Death
The unseen aspect of life; omniscience, since the dead are all-seeing. Death to the earthly life precedes spiritual rebirth; in initiation the darkness of death is experienced before the birth of the new man, ressurrection and reintegration. Death is also the change from one mode of being to another, the reunion of the body with the earth and the soul with the spirit. From: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols (J.C. Cooper)
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Blood Roses