SpiritualWiki - Symbolik

༺༻	Farbe	Zuordnung	Bedeutung
1.	Rot	Farbe der Leidenschaft, Sinnlichkeit und Liebe	Lebenskraft, Urwüchsigkeit
2.	Orange	Strahlt Wärme und Energie aus	Kraft, Aktivität, Lebensfreude
3.	Gelb	Farbe der Sonne	Optimismus, Fröhlichkeit, günstige Aussichten, Erleuchtung
4.	Gruen	Farbe der Natur, Fruchtbarkeit und des Lebens	Gesundheit, Ausgleich
5.	Rosa	Farbe der Jugend und Freundlichkeit	Romantik, Fröhlichkeit, Unbeschwertheit
6.	Blau	Farbe von Himmel und Meer	Treue, Zuverlässigkeit, Vertrauen
7.	Violett	Farbe der Spiritualität und Weisheit	Kreativität, Magie, Sensitivität, Einsicht
8.	Weiß	Farbe der Reinheit, Sauberkeit und Neutralität	Geburt, Schlaf und Sterben

Bedeutung der Blumen

Blume	Zugeordnete Bedeutung	Blume	Zugeordnete Bedeutung
Amaryllis	Stolz	Chrysantheme	Freundschaft
Freesie	Gelassenheit	Gerbera	Reinheit
Gladiole	Stärke	Hortensie	Treue Liebe
Lilie	Königlichkeit	Narzisse	Neuanfang
Pfingstrose	Heiterkeit	Rose	Liebe
Sonnenblume	Kraft	Tulpe	Bewunderung

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Funktionsweisen der Psyche

Fünf Regeln zu den Abläufen innerhalb der menschlichen Psyche

Die Logik der Psyche basiert auf der [symbolischen, paradoxen] assoziativen Logik [rechtshirnig]
und der formalen klassifizierenden, kontrollierenden Logik [linkshirnig].

Regel	Verhalten	Beschreibung	Seite
1.	Analoge Bezüge herstellen	Die Fähigkeit, Analogien zwischen sehr unterschiedlichen Dingen herzustellen, ist die Grundlage für unsere Fähigkeit, Symbole zu benutzen und für die kreative menschliche Intelligenz überhaupt.	S.140
2.	Überdimensionalität des Verdrängten	Was nicht ausgedrückt und benannt wird, weil es nicht in unsere Beziehungswelt passt, gerät leicht außer Kontrolle und fängt an, uns zu beherrschen.	S.141
3.	Dissoziation vom Unerträglichen Kognitive Dissonanz	Was man von sich abtrennt oder unterdrückt – was man also weiß und dann "vergisst" – kommt immer wieder zurück. Dissoziation gibt uns die Möglichkeit, uns zu distanzieren und angesichts von extrem bedrohlichen Situationen zu handeln, in denen wir sonst vor Angst völlig gelähmt wären.	S.142
4.	Idealisierung und Abwertung	Merkmale von Verlust sind einerseits Idealisierung und andererseits Abwertung, die die Wut überdecken. Daneben gibt es Gefühle von Trauer, die unter der Wut liegen und wiederum das Gefühl völliger Hilflosigkeit und Verletzbarkeit überlagern.	S.145
5.	Erfahrung / Fragen	Erfahrung lehrt einem, Antworten auf die Fragen zu finden, die man sich selbst stellt – die Fragen ändern sich jedoch im Laufe der Zeit.	S.147

Quelle: ► Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., US-amerikanische Genderforscherin, Lehrerin, Chefredakteurin des aufgelösten
Magazins WIE / EnlightenNext (2002-2011), Kulturkommentatorin, Autorin, Idelisse Malavé, Marie Wilson,
Die Mutter-Tochter-Revolution, Rowohlt Verlag, 1994, Taschenbuchausgabe 1996

Referenz: de.Wikipedia-Eintrag ► Referenz: ► Strukturmodell der Psyche und ► Analogie

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Drei alchemistische Farben der deutschen Flagge

