THE SYMBOLISM OF INANIMATE OBJECTS

Pots, jugs and containers are all symbols for "form" the material and thus visible part of the world. The "empty" space that these vessels contain is then "spirit" that which animates the vessel. If the vessel contains water (which symbolically represents spirit) the symbolism is perhaps more complete.

Although Jesus was crucified on a cross, this video explores the mystic symbolism of the cross in general and how it relates to the Mandala. The general symbolism of the cross in its various forms is ancient and has nothing to do with crucifixion. It was used by the Celts, the Picts, the Aztecs, the Egyptians and Hindus, as well as many other ancient civilisations. ===================== CREDITS Gabriel Max 1866 – Saint Julia The crucifixion of Polycrates the tyrant after his capture by the Persians Pyramid-of-the-Sun-city-Mexico-Teotihuacan - no credits provided at source Image by Prawny from Pixabay christian-1316165_1920.jpg VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE Clouds stretch over cross free stock footage Stock Footage Factory https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ftU2FiZIpzI Free No copyright, no text/watermark. cross worship motion background Gospel Productions by Joe Hackney https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=EvtnLYR7SdA CALVARY JESUS VIDEO HD | Free HD Video - no copyright 3DVISION https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CF8YEnXvRMg 4K Motion Background Video - Motion Design Mandala Flower Tunnel VJ Motion Background Loops GFXON https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9A1WBYCwPsc Copyright Free Video | Boudhanath Stupa | Bouddhanath | Boudha | Bouddha | Royalty Free Video FreeVidStore https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=0-lnmCorD5o DJI OSMO MOBILE 2 X Boudhanath Stupa | Super smooth Shoots ( No Copyright ) FREE TO USE LHAKPA-SHERPA https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=L8Sp8YSOljw Bhallar, The Tallest Buddhist Stupa in Taxila | Drone Video Adventure Travelogues https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=RLjFZb6E-ok Hourglass| Raw Footage | No Copyright Raw Footage - No Copyright Videos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9rETEzAFBJY Royalty Free Footage Christian Religion, People Praying, Crosses, Candles Best Free Footage https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=0qQCi_1NQFs +100 Green Screen and Stock Footage- copyright free VFX Studio https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=n5RF7tE9ejI MUSIC (No Copyright) Cinematic Background Music - Into The Nature Mu Hanz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6W9bNo4wHk Circle of Life - Martynas Lau Sad Emotional Dramatic Ambient Music - Circle of Life (Download and Copyright Free) Whitesand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLD7nFdwYlk Lightning on a Blue Sky by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/ Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200048 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Awaiting Return - Atlantean Twilight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100318 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

