Left: The magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, one of the most magical and spiritual places on Earth, are full of the pine cone symbolism. Right: antithetical animals flank an illuminated bodhisattva in Angkor Wat. The majestic stone ruins of Angkor Wat are a wonderful sight to behold. Huge towers shaped like pine cones in silhouette against the sky rising from the lush green jungle in a way that defies imagination. Pine cone-shaped towers are often cited by scholars:
"The individual towers in Angkor have a ... pine cone silhouette ..."
- Benjamin Rowland, The Art and Architecture of India
The question, however, is the meaning of pine cones: it seems unlikely that such a distinctive feature will appear without rhyme or reason. What is the meaning of these pine cones in the old buildings of Angkor?
In addition, this other Angkor Wat phenomenon called “antithetical animals” was never explained. In the example shown in the image above we see a pair of twins, symmetrical elephants facing each other, an image that is often overlooked or is inexplicable.
Interestingly, similar art of antithetical animals appear in other famous archeological relics of "pine cone". For example, in the ancient Roman pigna sculpture (Italian for the pine cone) shown below, a large bronze pine cone is flanked by antithetical twin peacocks.
Built by the Romans, there is the Roman bronze sculpture of the first century, called the Pigna ( pine icon ), which was once an ancient fountain. The Pigna sculpture is in a Vatican courtyard called the Pine Cone Court, and today it is considered the largest pine cone statue in the world.
The parallels do not end there, do not prevent: the Egyptian personnel of Osiris (c. 1224 BC) not only represented antithetical cobras even they have to get up to meet in a pine cone:
Cane with an Osiris pine cone. Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy, 1224 BC What is the symbolic meaning of these pine cones, and how to factor antithetical animals in their global sense? What is the deepest secret that these seemingly inscrutable images hide?
Third Eye / Pineal GlandThe answer to this is that pine cones, throughout history, have symbolized the gl ndula pineal, or Tercer Ojo, and by association the esoteric act of waking him up. This gland is said to be found in the geometric center of the brain, and considered by some to be the Third Biological Eye, the French philosopher Descartes referred to c loosely to the pineal gland as the Chair of the Soul.
The pineal gland is given the following definition in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:
A small usu. Cynical appendage of the brain of all vertebrate craniate that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye, which works in some birds as part of a time measurement system, and which is variedly postulated as a third vestigial eye, an endocrine organ, or the seat of the soul
The pineal gland is shaped like a small pine cone, hence its name. The symbolism of the pine cone does not go unnoticed by ancient cultures; In India, the Hindu tradition teaches followers to awaken the Third Eye by activating their "seven chakras." It is an ancient exercise, which is still practiced today, called Kundalini Yoga; It is claimed that it directly affects human consciousness, the development of intuition, the increase of self-knowledge, and unleash our creative potential. Interestingly, the esoteric symbol of kundalini yoga is caduceus, a symbol that has two antithetical snakes.
Left: The caduceus staff, carried by Hermes in Greek mythology. In ancient Rome it was represented on Mercury's left hand. Right: A visual representation of the practice of Kundalini Yoga, whose ultimate goal is to wake up the third hidden eye on the human forehead. The Kundalini is the spiritual energy or vital force present in every human being, which is at the base of the spine. To awaken the Third Eye, the kundalini energy must be called to the forehead, where it expands and consequently awakens the Third Eye. Energy is said to travel along the first leg (left) and pingala (right), to the central pole or sushumna. This is the process esoterically represented by the caduceus symbol of two spiral antithetical snakes to a central cane.
"... The caduceus, the rod of power ... In India it is a seven-knot bamboo stick ... that represents the spine with its seven centers or chakras ... It also indicates the spinal cord ... since snakes were a symbol of the two channels called in Eastern terminology Ida and Pinagala; and the fire enclosed in it was the serpent of fire that in Sanskrit is called kundalini. ”
- CW Leadbeater, Freemasonry and its Ancient Mystic Rites
Thus, the art of antithetical animals associated with the pine cone - twin elephants in Indonesia, twin peacocks in Rome, twin snakes in Egypt - is actually an allusion to the ida and pingala channels (the antithetical twin snakes on the Caduceus) The central sushumna is, in turn, symbolized by the third centered drawing (often a pine cone), which in the caduceus is the main wand that goes from north to south.
Many ancient cultures incorporate images of the pine cone in their art and spiritual architecture, and all of them also created the art of antithetical animals. The pagan gods of Babylon, Egypt, Mexico and Greece were associated with the pine cone, and the staff of these gods were often adorned with the pine cone.
