The phoenix is a mythical bird that is associated with magic, alchemy, higher knowledge, higher life and the philosopher's stone.
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The symbolic mythology generally goes along the storyline of a resurrection, rebirth or renewal through death of purifying fire. This is the central goal of alchemical symbolism, whether using the 3, 4, 7 or more phases of symbolism.
The phoenix is a red, purple, gold and yellow mix in various mythologies. It either dies in an egg or in the cleansing fire of renewal where it's reborn from the ashes.
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The resurrection, rebirth and renewal is symbolism that has been used in the ancient narratives of many cultures. There is a dichotomy between forces of good and evil with ourselves or in the world. Often stories and mythology involve a hero savior who dies in a battle with a villain, and then is later resurrected. The evil can be symbolized through monsters, creatures, shadows, demons, hell or the underworld.
The mytho-poetic symbolism translates into real life as such:
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To be a phoenix and resurrect ourselves into a new purified form means to have the care, courage and strength to face the mirror of ourselves and reality honestly, to face the demons within us. We see and accept the beauty and the horror, truth and falsity, right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and evil. We choose the beauty, truth, right, moral and good.
In order to embrace, embody and live what is right, good and true, we must put to death, destroy, shatter, transmute or sublimate the shadow, darkness, demon, wrong, evil or immorality within us. This makes us into wiser and better versions of ourselves, purified from the former state of being we were.
Once a part of ourselves dies, once we die a little inside by putting to death the falsity we held onto within us, then we can be reborn again. Rebirthed and resurrected as a new version of ourselves that has put the falsity to the fire. The fire is a symbol of cleansing and purification.
By going through the turbulence of the fires of tribulation, the friction and heat of battling our inner-demons has purified us. We are remade into stronger, better, more pure versions of ourselves. From falser, lower, unrealer versions of our potential that was more in alignment with falsity, towards truer, higher and realer potential version of ourselves in greater alignment with existence, reality, truth and specifically moral truth. This is what evolving consciousness is really about.
Bird Symbolism
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Many cultures viewed death as a rising ascension towards the heavens in the sky above. The sun was a symbol of life giving power energy on earth, as it actually does this. The sun is born every morning in the East, and dies every night in the West.
Birds rise into the sky. The goose and other birds have been used in cultures to symbolize death ascension beliefs. The mother goose and other mother symbolism also represents the womb of birth, the darkness from which we came. The birds symbolize going into the female womb of the dark night sky to be reborn again in an "afterlife" or "reincarnated" as a soul after coming back from the Milky Way.
Birds rise high, into the sky, up above where the bright sun of life lives. They rise to heaven, where the sun god Ra/Re is, the sun/son and light of the world, the savior, the truth. The sun, sky and bird symbolism is about higher living achieved through higher consciousness. Brightness and highness symbolizes both the sun and consciousness. The death and rebirth symbolism is the same, just as the sun dies and is reborn continually in a perpetual self-renewal process.
We can soar higher than our former selves and renew ourselves as well, like the phoenix. We can aspire towards a better way, a paradise, an afterlife of a new life to live in a new world, a heaven on earth.
Duality Symbolism
We need to unite knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsity, to understand them both and be in a wise position to choose a path and way of living life.
Duality symbolizes this in deeper esoteric symbolism about life. The dual wings of birds symbolizes this (as well as other symbolism). This relates to the yin yang as well. There is both light and dark, beauty and horror, good and evil that can manifest in life. Freedom requires eternal vigilance. To be steeled and prepared for battle with the falsity, shadow, demon, evil, etc., we must be aware of it. Ignorance is bliss and goes nowhere.
Care for Truth is required to engage in seeking, accepting, embracing and embodying more truth into our lives.
Rebirth Symbolism
Overall, apathy for truth is to be and remain "unconscious", “dead”, “asleep”, "sheep", unawakened and uninitiated. We are "dead" in the coffin or tomb, unconscious to Moral Truth and it's importance in life, unawakened, asleep. We lack care, not living in greater Care for Moral Truth, so it symbolizes a "deadened" "heart" center, a "deadened" core, "essence", "spirit" and consciousness.