It may be difficult for us to imagine the effect produced on people when they heard instruments played to accompany song, or tuned instruments using specific frequencies. But the magic and pleasure music provided was looked on as spiritual. A gift from heaven. And this is why there is a constellation called Lyra to celebrate the birth of one of the musical instruments that set this process in motion. From the very simple design of the lyre, a vast number of stringed instruments have evolved – zithers, pianos, violins, banjos, guitars, cellos, double bass, lutes, psalteries, mandolins, harpsichords, the Jewish kinnor and we could continue. But in the days when music was used spiritually, its effects too were far greater. Orpheus's music was said to be so great that animals could be tamed and pacified, people sent into ecstasy, and their mood and health affected. And it still can, if it is the right music. So fundamental to healing, wisdom and inspiration was music that both music and lyre playing became a fundamental part of the Mysteries. The ancient Mysteries were perhaps the highest spiritual heritage in ancient Greece. Pythagorus, Plato, Socrates and Orpheus were all Adepts. But, although the lyre may be a sacred and key part of the Mysteries, Greece is not the place to find the lyre's origin and here we need to go back much further to Ancient Mesopotamia and the 4,500 years old Lyres of Ur - The "Golden Lyre of Ur", The "Queen's Lyre", The "Bull Headed Lyre" and the "Silver Lyre" As J E Cirlot noted The Lyre is a symbol of the harmonious union of cosmic forces. As such, music may indeed be "heaven sent". ===================== CREDITS PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES Pothos (Desire), restored as Apollo Citharoedus during the Roman era (1st or 2nd century AD, based on a Greek work c. 300 BC); the cithara strings are not extant. Sappho_and_Alcaeus – Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema jean delville Orpheus hesiod-and-the-muse-1870 - gustave moreau muse-with-a-lyre-1895-henri-martin Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema - A_Reading_from_Homer Orpheus - Franz_von_Stuck_1891 David_and_Saul - Ernst_Josephson Maître_inconnu,_école_flamande_-_David_jouant_de_la_Harpe_devant_Saül Henri_Martin_-_The_Song_of_Orpheus Henri_Martin_-_Poetesses_on_a_Lake_Shore Apollo_Musagetes_Pio-Clementino Tanbūra In Cairo, played by a Nubian, 1858. African_Lyre_Player_c._1640- 1660, Deccan, at the Cleveland Museum of Art George Morgan – The Beatles’ guitars Kinnor - The most important visual source for the kinnor is a relief from Nineveh, on display at the British Museum: As the Judahite inhabitants of Lakhish are sent into exile in 701 BCE, they play the kinnor Michael Parkes – Anubis 1999 Reproduction of the lyre from the Sutton Hoo royal burial (England), c. 600 AD Pothos (Desire), restored as Apollo Citharoedus during the Roman era (1st or 2nd century AD, based on a Greek work c. 300 BC) Terpsichore_by_Antonio_Canova A lyrist on the Standard of Ur, c. 2500 BC Bull's_head_of_the_Queen's_lyre_from_Pu-abi's grave PG 800, the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. The British Museum, London. The_Queen's_gold_lyre_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur._C._2500_BCE. Iraq_Museum The_Queen's_lyre_and_the_silver_lyre,_from_the_Royal_Cemetery_at_Ur, southern_Mesopotamia,_Iraq._The_British_Museum,_London. C0444306-Standard_of_Ur_Mosaic,_War_Panel_Detail The_gold_lyre_from_the_Great_Death-Pit,_Ur_excavations_(1900) 1896.-henri-edmond-cross-the-pink-cloud-1896-1 Henri martin – poetesse isaure Henri Edmond Cross - Landscape with Goats 1895 Henri Martin - a lady-with-lyre-by-pine-trees-1890 Fresco_from_Pompeii,_1st_century_AD,_National_Archaeological_Museum_of_Naples,_Italy the title picture by Paul Vincenti https://www.deviantart.com/rosettafire/art/Polyhymnia-The-Painting-189100968 VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE Lyra Constellation (Buruj Lyra) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NIRNjyY_oT8 Greek lyre https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=o3tCdiIPjf8&t=1s OMWOLDON - SAMHAIN , Father and son playing celtic lyra https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TOnosezkxsw The Lyre Of Megiddo https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=27opcKxcg1c Greensleeves - Lyre Harp https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZahRGZ-XTM0 Comparing 16 String LYRE HARPS. Which is BEST? | Solid Body? Hollow? Deer? Sound Hole? (Aklot Lyres) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=m3z4OBTDTDQ "Gnaal" - the bowed lyre (taglharpe) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=muRr8WqrU48 All of the Constellations in HD https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_esk-esvxU8&t=230s MUSIC 00:00 Kravik Lyre demo https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=sKN2bwyygN4 01:41 Lyre Gauloise Basse - The Ogmios Way https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ML0p4ICD4T8 02:54 Lamentation by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100607 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 05:59 Harpsichord Fugue - Sir Cubworth 09:03 Unusual ancient musical instrument Lira (Pirogovo, Kiev) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZAFCJR9Xz7Y 09:15 Wistful Harp - Andrew Huang 12:38 The Sumerian Silver Lyre https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=JU4QRxsZhjg 16:28 Evening Fall Harp by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100236 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 18:46 Kravik Lyre demo https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=sKN2bwyygN4

