Symbols - What does heaven look like
King and Queen

The symbolism of the king and queen revolves around the crown chakra. Once the crown chakra has been opened and spiritual input and spiritual output allowed to flow, then the person is said to be enlightened [see Types of Spiritual experience] and figuratively speaking has received a crown.
If they are male [or a lesbian] then they may be shown symbolically the picture of a king. If they are female or a gay man then they may be shown the symbol of a queen – which is where homosexual men get the term Queen from –an enlightened homosexual man
Once the crown chakra has been opened, in symbolic terms you have been ‘promoted’. Up until that point, you are simply a prince or a princess [pawn] on the spiritual path.
The entire game of chess is built around this allegory
The Tarot card pack also incorporates the Queen and King figures.
More details about the way the King and Queen role has evolved over time can be found in the page King and Queen and politics
Observations
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- Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius - Sacramentum matrimonii antiquissimum est - 05
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 06 - 1 Pig and Pepper
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 08 - 1 The Cards and the Rose Tree
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 08 - 2 The Croquet match
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 08 - 3 The Cheshire cat reappears
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 09 - 1 The Mock Turtle's story
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 11 - 1 Who stole the Tarts
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 11 - 2 Cross examination of the Hatter
- Amsterdam
- Apuleius - The Golden Ass - The Navigium Isidis festival
- Attar, Fariduddin - The Hawk
- Bacon, Roger - The Mirror of Alchemy – Chapter 06
- Bad-tibira
- Balev Tahor - From the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q525:1.1-2,2.1-12)
- Barker, Elsa - The Mystic Rose
- Beowulf - Arriving at the King's Palace
- Bhagavad Gita - The Sun and Moon
- Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad – The Creation myth – 05 Verse 1.4.11
- Bullett, Gerald William - If all the trees were magic trees
- Burne-Jones, Edward - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
- Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 01
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Fifth Day - Commentary
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cirlot on princes
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 12
- County Meath - Tara - Lia Fáil
- Cowper, William - The Lily and the Rose
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Law - Behold! These be grave mysteries
- Dickinson, Emily - A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King
- Dickinson, Emily - I have a king, who does not speak
- Dickinson, Emily - I heard a fly buzz when I died The stillness in the room
- Dickinson, Emily - My wheel is in the dark
- Dickinson, Emily - One life of so much consequence Yet I for it would pay
- Dinnshenchas – The shape shifting of Faifne the poet and his sister Aige
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Kings and Queens
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Titicaca Temple of Sun and Moon 1
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Nesi, the passions
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazer 1760 7th illustr.
- Freddie Mercury - The March Of The Black Queen
- Freddie Mercury and Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Freddie Mercury and Queen - The Queen heraldic arms
- George Darley - Unicorn
- Guillaume de Deguileville - Le Pelerinage de l'ame
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Quest of the Sangraal - The Queen, The Queen how haughty on the dais
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - A woman lives in the North
- Howe, Elias - Invents the practical sewing machine using a dream
- Humpty Dumpty
- Hymn from the Stele in Memphis in front of the Temple of Hephaistos
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Cornucopia
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Queen
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Tree of life
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Trees and Tree maidens
- Isaiah 33
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from Part II
- Jones, Sir William - Caissa
- Jung, C G - Religious Ideas in Alchemy
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - The Creation
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Image Composition VII - 1913
- Karnataka and South India - 02 Temple architecture
- King's cross
- Krishna receives reflexology stimulation
- Krishnamurti - The Song of Life - Life is as the waters
- Lavender's blue
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Li Po - A Song of Adieu to the Queen of the Skies, after a dream voyage to her
- London Bridge is falling down
- Lowell, James Russell - He who hath felt life’s mystery
- Lowell, James Russell - I feel the bandages unroll
- Lyrics from the Chinese - My lord is gone away to serve the King
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Misc quotes - Therein lay his secret
- Masefield, John - A Creed
- Masefield, John - Sonnets and Poems XXXII
- Masefield, John - The Widow in the Bye Street
- Meister Eckhart - Selected writings - No one comes to the Father except through the Son
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 07 Sex High priestess Puabi
- Michaux, Henri - The Night Moves - All too often I become involved in law suits
- Mudang spiritual experiences – The sufferings and initiation of the paksu Chang Myung-hoon
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the jackal story
- Mylius, Johann Daniel - Courante I & II-Lutz Kirchhof
- Myōe – The dream of Vairocana and the queen
- Nerval, Gerard de - Artemis
- Nerval, Gerard de - El Desdichado
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Discourse 01
- Norse - Jelling
- Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Organisation of Pictish society – Roles - Queen
- Organisation of Pictish society – Roles - The King
- Orphic hymn to the Mother of the gods
- Parrish, Maxfield - Sing a Song o' Sixpence
- Parrish, Maxfield - The Knave of Hearts
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Dream of 20th July 1954
- Persepolis
- Plato - Critias - Atlantis and Athens
- Poetic Edda - The Prophecy of Grípir [extract]
- Previn, Dory - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
- Rimbaud, Arthur - After the idea of the Flood had receded
- Rimbaud, Arthur - One fine morning, in a land of very decent people
- Rock a bye baby
- Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 02 The Bird and Branch
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 03 King and Queen
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 04 The Bath
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 05 Conjunctio
- Rumi - Divani Shamsi Tabriz - Twere better that the spirit
- Russell, George William - Song and its Fountain
- Sai Baba - Howard Murphet - Dr. D K Bannerjee Professor of Organic Chemistry witnesses transmutations and transfigurations
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Le Petit Prince
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 02, XX Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 07 Chapter 02, V Agni
- Samavedas – Book 07 Chapter 03, XII Soma Pavamana
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Death as a function
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – The roles
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Song of Solomon 1
- Song of Solomon 6
- Song of Solomon 7
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 01 - Mending Cowls Cookham 1915
- Sri Aurobindo - 06 Savitri Book VI Canto I
- Sting - A Thousand Years
- Sting - Love is the Seventh Wave
- Sting - Soul Cages
- Sting - The Lowest Trees have Tops
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 00 The Court Cards introduction
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 01 The Queens
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 02 The Kings
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Morte d'Arthur - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 04
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 07
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 01
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 06
- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise
- The Wolf Devours the dead king and the king is reborn
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 01 - 1 Kitty and the Mirror
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 01 - 2 Making memorandums
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 2 The enormous game of chess
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 4 Marking out the route
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 3 The Fight
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 05 - 1 Wool and Water
- 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 - 8 Farewell to the Knight
- Traherne, Thomas - On leaping over the moon - Adventure strange
- Tu Fu - The Little rain
- Twelve drummers drumming
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 34 Discerning the differences between pure and impure spirits
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Celtic Otherworld and the Sidhe
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Pyramids as the site of the Mysteries
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Sun and the Moon and being 'moon-struck'
- Walters, Dorothy - I was the king
- Watts, Alan - A pool of dazzling flame
- Wordsworth, William - Peter Bell
- Yassawi - 24 HIKMET 108
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - As I came over Windy Gap
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Of golden king and silver lady
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams
- Yeats, W B - Fergus and the Druid - The Hermit
- Zohar - Bamidbar 121A - Union
- Zohar - III 107a – Rose of Sharon
- Zohar - III 152a - The symbolic nature of the Torah
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - The Faravahar
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 9th Book about the Measures of the Fire