Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wings
Wings are symbolic of Ascension and ascent spiritually.
Although ladders, ropes and wings all appear to be similar as means of ascent, there is a very distinct difference symbolically. The ones with wings are those who are capable of having spiritual experiences with little difficulty. In a sense they are the ‘mystics’, but they are also naturally able to ‘fly’.
Wings are also found on Intelligences and 'gods' as indicators that they naturally 'fly' within the spiritual realm, the more wings the more powerful and capable the Intelligence and the higher symbolically it exists or has flown.
Those with ladders and stairs in contrast have a rather slow upward climb that involves stages and steps towards the goal of enlightenment.
The ones using ropes have to have assistance from above and occasionally below and are always having to pull themselves up by sheer hard work against the ‘gravity’ of the pull to the Earth – the physical. It means the person is much more attuned to the world of physical perceptions and the physical, and is not naturally a spiritual traveller. If they make it, it will only be through sheer force of will and perseverance.
Flying is a lot easier!
Observations
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- Alexander Pope - Oh Death where is thy sting?
- Alexander, Dr Eben - meeting Intelligences
- Anacreon - Eros
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of Nebu
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of the god Seker
- Anon - Ladder of Augustine
- Attar, Fariduddin - In the Dead of Night
- Aurora Consurgens - 03 An allegory of disorder
- Aurora consurgens - 08 An allegory of Sophia
- Baudelaire, Charles - L'Irréparable
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Above ponds, above valleys Mountains, woods, clouds, seas
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Plaintes d'un Icare
- Bayard Taylor - Poems of the Orient – Kamadeva
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell - Thoughts
- Benjamin, Walter - Theses on the Philosophy of History - The storm is what we call progress
- Blake, William - And Elohim created Adam
- Boehme, Jacob - Theosophische Wercke Amsterdam 1682
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - For I have swift and speedy wings
- Bowie, David - 1976 Word On A Wing
- Bronte, Emily - The Visionary
- Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit 15th century
- Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit 15th century
- Burne-Jones, Edward - Finding Psyche
- Cameron, Norman - From lands where all the flowers have teeth
- Caravaggio - Amor victorious
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Cirlot on the caduceus
- Cirlot on wings and birds
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - To an unfortunate woman at the theatre
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Daniel 07
- Delville, Jean - Prometheus
- Dickinson, Emily - Because the bee may blameless hum For Thee a bee do I become
- Dionysius the Areopagite - Celestial Hierarchy - Wings
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Nemesis
- Earhart, Amelia
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Comments on the Pistis Sophia
- Eliphas Levi and Mudvayne
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 1 - The Living Creatures and the Glory of the Lord
- Ezekiel 1 and 2
- Flamel, Nicolas - Chymische Wercke - Hamburg edition 1681
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazar 1760 4th illustr.
- Freddie Mercury and Queen - The Show Must Go On
- Frost, Robert - Never tell me that not one star of all
- Frost, Robert - No speed of wind or water rushing by
- Genesis - Mad mad Moon
- George Harrison - Any Road
- Giuoco delle Minchiate Fiorentine and Visconti-Sforza - 7 - The Chariot
- Godwin, Joscelyn - The Starlight years
- Goethe - Faust Part 2
- Goldi shaman - Siberian Shamanism - The spirit helper
- Grandma Moses - The road to paradise is plain
- Gray, Thomas - A Pindaric Ode
- Hammond, Bill - Jingle Jangle Morning
- Hammond, Bill - Ancient Pitch
- Hammond, Bill - Head
- Hammond, Bill - Unknown European Artist
- Hammond, Bill - Whistler’s mothers sticks and stones
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - Angels have no wings, not a single feather
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - Behold those winged images, Bound for their evening bowers
- Hi-ah Park – 02 Initiatory illness
- Holderlin, Johann - Patmos
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Janus and Hecate
- Intelligences - TRINITY WORLD SOUL Tammuz [and Ishtar]
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 030 Section 2
- Keats, John - Ever let the fancy roam, pleasure never is at home
- Keats, John - Lamia
- Khnopff, Fernand - A Blue Wing
- Khnopff, Fernand - Maske
- Khnopff, Fernand - Silence
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Lagash
- Lalla - Forgetful one, get up
- Le Nain - Allegorie de la victoire
- Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Icaros
- Lilly, John - On LSD and butterflies
- Lowell, James Russell - I feel the bandages unroll
- Lowell, James Russell - I have drunk of the wine of immortals
- Lowell, James Russell - Now fold thy wings a little while
- Lowell, James Russell - Now I can see thee clearly The dusky cloud of clay
- Lowell, James Russell - One step beyond life’s work day things
- Lowry, L S - Portrait of Ann 1957
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian magic
- Mallarme, Stephane - The Window
- Mellery, Xavier - Les rondes des heures