27.-30. Mai 1832, Hambach	30.000 Teilnehmer demonstrierten auf dem Hambacher Fest für nationale und demokratische Anliegen. Sie führten erstmals eine schwarz-rot-goldene Fahne mit sich. Ihr Motto lautete: "Aus Nacht, durch Blut, zum Licht!" Später entwickelte man daraus das Motto: "Schwarz die Vergangenheit, Rot (blutig) der Kampf und Golden die Zukunft."
1848, Paulskirche, Frankfurt	Die Abgeordneten der Deutschen Nationalversammlung konnten sich nicht über die Reihenfolge der Farben in der deutschen Flagge einigen. Unter anderem standen auch Gold-Schwarz-Rote Fahnen zur Auswahl. Ein Machtspruch von König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen legte Schwarz-Rot-Gold als die richtige Farben-Reihenfolge der deutschen Flagge fest.
Das Gold der deutschen Flagge wurde im Jahr 1848 unten statt oben positioniert. Das Schwarz der deutschen Flagge wurde oben statt unten positioniert.

Referenz: ► Übersicht Deutschlands Fahnen Schwarz-Rot-Gold und Schwarz-Weiß-Rot,
präsentiert von deutsche-schutzgebiete.de, undatiert

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Zitate zum Thema Symbolik / Symbology

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Zitate allgemein

Als er die Himmel bereitete, war ich da, als er den Kreis zog über den Fluten der Tiefe. Sprüche 8, 27 (AT)

Und die Jünger traten zu ihm und sprachen: "Warum redest du zu ihnen in Gleichnissen?" Er antwortete und sprach zu ihnen: "Euch ist's gegeben, die Geheimnisse des Himmelreichs zu verstehen, diesen aber ist's nicht gegeben. Denn wer da hat, dem wird gegeben, dass er die Fülle habe; wer aber nicht hat, dem wird auch das genommen, was er hat. Darum rede ich zu ihnen in Gleichnissen. Denn mit sehenden Augen sehen sie nicht und mit hörenden Ohren hören sie nicht; und sie verstehen es nicht." Matthäus 13, 10-13 (NT)

Die Wahrheit kam nicht nackt in die Welt, sondern sie kam in Sinnbildern und Abbildern. Sie [sc. die Welt] wird sie [sc. die Wahrheit] nicht anders empfangen [können]. Philippus-Evangelium, Vers 72

Solange ein Symbol lebendig ist, ist es der Ausdruck einer sonstwie nicht besser zu kennzeichnenden Sache. Das Symbol ist nur lebendig, solange es bedeutungsschwanger ist. Ist aber sein Sinn aus ihm geboren, d. h. ist derjenige Ausdruck gefunden, welcher die gesuchte, erwartete oder geahnte Sache noch besser als das bisherige Symbol formuliert, so ist das Symbol 'tot', d. h. es hat nur noch historische Bedeutung. Man kann deshalb immer noch davon als von einem Symbol reden, unter der stillschweigenden Voraussetzung, dass man von dem spricht, was es war, als es seinen besseren Ausdruck noch nicht aus sich geboren hatte. Die Art und Weise, wie Paulus und die ältere mystische Spekulation das Kreuz behandeln, zeigt, dass es für sie ein lebendiges Symbol war, welches Unaussprechliches in "unübertrefflicher Weise" darstellte. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der Tiefenpsychologie, Autor, Quelle unbekannt

Wedding rings

In dem Masse, wie unser wissenschaftliches Verständnis zugenommen hat, ist unsere Welt entmenschlicht worden. Der Mensch fühlt sich im Kosmos isoliert, weil er nicht mehr mit der Natur verbunden ist und seine emotionale «unbewusste Identität» mit natürlichen Erscheinungen verloren hat. Diese haben allmählich ihren symbolischen Gehalt eingebüsst. Der Donner ist nicht mehr die Stimme eines zornigen Gottes und der Blitz nicht mehr sein strafendes Wurfgeschoss. In keinem Fluss wohnt mehr ein Geist, kein Baum ist das Lebensprinzip eines Mannes, keine Schlange die Verkörperung der Weisheit, keine Gebirgshöhle die Wohnung eines grossen Dämons. Es sprechen keine Stimmen mehr aus Steinen, Pflanzen und Tieren zu den Menschen, und er selbst redet nicht mehr zu ihnen in dem Glauben, sie verständen ihn. Sein Kontakt mit der Natur ist verlorengegangen und damit auch die starke emotionale Energie, die diese symbolische Verbindung bewirkt hatte. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der Tiefenpsychologie, Autor, Der Mensch und seine Symbole, S. 95, Walter Verlag, Olten, 1988

