As a transitional metal, gold is symbolic of flexibility on our spiritual path while life experience galvanizes our faith. One of the more valued elements, gold represents perfection in all matter and on any level. It also symbolizes the quest to perfect, illuminate and refine one’s self. Gold is resistant to heat and acid, thus, gold is a symbol of immutability, eternity and perfection. The infamous legend of alchemists turning common metals into gold is actually a parable for the human quest to change base vulgarities like greed, hate and selfishness into qualities like love, virtue and compassion through the process of self-purification. * Ergo, gold is symbolic of this transition of the soul. This gives gold such attributes as:
Symbolic Meaning
EGG
In the beginning there was no earth or sky
but only the dense darkness of space.
Darkness was everywhere and yet it seemed alive,
for out of it came sound, darkest sound.
All cultures have woven their legends of the mystery of creation.
Perhaps one of the most powerful symbols of this mystery is the egg.
To ancients in all lands, the egg was the symbol of generation and immortality.
In Scandinavia and Russia clay eggs
were put in tombs to ensure life after death.
A similar idea was signified in ancient Egypt
by the winged egg floating above the mummy,
carrying the soul to another birth.
The Chinese believed that the first archetypal man
sprang from an egg dropped by Tien, a great bird.
The alchemists spoke of the philosophical egg
which combined all the elements of life,
the container of thought and matter.
The Greeks thought of the egg as the seven-fold vault of space,
a symbol originally compounded in the dual septenary planes of
the Cosmic Egg of Hindu tradition.
Reverence for the egg is evoked by its form as well as by its mystery.
Its elliptical form describes the movement of
heavenly bodies and of the earth itself.
It describes the sphere of light that surrounds all living things.
It is in the oviform that the potency of spirit in matter manifests.
The Katakopanisad teaches that in
the Spiritual Egg, Purusha or Divine Spirit
stands before primordial matter and
from their union springs
the great
Soul of the World.
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