CHESMAYNE

Midi: Besame

Goal (the)

01 Symbolism is always working towards a goal, towards completion.   The goal gives direction: without it we become disorientated and unable to face reality.   Journey: traversing a path over which obstacles must be overcome.  Spiritual and psychological goals which appear as the Promised Land, Blessed Island, fairy castles and temples etc.   A sequence of incarnations is seen as a ‘journey’.   As a dream symbol - a wish for change.   Initiation rites are in the form of a series of tests as in secret societies and mystery schools. 

02 The Happy Ending: as in ‘They got married and lived happily ever after’.   As a symbol of the union of the masculine and feminine it is an image of two forces that are never far apart, never more than momentarily parted.   In fairy-tales apart from marrying, the Hero often becomes KI.   Indicating complete rule over the inner realm of unconscious complexes and freedom from the pressures and compulsions that fetter the will. 

03 Fruit of some special tree that grows only in the unconscious and bears golden apples, silver pears, which may be symbols related to the golden sun of conscious rational knowledge. 

04 The lance and arrow are sometimes symbolic of perceiving and aiming for goals. 

05 “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is – infinite” (Marriage of Heaven and Hell).