Left: Sumerian God Marduk with the pine cone in his hand. Right: Dionysus, Bacchus for the Romans, wore a "Thyrsus" topped with a pine cone. Even the natural behaviors of the pine cone have an esoteric meaning: as it matures, the pine cone slowly opens to release its mature seeds. This process is a symbol of the expansion of consciousness that accompanies the opening of the pineal gland and the awakening of the Third Eye. The metaphor is a valuable and stimulating mental lesson of an esoteric phenomenon that cannot be seen otherwise or explained, since it occurs inside the brain: 
Left: Symbol of the bronze pine cone in Aachen Cathedral in Aachen, Germany. Medium: Roman statue of the pine cone in Piazza Venezia, Italy. Right: Ripe pine cones. Readers familiar with Eastern religions will remember the Third Eye as having a long history in India, China and Southeast Asia, where the religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism prevail. More than a "religious" idea, the Third Eye is an archaic "spiritual" custom that transcends religions. It is variously known as "urn" and "Trinetra, " and often marked by a point in the center of the forehead between the two eyes.
The Third Eye between the eyebrows of Buddha. Waking up his Third Eye allowed the Buddha to understand the forces of existence and their manifestation in the chain of causality. The Third Eye has been called by several names throughout history, including "inner eye, " "eye of the mind, " "eye of the soul, " and "eye of reason." The portrait of a single "eye." It is, in fact, an archetypal image that goes back thousands of years in human history. It appears again and again in myths, sculptures, prints and paintings in ancient cultures around the world. It is often depicted throughout ancient Egypt as a single disembodied Eye, the Eye of Ra:
The Eye of Ra, a disembodied Eye that means the Third Eye of enlightenment. The Third Eye was commonly described by the ancient mystics who experienced divine light.
"... in every man there is an Eye of the soul, which ... is much more precious than ten thousand body eyes, the truth is seen by itself ... The eye of the soul ... is only naturally adapted to be resurrected and excited by mathematical disciplines . "
- Plato, Republic
A superficial "use" of the Third Eye is not difficult. Close your eyes and, without moving them, "look" at an object that you know is close to you. You are seeing with your Third Eye. To raise spirituality and awaken latent powers, the Eye must turn inward. The Western occult tradition is in agreement with the ancient oriental texts that affirm that turning the eye inwards gives us:
· Higher consciousness
· A deeper understanding of life and death
· A new ability to control the future
· A feeling of tranquility and happiness
· Extrasensory, clairvoyant, intuitive and psychic skills
· Expanded perception
· Increased self-healing capacity
· Stress reduction
· Calm and clarity
· Sensitivity renewed
Mystery writer Stephen King, The Shining, referred to this concept. In King's novel, "radiance" meant touching one of the higher psychic powers. Unfortunately, nowadays ideas such as the Third Eye and related mystical and / or esoteric concepts are not well seen, pejoratively labeled "the occult."
The question, however, is why the West has been so poorly informed of this Third Eye and its unlocking even as Eastern traditions have incorporated them into their practices. The answer to that is the rise of Christianity in the West, the practice and the idea of an inner God or Third Eye to wake up in conflict with the teachings. Traditional Christian anzas. These wisdoms, forced into hiding, became the origins of the secret societies that passed over these esoteric wisdom; One of these societies was the Masoner a.
The Third Eye in the Masonic Triangle
In modern times, famous authors, painters and poets have described the Third Eye and the pineal gland as nothing less than the se secret lost of the Masoner a. In his 1918 book, The Wonders of the Human Body, Dr. George Washington Carey tells us:
[See: Masonic symbolism in the foundation of the United States of America]
The eye that sees everything This is the eye of the Freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly trained that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact is that they use them
-Dr. George Washington Carey, The Wonders of the Human Body
In his fascinating 1924 book, Mystic Americanism, author Grace Morey explained:
The All-Seeing Eye also emblematic of the pineal gland or Third Eye of the human being has been found among the ruins of all civilizations on the globe, it evidences the fact of a universal religion over the whole Earth in some remote period. While we now restore this universal religion, we fix the All-Seeing Eye in the pyramid.
Grace Morey, Mystic Americanism
[see: The black pyramid of the `` Son of the Creator '')
It is not surprising, then, that cones appear regularly throughout the Masonic decoration. They are depicted in Masonic art, which hang from the roofs of the Masonic Lodges, and are engraved in stone in buildings built by Masonerà © a throughout the world. A large Masonic design is next to the Whitehall building, in the financial district of New York represents two huge snakes entwined in spirals to a cone (which is strikingly similar to the Osiris Basin) .