Sigmund Freud sagte: Das Verdrängte wird ständig symbolisch ausagiert, und gerade das Wesentliche kann nicht als Realität erinnert werden. Olga Rinne, deutscher Autor, Medea, Kreuz Verlag, 1988

Weil Metamitteilungen [ symbolisch-paradoxe Ebene] ist es schwer, darüber zu reden. Deborah Tannen (*1945) US-amerikanischer Soziolinguistin, spezialisiert auf geschlechtsspezifische linguistische Unterschiede, Du kannst mich einfach nicht verstehen. Warum Männer und Frauen aneinander vorbeireden, S. 63, Mosaik Verlag, 1991, Goldmann Verlag, 1. April 2004

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So wie sich der Märchenheld aufmacht, so muss / kann jeder Mensch beginnen, seine Probleme selbst zu lösen.

Immer wieder glauben Menschen fälschlicherweise, dass sie nur von außen [1] von irgendwelchen Partnern [2], Umständen [3] oder sonstigen Glücksfällen [4] aus ihrer inneren Verzweiflung erlöst werden könnten.

Märchen sind zu Unrecht in Verruf geraten, da sie scheinbar märchenhafte Lösungen suggerieren. Fragt man sich, was sie symbolisch sagen wollen, sind sie sehr realistisch. Heinz-Peter Röhr (*1949) deutscher Pädagoge, Suchtpsychotherapeut, Autor, Narzißmus. Das innere Gefängnis, S. 76, Walter Verlag, 3. Auflage 2000, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1. Februar 2005

Werden Märchen konkret, statt symbolisch verstanden, missbraucht man sie, um unrealistische Erlösungsphantasien zu schüren. Heinz-Peter Röhr (*1949) deutscher Pädagoge, Suchtpsychotherapeut, Autor, Narzißmus. Das innere Gefängnis, S. 117, Walter Verlag, 3. Auflage 2000, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1. Februar 2005

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Hinweis auf die Bedürfnishierarchie

Erfoscht und entworfen von Abraham Maslow

⚡ (Sigmund) Freud hat die Physiologie und Sicherheit in den ersten Lebensjahren betont – [Reale Ebene, 1. Chakra],
(Wilhem) Reich Liebe und Bindung [Symbolische Ebene, 2. Chakra],
(Alfred) Adler das Bedürfnis nach Selbstachtung und Respektiertwerden – Paradoxe Ebene, 3. Chakra] und
(Carl Gustav) Jung die Suche nach Selbsterfüllung – [Neokreative Ebene, 4. Chakra].
Charles Hampden-Turner (*1934) britischer Management-Philosoph, Seniorforscher, Judge Business School, Cambridge Universität (1990) Autor, Modelle des Menschen. Dem Rätsel des Bewußtseins auf der Spur, S. 118, Beltz PVU Verlag, Basel 1983, 4. neugestaltete Auflage 2000

Eingangstor der alten Moschee, Qutb-Komplex mit Eisensäule

Die Schlange symbolisiert somit äußerste Gegensätze: den Geist und die Erde, Leben und Tod, Gutes und Böses. Sie ist eine Veranschaulichung der tiefsten Schicht des kollektiven Unbewussten, von der Sphäre, wo unsere Psyche mit den physiologischen Funktionen des sympathischen Nervensystems in Berührung steht. Sie ist als Kaltblütler tief "unmenschlich"; im guten wie im bösen Sinne reine Natur. Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Schweizer Philologin, Jungsche Gelehrte, Autorin, Das Weibliche im Märchen. Psychologisch gesehen, Nr. 32, S. 200, Bonz Adolf, 1977, 12. Auflage Januar 1999

Metaphern scheinen nur die äußere Welt aus Zeit und Raum zu beschreiben. Ihr wirkliches Universum ist der spirituelle Bereich des inneren Lebens. Das Königreich Gottes ist in Ihnen. Dr. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) US-amerikanischer Mythologe, vergleichender Religionswissenschaftler, Autor, Thou Art That, Joseph Campbell Foundation, New World Library, 2001

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Analoges Denken ⇔ außenorientiertes Denken

