Symbols - What does heaven look like
Ladder
The ladder is symbolically the same as the Stairs.
Although ladders, ropes and wings all appear to be similar as means of ascent, there is a very distinct difference symbolically. The ones with wings are those who are capable of having spiritual experiences with little difficulty. In a sense they are the ‘mystics’, but they are also naturally able to ‘fly’.
Those with ladders and stairs have a rather slow upward climb that involves stages and steps towards the goal of enlightenment. This is why chains and ladders are interchangeable – the word chain is a pun – the ‘links’ in the chain are the links between stages of progress. This is a more Hermetic path.
The ones using ropes have to have assistance from above and occasionally below and are always having to pull themselves up by sheer hard work against the ‘gravity’ of the pull to the earth – the physical. It means the person is much more attuned to the world of physical perceptions and the physical, and is not naturally a spiritual traveller. If they make it, it will only be through sheer force of will and perseverance.
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 04 - 4 The Lizard flies
- Ancient Egyptian - The Creation Myth of Heliopolis
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of the four sons of Horus
- Bai Zi Bei - The Hundred Character Tablet - Lu Dongbin
- Bridges, Robert - The Growth of Love
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - 07 The Third Dialogue
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 07 1
- Celsus
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - Pyramid
- Cirlot on towers
- Dante - Paradiso - Saturn
- Dante - Paradiso - The Ladder of Paradise
- Delville, Jean - Dante drinking from the Waters of Lethe
- Denis - The ladder in the foliage 1892
- Dorothy Counts [1983] - Near Death and Out of Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society – Andrew
- Dr William Sargant – She realized that she had climbed Jacob's Ladder into Heaven
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 098
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 149
- Escher - Ascending Descending
- Flamel, Nicolas - from Alchemie de Flamel by D Molinier 1772
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Genesis 28 - The Story of Jacob
- Girls and boys come out to play
- Godwin, Joscelyn - Music, Mysticism and Magic - Ascension
- Hammond, Bill - Signal Box
- Hammond, Bill - The Green Room II
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - The Quest of the Sangraal - He dwelt in Orient Syria; God's own land
- Healer H - Old clothes and a crocodile
- Healer H - The lights upon them is what keeps them connected
- Hennell, Thomas - Of finer, thinner stuff than iridescent bubbles
- Hopi and Zuni - Hummingbird legend
- Isole Madre
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
- Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven - live
- Lull, Raymond - Breviculum
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- Masefield, John - Shakespeare and spiritual life
- Mellery, Xavier - After Evening Prayers
- Millais, John Everett - Christ in the house of his parents
- Mircea Eliade - Bird as symbol of the spiritual person
- Mircea Eliade - On 'magical flight'
- Mircea Eliade - On Hindu flight
- Mircea Eliade - On Shamans and bones
- Mircea Eliade - The Ladder
- Mircea Eliade - The Mithraic Mysteries
- Mircea Eliade - Those who know have wings
- Mircea Eliade - Tibetan Buddhism - Ropes
- Miro - Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire
- Miro - The Escape Ladder
- Mudang spiritual experiences – The sufferings and initiation of the paksu Chang Myung-hoon
- Mutus Liber 01 Cover
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - He who wisheth one day to fly
- Ogotommeli - Weaving the universe
- O’Keeffe, Georgia - Ladder to the moon
- Paul Devereux - Sacred Places - Symbols
- Paul Devereux - The sacred landscape of Native Americans
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 05 Stairs and ladders
- Philo - On rewards
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - DMT and Swizzle stick ladders
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 26 Fifth Elegy
- Romance of the Rose - The Garden of Pleasure
- Rumi - Misc - Every image you see
- Samuel - The Water Drawing Ceremony
- Seeing laser lights or weirdly colored bugs or gadgets doing weird patterns
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 09 - Early visionary period
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 15 - Waterfalls, rivers and locks
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The True Christian Religion - Lower earth
- Teotihuacan
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Maid 3
- The NDE of the man from Western New Britain, Melanesia
- Theophanis the monk and the ladder of Divine graces
- Ur - Sumerian stele of Nammu
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - Climbing the Cosmic ladder
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - The Builders
- Yerka, Jacek and Raymond Moody - Judgement
- Yoga sutras of Patanjali - One pointed concentration [commentary]