Symbols - What does heaven look like
Lantern
A symbol of ‘illumination’, meaning wisdom and understanding. In effect the lantern relates to types of spiritual experience – invisible input – wisdom and also invisible input – inspiration.
The Hermit in the Tarot may carry a lantern as he [or she] is a source of spiritual illumination.
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Observations
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- 101 Zen stones - Your light may go out
- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 20 Death, the soul and immortal soul
- Aladdin's cave
- Asvaghosha - The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana - The Buddha nature or Higher spirit
- Attempted suicide
- Blake, William - Whilst Virtue is our walking staff
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - On the Universal soul
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Crescent moons and lanterns
- Crowley - 09 The Hermit
- Ernst, Max - Und die Schmetterlinge beginnen zu singen
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - At dawn I came into the garden
- Healer H - A ring of daisies forming a daisy chain
- Healer H - The lights upon them is what keeps them connected
- Japanese tea ceremony 1
- Japanese tea ceremony 3
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea – The Tea Room
- Karnataka and South India - 04 Bhoga Nandeeshwara and Arunachaleswara Temples
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On illumination
- Maier, Michael - Atalanta Fugiens 1618
- Morrells, Luce and the house boat
- Nicholle, Charles - The nature of blue sky thinking
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 01
- Parrish, Maxfield - The Lantern Bearers (1908)
- Rider-Waite - 09 The Hermit
- Rolling Stones - The Lantern
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 05 from Excuse for Remissness in Service and Cause for Preferring Solitude
- Saint Brendan - 06 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 07 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Scottish fasting
- Six Dharmas of Nāropa - 10 Gtummo - The Manner of the Arising of the Four Blisses
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Lanterns
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Pipes
- Symeon the New Theologian - You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven
- Waterhouse, John William - Consulting the Oracle
- Waterhouse, John William - Diogenes
- West & Southern France, Italy - The trial of witches
- Wirth, Oswald – 09 The Hermit
- Yerka, Jacek and Arthur Clough - Say not the struggle naught availeth
- Yu Xuanji - Farewell
- Zohar - Bamidbar 183a - Aaron
- Zohar - I 050b – Sacrifice and the making of a ‘god’
- Zohar - I 092b – Midnight