Imagination and symbolism of hell from myth to mysticism
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
leila aminilari
1
(Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Iran.)
Farah Niazkar
2
(Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Marvdasht, Iran.)
Keywords: شیطان, آتش, Fire, Hell, استحاله, دوزخ, Metamorphosis, Devil, عذاب, Torment,
Abstract :
Imagination and symbolism are tools that mythology language and mystic language choose for expressing their fundamental teachings.The concept of hell is one of the universal topics that mythology and mysticism have attention to this. Terrible images that has presented from this evil and dark place in the mythology, expresses human’s depth of thought and world review in old ages and shows the man’s deep religious and moral needs.The hell-this valley of fire and eternal of the spirit’s fearful metamorphosis- has described in most texts with the words are related to material.The hell’s fire punishes evils and from another dimension, is a passage way for the ascent of the soul and the soul attains perfection with symbolic passage from fiery hell in its evolution.Also from a mystical view, the allegorical of hell is a point to degrees of separation and neglect from manifestations of God and to be cover sensual veil.If we die out the fire of internal hell, we can travel the path to perfection in a heavenly relaxation.With a look to the process of human’s insight to the hell’s concepts and its teachings, from the mythology world to mysticism’s arena, causes the extent of vision and a deeper understanding of different dimension of the adventure.
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