Symbols - What does heaven look like
Path or road
Under the heading of Why are we here on the Home page of the website I have introduced the idea of the Great Work as being a plan devised by the Intelligences for Creation, destruction and evolution of the Universe.
Within the Great work are tasks, which like all plans are linked together in an interdependent network.
When we are born we are given one or more of these tasks to achieve, sometimes with a shared responsibility to achieve them.
If I now use a different diagram that represents the overall view from the person's point of view. Each of the boxes are tasks in the plan, the arrows show logical dependency – the sequence during life.
Each colour may represent the person's involvement in different challenges, with perhaps some activities – the yellow ones - being unrelated to any challenge. This person's overall plan for life shows them involved in three different challenges represented by the blue, red and purple boxes. This shows how very complex our life can become without us understanding why. There is a subtle interweaving of the tasks carefully achieved over the lifetime.
This ‘personal plan’ is often ‘seen’, and also symbolically described in literature, as our path or road.
Winding roads
The ‘Long and winding road’ is symbolically the ascent up our soul cone and thus the spiritual path .
Colour of the roads
The colour of the path tends to be the colour of the rainbow level you are at. Thus the colour symbolism used in the rainbow is used to convey the colour of the path and the level you are at.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road. |
Forms and features
Paths can appear to be made of brick, sand, gold, or crystal Paths may also appear as carpets – red carpets, green carpets, blue carpets, patterned carpets. These are taking on the symbolism of the substance with which they have been made.
Observations
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- Auden, W H - Leap before you Look
- Bach, Dr Edward - The need for faith and courage
- Bhagavad Gita - No one who does good treads an evil path
- Blithe spirit - Ticked off
- Braveheart - Follow the yellow brick road
- C P Cavafy - Ithaca
- Cardiac arrest
- Cayce, Edgar - Meets his Higher spirit
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Clare, John - Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
- Coehlo, Paulo - Warrior of Light; a manual
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 03
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Pilgrim talk
- Daniélou, Alain – The Way to the Labyrinth – Our destiny justifies the unique gifts we have been blessed with
- Dante - Inferno - Canto 13
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 03 & 04
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 28
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who (Official Video)
- Dickinson, Emily - Experience is the angled road Preferred against the Mind
- Dickinson, Emily - I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up
- Dickinson, Emily - My wheel is in the dark
- Dr Seuss - Oh the Places You’ll Go
- Frost, Robert - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Gentling the Bull – 02 Finding the Traces
- Gentling the Bull – 05 Gentling the Bull
- George Harrison - Any Road
- Goryeo sijo - Yi Hwang 09
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Anywhere I lay my head
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - MY CANDLE GUTTERS IN A SUDDEN GUST
- Herbert, George - The Call
- Holderlin, Johann - For Zimmer
- Holderlin, Johann - Mnemosyne
- Hugh Brody – Maps and Dreams - The thoughts of Atsin
- Hyangga of Korea - Requiem for the Dead Sister - Master Wolmyong
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from Part III
- Jesus - Matthew 7 - The Narrow and Wide Gates
- Judges and Exodus
- Jung, C G - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - Challenges
- Kabir - I know all the gates of his palace
- Kabir - The small diamond everyone wants
- Klimt - Avenue of Schloss Kammer park
- Klimt - Garden with Roosters
- Lalla - From what direction did I come
- Lalla - My mind boomed with the sound of OM
- Lalla - The road I came by wasn’t the road I took to go
- Larsson, Carl – And a poem by Lars Gustafsson
- Led Zeppelin - In the Light
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The spiral, the pendulum and ascension
- Lewis, C S - Dawn Treader - Sea horses
- Li Po - Coming down from Chung-nan mountain to the hermit Hu-Szu’s
- Logan, Andrew - The British Guide to Showing Off
- Lowell, James Russell - Envy’s harsh berries and the choking pool
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 26 Going out of body towards the Light
- Magritte, Rene - Beautiful World
- Martineau, Harriet - Arise, My Soul And Urge thy Flight 2
- Masefield, John - A Creed
- Michaux, Henri - Towards Serenity
- Mirabai - Listen
- Mirabai - Your slander is sweet
- Morrells, Luce and a little box like a TV
- Morrells, Luce and Minis spinning
- Morrells, Luce and paths
- Morrells, Luce and the house boat
- Morrells, Luce and the lovely hotel
- Morrells, Luce and the poodle
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - A span breadth from his goal, to languish!
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Art thou a new strength and a new authority? A first motion?
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - As yet humanity hath not a goal
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - He who wisheth one day to fly
- North Whitehead, Alfred – 13 Paths and roads
- Paul McCartney - The Long and winding road
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Dream, 28th August 1954
- Plato - Republic X - 03 Tale of Er
- Plato - Republic X - 05 Tale of Er
- Plato - Republic X - 06 Tale of Er
- Poe, Edgar Allen - To F O
- Qu’ran - Judgement Day; The fate of those who go on the straight path - Surah Al An’am
- Reichel-Dolmatoff - South American shaman initiation
- Reverdy, Pierre - Carrefour
- Ricardo from Mexico experiences divine love
- Rider-Waite - 14 - Temperance
- Rider-Waite - 18 The Moon
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 48 & 49 Tenth Elegy
- Rimbaud, Arthur - There; the little dead girl, behind the rosebushes
- Romance of the Rose - The Garden of Pleasure
- Rudd, Xavier - Choices
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 04 from the Cause for composing the Rose garden
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 18 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Schwabe, Carlos - Hope raising up Wounded Love
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Rendezvous and Les Trophees
- Segantini - Death
- Segantini - Life
- Segantini - Nature
- Segantini - Rückkehr vom Wald 1890
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - While still facing your mountain of unreal existence
- She was taking pain pills for a broken arm when she felt faint and nauseated
- Sheikh el Melewi and the mountain
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 06 - Pines
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 05 - The Nativity
- Spender, Stephen - Darkness And Light
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - The understanding of the ecstatic
- Su Hui - Star Gauge
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 56
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Path or road
- Tarot - 02 Minor Arcana - 08s Learning
- The Book of Taliesin - Torrit anuyndawl - Llyfr Taliesin XXV
- The NDE of the man from Western New Britain, Melanesia
- The Supreme Teaching
- The Supreme Teaching from the Upanishads
- Theodore Roethke - In a dark time, the eye begins to see
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 1 The Garden of Live Flowers
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 03 - 4 Alice and the fawn
- Tzu, Lao - A Way you can call Way isn’t the perennial Way
- Uphill a parable of life
- Various examples - 18 The Moon
- Vaughan, Dr Alan – Key events of life appear in dreams often years in advance, woven ln an intricate web of time
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - The Ladder of St Augustine
- Wirth, Oswald – 18 The Moon
- Yassawi - 08 from HIKMET 14 & 17
- Yassawi - 15 from HIKMET 48
- Yeats, W B - The Wind among the Reeds - Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns
- Yerka, Jacek and Arthur Clough - Say not the struggle naught availeth
- Yerka, Jacek and M Kathleen Casey – The Promise of a New day
- Yerka, Jacek and Richard Lovelace - To Althea
- Yerka, Jacek and Thomas Campbell - The River of Life
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Vision of Zosimos - 07