Symbols - What does heaven look like
Stars
The Higher spirit may be symbolically described – when it is part of the living being, - as a diamond, but once it has been set free after death, it may be symbolically described and ‘seen’ as a ‘star’.
Only some Higher spirits merit becoming a star, a star is a very special Higher spirit, one that has achieved much in life, fulfilled its Destiny. In a way we can think of it as a Diamond figuratively sent ‘up’ into the heavens way beyond the normal confines of the ‘Earth’. It has soared up to the very highest levels of ‘heaven’.
All this is figurative remember.
We see this in the picture to the left – Twilight of the Morning which shows a winged figure, accompanied by a swallow, pouring Water from a jar and holding an upended torch.
The torch pointed downwards in this case appears to symbolize 'death', [a torch held up symbolizes the ecstatic state and having been enlightened], but it may not be the kind of death we normally mean, it may mean annihilation.
Thus the person is ascending to their star – they are discarding unnecessary function and their Higher spirit is being accompanied by the swallow – a high flying bird.
Stars are generally not ‘there’ permanently, they do get incarnated again, but there is a recognition that this event is rather special – thus a shooting star or a falling star or similar is an indication of a pure spirit – a soul of especial purity – coming to earth to become ‘embodied’.
And this is why the star in the New Testament was of such symbolic importance to the three wise men – it signified a very special incarnation or birth.
John H. Hopkins, Jr, 1857
We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar,
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
Refrain
O star of wonder, star of light,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.
It is from this symbolism that we have come to associate the idea of a star with something to aspire to. Thus we may give gold stars to children as a sign of special achievement, we call our celebrities ‘stars’ though many of them don’t deserve it.
The Map
Within the Egg, a Star once it returns to its place of origin in symbolic terms returns to a sphere very close to the centre and the Ultimate Intelligence. It is beyond the Planets.
There it symbolically joins those in the Milky Way.
Observations
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- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yualai (Euahlayi) initiation
- Alexander, Dr Eben - enters the Inner Court
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 07 - 1 A Mad Tea Party
- Ancient Egyptian - The Creation Myth of Heliopolis
- Artāy Virāf - Chapter 7 - The Route to the Stars
- Auden, W H - A Walk After Dark
- Auden, W H - The more loving one
- Bailey, Philip James - from Festus I - The Guardian Angel's plea that man should know the Great Work
- Bambara - the 'Sirius system'
- Barker, Elsa - The Mystic Rose
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Above ponds, above valleys Mountains, woods, clouds, seas
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Plaintes d'un Icare
- Bax, Clifford - The Meaning of Man - For as those that are sunken deep
- Bingen, Hildegard of - A vision of flames and stars
- Blake, William - Around Golgonooza lies the land of death eternal
- Blake, William - The world of men are like the numerous stars
- Blake, William - We reap not what we do not sow
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - The interior or hollowness in the body of man
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - For I have swift and speedy wings
- Book of Enoch-17
- Book of Enoch-69
- Bowie, David - Black Star
- Braveheart - And the lion
- Browning, Robert - Reverie - I know there shall dawn a day
- Bruce Chatwin - Australian aboriginal – The First Morning
- Bruno, Giordano – Cause, principle and unity - 10 The Fifth Dialogue
- Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit 15th century
- Burne-Jones, Edward - The Evening Star
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 05 2
- Celsus
- Celtic - Map of the Egg
- Chagall - trapeze artist
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Cicero - The Dream of Scipio
- Cirlot on scales
- Cohen, Leonard - Travelling light
- Coleridge, David Hartley - Far from all measured space, yet clear and plain
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - To an unfortunate woman at the theatre
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Untitled
- Coltrane, John – 1967 - Stellar regions
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 09
- Corbin, Henry - And Ibn El-Arabi
- Corbin, Henry - On the stars
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 14
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Landscape with stars 1908
- Crowley - 01 The Magician [or Magus]
- Crowley - 04 The Emperor
- Crowley - 10 Wheel of Fortune
- Crowley - 19 The Sun
- Crowley - 21 The Universe
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Buttons and Rosettes
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Caviar
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Dust Devils
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Gun Barrel
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Vigil of St Hubert
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - Who (Official Video)
- Desnos, Robert - Ring of stars
- Dickinson, Emily - Go thy great way!
