 Angels are regarded as invisible messengers,
inhabitants of Heaven, beings of light and symbols of lightness as well
as fire and martial power. Angels have always been present in the
imagination of man. All civilizations admit the existence of these
beneficent spiritual beings that collaborate with the Creator,
according to their rank in the celestial hierarchy.
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 The Ankh is a cross. The symbol of the cross is
extremely complex and has manifold meanings. We find it in all
religions and cultures as the representation of Man, at the point of
convergence of Earth and Heaven. The Ankh is the ansate cross of
ancient Egyptians. It is the key of life and death.
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 The charioteer is the symbol of calmness,
self-control and mastery of the mind and psyche, so ever changing and
unstable. He reduces the manifold, reaching us from the outside world,
to the inner unity of will.
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 The egg is a universal and self-explanatory symbol
because it holds the seed from which the whole of manifestation will
spring. The idea that the universe was born from an egg is shared by
nearly all ancient civilisations and cultures.
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 The elephant, in its most global and universal
meaning, symbolizes strength and power, not only physical but also
mental and spiritual.
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 The emerald is the stone of green light, which
endows it simultaneously with an esoteric significance and with
regenerative powers.
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 Gaia, the Earth, gave birth to the Giants in order
to avenge the Titans whom Zeus imprisoned in Tartarus. They are
chthonian beings, symbolizing, by their gigantic physical mass and
their spiritual poverty, the predominance of forces arising from the
Earth. Giants represent magnified commonplaceness and the image of
unrestrained physical and brutal instincts.
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 The lion symbolizes power and sovereignty and is
associated with the sun, with gold and with the penetrating strength of
light and of the Word.
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 In the Orient, this flower has various symbolic
aspects but its main characteristics stem from the fact that it
blossoms on stagnant waters. This is why the lotus is seen as a symbol
of purity; although blossoming on murky waters it remains immaculate.
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 The black of its feathers and its mournful cry make the raven, which feeds on carrions, a bird of ill omen.
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 The ring is above all the symbol of a bond, an
alliance or a vow. The hole in the middle of the ring channels the
celestial influence, the breath of God that seals the pact. The hole is
the receptacle for the energy that makes the wheel of destiny turn. The
ring is the symbol of the power of great men and gives legal authority
when adorned with the seal that grants it.
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 The rooster is a universal solar symbol because its
crowing announces the dawn. In India, it is the attribute of Skandha,
personification of solar energy.
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 The scarab is the most venerated, the most common
and the most familiar of the Egyptian symbols. Its symbolism is
twofold: with its folded wings, it represents the disciple, life that
has not yet come into existence, that starts its journey trying slowly
to unfold its wings until it can flap them quickly. Then, this heavy
mass, stuck to the ground, this animal that crawls leaving tracks as if
the ground has been scratched, rises up and flies to the sun,
transforming itself into Kepher, symbol of the initiate and the master
in relation with Amon, the winged sun-disc.
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 The symbolism of thread is essentially that of the
relation existing between all states of being and between the latter
and their First Cause. This symbolism is clearly expressed in the
Upanishads where thread links this world to the other world and to all
beings. This thread is both Âtma and Prâna. Because it is linked to the
main centre, thread must, in all things, be followed back to its
source. This reminds us of Ariadne’s thread that not only was the link
between the outside world and the centre of the labyrinth but also the
link allowing to go from the realm of darkness to the realm of light.
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 With its roots burrowing deep into the soil and its
branches rising to the Heavens, the tree is universally seen as the
symbol of the connection between Earth and Heaven. The tree enjoys such
a central role that the World Tree is identified with the World Axis.
Trees are also the bridge that connects the three planes of the cosmos:
the Underworld through their roots burrowing deep into the soil, the
Earth’s surface with their trunk and lower branches, and the Heavens
with their upper branches and top, in search of light.
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 Wings are the symbol of lightness, spirituality,
the possibility of flying and rising up to heaven. Wings are the
expression of the aspiration of the soul towards a higher than human
condition, in other words the aspiration to transcend the human
condition. Wings are related to the cognitive faculty, imagination,
thought, freedom and victory.
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