Alles oder Nichts-Realismus ◊ Mehr-oder-weniger-Symbolik

Der Analog-Entscheidungsprozess liegt dem philosophischen Denken zugrunde. Er hat die Qualität einer Mehr-oder-weniger-Entscheidung, nicht die Spaltung unseres Erlebens in ein Alles oder Nichts. Die Analog-Entscheidung widerspricht dem nach außen gelenkten Denken, das zum Erfolg in jenen Gesellschaften führt, die ihre Mitglieder von ihrem Herzen trennen. Arno Gruen (1923-2015) deutsch-schweizerischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Zivilisationskritiker, Schriftsteller, Verratene Liebe – Falsche Götter, S. 64, ECON Verlag, 1991, Klett-Cotta, 2. Auflage November 2003

Durch das Stilmittel der Analogie vermitteln sowohl Mythos als auch Ritual das Verständnis von etwas Übergeordnetem. Professor Joseph Campbell-Zitat: Der Mythos ist noch nicht ganz das Endgültige; das Endgültige ist erst die Geöffnetheit, jener Abgrund oder jenes Sein jenseits der Kategorien. Martina Schäfer, deutsche Autorin, Die Wolfsfrau im Schafspelz. Autoritäre Strukturen in der Frauenbewegung, S. 74, Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag – Sphinx, München, 2001

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Symbolik und ► Symbol

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Pfarrkirche von Beyenberg, Wupperthal

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General quotes

When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth. Proverbs 8, 27 (AT)

The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand." Matthew 13, 10-13 (New International Version, 2011) (NT)

The truth does not come unto the world naked, but rather it has come in symbolic imagery. It [the world] will not receive it [truth] in any other fashion. There is a rebirth [upbirth] together with a reborn [upborn] imagery. It is truly appropriate to be reborn [upborn] through the imagery. Gospel of Philip, verse 72

Personal avowal

I fear that the productions of democratic poets may often be surcharged with immense and incoherent imagery, with exaggerated descriptions and strange creations; and that the fantastic beings of their brain may sometimes make us regret the world of reality. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian, political thinker, publicist, author, Democracy in America, Volume I, 1835

Future prospects

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Goodreads quote

When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling to regain their consciousness of divinity. Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire. A Treatise in Three Parts, Philosophical Research Society, 1. January 1999, Martino Fine Books, 23. April 2014

The Egyptians, either by exact science or spontaneously, had arrived at a method by means of which they could rite with distinct picture of material objects, instead of ordinary letters expressing sounds and phrases. These pictures were not ordinary images of the things they represented but were endowed with certain symbolic qualities (Sophia), by means of which they revealed to the initiated contemplator a profound insight into the very essence of substances of things, and an intuitive understanding of their transcendental origins, an insight which was not the result of reasoning or mental reflection, but was acquired spontaneously by means of divine inspiration and illumination. As artistic representations of this phenomenal world, they revealed, in fact, the ideal world of the soul. Plotinus (205-270 AD) Egyptian-Greek philosopher, source unknown

Signs and symbols control the world, not phrases and laws. Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese sage, social philosopher, sponsor of Confucianism, the Chinese state religion, source unknown

Purpleflower violet

The ancient sacred writings do not clearly distinguish history from symbology; rather they often intermix the two in the tradition of scriptural revelation. […] Bhagavad Gita was very cleverly written by Saga Vyasa by interweaving historical facts with psychological and spiritual truths. […]
In interpreting scripture, one must not, therefore, ignore the factual and historical elements in which the truth was couched.
One must distinguish between an ordinary illustration of a moral doctrine or recounting of a spiritual phenomenon and that of a deeper esoteric intent. One has to know how to recognise the signs of the convergence of material illustrations with spiritual doctrines without trying to drag a hidden meaning out of everything. One must know how to intuit the cues and express declarations of the author and never fetch out meanings not intended, mislead by enthusiasm and the imaginative habit of trying to squeeze spiritual significance from every word or statement. The true way to understand scripture is through intuition, attuning oneself to the inner realisation of truth. Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) Bengalian Indian Hindu sage, yogi, philosopher, translator and commentator of "The Bhagavad Gita", author, God Talks with Arjuna. The Bhagavad Gita (2 volumes), S. xxii f., Self-Realization Fellowship, 2nd edition 15. September 1995

Numbers are not concepts consciously invented by men for purposes of calculation. They are spontaneous and autonomous products of the unconscious – as are other archetypal symbols. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Man And His Symbols, Dell, 15. August 1968

Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, …. without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it that fascinates them.
Men have collected stones since the beginning of time and have apparently assumed that certain ones were the containers of the spirit of the life-force with all its mystery. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Man And His Symbols, Dell, 15. August 1968

The 32 signs that paleontologist Genevieve von Petzinger has catalogued
in Ice Age cave art across Europe. They account for the vast majority of
non-figurative imagery found across the continent during this 30,000-year
time span, suggesting that they were used with purpose and were
meaningful to their creators. Each of the 32 signs has their own
distinct pattern of use.

