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Image of the Day : The Lion

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  • I see two lions fighting on who’s going to eat the pegasus that’s hidden in the picture…

    :)

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  • all is within. . .the egoic lion without wings is trying to assert domination of the other by placing a body hold. . .to upsurge the lion with wings (true self) that would be the one that can fly above such as the divine self. . .

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  • dear wanbliska,

    your´re right… ;-))

    -
    “offenbarung” (?relevation?) (the last part in the new testament) 13:11
    “The animal from the earth” … looking like a lamb, but it speaks like a dragon…
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    jep, john you´re also right … ;-)))

    also maybe you look at “the woman and the dragon” (revelation(?) 12:1…
    nice…

    Nia

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  • Dear Nia,

    “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:15)

    There is indeed the sacrified lamb (Christ), but also the one that were not, called by John as “antechrist”.

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  • ähm…
    forget…

    *miau*

    ;-)

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  • dear wanbliska,

    i read it in the bible, but forget where… somewhere in the apokalypse (endtime)
    the lamb is the lamb from god… (it´s holy and I am not sure, but I think it´s the symbolic for Jesus)

    Nia

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  • My daughter (8 years old) commended this image thus:
    There are two lions - they know and like each other, but there is any reason they are a little bit mad at each other and now they want to talk about it to get along and then they will play together again.

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  • inner struggle..; one lion has wings and is free to fly, yet…it stays..

    love
    Agnieszka

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  • I agree with maria -A lion exists in the heart of every brave man …its whether we are willing to walk up and face the lion .(our fears) that then it fades away ..illusion I guess .Blessings Tania

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  • El encuentro espiritual de si mismo quizás? su parte espiritual, su parte femenina, todo animal es una fuerza.
    Gracias Pilar por la información, me he quedado con el libro que mencionas, he tomado nota, estoy aprendiendo.
    Un beso Paulo.

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  • The two lions is the two facet of our personality. the wingged lion is the side who want to do good, which require a very strong heart, (which needs the strengh of a lion) and the wings represent ones capability of doing it. And the other lion is the side which our innate will to do good is possible but hindered by our egotistical strength (

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  • The opposites must be united…

    The Spirit and Soul must be united in their Body.


    The Sages do faithfully teach us
    That two strong lions, to wit, male and female,
    Lurk in a dark and rugged valley.
    These the Master must catch,
    Though they are swift and fierce,
    And of terrible and savage aspect.
    He who, by wisdom and cunning,
    Can snare and bind them,
    And lead them into the same forest,
    Of him it may be said with justice and truth
    That he has merited the meed of praise before all others,
    And that his wisdom transcends that of the worldly wise.” Book of Lambspring

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  • Dear Nia wind,

    To my mind, and since all that time, temptation could have white paw. Elsewhere, it is said it will come as a lamb. Nowadays Devil is shown as I heard once: “Don’t forget that devil comes always dressed like a saint…” I don’t know where I read this.
    The opposite is true.

    Gratefully.

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  • Inicialmente voy a describir la imagen, primero vemos a los dos leones uno con alas y sin melena y el otro con melena y sin alas, en un ecenario que me atreveria a decir que es un mausoleo o un cementerio, el leon de melena parece estar expulsando al leon alado. Esto ocurre porque los leones son muy territoriales, atacando para defender su territorio, su manada o para ganar el liderazgo y el poder.
    La imagen de estos dos leones denota diferencias y similitud entre ellos y una lucha por la victoria.

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  • Eph.5:25-27
    25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

    Matt.5:27-30
    27″You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

    Love
    All ways
    Hildegarde

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  • Anneliese Flores Clar

    I see two lions, one of them is winged, the other seem to be atacking the winged lion, and this one has sad eyes and is not atacking back!