The Mirror is an exceptionally complex symbol and only partly demonstrates what it is trying to symbolically convey. For it tries to describe the link between the underlying spiritual realm and the apparent physical world. In other words what does this ‘quantum’ sandwich consist of and how does it work? Some familiarity with the concept of the Cosmic egg may be helpful. ===================== CREDITS PAINTINGS The Mirror of Venus – Edward Burne-Jones The Baleful Head – Edward Burne-Jones I-am-Half-sick-of-Shadows-said-the-Lady-of-Shalott – John William Waterhouse Diagram Ptolemaic Harmonia Macrocosmica – Andreas Cellarius system 1660 Armand Rassenfosse (1862-1934) – Poyette John William Godward – The Mirror John William Waterhouse – The Mirror Nuda-Veritas – Klimt my-heart-cries-for-the-past-1889 - Knopff Before the Mirror - Thomas-Wilmer-Dewing-1910 Matthew Parrish – Genie USEFUL REFERENCES The Mirror and shamanism - Inside and Outside the Mirror: Mongolian Shamans’ Mirrors as Instruments of Perspectivism - CAROLINE HUMPHREY University of Cambridgech10001@cam.ac.uk VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE polar bear walk || green screen videos || bear green screen || green screen bear KRM Creations https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=79BhdwAQOEg Women looking mirror |No copyright videos | copyright free videos | by CFV Copyright Free videos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2fcvhLxrBAE No Copyright Video Stock || Amazing Collection of Nature of Sea Mirror Water || Free Nature Videos NoCopyRightVideos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mne2yall9d0 Dog Plays With Reflection In Mirror - Free No Copyright Stock video (not audio) 1080 Full HD Mike Roscoe UK https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=spk3gjtoXmA Man standing on mirror with Clouds l No copyright Video l Free to use and download randomzz https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=L86uqDDZxoo Beautiful night sky timelapse with lake reflection - Free Stock Footage - No Copyright Delz Network https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4mOx15GWZXs Reflection Of Tree At Night | FREE STOCK FOOTAGE - NO COPYRIGHT - FOOTAGES Delz Network https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=hSunHPbNsxY [Stock Footage] Club Sandwich With Potato Chips | Royalty Free Footage | Copyright Free Video | No Copyright Audios, Videos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=EI6pek8bYwY FREE STOCK FOOTAGE Videos - Newton cradle - Pendulum - No Copyright Issue - Royalty Free videos FREE Stock Videos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FuuQ-D6Hs1g Free Stock Footage | 4k Videos | No Copyright Videos | Night Sky Stars,Night, Stars, Sky, Clouds,Sea Free Stock Footage 4K https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=uDp1nPy3kA0 No Copyright Videos | Lake | Copyright Free | Motion Graphics | Motion Background | Free Video Stock Vedan Media https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=I-F80pp3Rjo Glass ball by shore Stock Footage| FREE HD-No Copyright| FREE DOWNLOAD Stock Footage - No copyright Videos https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FnlYEnsI45E Broken Glass Shattered V2 Background Video UHD 4K | FREE DOWNLOAD BELOW AEGFX HD https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=u4eSA5o_KbI Women reflection||Creative Commons || Copyright Free || NCS Video || Royalty Free video Andfreevideo https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qJXxcaSRenc Man and Woman Showing Face Reflection - No Copyright Video NoCopyright Video https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TG1H9tAg46E Taj Mahal stock footage (no copyright) Stock footage Champion https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lYjjR7BPPkU MUSIC 00:00 Eternal Garden - Dan Henig 02:06 Stairway - Patrick Patrikios 03:59 Pink Flamenco - Doug Maxwell 06:28 Frost Waltz (Alternate) by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100531 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 09:15 Barnyard Surprise - The Whole Other 11:39 Persian Bump - MK2 15:26 No Copyright Music, Beautiful Chinese Music， Guzheng, Bamboo Flute,Relaxation music, Quiet music No Copyright Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T992uPO_mFc 16:31 Mr. Sunny Face - Wayne Jones

Why is there a shield constellation in the sky , why is it called 'Scutum' and what connection is there to the symbolism of the Nordic cross? This video tells the little known history of the Byzantine empire, the Great Schism between the Roman Catholic church based in Rome and Orthodox Christianity based in Constantinople, and how Jan Sobieski, a king of Poland repelled the barbarian hordes from the gates of Vienna in 1683, earning a constellation in the sky. ======================= CREDITS For more details of the Norse mystic movement see our website https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/norse/143 PAINTINGS Arminius says goodbye to Thusnelda - , Johannes Gehrts (1884) Varusschlacht, Otto Albert Koch (1909) Hermann (Arminius), by Augustus Tholey Alphone Mucha - The Slav Epic cycle No.18: The Oath of Omladina under the Slavic Linden Tree (1926) A chalice from the Trésor de Gourdon from around 524 Captain Walter Croker horror stricken at Algiers 1815 Laureys a Castro – A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs 1681 Louis-Félix Amiel – Charlemagne empereur d'Occident_(742-814) The Baptism of Kievans, a painting by Klavdiy Lebedev The siege of Constantinople in 1204, by Palma il Giovane The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople - Eugène Delacroix, 1840). Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke Lucas Cranach d.Ä. – Martin Luther, 1528 (Veste Coburg) Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867) John Frederick Lewis – A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception) Sipahis of the Ottoman Empire at Vienna, in battle, holding the Crescent Banner - by Józef Brandt. 17th century VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE Battle of Telamon 225 BC - Roman–Gallic wars DOCUMENTARY https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=inx2K3640Cw THE BATTLE OF CRECY 1346 l ENGLAND vs FRANCE +20.000 UNIT Medieval https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XV1eHOxIyqk Third Crusade 1189-1192: From Hattin to Jaffa DOCUMENTARY https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jCyCSgsFXKQ Siege of Jerusalem 1099 - First Crusade Medieval History 4K DOCUMENTARY https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nUCYmHwDM3E Norway Flag https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3HXzt0p_7vo Flag of Sweden Is Fluttering in The Wind https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WTwPzCaZ7u0 Is Denmark The Best Country In The World? https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zc3tBODQBDo How Christianity Divided the Roman Empire https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=7IRPGKP1kJc Merovech: The Founder of the Merovingians https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=U01NUP4vt8k First Muslim Incursion into India https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TFcGpsb0_70 MECCA https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lhktGdq1KLg Charlemagne: The Bloodthirsty Emperor of Dark Age Europe https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SqCQzR4S9gg Istanbul. Love of the continents https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=eV6lTEY95yY Comparison of Catholic and Orthodox Liturgical Practices https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=dApWNfJgGC4 Istanbul Turkey https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jGZs29qZAVQ The Protestant Reformation https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IATyzSAjC1w Flags with Nordic Cross https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AkrewKG1XGc MUSIC 00:00 Imperial Forces - Aaron Kenny 01:14 The Battle of 1066 - Patrick Patrikios 02:20 Zoinks Scoob - R.LUM.R 03:44 Chariots of War - Aakash Gandhi 05:28 Exotics by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100233 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 09:49 End of the Era by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100452 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 13:12 Sarabande - Joel Cummins 16:38 Crusade - Video Classica by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100884 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 20:07 Chariots of War - Aakash Gandhi 21:38 The Awakening - Patrick Patrikios 23:47 Anguish by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400047 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 25:54 Hard Times Come Again No More - The Westerlies

