Symbols - What does heaven look like
Scales
Scales are to be found as a symbol for LIBRA, but they are also used as a symbol of the function of trying to achieve balance - the Intellect and Emotions - heads and tails, coins etc.
The Tarot contains a number of cards that allude to this need to achieve balance. Some of the cards call this ‘adjustment’.
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The sign for Libra also uses this symbolism |
The symbolism is also incorporated in a number of books, for example the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesca Colonna, which is an allegory from start to finish of the spiritual journey, uses scales in a number of scenes. |
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Observations
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- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 24 Judgement
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of weighing
- Aristotle - Ethics - Precis by David Furley
- Artāy Virāf - Chapter 5 - The Chinwad bridge
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Chuang Tzu - The Pivot
- Cirlot on scales
- Count of St Germain - A Philosophical sonnet
- Crowley - 11 Adjustment
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Karma and reincarnation - from Immortality and Reincarnation
- Dürer, Albrecht - Religious works - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazer 1760 6th illustr
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Scales
- Jabir ibn Hayyan – Henry Corbin – The science of the balance
- Jane Dunlap - Attacked by a Cobra
- Julian of Norwich - I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the Head
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1400
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Discourse 02
- Norton, Thomas - Tractatus chymicus Frankfurt 1616
- Ogotommeli - Twins
- Qu'ran - The End of the World - Surah 101 & 102
- Revelations 06 : 1-8
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Maid 1
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 07
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 12
- Wirth, Oswald – 08 Justice
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 3rd Book of the Weights