Symbols - What does heaven look like
Waves

In the same way that the Ocean and sea is symbolically a force of destruction, the wave is the symbol of the act of destruction – the means by which destruction is achieved.
Thus moving waves on a shoreline are a symbol of and a means of destruction of the physical – it can be a sign of aging and decay or alternatively a sign of functional destruction – perhaps emotional overload and distress. If the waves are out at sea then they are forces of destruction of function and system as opposed to form.
The one thing you do not want to see in a dream for example, is vast breakers lashing against your island!
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Very very occasionally walls of water – standing waves rather than breaking waves - are used as barriers and boundaries. If the standing wave is a seriously large barrier, it denotes that behind the wave is something of extreme importance that needs to be protected. This symbolism was used to good effect in the C S Lewis books and Prince Caspian and the dawn Treader, it can also be seen in the film of the same name.
Observations
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- Baudelaire, Charles - Rêve parisien
- Böcklin, Arnold - Playing in the Waves 1883
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - The careful man will wish
- Bouguereau - La Vague
- Brittany - Ys
- Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - How beautiful the earth is still
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Sea Nymph
- Byron, Lord - from Don Juan
- Cannabis and morning glory seeds - by Waking dream
- Clare, John - Wilt thou go with me sweet maid
- Claudel, Camille - The Wave
- Count of Eulenburg – 21 1915, December 4th
- Count of Eulenburg – 22 1915, Miscellaneous communications
- Cowper, William - The Castaway - Obscurest night involved the sky
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 03 & 04
- Dante - Purgatorio - Canto 28
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 149
- Eva Vidal - Tidal waves, heavy gravity and false awakenings
- Fleetwood Mac - Storms
- Frost, Robert - The shattered water made a misty din
- Goethe - Selected poems - The sun proclaims its old devotion
- Goethe - Selected poems - The water lapped, the water swirled
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - In the snare of your locks
- Hammond, Bill - Jingle Jangle Morning
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Shipwreck!
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Stay thou below in thy ocean depths
- Hiroshige - Rough sea at the whirlpools of Awa
- Hiroshige - white cranes
- Hokusai - The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Flying Chariot
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Islands
- I became a fox in a meadow
- Jonah - Authorized (King James) Version
- Jude
- Jung, C G - Memories, Dreams and Reflections - Prophecy
- Kao-Shih - Impressions of a traveller
- Keats, John - Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
- Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On the sea
- Lamb, Charles - To Anna
- Levy-Dhurmer - Méduse 007565
- Magritte, Rene - The Castle of the Pyrenees
- Magritte, Rene - The Collective Invention
- Mallarme, Stephane - Small air
- Michaux, Henri - Miserable Miracle Mescaline - Mescaline and Hashish compared
- Michaux, Henri - Report from Poddema
- Michaux, Henri - Towards Serenity
- Morrells, Luce and crystal eggs in a viscous sea
- Morrells, Luce and the house boat
- Morrells, Luce and the large house surrounded by water
- Neruda, Pablo - If you were to come into being suddenly
- Novalis - Hymns to the Night 2
- 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
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The City in the Sea
- Quincey, Thomas de - My mind tossed upon the billowy ocean, and weltered upon the weltering wave
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The shield
- Rimbaud, Arthur - I know skies split by lightning, waterspouts
- Rumi - Mathwani - Thou knowest not where is the Ocean of thought
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – The Rainy Season and Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Saint Brendan - 09 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Power, nature and contemplation
- Schwabe, Carlos - L'Homme et la Mer
- Schwabe, Carlos - L’Onada 1907
- Schwabe, Carlos - Spleen et Idéal 1896
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Virgin of the Lilies 1899
- Segantini - Mermaid
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The sea is being and speech its shore
- Silesius - The Cherubinic Wanderer – 06 Self abandonment 154
- Sorolla, Joaquin - Children on the beach
- Sting - Love is the Seventh Wave
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 2741
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Lotus Eaters - A land of streams! Some, like a downward smoke
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Will - O well for him whose will is strong
- The Sutra of Hui-Neng - Paramita
- Thoreau, Henry D - Walden - The landscape of soul
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 2 The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Verlaine, Paul - Aspiration
- Verlaine, Paul - Je ne sais pourquoi
- Waterhouse, John William - Miranda
- Yassawi - 26 HIKMET 130
- Yoga Vasistha - Troubled or still