Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wall
A wall is a barrier and thus takes on the symbolism of barriers and boundaries.
How it is interpreted depends on where it is and where you are in relation to it. Its height is also key.
A wall can be an enclosing thing – a protective barrier and thus a defensive structure.
Castle walls
It may be part symbolically of our castle – in effect it represents symbolically the defensive structure we have built up mentally to protect us or it could simply mean the skin! If we are inside, depending on its height and solidity it could provide us with protection and safety and solidity. But symbolically it could also be acting as a sort of prison. If it has few entrances and exits, or is too high to see over, then it is all defence and obstruction and prevents any sort of interaction with the outside world. So not very constructive – the walls must come down!
A broken wall is a symbol of your defences having been broken and a position of vulnerability. The worst position to be in is having had the walls broken, in your position of weakness, you are ‘assailed’ metaphorically speaking and then left wounded. This is not the time to rebuild using huge defensive structures cutting yourself off, but of course that is what often happens and that is what we often ‘see’ in dreams and visions.
If you are outside the walls of a castle then this may be a symbol of exclusion, a symbol that whoever is the castle has cut you out of their life.
A low simple boundary wall - solid but open - gives you both access to the outside world, but acts as a safety zone, a protective layer.
Abyss wall
Spiritually there is another type of wall unrelated to each individual castle. There is the wall created by the abyss. If I draw a hugely simplistic diagram showing the vibrational levels and a cross section of the ‘Egg’, we can see that our little soul cones are hills whilst the central aether level is a mountain.
In terms of symbolic appearances therefore the mountain side would appear to be almost a sheer wall as it climbed up to the heights
Cones as wall
If we look at a map of the Egg in a simplified way, the universe actually looks vibrationally like a great mouth with a vast vast number of little teeth [the cones] all round the rim connected to the central aether layer with its Intelligences.
Another way of looking at this is that there is a central portion, which must be defended at all costs, surrounded by battlements – the wall. We as little cones of energy are the battlements, the defensive Spirit, there as a vanguard against the chaos that is outside the wall
Symbolically we are merely bricks in the wall of this central palace.
Another brick in the wall……. Now where have I heard this before
Observations
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- Angkor Wat
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - The universe as one living creature
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 01
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 02
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 03
- Baudelaire, Charles - Rêve parisien
- Beowulf - Encounter with the Dragon guarding the Treasure
- Blake, William - I will give you the end of a golden string
- Book of Enoch- 14
- Braveheart - A long shamanic journey
- Braveheart - Forest streams and the wall
- Braveheart - Pencil case soldier and YORK
- Braveheart - Warnings of a rebirth
- Brittany - Ys
- Charles Fort - Unusual archaeological artefacts
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Cirlot on castles
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Kubla Khan
- Count of Eulenburg – 22 1915, Miscellaneous communications
- Damasio, Professor Antonio - The need for defining Form boundaries
- Denis - Landscape with green trees 1893
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 109
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Over-soul - On the senses
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 40 - The New Temple Area
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Temple of Coricancha, Cuzco
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - The magic of the stonemasons
- Frost, Robert - Love has earth to which she clings
- Frost, Robert - Never tell me that not one star of all
- Frost, Robert - Something there is that doesn't love a wall
- Gardner, Ingrid - White wall
- Girls and boys come out to play
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Arguing with my imaginary friend in the alley
- Grant Gronewald - HTML flowers - Brothers hand mirror
- Green, Celia - The Recurrent nightmare
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Soliloquy
- Healer H - A ring of daisies forming a daisy chain
- Hobson, Dr Allan - An interesting dream
- Homer - The Odyssey - The Garden of Alcinous
- Humpty Dumpty
- Huxley, Aldous - The Door in the Wall
- Jardin Majorelle
- Jules Lyons and her near death experience
- Kabir - The flute of interior time is played
- Karnataka and South India - 05 Brihadeeswarar Temple, Thanjavur
- Karnataka and South India - 07 Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Misc. Quotes - On reality
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 1
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 69
- Lewis, C S - Prince Caspian - The Water wall
- London Bridge is falling down
- Lyrics from the Chinese - I went out at the Eastern Gate
- Magritte, Rene - The Friend of War
- Masefield, John - Shakespeare and spiritual life
- Masters and Houston - On islands
- Millais, John Everett - the Huguenot
- Mircea Eliade - The trials and terrors of Initiation
- Monroe, Robert - Barriers and boundaries out of body
- Monroe, Robert - The hole in the wall and out of body
- Music Bureau - Watering horses at a spring beneath the Great Wall
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - And the jackal story
- Native American Wisdom - Oglala star whisper
- Nerval, Gerard de - Towards golden
- Paul Devereux - Sacred trees in Minoan Crete
- Persian gardens
- Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
- Plato - Critias - Atlantis and Athens
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Rene Magritte and J H M Whiteman
- Revelations 21 - The New Jerusalem
- Reverdy, Pierre - Entre deux mondes
- Rider-Waite - 19 The Sun
- Rolling Stones - Citadel
- Romance of the Rose - The Garden of Pleasure
- Rumi - Misc - Love is the Treasure
- Saint Brendan - 03 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 15 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Schwabe, Carlos - La femme au luth
- Simon, Paul - Something so right
- Song of Solomon 1
- Song of Solomon 2
- Song of Solomon 8
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 02 - Boatyards
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 06 - Sunflower and Dog Worship 1937
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 18 - Eggs, nest and birds
- Spender, Richard - Laughing Blood - Release in death
- Taoism - The body as a castle and city
- Temple Mount
- Tepe Sasanian Gur
- The Book of Taliesin - Marwnat Madawg - Llyfr Taliesin XLI
- The gardens of Iran
- The professional guitarist, the car accident and the golden wall
- Theodore Roethke - In a dark time, the eye begins to see
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 1 Humpty Dumpty
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 06 - 2 Names and ages
- Timothy Wyllie is healed of pneumonia during a NDE
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Walking Running Crawling
- Uxmal - Mayan - The 'Dovecote'
- Various examples - 19 The Sun
- Vatican
- Vatican - Vatican city gardens
- Watts, Alan - A pool of dazzling flame
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Sailing to Byzantium
- Yerka, Jacek and Richard Lovelace - To Althea
- Zachariah 2