Symbols - What does heaven look like
Lotus
See the Spiritual Path and also the Hourglass and the Spiritual path.
The symbolic attainment of the ascending path up the soul is often seen in visions and also symbolically represented in texts as a lotus.
A lotus is an ideal symbol.
It has its roots in the ‘Earth’, its leaves float on the Water layer , its stem then rises up through the Air and its flower opens up like a crown chakra as the Higher Spirit accepts spiritual nourishment from the Sun [the Creator] – see Trinity symbolism. It is also roughly speaking in the shape of a cross, the sign of the ascent of man and the cardinal directions in the Egg.
The Buddha sits on a lotus – he has gone beyond his own soul cone and is in the Creator/Created section having united with his Higher Spirit.
Observations
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- Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - from Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda 02
- Cirlot on the levels and layers
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 01 Burnt Norton I
- Goryeo sijo - Chong Ch’ol
- Haig, Matt - Reasons to stay alive - 05 Know thyself
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - GARDENING IN AUTUMN
- Heine, Heinrich - The lotus flower doth languish
- Hiroshige’s bell
- Kabir - I know of a strange tree
- Krishna receives reflexology stimulation
- Krishna, Gopi - kundalini - some background
- Kubler-Ross, Dr Elisabeth - Has both an OBE and a 'Peak experience'
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Matsya
- Mirabai - Unbreakable
- Morrells, Luce and flying on a magic carpet
- Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 29
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 15 – The ladies of Vraja, like bees searching for honey
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Temples with pronaos
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – 02 Reconstruction of an Initiation ceremony
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – Isis and Osiris
- Shinto kundalini figurine
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 1744
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 2415
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 901
- Tarot - 07 Minor Arcana - 03s Love, Kindness and compassion [Intuition]
- Tarot - 08 Minor Arcana - 02s Balance
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Lotus Eaters - A land of streams! Some, like a downward smoke
- The Seokguram Grotto
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - Visualising the Crown Chakra
- Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 48
- Zimmer, Dr Heinrich - Adi-sesa