By R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Martin Stone
Symbolism is the intuitive technique of overcoming the restrictions of reason. right here Schwaller explains how precise growth in human concept may be made provided that we name upon the ''symbolizing'' school of intelligence, constructed and sophisticated within the temple tradition of historic Egypt and mirrored in its hieroglyphs.
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A caricature makes people laugh. " A roar in the silence of the forest will make the bravest person tremble; two phosphorescent eyes in the woods at night will create fear. Such things may be analysed as the shock of the unexpected, effects of the imagination. But the grating that sets one's teeth on edge is the effect neither of surprise nor of imagination; it is a constant effect. Similarly, the noise made by a trickle of water stimulates the need to urinate even when one is asleep. The repetition of the same monotonous sound (litanies) puts the mental consciousness to sleep.
Thus, one could concede that if the symbolic is extended to the choice of the stones, the metals, the colors, the materials placed in the foundation, the favorably placed lights—if, in short, everything corresponds symbolically to the significance of the place—one could, I say, understand the magical effect of this symbolic, which is as nearly absolute as possible. In literature only the parable represents the esoteric symbolic. It could be explained in terms of the effect of a parabolic mirror: all the parallel incident rays are reflected on a single central point, just as they are moreover, when focused by a biconvex lens.
This image is a static moment (arrested in Time) of this function of flying, its fixation. This symbol arouses in us not only what we have registered in our memory concerning the flight of birds, but also our innate knowledge of flight, our sensation of flight, and we embody this knowledge in the image-symbol, which thus becomes a synthesis of our knowledge of the flight of the bird. What matters is not the image but the symbol-synthesis of the function of the vital moment. The image is death; the symbol is life.