A Caduceus representing a pine cone appears in the Whitehall building in New York City. Pine cones also adorn ritual instruments used by the Masons within the Masonic lodges: The tops or tips of the rods of the [Masonic] deacons are often topped by a pine cone. ”
-Albert Mackey
“Operational Freemasonry, in the broadest sense of the term, means the process by which the Eye… opens. EA Wallis Budge has observed that in some of the papyri that illustrates the entrance of the souls of the dead in the Osiris praetorium the deceased person has a pine cone attached to the crown of his head. The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end, being in the shape of a pine cone, which was called Bacchus's tyrant. In the human brain there is a small gland called the pineal gland, which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops. Little is known about the function of the pineal gland, which Descartes suggested (with more wisdom than he knew) that it could be the abode of the spirit of man. As the name implies, the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man - the One Eye ... "
-Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Third Eye has been hidden in plain sight in the West, masked by the term "All-Seeing Eye" and superficially it is said to be the eye of the Jewish deity. For this reason, Masons refer to him as the "All-Seeing Eye of God, " when in reality it is the awakening of the Third Eye.
Masonic Lodge, Prague of the 18th Century, represents a Third Eye within a luminous triangle. The term "eye that sees everything" in itself is indeed correct, but it is not the eye that sees everything of the Hebrew God, it is the eye that sees everything of oneself, the pineal gland we all have.
Many highly trained and educated Masons who lived during the 20th century, including several notable authors and scholars, were convinced that the All-Seeing Eye is not the Eye of God in the Bible, and that the modern system of Masonry that we have Inherited, based on the Hebrew Bible, is in fact corrupted.
It is interesting to note that the famous American author and Mason Mark Twain, in a writing in 1899, refers to the All-Seeing Eye not as the eye of a distant celestial deity or the "old man from above", but as a tangible gift that anyone can use:
"The common eye sees only the outer part of things, and judges by that, but the" eye that sees everything "penetrates completely, and reads the heart and soul, finding there the capacity that the exterior does not indicate or promises, and that otherwise I could not detect. ”
Interestingly, there is evidence that Hitler was aware and understood the symbolism of the pine cone. One of the front panels of your desk clearly shows the symbology of the pine cone:
Image of Hitler's desk. See the left panel. A deity is flanked by the cane at the end of which is a pine cone. Adolf Hitler believed in the Third Eye. This fact is confirmed by Hermann Rauschning, the former president of the National Socialist Senate of Danzig. In Hitler Speaks (London, 1939), Rauschning wrote:
"Having the" magical vision "was apparently the idea of Hitler's goal of human progress ... It was the eye of the Cyclops, or the middle eye, the organ of the magical perception of the Infinite, now reduced to a rudimentary pineal gland. Speculations of this kind fascinated Hitler, and he was sometimes totally involved in them. ”
- Hermann Rauschning
It seems that, almost 100 years ago, Hitler knew things about the Third Eye that most of humanity is just beginning to rediscover.
The Third Eye can be seen above the French Declaration of Human Rights in a 1789 painting, and is on the back of the dollar bill, floating above an Egyptian pyramid, itself a clear Masonic image and evident:
Left: The Third Eye in the triangle is visible above the French Declaration of Human Rights. Right: The Third Eye in the triangle above a truncated pyramid on the back of the Great Seal of the United States. Is it possible, then, that the pineal gland has been intentionally overlooked in Western society, in order to rob the masses of their power? Is it possible that the Third Eye is the lost secret of authentic Masonry, which lost it sometime in the mid-1800s?
In conclusion
The pine cone symbol, then, refers to the Third Eye: it abounds in ancient art and architecture, a symbolic representation of our now inactive window to the world.
While the knowledge of the Third Eye and the practice of awakening the Third Eye continued strongly in the East, it began to die in the West at the beginning of Christianity. Consequently, secret societies such as the Masons were established to protect the knowledge of the Third Eye, initiating new members into their wisdom, and keeping the practice alive. This explains why the image of a single eye is common to Western secret societies, whose constituents possessed exceptionally philosophical, active, creative and spiritual minds. A single eye is one of the supreme and sacred emblems of Masonry.
The Third Eye seems strange, even frankly oblivious to us in the West, even today, despite our life in the "information age" of globalization. The fact that the Third Eye is so unknown, so strange and so alien to our way of thinking is a kind of enigma. The reason is because it seems that they have always been, and still have been, a conscious effort to hide it by a powerful elite who do not want the masses to discover their secrets.
[Richard Cassaro]
The hidden secrets behind the pine cone in art and architecture