As was customary throughout antiquity, primitive people today make a free use of phallic symbols, yet it never occurs to them to confuse the phallus, as a ritualistic symbol, with the penis. They always take the phallus to mean the creative mana, the power of healing and fertility, "that which is unusually potent," to use Lehmann's expression. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, S. 22, Harcourt Harvest, 5th edition 4. August 1955, 6th edition 1971

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. Plato (427-347 BC) Ancient Greek pre-Christian philosopher, founder of the occidental philosophy, source unknown

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings. Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born mystic, occultist, 33rd degree Freemason, author, most influential work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, 1928, freigegebene Internet Version, Philosophical Research Society, new edition June 1978; Dover Publication, new edition 28. January 2011

Metaphoric thinking is fundamental to our understanding of the world, because it is the only way in which understanding can reach outside the system of signs to life itself. It is what links language to life. Iain McGilchrist, M.D. iainmcgilchrist.com (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, The Master and His Emissary. The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, S. 115, Yale University Press Publication, 30. October 2009, November 2010, paperback, 6. August 2012

The man who understands a symbol not only opens himself to the objective world but at the same time succeeds in emerging from his personal situation and reaching a comprehension of the universal. […] thanks to the symbol, the individual experience is "awoken" and transmuted into a spiritual act. Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) Romanian-American professor of history of religion, leading interpreter of religious experience, establisher of paradigms in religious studies, University of Chicago, philosopher, fiction writer, source unknown

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor , Joseph Campbell Foundation, New World Library, 2001

When a metaphor gets big, it is called "tradition"; when it gets bigger, it is called "reality". John Dominic Crossan, Ph.D. (*1934) Irish US American religious scholar, former Catholic priest, co-founder of Jesus Seminar, expert on biblical archaeology, anthropology, the New Testament, researcher into the historical Jesus of Nazareth, author, The Power of Parable. How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus, HarperOne, 22. January 2012, reprint issue 5. February 2013

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. John Dominic Crossan (*1934) Irish US American religious scholar, former Catholic priest, co-founder of Jesus Seminar, premier historical Jesus scholar in the world, expert on biblical archaeology, anthropology, the New Testament, researcher into the historical Jesus of Nazareth, author, Who is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus, Westminster Press, October 1999

St. Martin and the Beggar, middle ages
Balestriere Pavese shield and crossbowman
Bartolomeo Vivarini (1432-1499) Venetian painter
Distributed by Ugo Pozzati

There is no science without metaphors. Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, source unknown

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Fundamentalists reduce metaphor into code.

Fundamentalists degrade metaphor into code. Here one needs to remember that fundamentalism comes in many forms and domains of culture: religion, politics, and even science. In politics we have the shouting sects of the extreme Right, and in science we have the linear reductionists of the sociobiologists and eliminativists. The literalism of Richard Dawkins’s selfish genes is another way of reducing the complexity of the cell into a genetic code. The cognitive science of Patricia and Paul Churchland that eliminates the self in favor of an information-processing machine called the brain is another example of culture reduced to a binary code. William Irwin Thompson (*1938) US American cultural historian, social philosopher, cultural critic, mythologist, poet, writer, Thinking Otherwise on Religion, 5. March 2013, foreword of his book Beyond Religion, Lindisfarne Books, 1. July 2013

The business of science is choosing the appropriate metaphors. Stuart Kauffman (*1939) US American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, complex systems researcher, author, source unknown

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression;
all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning.
Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel (1868-1955) French diplomat, devout Catholic, younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel, dramatist, poet, source unknown

Among the ancients, who dealt largely with psychical sciences, there seems to have been a common language which could be used to explain the invisible world and its inhabitants; but we of this age have not yet developed such a language. Consequently, men who deny human immortality, as well as men with religious faith who have not […] transformed that faith into a fact, nowadays. […] in attempting to explain psychic fact, call it mysticism. Walter Y. Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) US American anthropologist, pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, writer, Fairy Folklore in Celtic Countries, 1911