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  • Eliphaz the king of the Temanites said, ‘The ant-lion perished because it had no food.’ The Physiologus said: ‘It had the face (or fore-part) of a lion and the hinder parts of an ant. Its father eats flesh, but its mother grains.’ If they engender the ant-lion, they engender a thing of two natures, such that it cannot eat flesh because of the nature of its mother, nor grains because of the nature of its father. It perishes, therefore, because it has no nutriment. So is every double-minded man; unstable in all his ways. . . (Kevan 1992)

    Assuming von Franz’s interpretation of the alchemical lion’s symbolism is correct, the similarities between these examples are remarkable: the ant-lion’s inability to eat symbolizes “unstable” emotions of a “double-minded” man, while the alchemical lion—also unable to eat—symbolizes “depressive mania” (manic depression).

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  • The lion has among other things an unmistakable erotic aspect. Thus the “Introitus apertus” says: “Learn what the doves of Diana are, who conquer the lion with caresses; the green lion, I say, who in truth is the Babylonish dragon who kills all with his venom (Fabricius 1976, p. 298).

    Marie-Louise von Franz: Some people have a frustrated infant within them. [Such] people compensate by being very correct [and polite], knowing that if they admit their demands then the devouring lion will come up and the [other person] will natually hit back, something which they have experienced often in life when, after hiding their feelings, they one day took the risk and as a result got banged on the head. So the hurt child returns once more, bitterly frustrated, and then comes the depression, the devouring lion. This is a part of primitive nature, of primitive archaic reactions which have all the conflicts of wanting to eat and not being able to do so, so that the depressive mania takes over (Fabricius 1976, p. 105-6).

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  • C. G. Jung:

    The illustrations show a furious battle between the wingless lion (red sulphur) and the winged lioness (white sulphur). The two lions are prefigurations of the royal pair, hence they wear crowns. Evidently at this stage there is still a good deal of bickering between them, and this is precisely what the fiery lion is intended to express—the passionate emotionality that precedes recognition of unconsious contents (Fabricius 1976, p. 295).

    Johannes Fabricius: The two lions symbolize the king and queen, embracing in passion and hatred. This devouring union, the primal scene of a mother and father, sets the stage for a child’s psychological development (Fabricius 1976, p. 48)

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  • El Leon es el simbolo de San Marcos, representa la fuerza , el leon Se le considera el “rey” de los animales terrestres (junto al águila como «rey» de las aves); animal simbólico muy conocido, entendido, generalmente, como animal solar o en estrecha relación con la luz; entre otras razones, probablemente por su fuerza, su color dorado y la distribución radial de la melena que rodea su cabeza; la relación con la luz se explica por la peculiaridad que se le atribuye de no cerrar nunca los ojos. Otras propiedades que le convierten en animal simbólico son su valor, fiereza y supuesta sabiduría. Como símbolo de poder y de justicia, se le encuentra, a menudo, representado en tronos y palacios reales.

    En China y Japón se consideraba al león, al igual que al dragón, como ahuyentador de malos espíritus, razón por la que se le representaba, frecuentemente, como guardián a la entrada de templos.

    También los templos egipcios, asirios y babilónicos están, a menudo, custodiados por esculturas de león. En Egipto se encuentran representaciones de dos leones adosados por la espalda, que simbolizan la salida y la puesta del sol, el este y el oeste, el ayer y el mañana. En el culto de Mitra, el león simboliza al sol. El dios hindú Krishna e incluso Buda son comparados con un león.

    Por su indomable fuerza, se le relacionaba en la Antigüedad con los dioses de la fertilidad y del amor; entre otros, con Cibeles, Diónisios (Baco) y Afrodita (Venus).

    La Biblia menciona al león tanto en sentido positivo como negativo: Dios se asemeja al león por su poder y Justicia, la tribu de Judá es comparada con un león, el mismo Cristo se llama “el león de Judá”; pero, por otra parte, también se compara al demonio con un león enfurecido. La Edad Media veía también en el león un símbolo de la resurrección de Cristo; entre otras razones, por la referencia a diversos autores que aseguraban que los leones nacen muertos y son despertados a la vida, después de tres días, por el aliento de sus padres. Las representaciones de leones rugientes pueden hacer también referencia a la resurrección de los muertos al día del juicio final. Al aspecto negativo y amenazador del vigoroso león se refieren representaciones medievales de león devorando seres humanos o animales: generalmente, símbolos de fuerzas o poderes malignos, amenazadores o castigadores. De modo parecido, la fuerza del león en su aspecto negativo aparece en representaciones o narraciones míticas de luchas o caza de león, en las que se ofrece la imagen del león como representante de fiereza in domable que es vencida por los héroes (Hércules, Sansón).
    En alquimia, corresponde al elemento “fijo”, al azufre. Contrapuesto a otros tres animales, representa a la tierra, aunque en otros textos se le llama “fuego filosófico”, mientras al oro se le da el nombre de “león de los metales”. El león rojo es el que más propiamente responde a este último significado.

