The legend of the Phoenix bird

Phoenix is known in the Middle East and Far East to the Mediterranean and Europe, but there are mentions of a similar bird and the Native Americans. It is a bird of incomparable beauty that never dies, but is consumed in flames and then reborn from the ashes. It is said that Phoenix had originally emerged from a golden egg floating on Primordial Ocean.
The Egyptian Bennu bird it is associated daily cycle of the sun and the annual cycle of rising Nile waters, where connection to the regeneration of life.
Phoenix fire evokes creation and destruction of the world is born and that will bring the end. Its symbolism is related to the great esoteric truths, representing immortality and reincarnation of the spirit. in alchemy, it is a symbol of alchemical transmutation, rebirth of magical initiation and spiritual growth.
Phoenix tells us power to overcome the usual fluctuations of our lives, urges us to be directed towards the spiritual and gives us hope, inspiration and power sources when they give up the old way of life to embrace a new, superior. Phoenix can help us when we go through devastating emotional experience.
In alchemy, sublimation Bird is associated astral body, which, as shown great alchemist Paracelsus, is our spiritual body or “golden” purified, which develop during the evolution of our personal and spiritual rebirth is a higher level. When physical body dies, the spirit begins a new existence in another world, non-physical. The Chinese Feng Huang, “Red Bird” is one of the four spiritual animals. It can be mounted only by the Immortals. Feng means passing on the male and female Huang, is about Yin-Yang symbol, the two polar opposite principles that govern the entire event. This bird is also a symbol of undying love.
Positive essence of this creature is manifested when someone they recognize and develop their feminine side of his spiritual nature. That person then follows his inner voice and creative side of life. Negative essence is manifested when someone denies they repress this side of his soul, resulting in deviations in behavior and alienation.

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