Symbols - What does heaven look like
Oyster
The oyster conveys an idea not dissimilar to the crab - a soft centre and a hard shell. In other words, spirit function encased in a form. It is thus yet another symbol used to describe the bodied soul along with the crab, the cocoon, the chrysalis, the knight in armour and the bird in the cage!
There is a little extra symbolism in the addition of the pearl - symbol of both wisdom – hence the expression ‘pearls of wisdom’ - and the source of the wisdom - the Higher spirit.
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 03 - A Caucus race and a long tail
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Oyster
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - For years my heart had been searching
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- Ogotommeli - Twins
- Plato - Misc. writings - The Mysteries
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The sea is being and speech its shore
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 2 The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 07 - 2 Hatta and Haigha