    Pero al margen de estos problemas, que conciernen más a la teoría de las correspondencias que al estricto simbolismo, el león constituye, como “rey de los animales”, el oponente terrestre del águila en el cielo y, por lo mismo, el símbolo del “señor natural” o posesor de la fuerza y del principio masculino. Como recuerda Frobenius, el motivo en el que el león solar degüella al toro lunar se repite incansablemente en la decoración asiática y africana. Según Schneider, el león pertenece al elemento tierra y el león alado al elemento fuego. Ambos simbolizan la lucha continua, la luz solar, la mañana, la dignidad real y la victoria.

    Como símbolo de los evangelistas, pasó por varias atribuciones hasta concretarse en la de san Marcos.

    Naturalmente, de la posición o situación del león se pueden derivar otros significados. El león joven corresponde al sol naciente; el león viejo o enfermo, al sol en el ocaso. El león victorioso representa la virilidad exaltada, el león domado corresponde a la paralela expresión existencial.

    Como animal salvaje, en general, según Jung, es indicio de las pasiones latentes y puede aparecer como signo del peligro de ser devorado por el inconsciente. Esta última significación, con todo, concierne más al simbolismo de la devoración, en general, que a la del león en particular. La devoración también es simbólica del tiempo. La leona salvaje es un símbolo de la Magna Mater.

    Juan Eduardo Cirlot.- Diccionario de símbolos.-

    fuerza

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  • I see two lions, one winged and the other not.
    One Lion is attempting to keep the winged Lion on the ground, attacking him beacause of his ability to fly, jealousy at work.

    I think it refers to our ability to try and gound those that have discovered the ability to fly and that Humans, rather than learn and imitate the learned, choose to attack what they dont understand and feel that they cant achieve.

    John

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  • “The union of the Red King with the White Queen, symbolic of the union of male-female, albedo-rubedo. In other words, when after having attained albedo (having discovered the divine light in oneself), the ’spirit’ must be fixated (the descending eagle), resulting in rubedo. The two lions with one head signifies the unified nature that has been attained. Out of its mouth flows the water of life”

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  • “A lion exists in the heart of every brave man” Turkisk proverb

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  • Michael Maier : Atlalanta Fugiens 1618

    Hic leo, quas plumas non habet, alter habet.

    “the Lion has no feathers, the other has”

    The fixed sulphur seeks to prevent the flight of its volatile counterpart.

    The Lioness has wings.

    (From The Golden Game, Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century, Stanislas Klossowski De Rola).

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  • barcelona 20 euros en un cafe

    Lo primero que me llama la atención es que son dos leones peleando(jugando): uno alado y el otro que tiene como una especie de cabeza humana debajo de la cabeza animal. El leon alado es el símbolo de San Marcos.
    Quizá el león alado sea simbolo del cielo y el otro de la tierra.

    Besos desde Barcelona
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    The first thing that I see is that the two lions are fighting (or playing): one winged and one that have a kind of human face below the animal’s head.
    The winged lion is the symbol of St. Mark.
    Perhaps the winged lion is a simbol of the heaven and the other of the earth.

    Kisses from Barcelona

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  • what i see is 2 lions, who might in fact be one..the one with the wings might be the child in us, and the other, the reality…i might be mistaken…but i think that this lion depicts any man, struggling to be who he really is ,and he seems rather frustrated, and i see sorrow in the eyes, when his other side (what he has become) fights him..
    Love and Graditude
    Annie

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  • and the devil will walk through our places, roaring like a lion…

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