Symbols - What does heaven look like
Throne

Within the system of correspondences, Thrones has a specific meaning - see Intelligences and their synonyms.
But where a person had gained a certain level within the Mystery religions, he or she was allowed to be seated. Thus any seated figure whether the figure is one in the Ancient Egyptian system, or is in the Tarot or is in the Feudal system signified a certain level of achievement spiritually.
The Throne is thus the symbol of the seated figure given they have to sit on something!
Thus, for example, in the Tarot, the King and Queen are seated, as are the Emperor and Empress and the High Priestess. Interestingly, the Hierophant may or may not be. The Fool never is, simply because he [or she] is beyond this system, being a fallen star.
Observations
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- A Battle for Earth's Existence Amanita muscaria & Belladonna by sleepwalker EROWID
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 11 - 1 Who stole the Tarts
- Ashton R - Cave dive
- Asthma attack gives bliss and love
- Attar, Fariduddin - All pervading consciousness
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Codex Azcatitlan - Aztecs and Mexica - Dismemberment
- Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Religious Musings
- Cowper, William - The Winter Morning Walk - The soul that sees him or receives sublimed
- Crowley - 02 High Priestess
- Crowley - 03 The Empress
- Crowley - 04 The Emperor
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- Daniel 07
- Dionysius the Areopagite - Celestial Hierarchy - Fire
- Dixon, Jeane - The vision of the end of Catholicism
- Enûma Eliš - Fourth Tablet
- Guillaume de Deguileville - Le Pelerinage de l'ame
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Queen
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - On the day of parting
- Jung, C G - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - The crypt
- Mircea Eliade - Australian aboriginal Bunjil
- Mircea Eliade - The Muria and the horse
- Mircea Eliade - The vault of the sky gods
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Describing the night and cognising the heart 02
- Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Emperor and Empress
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - A Ruby kindles in the Vine
- Palenque - Mayan - Wall panels and inscriptions
- Plato - Republic X - 03 Tale of Er
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The City in the Sea
- Poetic Edda - Sayings of the High One [extract]
- Popol Vuh Museum - Guatemala city - 'Priest'
- Revelations 04 :2
- Revelations 21 - The New Jerusalem
- Rider-Waite - 02 High Priestess
- Rider-Waite - 03 The Empress
- Rider-Waite - 04 The Emperor
- Rider-Waite - 05 The Hierophant
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 07 Second Elegy
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Spinning of the Shepherd
- Sacred geography - Ancient Egyptian - Abu Simbel
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – Isis and Osiris
- Sheikh el Melewi’s vision
- St Vincent - Marrow
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 371
- The Lotus Sutra - 10 The Emergence of the Treasure Tower - 2 Many Treasures Thus Come One
- Uxmal - Mayan - West Building canopy figure
- Various examples - 4 The Emperor
- Various examples - 5 The Hierophant
- Waterhouse, John William - The favourites of Emperor Honorius
- Wirth, Oswald – 04 The Emperor
- Wirth, Oswald – 08 Justice