Symbols - What does heaven look like
Rain
One of the ways in which Spirit input is symbolically represented is rain. In effect Water is falling to Earth.
Rain falls, and it falls from heaven in a more literal sense, as such symbolically the use of rain is consistent with the overall theme of spiritual energy being sent from the Creator through to each of the souls. Spiritual input is often depicted by the blue colour, whilst warm rising energy is shown by pink or red colours.
This intriguing card from a Tarot deck is actually for the Aeon , but it shows rather well the downward flow of spiritual energy – shown symbolically as rain from – in this case the Ultimate Intelligence represented by the eye – but also the upward rising of the energy towards the Ultimate Intelligence. |
Shuwen
Clear yang makes heaven and unclear yin makes earth. Ascending, the earth qi makes clouds, descending the heaven qi makes rain. Rain comes from the earth qi and clouds from heaven qi.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yaralde initiation
- Alexander, Dr Eben - meeting Intelligences
- Aristotle - The Elements
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 11 May her benevolence lead us to paradise
- Attar, Fariduddin - The angels have bowed down to you and drowned
- Bambara - the 'Sirius system'
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - My youth was a dark storm
- Baudelaire, Charles - L’ennui
- Beatles, the - Rain and Fixing holes
- Blake, William - Image of grief thy fading lineaments make my eyelids fail
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Braveheart - Lifting tree trunks
- Braveheart - Steam cleaned and broccoli
- Bruno, Giordano – A general account of bonding - On lightning, thunderbolts and pubic hair
- Cameron, Norman - Lying in fever, while tornado weather
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - Pyramids and pools
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - The Annex
- Coleridge, David Hartley - Let me not deem that I was made in vain
- Coleridge, David Hartley - The insect birds that suck nectareous juice
- Copan - Mayan - Overview and plan
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest awakes
- David Lewis-Williams - the Xam and Rain
- Dickinson, Edmund - When Phoebus with his rayes bright
- Dickinson, Emily - Delight is as the flight Or in the ratio of it
- Dickinson, Emily - Like rain it sounded till it curved And then I knew ‘twas wind
- Elijah - 1 Kings 17 01 - The brook dries up
- Elijah - 1 Kings 17 08 - Oil, meal and water
- Elijah - 1 Kings 18 01 - Ahab and Obadiah
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The god of Thunder
- Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
- Freddie Mercury - Made in Heaven
- Frost, Robert - Builder, in building the little house
- Frost, Robert - I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause
- Frost, Robert - Never tell me that not one star of all
- Frost, Robert - The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night
- Frost, Robert - You make a labour of flight for one so airy
- Genesis - Mad mad Moon
- Genesis 02 - Garden of Eden
- Genesis 07 - the Flood
- Genesis 08 - the Flood
- George Harrison - Mystical One
- Goryeo sijo - Kim Sangyong
- Grant Gronewald - HTML Flowers - It's raining shadows
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Virtual candle
- Guaita, Stanislas de - Danae
- Guru Granth – Tukhaari chhant
- Hammond, Bill - Ancient Pitch
- Hammond, Bill - Eagle and bone
- Hiroshige - A sudden shower
- Hockney, David - Lithographs
- Huangdi Neijing - Suwen
- Hyangga of Korea – 06 Eleven Poems on the Ten Vows of the Universally Worthy Bodhisattva - Great Master Kyunyo
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - Flashes of lightning gleamed to us
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They mounted the howdahs on the swift camels
- Intelligences - PLANETS JUPITER Adad [or Hadad] and Šala
- Intelligences - PLANETS VENUS Ashtar and Ishtar
- Isaiah 55
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from Part III
- Japanese Shinto print
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Energy
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The blind worms
- John Greenleaf Whittier - from the Over-Heart
- Julian of Norwich - I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the Head
- Kahuna - Tattoos of Kundalini Energy
- Keats, John - Ever let the fancy roam, pleasure never is at home
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1012 [extract]
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1836
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 313
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Klimt - Danae
- Led Zeppelin - Down By the Seaside
- Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
- Li Qingzhao - I planted a banana tree outside the window
- Lowell, James Russell - Thick rushing like an ocean vast
- Lowell, James Russell - Whereto, in all our hearts, as to the sea
- Lyrics from the Chinese - Peach blossom after rain
- Magritte, Rene - Golconde
- Maier, Michael - Atalanta fugiens 1618
- Malevich, Kazimir - Woman torso
- Meeting Morrison and God on the Moon by Rhythm King