Snow is associated with Winter, White and Purity, And in Mysticism it is a symbol of the last third stage of the Spiritual Path - Purification. Rather than complicate this video by trying to describe Purification and Snow at the same time, however, we have let the music and images represent some of the beautiful visions and poetry that uses snow as a symbol. ==================== CREDITS Video and stills by David Rock-Evans and Rosemary Rock-Evans taken in Antarctica and South Georgia Additional photos by Professor Rod Smallwood with kind permission PAINTINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Snow Island – Rosemary Rock-Evans Arthur Rackham Romaine-Brooks – Le Printemps Carlos Schwabe Giovanni Segantini Howard Pyle Edmund Dulac Monet Renoir Gauguin David Friedrich Caspar John Atkinson Grimshaw VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE YING YANG - green screen effects - chroma key - animations - HD GreenScreen TOP GALLERY https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=S9_xXqw2-_Y Snow falling - Green screen (no copyright, royalty free) Dar Golan https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AoDiOaxhaSA Ice Freeze Effects FREE Green Screen Intro [4K] GREEN SCREEN ANIMATION https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HOG6xUrXTQ8 Looping Snowman | No Copyright Free Animation Abstract Motion Graphics Background Loop Videos Musical Motion Graphics & Stock Footage https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1xez2XXrpJk MUSIC 00:00 Saving the World - Aaron Kenny 01:06 Wandering Soul - Asher Fulero 02:19 Prelude No. 8 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/preludes/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ 03:34 Impertinence - Joel Cummins 05:01 Nocturne - Asher Fulero 07:23 Night Snow - Asher Fulero 09:19 Ride of the Valkyries (by Wagner) - Wagner 12:33 Saving the World - Aaron Kenny

All the basic symbolism of Clouds comes from their association with Water and Air. Water and Air are symbolically two of the 4 Elements – Earth being symbolic of what we can perceive with our 5 senses and Water, Air and Fire being ‘invisible’ Spirit. =================== CREDITS Mathew Parrish – Illustration for the Little Peach Illustrations from Dante’s Paradiso by Gustav Dore PHOTOGRAPHS David Rock-Evans – small number of images Professor Rod Smallwood – Nethermoor Images, images reproduced by permission from Rod, a large number have been used here Triggonometry – an amateur photographer from @Stocksbridge Out And About in Photographs Camille Seaman – some of the more spectacular shots of toradoes and other more dramatic cloudscapes in the USA EXTRACTS Shugchang, Padma (editor); Sherab, Khenchen Palden & Dongyal, Khenpo Tse Wang (2000). A Modern Commentary on Karma Lingpa's Zhi-Khro: teachings on the peaceful and wrathful deities Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, tr. Reynold A. Nicholson, [1911] VIDEO EFFECTS Clouds Stock Footage | Royalty Free | Free HD Videos - no copyright https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=U7g2tki-a84 Thunder storm light green screen effects | thunder and lightning with sound free green screen video FREE GREEN SCREEN STUDIO by GOHAR INFO https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_ty47Yxepoc Beachfront B-Roll: Lightning Storm (Free to Use HD Stock Video Footage) Beachfront B-Roll: Free Stock Footage https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4Yc9sMH6-eQ MUSIC No.10 _A New Beginning - Esther Abrami Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100349 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Impact Prelude by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100617 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Finding the Balance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100708 Artist: http://incompetech.com/