About a month ago, I asked ChatGPT to interpret the fake "Theosophical" symbol I use (just for fun) as the emblem of this blog. Here´s my own interpretation (also just for fun).
The emblem is "Tantric" in the sense that it inverts the usual symbolism associated with Hinduism and Western esotericism.
Instead of a white swan, there is a black swan. The black color (obviously) stands for the night, since the night is the best allegory for the Divine. Darkness is what remains when light goes away. In the same way, God is ever-present above and beyond all phenomena. Since the black swan was unknown to the Hindus (and everyone else except the Australian Aboriginals) before the discovery of Australia, it´s a good symbol for the unknown. And the Divine is The Unknown awaiting discovery. On one point, ChatGPT gave me an additional idea: the black swan could be a reference to a "black swan event", i.e. something completely unexpected. Like sudden spiritual enlightenment, perhaps?
The lotus is usually pink, but here it´s blue. I read or heard somewhere that a blue lotus is an attribute of the Tantric Mahavidya Matangi (Chandali). It´s actually a symbol for dangerous poison. The snake is a coral snake and doesn´t eat its own tail. Instead, the snake is self-conscious, lethal and ready to strike. It´s emphatically *not* a rope...
In Hinduism, the two triangles are Shiva-Shakti, but in other systems a hexagram stands for Saturn. It could therefore be the hidden cosmic order behind the chaotic material world (and the equally chaotic world of "spirituality"). I suppose an inverted pentagram would be more in keeping with the "Tantric" flavor of the emblem, but I wanted to balance the Left Hand elements with something more Right Hand Path. But sure, if you instead interpret the hexagram as the union of Shiva/Brahman and Shakti/Maya, you´ll have all the chaos and creative destruction you want!
I´m sure all kinds of other associations could be made. OK, enough fun for this Friday.
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