True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics, can possess and exhibit the same essential quality. Titus Burckhardt [Ibrahim Izz al-Din] (1908-1984) German Swiss scholar, researcher of the different aspects of wisdom and tradition, Alchemy. Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, Fons Vitae, January 1997

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all. A. E. Waite (1857-1942) US American scholarly mystic on occult and esoteric matters, co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Pictorial Key to the Tarot part II, "The Doctrine of the Veil", 1911

When we went from storytelling around the campfire we were living in a world of the circular logic of our ancestors of day-to-day living. When we switched to writing suddenly we now had a future. We began seeing the world from left to right, top to bottom, as the way we read. Now with computers and the Internet we're moving away from a literate society back to a kind of a cross between gathering around camp fire and storytelling (which is what the Internet is providing to people now) to symbolic. We are returning back to a symbolic world. When we successfully make that turn which we are right now then we are going to see the world the way our ancestors did. And the mechanized way of seeing the world through the written word will disappear and we will begin going back into the cyclic nature of reality, which is the true reality of nature. Skype video interview with Jay Weidner SacredMysteries.com (*1953) US American Oregon based film producer, scholar on hermetic and alchemical traditions, author, Jay Weidner interviewed by Gerry Fialka 2012/10/13, presented by host Gerry Fialka, East Oakland, minute 3:30, 1:3:09 duration, aired 13. October 2012

Vesica piscis

In the mysteries of Ephesus, the Goddess wore this symbol [Vesica Pisces] over her genital region, and in the Osiris story, the lost penis was swallowed by a fish which represented the vulva of Isis. Likewise, in many examples of Christian art, Jesus Christ is proceeding from this symbol, representing his birth from the Goddess. Article by Derek Murphy, US American historical researcher in the field of comparative literature and mythology, Mary’s Vulva: Jesus Christ, Vesica Pisces and the Christian Fish Symbol, 12. November 2013

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Phallic references in the Bible

Repeated references are made in the Bible to phallic idols, images, and worship, but they have been so thoroughly disguised in translation that they give the average reader no understanding of the beliefs and practices to which they refer. Many of the names of people and places mentioned also have a phallic significance, which is not revealed in the standard Bible Concordances. Ernest Busenbark, US American author, Symbols, Sex and the Stars, first published July 1997, Book Tree, 21. January 2010

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Symbolism

Literary quotes

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself. This drive is not truly vanquished and scarcely subdued by the fact that a regular and rigid new world is constructed as its prison from its own ephemeral products, the concepts. It seeks a new realm and another channel for its activity, and it finds this in myth and in art generally. This drive continually confuses the conceptual categories and cells by bringing forward new transferences, metaphors, and metonymies. It continually manifests an ardent desire to refashion the world which presents itself to waking man, so that it will be as colorful, irregular, lacking in results and coherence, charming, and eternally new as the world of dreams. Indeed, it is only by means of the rigid and regular web of concepts that the waking man clearly sees that he is awake; and it is precisely because of this that he sometimes thinks that he must be dreaming when this web of concepts is torn by art. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, philologist, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism, writer, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense [Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn], part 2, written 1873, published 1896, Theophania Publishing, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 24. August 2012

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Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Mentalization is the processing of symbols at random. Linear thought is prone to error as it deals with content. The content is known by virtue of the quality of awareness, which is the attractor field fo consciousness by which contextualization occurs. Content thinks; the field knows. In contrast, Self is. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, chapter 13 "Reason", S. 229, 2006

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Englische Texte – English section on Symbolism

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Symbolism of the Cain and Abel story

The battle between the children of the dark and the children of the light is a metaphor exemplifying
the division between the subconscious and the superconscious, the inherent animal and angel nature.

Mythic·figure·/·Action	Meaning / Constellation
Cain	Cain represents the biology, body nature and the lower mind
Abel	Abel, the star child, represents the upper brain, the higher mind, and the spirit

Cain killing Abel	Putting one's body and lower mind down creates friction and resistance between the subconscious and the conscious. The subconscious will always win.

