The Symbolism of the Ocean and Sea
Introduction
The Ocean and Sea are symbolic of what physicists call ‘Dark energy’
Energy we cannot perceive but which nevertheless
is washing over us the entire time.
This Energy has been known for thousands of years
and in Hinduism is called Prana.
And in Far eastern [TCM] thought is called Qi.
It is not electromagnetic energy,
although the effects we associate with electricity and magnetism
are ‘programmed’ using this energy -
but then so are many other invisible activities - such as ‘having fun’.
In our video of Chakras and flowers we explained how chakras
were like the sockets plugged in to this Energy.
In effect we are surrounded by an Ocean or Sea
of this [dark - invisible] Energy, Prana or Qi,
which is taken in by the chakras to the Island of our body
[see video Aura and Islands],
where it is circulated using the Meridians or Nadis
- symbolically Rivers and streams [video Rivers and streams]
And may be stored in the symbolic Ponds and Pools
or Lakes of our body
where it may even become perceptible matter
if it is being used to heal someone
[this picture shows the lower Dan Tien ‘lake’
and its acupuncture points]
The Rig Veda [translated by Wendy Doniger]
Water, you are the one who brings us the life force.
Help us to find nourishment
so that we may look upon great joy
Let us share in the most delicious sap
that you have, as if you were our loving mother
Let us go straight to the house of the one for whom you,
Waters, give us life and give us birth
For our well-being let the goddesses be an aid to us,
the Waters be for us to drink.
Let them cause well-being and health
to flow over us
The Shore and Ripples
Symbolically the shore is the place where
figurative Water and Earth meet.
Thus by extension the meeting place of the spiritual
and the material or perceptible realm.
Where that which is animated meets that which is to be animated.
So let us now turn to a picture done by the mystic and saint
Hildegard of Bingen, which has the body at its centre.
This is identical symbolically to the picture of the body as an island,
surrounded by its egg shaped aura, and all its various levels and layers.
And what you should be able to see is that the body
is surrounded by symbolic Water - the Ocean and Sea!
With a ripply ‘shore’, and this sea is circular
- or at least roughly egg shaped.
In Greek mythology, Oceanus
was the father of the river gods and the Oceanids,
as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.
Well now you know what Oceanus is,
a part of the Aura of everything, the symbolic Water layer.
And as spirit input and Energy enters via the chakras
to heal and help us.
Our perceptions symbolically ripple away from us to the shore beyond.
Ripples - Genesis
Bluegirls come in every size
Some are wise and some otherwise
They got pretty blue eyes
For an hour a man may change
For an hour her face looks strange
Looks strange, looks strange
Marching to the promised land
Where the honey flows and takes you by the hand
Pulls you down on your knees
While you're down a pool appears
The face in the water looks up
And she shakes her head as if to say
That it's the last time you'll look like today
Sail away, away Ripples never come back
Gone to the other side Sail away, away
The Cosmic Egg, the Ocean and the Island
Now let us introduce a picture
we have used in a number of the other videos,
the symbolic picture showing Yggdrasil, the ‘world tree’,
surrounded by the disc of the perceptible world.
Compare this with another picture
the mystic Hildegard of Bingen has drawn
- we are now looking down from the top of the dome
and the canopy of the world tree.
Compare the two and you can see
they are just different views of the Cosmic Egg.
Hildegard has had to show the branches of the tree
as though seen from above.
But the Water - the Ocean and Sea - is the same.
There is a Constellation called Eridanus, and there is the possibility
that this constellation is an attempt to show this
- as above, so below [although it could be just
a major meridian - the symbolism has been lost].
Everything is its own Cosmic Egg
So instead of thinking of this picture as some rather naïve view
the ancients had of the universe and its flat earth,
we need to think again
because this is very sophisticated metaphysics.
We now need to understand
that each Named thing had its own Cosmic Egg.
And the ‘World Tree’ is not a world tree,
but a branch of the tree representing the things structure
- a sort of BOM [Bill of Materials].
Much like the instructions for building something in Lego.
And all the parts of that thing are themselves Eggs,
hanging as it were from this tree, that is a sub-tree of other trees,
which are themselves part of another tree ...
Nested structured duality
William Blake from Collected Poems
Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau
Mock on, mock on, ‘tis all in vain
You throw the sand against the wind
And the wind blows it back again
But every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine
Blown back they blind the mocking eye
But sand on greater shores will shine
The atoms of Democritus
And Newton’s particles of light
Form sands upon the eternal shore
Where mankind’s thoughts there shine so bright