Real Spiritual Symbols

The current quasi-scientific prejudice is to treat all religion as though every aspect is to be assumed fabricated and false. Those who try to be polite simply assert that none of it can be ‘proven’ and so it should all of course be ignored. Then we have others who are even perhaps sympathetic to religion, but then suppose that religious symbology would nonetheless be useless if unaccompanied by a concurrent Religious Faith – that without a certain conviction that the symbols have potency they would remain flat, impotent without belief to empower them. Few people believe that Religious Symbols have any stand alone power in and of themselves. Such is an odd belief for any person to have, that Spiritual Things only work by Faith, when everything in the Real World either works or it doesn’t upon its own merits and qualities. One needs to wonder why it was decided that the Spiritual World should be so contrary to Reality.

Now, if one is a total materialist, believing that Dreams have no basis in any objective Reality that exists outside or in transcendence of the individual, then the argument for Religious Symbology would have to come after a more basic preparation. We would have to show that isolated Materialism is difficult to maintain against the evidence for the Collective Unconsciousness, in which we find a universal similarity between the Dreams of all peoples and individuals despite education or culture, a similarity in Dream Symbols, a likeness in Dream Archetypes, and repeated recurrences of Dream Motifs. Then there are shared dreams in which dreams become a medium for communication, demonstrating that Dreams interpenetrate Reality and have a basis in Reality. It is this Collective Nature of Dreams and their proven Objectivity that supposes the Objectivity of the Spirituality upon which they rest.

Now, we should examine what makes an effective and real Spiritual Symbol. Once we can concede that Dreams have an objective component and that the Spiritual World is a Real World infused with the same objectivity that we can find in Dreams, then we may consider whether this Real World of the Spirit can be influenced, effected, changed or transformed by Human Actions and Behaviors. Supposing a Human Being could effect the Spiritual World, in creating a Symbol, then is it unreasonable to suppose that such a symbol would then continue to exist as it had been created, maintaining its potency (faith or not)?

The Polytheistic and Pantheistic Cultures believed in Heroes – Mortal Humans who by great Spiritual Achievement attained to the Immortality of the Gods. But with the Advent of the Higher Religions, we no longer call such Great Souls ‘Heroes’ – they have become our Saints. But their function remains the same – they establish within the Spiritual World an Infrastructure whereby the Spiritual World becomes more accessible to the rest of Humanity. If there is such a thing as a Spiritual ‘Path’, well, these Saints and Heroes were the ones who cut, filled and paved it and then set up the sign posts.

But what is a Religious Symbol. We should understand a little bit about Astral Plane Theory. The Astral Plane, that is, the lower Spiritual Plane, interpenetrates this World. Those who Astrally Project, even while supposing themselves to be traveling in the Material-Physical World, inevitably notice elements of Astral-Spiritual crossover (one of the arguments Lucid Dreamers use to invalidate Out of Body Experience is that these Experiences are nearly always cluttered with ‘Dream-like’ elements, and so those in the Dream Culture suppose the so-called Out of Body Experiences untrue and unreal, when the truth is that these ‘dream-like elements’ are astral-crossovers). People with psychic vision see elements of the Spiritual in our physical sceneries. And this is when no crossover between the physical and the spiritual is even intended. So, what about when Gateways are deliberately made to join the Physical to the Spiritual? That is the purpose of Religious Symbols. The Saints who created them empowered them and they support the infrastructure that sustains them from the Other Side, and those who have previously used the Symbols reinforce them within the Collective Consciousness. Repeated use makes them stronger as a much beaten path becomes wider and clearer.

Actually, most any picture on the Wall can be used as an Astral Gateway – a Path to some corresponding Astral Reality. For those who mix Out of Body Experience with Lucid Dreaming, if one finds oneself close to one’s physical body and fears an unstable return to that body, quick distance can be put between the Astral and the Physical simply by swooping into a picture on the wall – a Gateway that takes one immediately out of the unstable lower Astral and into the more Ideal Astral. Unfortunately those same Pictures on the Wall can be a two way street. Dark, noir, and gloomy pictures or symbols suggestive of demonology or just simple evil have no place in a home where one would want to remain happy. Conversely, upliftingly happy and holy pictures and symbols can only admit positive influences.

Since many people are not careful of the Symbols they leave open, many dark and low influences come into our World from the Demonic Zones of the Spiritual Realms, in addition to those who are simply able to cross-over by whatever means. For our protection there are certain symbols that have been created, institutionalized and maintained for spiritual protection that we can use to guard our homes and persons. Religious Faith is not required for any of these things to work. They are simply part of the Greater Spiritual Infrastructure which we have inherited. All of the Higher Religions have their protective symbols and images, and a good Feng Shui design consultant is sure to incorporate such devices into a home’s décor, whether they exactly coincide with the professed Religion of the particular homeowners or not, since such talismans work not by faith but simply because they work.