Traditional Symbols and Their Esoteric Meanings

In fact, just as in Italy you will embody the perfect Italian; and in Russia... Therefore, this is how it works. In the case of traditional symbols, you will become God, this is the idea, Christ. That is, behind these symbols there is indeed this gnosis that is represented by a pearl. So, let us examine the fundamental traditional symbols, which are of various natures. Let's analyze them on Mondays. So, certainly there are mathematical symbols: that is, geometric figures - square, triangle, circle: all of this consists of traditional symbols; that is, they were not created by men, they are not natural, they simply exist. But these are very powerful, they have a specific language that we will see and are the only way to act on a transcendent plane, that is, divine, because all others are, in one way or another, related to the aspect of creation. Then there are natural symbols: for example, light and darkness; light, but also all colors, red, yellow... all colors possess a force, a symbolism, they are symbols. The rainbow is a symbol. Clearly, all natural phenomena, for example: the sea is the symbol of the collective psyche; mountains are symbols of higher places, mountains are luminous because they are full of light, while the depths of the sea are darkness, there are fish that eat sea monsters, the unknown place like the human subconscious. Between the black of the deep sea and the light of the higher levels are all colors and all manifestations that exist. The desert, for example, is the symbol of spiritual desert, the absence of forms. But it can also be a place of demons; the forest which can be good or less good (...). For example, if you can see the sky, the sky is a symbol of superior realities because what is in the sky is hierarchically superior to us, it is far from us because they are forces that are far from our consciousness, they are superior forces. We can work on earth, modify the earth, but not modify the sky, for now. Then, in initiatic astrology too... in initiatic astrology, one of the laws is that the stars influence men, but men influence the stars too. There is a spiritual interdependence. It seems absurd, but if you think, for example, that Christ changed the mentality of the entire earth. We can distinguish an earth before Christ and an earth after Christ. One man changed the soul of a celestial body. So, there are various aspects, but the sky with stars represents spiritual realities superior to us. Clouds represent the presence of God that can appear as darkness to the profane or also as protection for the chosen people, for those following God's path, and the rainbow connects sky to earth - so it means indeed alliance between men and God. The sun is the symbol of Christ, word, God, the Divinity, in all cultures, in all peoples. Therefore, these are traditional symbols, one aspect of traditional symbols, because also plants - for example a tree, or various trees, possess different meanings. For example, a Lotus flower means purity, the rose sacrifice, love, the Daisy represents all souls, the union of souls, wisdom because it allows living as if it were a sun, and the philosophical Daisy was represented thus, with the Daisy with all souls united in the wisdom of philosophers, it is similar to the rose. There is a whole very profound symbolism. An acacia is resurrection because it is continuous regeneration. For example, animals, all animals are expressions, incarnations of powers of the collective soul. For example, the lion, the eagle, the bull and man - the tetramorph, represent the four characteristics of God, the four divine powers; the Sphinx that has these four characteristics, represents the four characteristics of the initiate and, in fact, she asks the initiate who he is: who are you? and she has the secret of who he is. That is why she asks the initiate who he is. But, natural, all animals. More than this, animals, we have men and women who are symbols too. Symbols of God because God, the Image of God are men and women - they are images of Christ, Sophia, that is, feminine and masculine wisdom together in both aspects. We also have artificial symbols, that is, made by someone, for example, a sword was created at some time, we don't know when, I don't know