Daily Meditation: Friday, April 6, 2012
Cross, the - symbolic dimension
Christians are accustomed to seeing the cross only as the instrument of Jesus’ torture. But the truth is that the cross has much greater significance. Of course, it reminds us of the death of Jesus, but that is only one aspect. Jesus’ crucifixion was one moment in history, but the cross itself is the symbol for a cosmic reality and must, therefore, be understood more broadly. The vertical line represents the masculine principle, the horizontal line the feminine principle, and the two lines are not separate; they actually cross and, by crossing, become one. So the cross symbolizes the work that the two principles, the masculine and feminine, achieve together in the universe. From the cross is derived another symbol: the hexagram or Solomon’s seal, which consists of two interwoven triangles. In changing from a straight line to a triangle, the cross has gained new meaning, but the idea is the same, the law is the same; it is always about the work of the two principles.
Omraam Mikhael AivanhovBuy
- ‘Do not worry …
- Aleph
- Alive, becoming…
- Angels
- Art
- Birth
- Body, physical
- Body, the human
- Body, the physi…
- Caduceus of Her…
- Centres, spirit…
- Children
- Collectivity, t…
- Commitment, spi…
- Creations, inne…
- Credit
- Discernment and…
- Dreaming
- Entities
- Exchanges
- Family, natural
- Formula
- Friends
- Good and evil
- Greatness
- Guardian angels
- Hardships of li…
- Helping humans
- Hierarchy, cosm…
- Higher nature
- Holiness
- Horse
- Ideal, spiritua…
- Impatience
- Incarnation, th…
- Infinitely grea…
- Initiations, an…
- Inner states
- Inner world
- Involution and …
- Knowledge
- Laws of matter,…
- Laws, divine
- Living the spir…
- Love, self-serv…
- Master, spiritu…
- Meals
- Mind, the
- Minute at a tim…
- Moments of spir…
- Moral rules
- Morality
- Music
- Non-violence
- Number 2
- Objects from th…
- Obstacles
- Pessimism
- Philosopher’s s…
- Philosopher’s s…
- Physical body
- Physical body, …
- Physical world
- Plans
- Plants
- Pleasure
- Poetry
- Predestination,…
- Preparation
- Promises
- Psychic experie…
- Qualities and v…
- Receptivity
- Religion
- Sadness and ups…
- Scientific rese…
- Sensitivity
- Serpent to dove
- Spiritual peopl…
- Spiritual world
- Suicide
- Sympathizing
- Temperament
- Thoughts, feeli…
- Thumb
- Tomorrow
- Tree
- Trials
- Truth
- Waves
- Wise, the
- Word
- Words
- Workers of heav…
- ‘Be perfect as …
- ‘Give to Caesar…
- ‘Have salt in y…
- ‘It is easier f…
- ‘Lord, I love y…
- ‘Rejoice that y…