Subconscious belief	Money is not good.
Conscious intention	I want to live in affluence. If there is a battle going on between the subconscious beliefs and the conscious wants one will have a difficult time manifesting.

Source: ► Audio interview with Mellen-Thomas Benedict, most researched US American near-death experiencer, inventor,
Messages From The Light, part 7 of 12, YouTube film, minute 5:11, 9:52 minutes duration, presented by the US American
talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, host George Noory, YouTube film, aired 2. April 2009, posted 17. November 2009

See also: ► Good and Evil and ► Four basic brains plus the ethical brain

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Symbology of Christian sacraments

Meaning of the seven Christian sacraments mirroring the chakras

༺༻	Sacrament	Chakra	Symbolic meaning
1.	Baptism	1st chakra	To receive or bestow an expression of grace, representing gratitude for one's life in the physical world
2.	Communion	2nd·chakra	To receive or bestow an expression of grace – in the form of a "host" – that represents the holy union with God and with the people in one's life
3.	Confirmation	3rd chakra	To receive or bestow an expression of grace, representing that enhances one's individuality and self-esteem
4.	Marriage	4th chakra	To receive or bestow a blessing, making a sacred union with oneself, symbolic of recognizing and honoring the essential need to love and care for oneself in order that one can fully love another
5.	Confession	5th chakra	To receive or bestow the grace to cleanse one's spirit of negative acts of will
6.	Ordination	6th chakra	To receive or bestow the grace to make sacred one's path of service
7.	Extreme unction	7th chakra	To receive or bestow the grace to finish one's unfinished business not just before death, but as a daily part of one's life, thus allowing a person to love in "present time."

Source: ► Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic,
medical intuitive, bestselling author, Facebook comment, 24. October 2016

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Sacrament and ► Chakra

See also: ► Christianity and ► Caroline Myss and ► Meaning and ► Chakra system

The "template of seven" is the universal structure of the soul. It's what I saw when I wrote Anatomy of the Spirit, that there are seven chakras, seven Sacraments, seven levels to the Tree of Life. We are constructed on a map of seven levels of power. Interview with Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Entering the Castle of the Soul, presented by Randy Peyser, 2007

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Symbols in Jungian psychology

UNFERTIG

Symbol	Meaning
Anima	Disorders of beauty (Hillman)
'''BATHS OR BIRTHS	Images of new beginnings

'''IMAGES OF THE SELF

Wise old man or woman; Young man; prominent public figures; Stones, crystals circle, cross , square, diamond, mandala, flower, treasure, androgyne, golden ring; helpful animals.

Wolf

Often represents the animus or that strange devouring attitude women can have when possessed by the animus. The wolf represents that indiscriminate desire to eat up everybody, everything which is visible in many neuroses where the main problem is that the person remains infantile because of an unhappy childhood. It's not really that they want it, it wants them. Their IT is never satisfied, so the wolf also creates, in such people, a constant resentful dissatisfaction.

The wolf is also called LYKOS - light. The greed when mastered or directed onto its right goal is the thing. The wolf is the God Apollo in his theriomorphic aspect. ||

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Links zum Thema Symbolik / Symbology

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Nützliche Mediationshilfen

Interactive labyrinth of Chartes, presented by Labyrinthonline.com, undated

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Literatur

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Man And His Symbols, Dell, 15. August 1968
Louise Hay (1926-2017) US-amerikanische Verlegerin (Hay House), Motivationsrednerin, Sachbuchautorin zum Thema positiv Denken, Heile Deinen Körper. Seelisch-geistige Gründe für körperliche Krankheit und ein ganzheitlicher Weg, sie zu überwinden, Lüchow, Bielefeld, 1988, September 2007

Klassiker der Körpersymbolik

Udo Becker, Lexikon der Symbole, Verlag Herder, 8. Ausgabe 12. Januar 2000
Themenorientiertes assoziatives Lexikon von Wolfgang Bauer, Irmtraud Dümotz, Sergius Golowin, Lexikon der Symbole. Mythen, Symbole und Zeichen in Kultur, Religion und Alltag, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1. April 2001
Arbeitsbuch von Dr. Rüdiger Dahlke (*1951) deutscher Psychotherapeut, Ganzheitsmediziner, Dozent, Autor, Rita Fasel, Schweizerische Iris-, Hand und Fussdiagnostikerin, Die Spuren der Seele. Was Hand, Fuß und Augen über uns verraten, 2010, Neuauflage, Gräfe und Unzer, 5. März 2016

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Literature (engl.)