- Michael Harner - Australian Aborigine - The Arunta
- Mircea Eliade - Those who know have wings
- Miro - A Dew Drop Falling from a Bird's Wing Wakes Rosalie, who Has Been Asleep in the Shadow of a Spider's Web
- Miro - The Lark's Wing, Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond-Studded Meadow
- Moody Blues - Departure
- Moreau - St Sebastian and the angel 1876
- Moreau - The Sphinx 1864
- Moreau - The voices 1867
- Moreau - Venice 1885
- Morrells, Luce and glace fruit and ambassadors
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Types of separation
- Near death on Cough syrup
- Nerval, Gerard de - 02 La Reve et Vie
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - I have flown into mine own heaven with mine own pinions
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - Thus did my wise longing
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 04
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Discourse 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 01
- Norse - Rape, pillage, slaves and burials
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
- Paul McCartney - Blackbird
- Peake, Mervyn - The Wings 000141
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 03 Gate of All Nations
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - Ten years of therapy in one night – 04
- Plato - Phaedrus - The Immortal soul as the Charioteer
- Plotinus - The Enneads - On learning how to learn
- Poe, Edgar Allen - The Haunted Palace
- Poussin - The Triumph of Neptune and birth of Venus
- Previn, Dory - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 4
- Reid, Christopher - I have in my possession an angel’s wingbone
- Rider-Waite - 0 The Fool
- Rider-Waite - 07 The Chariot
- Rider-Waite - 14 - Temperance
- Rig veda - Those who know have wings
- Rig veda - Soma
- Rops - Felicien - L'Amour Mouche
- Rops, Felicien - Les Diaboliques
- Rops, Felicien - Rare fish
- Rops, Felicien - Study for the Temptation of St Anthony
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 10 The Union
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 11 The Fermentation
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 12 The Illumination
- Rubens - Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria
- Rubens - Triomphe de la Veritee
- Rumi - Divani Shamsi Tabriz - O heart What a wondrous bird art thou
- Rumi - Quote - various
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - With friends you grow wings
- Rumi - The Book of Love - Your deepest presence is in every small
- Saint Brendan - 05 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 08 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Out of body and a dove
- Samavedas – 01 Book 04 Chapter 01, DECADE III [extract verses 7-8]
- Samavedas – 01 Book 05 Chapter 01, DECADE III Indra [extract verses 8-10]
- Schiller - Ode to joy
- Schwabe, Carlos - Ange
- Schwabe, Carlos - Ange desperance
- Schwabe, Carlos - L'Homme et la Mer
- Schwabe, Carlos - La femme au luth
- Schwabe, Carlos - Les noces du poete avec la muse ou l'ideal 1902
- Schwabe, Carlos - Spleen et Idéal 1896
- Schwabe, Carlos - The Death of the Gravedigger
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 21 - Order of Creation and Tree of Life
- Segantini - Love at the Fountain of Life
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - All of the world has appeared by His Light
- Siren of Cannossa
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 08 - Angels of the Apocalypse 1949
- Spender, Richard - Laughing Blood - Release in death
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium chemicum 1624
- Susa - Darius' palace - Winged sphinx circa 510 BC
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Wings
- Taq Bostan 02
- The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Book of Taliesin - Marwnat Vthyr Pen[dragon] - Llyfr Taliesin XLVIII
- The Louvre - Cast terracotta funerary figure made in Myrina, 1st century BC
- The North Wind doth blow
- The Papyrus of Ani – Spell 77 - To Assume the Form of a Hawk of Gold
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 02
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine - Key 08
- Thompson, Francis - The Kingdom of God
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 05 - 1 Wool and Water
- Touched by love
- Traherne, Thomas - Circulations - As fair ideas from the sky
- Traherne, Thomas - On leaping over the moon - Adventure strange
- Tranströmer, Tomas - Walking Running Crawling
- Various symbolic concepts - Babylonian Tree of Life
- Various symbolic objects - Lamassu
- Verlaine, Paul - Je ne sais pourquoi
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1897 The Expulsion from Paradise & The Lost Paradise
- Von Stuck, Franz - Cupid at the Masked Ball
- Watts, Alan - A pool of dazzling flame
- Whiteman, J H M manovering and feeling wings
- Wirth, Oswald – 03 The Empress
- Wirth, Oswald – 07 The Chariot
- Wirth, Oswald – 14 Temperance
- Yeats, W B - Shadowy Waters - There, there they come. Gull, gannet or diver, But with a man’s head, or a fair womans
- Yerka, Jacek and Raymond Moody - Judgement
- Zoroastrian - Means of achieving spiritual experience - 02 Sex [Anahita]
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 07
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 5th Book of Magnesia picture 2
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 6th Book about the Nature, Book of Imuths
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 7th Book of the Mercuries picture 3
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 8th Book of Operations