When someone is literally dead, there is no consciousness or action in life, hence the symbolism of being "unconscious". When someone is asleep, not awake, they are also unconscious an inactive. It's to be unconscious and inactive relative to being consciously aware of the importance of caring for truth and acting in alignment with truth. Analogy, metaphor and symbolism is used to expressed this understanding of unrealized and unactualized potential to care for, seek, embrace, embody and live up to the Moral Truth as a truer, realer, higher version of ourselves.
When we choose to Care for Truth, and specifically Moral Truth, we develop a higher consciousness. We become "initiated", "awake" and aware, where we are "resurrected", "rebirthed" and "raised" from the "deadened" lower state of consciousness. We rise to a higher, truer and realer consciousness, and are now "alive", into a "new life", a "New World", an "afterlife", "eternal life" and "immortal life" that is given to us by the "light" of truth in our lives, the divine "Word" of "God", the Logos, the Good (the words of truth and morality).
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The underworld is the previously unknown darkness and shadow within us, where we face our demons in the darkness, and we need to use the light of truth to battle these dark forces and put them to death. Then we gain life, are resurrected and rebirthed, regenerated and recreated anew, and reach an after-life/heaven of a new world of being.
This is the hero's journey to the underworld, facing ourselves in the mirror, where we are our own worst enemies, we are our own adversaries, our own opposers, that we finally have the care, courage and willpower to conquer and destroy.
Related Symbolism
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There is the yin and yang symbolism, but there is also the symbolism of the oroboros dragon/snake that directly references self-renewal and resurrection. The phoenix, dragon and snake symbolism is heavily linked.
Osiris, the lord of life and death, is symbolic with the underworld, and weighing ourselves against the feather of maat/truth in order to put ourselves to death and be reborn into an "immortalized" "afterlife" new world/heaven we can potentially create.
The end is only the beginning, symbolically. To begin anew "life", a new way, an "afterlife", a paradise in a heaven instead of a hell, we must put to death and end something old to create something new.
Be a phoenix. Use the purification and cleansing fires to put to death the falsity, wrong, darkness, demon, shadow, immorality and evil within yourself.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Share this ancient understanding and process of continual self-renewal with others so that we can all change individually, and change the world collectively. We are all in this together.
We can create a world without rulers and masters (anarchy) that impose immorality and wrongness in our lives under the guise of morality and righteousness. To get to the anarchic freedom potential, we must each realize our own potential within by putting to death those things that do not serve us, to let go of the falsity, demons, darkness, shadow, immorality and evil that we either support or participate in.
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sort of lost it's luster for freedom and rebirth w/the 1988
Economistcover. Symbolizing a "new" one world currency....Sucks how symbolism works that way...It could happen this year as it suggested :/
They might get rolling on it this year but it will take years to actually implement. Do you remember how long it took the Euro to be a thing? Hopefully I'm just being pessimistic and the phoenix can reclaim it's place! ;)
Really is a magical bird and a wonderful symbol for all the reasons mentioned. I use it for my logo.
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It is so mythical/ spitritual awesome. I also know someone with a Phoenix back tatoo.
Well details post @krnel ancient and historical post like this will go a long way in shaping our present day society!
its really great writing ...
good stuff bud. I saw the coffin symbology used, that's cool. I'm planning on talking abiut the man in the box in my next post.
There are some old things I know I have to part with, but summoning the purifying fires is not always easy. This post came at exactly the right time to mean something to me so thank you!
I'm glad it has provided value to you :)
A good read, I like how you brought it around to Anarchy :)
Also, I heard the Phoenix comes from the Phoenicians
The words are related ;) Meaning purple-red. Phoenicians were involved in dyes, rare in the ancient world.
Your post are just fascinating. I am really loving this post sir. All this philosophies just get me thinking, seriously I have really heard a lot about live and death. The Bible is my own philosophy about this matter.
Thanks, glad it has provided value to you ;)
Sure it has. Kudos to you sir.
I've always been into mythical beings like phoenix and and dragons. Let the old ways die and make way for the new.
Yup, that's one of the ancient meanings for these symbols.