Harold Bayley, The Lost Language of Symbolism, 1912, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, New Jersey, new edition 1974
Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) Canadian-born occult mystic, Freemason 33rd degree, author, most influential work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, 1928, Released Internet version, Philosophical Research Society, new edition Juni 1978, Dover Publication, new edition 28. January 2011
Louise Hay (1926-2017) US American publisher (Hay House), motivational speaker, author of New Thought self-help books, You Can Heal Your Life, Hay House, 1. January 1984

Classic of body symbology

John Michell (1933-2009) English writer, The Dimensions of Paradise. The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology, 1988, Harper & Row, San Francisco, new edition 1990
Dr. Cathy Burns, US American Bible philosopher, author, Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, Sharing, 1. October 1998
Paul Lunde, English historian, specialist in Islamic history and literature, Arabist, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, editor, The Book of Codes. Understanding the World of Hidden Messages, University of California Press, 1st edition 1. September 2009

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Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Analogie, Analogie (Philosophie), Labyrinth, Metapher, Symbol, Symbolik, Symbolismus, Swastika, Vexierbild

Blogartikel 14 häufige spirituelle Symbole und ihre Bedeutung, präsentiert von Bewusst-Vegan-Froh.de, 17. Oktober 2015

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External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Labyrinth, Metaphor, Symbol, Symbology, Symbolism, Swastika

The Peace Sign And Satanism, excerpted from: Dr. Cathy Burns, US American Bible philosopher, author, Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, S. 233-238, Sharing, 1. October 1998

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Audio and video links (engl.)

Video presentation by Michael Tsarion, Irish macrohistorian, symbolist, sidereal astrologer, mythologist, occultist, "conspiracy" researcher, public speaker, author, Symbolic Literacy. The Subversive Use of Sacred Symbolism in the Media, sponsored by the Conspiracy Conference , 2003, YouTube film, 1:42:16 duration, posted 1. September 2012
Video presentation by Michael Tsarion, Irish macrohistorian, symbolist, sidereal astrologer, mythologist, occultist, "conspiracy" researcher, public speaker, author, presented by the US American Spectrum Radio Network, host James Haarp, recorded 29. March 2011, YouTube film, posted 17. April 2011
- Symbol Literacy and the Age of Manipulation, part 1of 2, 52:07 minutes duration
- Symbol Literacy and the Age of Manipulation, part 2 of 2, 53:16 minutes duration
Video presentation by Genevieve von Petzinger, Canadian paleoanthropologist, speaker, Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe, TED Talks, YouTube film, 12:05 minutes duration, posted 18. December 2015
- Article What the mysterious symbols made by early humans can teach us about how we evolved, presented by the publication Ideas.TED.com, Patrick D'Arcy, 7. June 2017

Slideshows, narratives

Basic slideshow presentation by Jordan Maxwell (*1940) US American esoteric scholar, radio host, lecturer, author, Basic Slideshow Presentation (Hidden Symbols), presented by Truthseekers Network, Arcadia, California, 20. January 1993, YouTube film, 1:57:33 duration, posted 20. January 2011
Narrated video History of the Swastika – Mezine, Old Europe, Vinca, Cucuteni Trypillian, Greece, Rome, Celtic, Baltic, Germanic, Slavic, Nordic, Vimeo video, 4:17 minutes duration, posted 31. May 2015

The earliest swastika ever found was uncovered in Mezine, Ukraine. It is carved on late paleolithic figurine of mammoth ivory, being dated as early as about 10,000 BC. Among the earliest cultures utilizing the swastika is the Old Europe, neolithic Danube Valley Civilization, the Hungarian Vinţa village, Lupșa Commune, Alba County in Romania, the traditional Rumanian Russian Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.
Das älteste jemals gefundene Hakenkreuz (Swastika) wurde in Mezine, Ukraine, entdeckt. Es wurde einer spätpaläolithischen Figurine aus Mammut-Elfenbein (datiert auf ~10000 v. Chr.) aufgeprägt. Das Alte Europa, die neolithische Donautal-Zivilisation, Vinca, die traditionell rumänisch-russische Cucuteni-Tripolje-Kultur gehören zu den frühesten Kulturen, die Hakenkreuze verwenden.

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