- Michaux, Henri - Report from Poddema
- Michaux, Henri - The Night Moves - All too often I become involved in law suits
- Mirabai - Don’t block my way , friend
- Mirabai - I saw the dark clouds
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal Bunjil
- Mircea Eliade - Baiame, the supreme divinity
- Mircea Eliade - On rain, thunder and lightning
- Mircea Eliade - The Moon as Mother of the Waters
- Mircea Eliade - The Storm gods
- Mircea Eliade - Unravelling the symbolism of a strange custom
- Mircea Eliade – We plough the fields and scatter
- Miro - The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain
- Moody Blues - OM
- Morrells, Luce and Minis spinning
- Morrells, Luce and the Amazing airy house
- Mutus Liber 04
- Mylius, Johann Daniel - Pavana
- Neruda, Pablo - Fable of the Mermaid and the drunks
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman
- Ogotemmeli - Ostriches, the Egg and teeth
- Ogotemmeli - Serpents and wavy lines
- Ogotommeli - Energy recycling
- Ogotommeli - Spirals
- Ogotommeli - The Golden Ram and the Calabash
- Osty, Dr Eugene - Supernormal faculties in Man – M. de Fleuriere the importance of symbolism in understanding images of the past present and future, as well as character
- Paul McCartney - The Long and winding road
- Peake, Mervyn - Love's House
- Poetic Edda - The Ballad of Alvis [exract]
- Prasna Upanishad
- Pueblo and Mojave - Native American Indians - The hummingbird
- Qu’ran - Symbols and signs - Surah Al An’am
- Qu’ran - The Ages of Man - Surah Al An’am
- Rabbi Joshua ben Nehemiah - Agape
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Jaguar symbolism
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Reverdy, Pierre - Arc en Ciel
- Rig veda - Frogs
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Rig Veda - Rain and Fire
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 50 Tenth Elegy
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 08 The Washing
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 15 The Multiplication
- Rudd, Xavier - Hope that you'll stay
- Rudd, Xavier - Shiver
- Rudd, Xavier - The Letter
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Stilling of the rain
- Saadi - A Drop of Rain was falling from forth a summer cloud
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 08 from The Manners of Kings Solitude
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 09 from The Manners of Kings Solitude
- Saddharma Pundarīka Sūtra - On plants
- Saint Teresa of Avila - The after effects of union 1
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Water
- Samavedas – 01 Book 04 Chapter 01, DECADE I Indra and others
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - Sympathetic magic and doppelgangers
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - Look at the drops of rain rising up from this sea
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The sea is being and speech its shore
- Shaku, Soyen - No more heavy burdens on your shoulders
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - I pant for the music which is divine
- Soustelle - Aztecs and Mexica - The three routes on death
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 08 - Angels of the Apocalypse 1949
- Ssu-Kung Tu - Despondent
- Ssu-Kung Tu - The Poet's Vision
- Sting - Desert Rose
- Sting - Fragile
- Sting - Shadows in the Rain
- Stobart, Henry - A view from the Bolivian Andes – The Animu and soul loss
- Strindberg, August - The Inferno
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3908
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 901
- Sweeney Todd - Green Finch and Linnet Bird
- Ta Ssu Ming - Open wide the door of heaven
- The Lotus Sutra - 05 The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs - 1 The Parable
- The Lotus Sutra - 07 Phantom City - 2 The Light that shines in the ten directions
- The Lotus Sutra - 23 Perceiver of the World's Sounds - 1 Brahma's sound, the sea tide sound
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 06
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 3 The Fight
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 2 The White Knight and the beehive
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - Prayer to the Higher Spirit
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 Rain
- Tranströmer, Tomas - A Few Moments
- Tranströmer, Tomas - from Along the Lines (Far North)
- Tranströmer, Tomas - The Man awakened by a Song above his Roof
- Travelling Wilburys - Not alone anymore
- Tu Fu - The Little rain
- van Ruysbroeck, Jan - To be wounded by love is the sweetest feeling
- Vaughan, Henry - The Shower
- Vaughan, Henry - The Waterfall
- Watson, Sir William - A star look'd down from heaven and loved a flower
- William Browne – The Rose
- Yaqui Myths and Legends – collected by Ruth Warner Giddings BOBOK
- Yerka, Jacek and Shuwen - Heaven
- Yram - Rain
- Yu Xuanji - Orchid fragrance, sent far away
- Zhu Zi - The Complete Book of Zhu-Zi - An essay on regulating the breath
- Zohar - I 034a – The Letter Samekh
- Zohar - I 221b – Perfumes and clothes
- Zoroastrian - Symbols and concepts - Water 01
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 8th Book of Operations