The Power of Symbols
by Ariel Spilsbury
Symbols: What Are They?
“There comes a time when the mind touches higher planes of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there.” Albert Einstein
“Words are to thought, what symbols are to intuition and creative novelty.” Dion Fortune The Mystical Qabalah
“Symbols, the stuff of both feeling and knowledge, rather than being the lenses through which we see reality, are the very organs of reality itself.” Lawrence Blair Rhythms of Vision
“Knowledge of higher forms of existence is obtained by a process other than thought and the process only commences when thought is left behind.” Dion Fortune
“Symbols are based on an understanding of true analogies between a greater cosmos and a smaller, form, function and law in one cosmos being used to hint at the corresponding forms, functions and laws in other cosmoses.” Rodney Collin
All symbols act as resonant structures for decoding and integrating pure states of consciousness that exist beyond the range of human language. By design, symbols reach through themselves to access the natural law or organizing principle held within them.
Resonance is the sounding again due to similar structure and frequency. It is the means by which divine awareness is delivered. Perception is a matter of resonance.
Archetypes are original radiant patterns, geometries, audible illuminations, brilliantly colored luminosities; the rainbows of light, color and sound out of which the world of manifestation condenses.
Beyond words, concepts and the separation that language intrinsically creates, exists a symbolic language of light which, through the emergence of the larger hologram, is now coming into more direct experience, to assist beings in the speed of light transformation which are now emerging. This language of light assists you in the cellular restructuring involved in awakening of the body of light (the Ka body in the Egyptian). The Mayan symbols or starglyphs are part of the galactic coding and seeding for the awakening of the light body as are the symbols in the 13 Moon Oracle. So it is no surprise that there is often a feeling of instant recognition associated with the visual impact of these symbols. They provide a bridge between physical and spiritual realities and offer access to resources in yourself which might remain unconscious or hidden without the external catalyst symbols can provide. Metaphor literally means “to cross over”. Symbolic metaphors assist us in transforming and crossing over to experience the energies of the infinite Self. All symbols act as resonant structures for decoding information.
Symbols are fluid, open, non-fixed images which bring light into matter. The brain decodes or makes “sense” of these representations of objectified reality. Often a profound connection and feeding of information may be missed due to holding a construct that symbols and archetypes are fixed systems with fixed meanings. Utilizing a specific meaning for a symbol that is pulled solely form memory, without opening yourself to the wisdom of your feelings and the present moment, can limit your experience. Remember that the language of light is a rich, contextural, abstract language engaging the vehicle of symbols and metaphors. All symbols assist you in learning how to process and integrate consciousness which exists beyond the range of human language, form or definition. Sates of pure consciousness, described in words such as satori, peak experiences, ecstatic states, mystical union with All That Is, Samadhi, Grace, etc. are usually experienced in an abstract form, outside of language or definition, in pulses of light, color, sound, symbols, geometrical patterns, sensations and metaphors. Such states of consciousness can be accessed through fortuitous circumstances (the ripe fruit falling from the tree) or often through the creation of a format of sacred time and space which processes and patterns the energy being transduced through it! This format, often called ceremony is capable of decoding the symbols through DIRECT ACCESS to their natural resonance. This is often a totally non-verbal process of energetic light transmission and the “information” garnered from the archetypes is demonstrated in a change of countenance and consciousness rather than in words or qualitative information. When this change in countenance is embodied, it creates a transformation in cellular confidence allowing that which is in form to more fully contain the formless. You are becoming an archetypal embodiment, a concrete model, a conduit, a manifestation of the abstract language of light that others may receive and therefore become transformed by.
Symbols, by design, can assist you in deriving the gift of being directly touched by the energy found BEHIND their simple outward interpretation. Symbols are designed to reach behind or through themselves to the natural law or organizing principle held within them. Once natural resonance is established, resonance shifts, encoded with supra-conscious energy, can transform the system through grace. Symbols need not be intellectually understood as they act on the holograms of the supra-conscious, mythic coding of your psyche.
An easy way to understand and access these states of resonance is simply to experience them as if you were tuning into a particular frequency. You can learn to”fly” symbols to a profound and pure state of consciousness where there are no words. Symbols are metaphorical rungs on a spiral ladder of light, for climbing to expanded states of consciousness and can be used to enter a quantum realm which moves at the speed of light, beyond the limits of logical thought, time or space.
“As resonant structures, symbols literally create, work with and inform our light bodies. While the foundation of our light bodies corresponds to the vibratory infrastructure of the DNA, it can only be activated through a knowing use of symbols. It is not poetry alone that commands us to declare just as a flower cannot live without light and water, we cannot live without the potency of symbols.” Jose Arguelles
Symbols and metaphors help in the process of self remembrance of who we are as an expanded essence in our true identity. They act as a bridge to spark memories, recollections, knowings of the larger holograms, encoded patterns and pre-existing matrixes of which you are an intrinsic part. They are a powerful means for rapid transformation. An important aspect of their power is the encoding of great amounts of information in one small symbol, much the same way as DNA codons contain enough information to re-create the complicated human system. Symbols are an abstract map, not the territory or the land itself, simply the access route.
Each human being can be looked at as a symbolic system which is interpreting a symbolic Universe beyond the realm of conscious thought. Symbols, signs and metaphors are offered in your daily life moment by moment, for your spiritual guidance, but their potency and effect has nothing to do with your ability to cognize their exact meaning. Symbols work on a supra-conscious level beyond the realm of conscious thought. They ask you to be the adventurer, to play with and experience their simple, yet potent transformative power. Symbols open you to reception of your native tongue, the galactic language of light.
The language of light is the native tongue of your Divine Self. It is a living language and energy exchange, the language of the Divine. It is an abstract language wherein information, love, union are directly imprinted in your cellular essence through direct pulses and transmissions of light. Some experience and perceive this language as an inner voice with which they have a direct interface with the Divine. However this language is perceived, the reception of its transmission is your natural state of being. FEELINGS ARE THE BASIC VIBRATION OF THIS LANGUAGE OF LIGHT. When you are receiving a language of light transmission, you may feel ecstatic union, experience tears of reunion or inner knowing, taste the incomprehensible sweetness of Love’s essence, feel tender transcendence, holy communion, touch your starry vastness, be fed by deeply unconditional Love.
Another aspect of the language of light which is spoken without words, is the language of colors/frequencies, pure vibration which is perceived by the eye. A whole new color harmonic is entering into the earth’s evolution at this time, some visible to the human eye and some not. To understand the changes offered to human consciousness with this new harmonic, imagine jumping all at once from the red to the ultraviolet spectrum of light. Metaphorically, the human race is being prepared to move from the first red electron shell to the seventh electron shell of violet emanations. The new harmonic of sound and color vibrations is moving us into harmony with the purification of light so that the various patterns of our beings can be balanced and readied for these changes. Colors can heal and make whole through their natural resonance and vibration. Be encouraged to select clothing, art and furnishing which have the vibration/color to which you strongly respond. On the mythic journey of your daily life, integrate and utilize any color, symbol or metaphor to which you strongly respond. A particular color or symbol can enliven, balance, integrate your field, catalyze different parts of your process, activate the senses, expand your experience and create natural resonance with the Divine. Use the simple power of color and symbol!
