided’, the ‘guides’ are said in some cultures to "mount" him so that he or she becomes their horse. From this we get the symbolism of Hob and the Hobby horse.
Some Horses cannot be classified with the other animals that appear in visions, they are Intelligences in their own right and can communicate as well as take people and spirits or ‘gods’ places. They are essentially classifiable as ‘fast transport’.

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Horses can represent the forces of creation or destruction. As Intelligences are defined as a system with consciousness and attributes, it is clear that some horses are these systems – the systems or forces of creation and destruction. In the Bible for example the book of Revelations [see also the observations] describes an immense number of horses– all symbols of destruction – the change to a new software version or increment of evolution. The power needed to effect this level of destruction is immense.
The white horses of the sea employ the same sort of symbolism - destruction by the element of water [software]. In the white horses of the sea the symbolism of the Waves, Ocean and sea and the horse are combined.
There is yet more symbolism associated with the horse when it is related to sexual stimulation, making love and other sexual methods to achieve spiritual experience.
When a person ‘mounts’ someone in order to raise their energy levels, they are in effect riding the person much as one would a horse and the person they are making love to then becomes the means of transport.
The pelvic bone of the other person is the ‘saddle’ or it can be referred to as the bow.
In this case when a hero says he has ‘bent the bow’ he has made love to someone and pounded away at their pelvic bone!!
Or as General Yih once said ‘bending the bow is my happiness’!
In order to indicate the fact that the horse provided the person with the ability to ‘fly’, the horse may be seen symbolically with wings, sometimes many wings. Furthermore, the speed of the animal may be portrayed by giving it many legs. Sleipnir [Odin’s horse] had eight legs, but it was not the only horse to have eight legs. The eight legged horse is a feature of a number of cultures and is embodied in myth and ritual.
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Left: A depiction of Odin riding Sleipnir from an eighteenth century Icelandic manuscript. As can be seen from the picture, Sleipnir is an octopedal horse, given to Odin by Loki. Odin’s one eye can be clearly seen in this picture. He was said to consume nothing but ‘mead’ or ‘wine’. "Odin Rides to Hel" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood |
Observations
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- A Farmer went trotting
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 08 On the path of ascension
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 20 Death, the soul and immortal soul
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - From every side other riders
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - He bade them put the saddle on a steed
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - In his locks he had a thousand hidden curls
- Atharvaveda - XIX 53 from Prayer to Kala [Time]
- Bach, Dr Edward - On Reincarnation
- Baldrs draumar - Odin goes to Hel
- Beuys, Joseph - Animals and Insects
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Horses
- Blithe spirit - Flying with the gods
- Böcklin, Arnold - Roger and Angélique 1874
- Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad – The Creation myth – 02 Verses 1.4.4 to 1.4.6
- Chagall - at the circus
- Chagall - Cheval rouge
- Chagall - Circus
- Chagall - le cirque rouge et bleu
- Chagall - trapeze artist
- Chesterton, G K - The ballad of the White Horse
- Chesterton, G K - The ballad of the White Horse
- Cirlot on chariots and reins
- Cohen, Leonard - Ballad of the Absent Mare
- Colin Wilson - Mysteries - Celtic gods and beliefs
- Crazy Horse - Native American Indians - Spirit world
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Steeped horsehair
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - Mind over Matter
- Dali - Saint Jacques le Grand
- Dali - The Temptation of St. Anthony
- Degas - Before the stands
- Degas - Rider in a Red Coat
- Dickinson, Emily - Dropped into the ether acre, Wearing the sod gown
- Dickinson, Emily - I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up
- Dr Douglas Hyde - Seeing monstrous rabbits, and horses that change into women
- Dulac, Edmund - The Horse and the Tower
- Dürer, Albrecht - Religious works - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Knight, Death, and the Devil
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - The small horse
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Magritte, Rene
- Enûma Eliš - Fourth Tablet
- Escher - Pegasus
- Fechner, Gustav Theodor - A revelation
- Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
- General Horng Yih - Song Shaw Shing
- Gentling the Bull – 05 Gentling the Bull
- Giuoco delle Minchiate Fiorentine and Visconti-Sforza - 7 - The Chariot
- Gray, Thomas - A Pindaric Ode
- Harunobu - Shunga
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - Angels have no wings, not a single feather
- Hennell, Thomas - Sees flying women and knights from the tomb
- Hesiod - Theogony - The gods
- Hokusai - Images of Bathers
- Hokusai - Waterfall at Yoshino in Washū
- Hokusai’s floating world
- Holderlin, Johann - Mnemosyne
- Homer - The Iliad - The Hours
- Humpty Dumpty
- Hyangga of Korea - Song of Ch'oyong
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Flying Chariot
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - A ringdove wailed and a sad lover complained
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - My lovesickness is from her of the lovesick eyelids
- In the nick of time
- Jack and Jill
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 05 The Story
