2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
R. Guénon distinguishes between burial caves and initiatic caves, although a direct connection is established between them. Physical death is essentially analogous to initiatory death. The descent into Purgatory turns out to be symbolically equivalent to a journey into the underworld, to which a cave opens access. But death is at the same time a second birth. In this sense, the cave is likened to the womb of the mother.
The cave is associated with the elements of the earth, as with the feminine principle giving birth, and at the moment of death, the earth turns out to be an absorbing element. One and the same cave usually serves as both a place of initiatory death and a place of rebirth, that is, it should open access not only to underground, chthonic regions, but also to aboveground ones, which is consistent with the concept of the Center of the World, which communicates with all states micro- and macrocosm.
Thus, a cave can be a complete image of the world, since all the most important images and symbols must be reflected in it.
The cave, as a rule, is watched from the side, waiting for some creature to leave it. Usually these creatures are archaic in nature, personifying unconscious structures. Most often this is what a person fears most in himself. Interestingly, usually a person imagines himself waiting at the cave.
The expression "cave of the heart" exists to denote a person in a state of secrecy: on the one hand, he acts as a small point on the map of the Universe, on the other hand, it is the point that turns out to be the principle of constructing the entire system. Thus, we find an analogy with the embryonic state of a person - it is just a small point, which is a point of development.
The image of the cave is directly related to the process of the second birth and even the third. The first birth is physical. The second birth is called psychic rebirth, which takes place at the level of the capabilities of the human individuality, while the third birth takes place in the spiritual plane and opens the way to the supraindividual states of man. Thus, at the second stage, a human being only enters the cave, and the final exit from it is accomplished as an exit into Cosmos at the third stage, which corresponds to the Russian word "resurrection".
The exit from the cave is carried out either through a separate opening, or through the same entrance, sometimes it is called the "cosmic eye". Usually, going out into the light reveals the real essence of the initiation that took place, namely, an understanding comes: what we previously considered to be reality is in fact only its reflection, like Plato's shadows in a cave.
The image of water is related to the unconscious structures of the human psyche. Depending on how the water is presented - a stream, a river, a river mouth, going out into the sea, an ocean, a waterfall - this is how intrapsychic conflicts are reflected.
The world's waters are the environment from which all living beings emerged. Water is something common where a person feels his kinship with the life around him. Particularly interesting in this respect is the appeal to those states and images that accompanied a person in his embryonic state.
K. Horney, speaking about a man's fear of a woman, pointed out that since ancient times the sea element was associated with a woman's womb. The Abyss personifies the unbridled power of attraction to a woman and at the same time the fear of being ruined by her.
Venus Botticelli swims to the shore on a half shell. Sexual love is a deep dive into the timeless and spontaneous. Fenenzi says: "Female genital secretion in higher mammals and in humans … has a distinctly fishy odor as described by all physiologists; this vaginal odor is caused by the same substance (trimethylamine) that causes the odor of rotting fish."He is echoed by Paglia "Consuming raw shellfish is a latent cunnilingus that many consider disgusting. There is a shellfish just killed, almost alive, is barbarism, a loving immersion in the cold salty ocean of Mother Nature.
Neumann notes the linguistic connection between the words of the German language: mother, bog, swamp, swamp, ocean. The ocean is a special symbol. Its features are formlessness, continuous movement. The ocean personifies the generative womb of the mother and the sum of all human capabilities. The ocean contains both a creative and a destructive principle, from which the gods of both the upper and lower worlds emerged.
Sartre talks about mucus and mud, about "a substance between two states", about moist and "feminine breath", about the liquid seen in a nightmare. Sartre's mucus is the fleshly dirty moisture of the giving birth womb.
A river can mean a border that a person is afraid to cross, and an ocean of opportunities that are provided to him at birth.
It is believed that water is able to wash away all emotions, cleanse not only the body, but also the soul. The image of a font is closely related to water, and in the Eastern tradition the image of a filled vessel is used to reveal the fullness of a person's mental development.
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