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What is symbolism?
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Symbolism is the union of Heaven and Earth, with humans as mediators between the two. The purpose of symbolic interpretation of the world is to reveal how this pattern unfolds in our lived reality. In the symbolic view, combining heaven and earth in the correct way furthers Creation. These concepts of heaven and earth should not be confused with what we usually associate with it; the atmosphere/ outer space or dirt underneath ones feet. Instead, consider the following simplified examples

In the light of these examples, the meaning of the words heaven and earth should be shifted away from their common materialistic meaning. Instead, we use them in their archaic sense to capture the pattern that we can recognise in the given examples.

Symbolic interpretation seeks to find examples of our experience with the world, and applies that to religious texts, seeking a deeper meaning in them. It assumes an christian worldview and is not opposed to the scientific discoveries, instead, it tries to encapsulate science as the "study of the earth".

The word symbol comes from the Greek words sun (with, together) and ballo (I throw, put). Symbolism therefore is not a metaphor, but the very joining together of two concepts, like two rivers joining to become one.

Symbolism attempts to explain how we fish out the facts that are important to us from a sea of unlimited facts.

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