- Dickinson, Emily - I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up
- Dickinson, Emily - The Outer from the Inner Derives its magnitude
- Dowden, Edward - The Secret of the Universe - I spin, I spin, around, around
- Dr Jordan Peterson – The Mesopotamian gods and the Creation story
- Dreaming up original songs
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 098
- Elburz
- Eleanor Merry - The Flaming Door
- Eliade, Mircea - The Moon as the place of souls
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 07 East Coker V
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Nature - The Word and the unit of energy
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer - The winged soul
- Enûma Eliš - Fifth Tablet
- Eriugena, Johannes Scotus - Peryphyseon – Stars
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Eclipses of the Moon
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The Higher spirit
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The stars and constellations
- Fechner, Gustav Theodor - A revelation
- Fludd, Robert - Integrae Natura
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - Guide Me Home
- Frost, Robert - A voice said, Look me in the stars
- Frost, Robert - Far star that tickles for me my sensitive plate
- Frost, Robert - Fireflies in the Garden
- Frost, Robert - I could be worse employed
- Frost, Robert - Love has earth to which she clings
- Frost, Robert - My love for every Heaven
- Frost, Robert - Never tell me that not one star of all
- Frost, Robert - The clouds, the source of rain, one stormy night
- Frost, Robert - They spoke of the sun and moon and stars
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Genesis - Watcher of the skies
- Genesis 01 - The Creation
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Great Chain of Being
- H Reussner - Pandora Basle 1582
- Haig, Matt - Reasons to stay alive - 05 Know thyself
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Soliloquy
- Healer H - I’m the Fagan with the kids
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Once united in the high heavens
- Heine, Heinrich - The poor soul speaketh to its clay
- Hermes Trismegistus - Fragment
- Hesiod - Theogony - 01 Order of creation
- Hiroshige - Drum bridge at Meguro and Sunset Hill
- Hiroshige - Famous views Mount Fuji
- Hokusai - Mishima pass in Kai province
- Hokusai - Shichiri beach in Sagami province
- Hokusai - Tama river in the Musashi province Katsushika
- Hugo, Victor - At Gautier’s Grave
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Flying Chariot
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Three Tunnels
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - They mounted the howdahs on the swift camels
- Incas - Macchu Picchu - The Power of Three
- Intelligences - PLANETS MOON Sin and SUN Shamash
- Intelligences - SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC [The Stars]
- Jami - SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL – from 04 The Story
- John Milton - Il Penseroso
- Joscelyn Godwin - On Plutarch, Ptolemy and Canobus
- Jude
- Kabir - Breathe in that Word
- Kabir - Inside this clay jug there are canyons
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - The Creation
- Karnataka and South India - 02 Temple architecture
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Keats, John - Bright star
- Kepler, Johannes - Epistola ad Maestlinum - The Sun and the Moon
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On the stages of the mystic
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 74
- Kusama, Yayoi
- Laubscher, B J F – The farmer who he felt his consciousness enter into every particle belonging to an infinite whole
- Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
- Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance - Catch a falling star
- Leibniz - Wisdom comes from the Higher spirit
- Levi-Strauss, Claude - The Other Side of the Moon
- Lowell, James Russell - Eternal stars! With holy awe
- Lowell, James Russell - I know a falcon swift and peerless
- Lowell, James Russell - It seemed that thy strong heart would leap
- Lyrics from the Chinese - If there are fish within the trap
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - On spirit beings
- Magritte, Rene - L’entrée en scene
- Maisie Yarrcali Barlow - Jirrbal - a rainforest dreamtime story
- Malevich, Kazimir - Cosmos
- Manley Hopkins, Gerald - The Starlight Night
- Martineau, Harriet - Arise, My Soul And Urge thy Flight 1
- Matisse - Icarus
- Matsya
- Matthew 2
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 09 The Resurrection of Seven Hunahpu
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 03 Prayer to the Gods of the Night
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 01 Symbolism
- Mircea Eliade - Those who know have wings
- Mircea Eliade – Mishna and the Tree of Knowledge
- Moody Blues - Of course you are my bright little star
- Mucha, Alphonse - Zodiac
- Mucha, Alphonse - Morning star 1902
- Mucha, Alphonse - The Slav Epic
- Mutus Liber 01 Cover
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And Nommo
- Neruda, Pablo - Every day you play with the light of the universe
- Neruda, Pablo - The heavens unfastened and open
- Nerval, Gerard de - El Desdichado
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - The higher thou risest the smaller doth the eye of envy see thee
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the Ascension
- Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - In this brief life despair should never reach us
- OBE from meditating in his holiday static caravan, practising deep breathing
- Ogotommeli - The Golden Ram and the Calabash
- Out of body experience
- Parmenides - On Nature - 09 to 11
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Dreams of Rings, Circles, Eggs and Stars
- Peake, Mervyn - The Wings 000141
- Philo - On the dove
- Philo - Out of time
- Pitahauerat Pawnee - Native American Indians - The End of the World
- Plato - Republic - The Cave analogy
- Plato - Timaeus - Reincarnation
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 01
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The Valley of Unrest
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - 'Priest'
- Pordage, John - The Deity is not solitary or unattended
- Pordage, John - The simplified spirits
- Previn, Dory - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
- Pythagoras - Misc. Quote - Above all things reverence thyself
- Qu’ran - Judgement Day; The Scroll of Deeds, Destiny and the Final Separation
- Qu’ran - Symbols and signs - Surah Al An’am
- Rape of a child
- Rebell, Fred
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - The Milky Way
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Revelations 09
- Rider-Waite - 03 The Empress
- Rider-Waite - 07 The Chariot
- Rider-Waite - 09 The Hermit
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 02 First Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 12 Third Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 29 Seventh Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 32 Seventh Elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 48 & 49 Tenth Elegy
- Rolling Stones - The Lantern
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 01 The Fountain
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 17 Demonstration of Perfection
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Dantis Amor
- Rumi - Misc - Fire
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - There are no signposts
- Rumi - The Book of Love - This moment this love comes to rest in me
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Saint Brendan - 02 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Le Petit Prince
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - Le Petit Prince
- Saint-Yves d’Alveydre – The Archeometer – Revelation 06
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Fate and destiny
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The Sun circles
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - The Sun circles and the Eye of God
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Levels and layers
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - The Planets
- Shakespeare, William - Merchant of Venice Act V scene 1
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - I can not give what men call love
- Sickness and sleep deprivation
- Sikhism – Japji 37
- Socrates - Plato Euthydemus - Vault among swords, and turn upon a wheel
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - The Egg
- Solomon ibn Gabirol - The Fountain of Life
- Sri Aurobindo - I have a hundred lives
- Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Consciousness
- Sting - Fragile
- Sting - Sacred love
- Sting - Shape of my Heart
- Sting - Soul Cages
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium chemicum 1624
- Suhrawardi - Book of Conversations - Xvaranah
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Sweeney Todd - Green Finch and Linnet Bird
- Teotihuacan - Tepantitla mural
- The Book of Taliesin - The Battle Of the Trees - 07
- The Clear Light Experience MDMA by MindTripper
- The Saami - A Cultural Encyclopaedia - The Power of the Drum
- The Secret of the Golden Flower - 08 The secret of freedom
- Thomas Keightley - Sami and Finnish Rune
- Thomas, Dylan - And Death shall have no Dominion
- Thompson, Francis - Thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in
- Tikal - Mayan - Temple I
- Twinkle twinkle little star
- Ur - statue of a Sumerian god c1800BCE, from a shrine at Ur
- Ur - Sumerian stele of Nammu
- Urantia Book - Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes - The Egg
- Various symbolic objects - Kudurrus
- Vaughan, Henry - Friends Departed
- Vaughan, Henry - The Star
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1906 Salome
- Von Stuck, Franz - Evening star
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Sun and the Moon and being 'moon-struck'
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Haunted Houses
- Watson, Lyall - Water
- Watson, Sir William - A star look'd down from heaven and loved a flower
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
- Watts, Alan - A pool of dazzling flame
- We three kings of Orient are
- Whiteman, J H M
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - Through me many long dumb voices
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - As you go through life
- Wirth, Oswald – 03 The Empress
- Wizard of Oz - Somewhere over the rainbow
- Wordsworth, William - Intimations of Immortality - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
- Wordsworth, William - Peter Bell
- Yeats, W B - A Dialogue of Self and Soul - I summon to the winding ancient stair
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Cap and Bells
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book III - Sutras 01 to 55
- Young Bull (Pitahauerat Pawnee) – Native American Indians