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from Part III
- Judges and Exodus
- Karnataka and South India - 03 Airavatesvara Temple
- Keightley, Thomas - The myth of Iskrzycki
- Kepler, Johannes - The Daemon from Levania from Somnium
- Knight, Dame Laura – Circus – 01
- Knight, Dame Laura – Circus – 02
- Knight, Dame Laura – Circus – 03
- Krishna - Arjunas charioteer in the battle-field of Kurukshetra
- Lalla - I’ve bridled my mind horse
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Lewis, C S - Dawn Treader - Sea horses
- Lewis, C S - The Horse and his boy - Shasta and the talking horse
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - Symbolism
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - The young shaman Enchu
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shaman’s dress
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian Smoke Inhalation
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Concerning the spiritual in art - Wassily Kandinsky 2
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Michaux, Henri - In the Land of Magic - The most interesting things in this country cannot be seen
- Millais, John Everett - The Black Brunswicker
- Mircea Eliade - On Drum Maps and Drumming
- Mircea Eliade - On horses
- Mircea Eliade - On horses
- Mircea Eliade - On Ostyak shamans
- Mircea Eliade - On Sleipnir
- Mircea Eliade - The flying Emperor and other cases of 'magical flight'
- Mircea Eliade - The Muria and the horse
- Miro - The Circus Horse
- Monroe, Robert - Meets a hob out of body
- Mrs Jane O'Neill of Cambridge
- Mudang spiritual experiences – The sufferings and initiation of the paksu Chang Myung-hoon
- Muhammed - Isra and Mi'raj
- Music Bureau - Watering horses at a spring beneath the Great Wall
- Neruda, Pablo - Come to my soul dressed in white
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the Ascension
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 02
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 03
- Norse - Jelling
- Norse - Tanum
- Norse - The Night journey
- Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi - The Sango mounts his horse
- Organisation of Pictish society – Roles - The Hermit
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Phaeton 2
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Phaeton 3
- Parmenides - On Nature - 01
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Letter May 1934
- Poetic Edda - Baldr's Dreams [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Grimnir's sayings [extract]
- Potanin - Kam out of body
- Poussin - The Triumph of Neptune and birth of Venus
- Redon, Odilon - Mystic series 6
- Redon, Odilon - the Chariot of Apollo series
- Revelations 06 : 1-8
- Revelations 09
- Ride a cock horse
- Rider-Waite - 13 Death
- Rider-Waite - 19 The Sun
- Rig veda - Those who know have wings
- Rig veda - Boats, Birds and Chariots
- Rig veda - Chariots
- Rig veda - Rudra with braided hair
- Rig veda - Soma
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 27 Sixth Elegy
- Ross Heaven - Vodou, Hobs and the Loa
- Rubens - Fall of Phaeton
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Riding with the Prophets
- Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de - Misc. Quotes - Love is the helm of our vessel
- Samavedas – 01 Book 01 Chapter 01, DECADE II Agni
- Samavedas – 01 Book 05 Chapter 01, DECADE III Indra [extract verses 8-10]
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 01, XV Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 01, VIII Indra
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 01, XVIII Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 02, XVI Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 07 Chapter 03, XII Soma Pavamana
- Segantini - Ploughing
- Seurat, Georges - Le Cirque
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Landscapes of the mind
- Sheridan, Clare – Big Eagle’s Sacred Pipe
- Sieroszewski - Singing shamans in Siberia
- Song of Solomon 1
- SPIRIT POSSESSION IN RAJASTHAN - Jeffrey G. Snodgrass 01
- Sterry, Peter - At our Birth, our Soul and Body are joined as Horses are put into a Waggon
- Sting - Desert Rose
- Tarot - 04 Minor Arcana - 06s Union
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 03 The Knights
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Tithonus
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 08
- The Book of Taliesin - Torrit anuyndawl - Llyfr Taliesin XXV
- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter - 03
- The humming bees of Dr Valerie Solheim
- The Supreme Teaching from the Upanishads
- Thelmar, E – 23 Experiencing a perfect ecstasy of vitality utterly unreachable and unimaginable by any normal, living human being
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 1 Humpty Dumpty
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 2 Names and ages
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 07 - 1 The Lion and the Unicorn
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 1 It's my own invention
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 2 The White Knight and the beehive
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 3 Falling off
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 8 Farewell to the Knight
- Tirgereh - Prayer to the Celtic goddesses
- Totem group – Picts – Sign of Zodiac - Horse
- Toulouse Lautrec - Circus
- Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 08
- Various examples - 19 The Sun
- War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness – 06 Movements of the attacking infantry
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - In mid whirl of the dance of Time ye start
- William Seabrook - White monk of Timbuctoo
- Wirth, Oswald – 07 The Chariot
- Wordsworth, William - Peter Bell
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - I hear the shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake
- Zachariah 1
- Zachariah 6