Dictionary of Symbols

Symbols also have a "purpose": "to rebel" against the irreversibility of time and to "carry" humans to the beginning of the gods and mythical heroes, to "capture" the past and "establish" the future. The majority of them appear before us as identified forms of "nothingness" that "cannot be consumed in the system of exploitation", whose identity is "hidden in its silence", and which will express itself when the time comes. They are complex "cultural realities" that explain how something came into existence and how it was nurtured and grown. In a way, they are the letters of the "code alphabet" that allows everything to "talk" to humans, or "children of nothingness"; When they are put into action, that is, when they are updated, they "take the harshness out of life" and make the world a "more livable place" for us.

The individual essence of man is "inside" himself, but in order for it to be known, it is necessary for him to enter into an "objective" relationship with his outside; because the individual essence can be "read" in the objective relationship: in this way, the individual essence "carries itself to the social essence": in order not to be "ignored", the social essence updates itself in the form of a "symbol" with emotional and thought states such as love, pain, joy, etc. It is an "undeniable" sociality.

The person who owns nothing first learned to carry his own "existence"; Then he deciphered the language of nature, that is, the "language of symbols", through the senses: He saw "love" in the clarity of the sky and "fear" in its blackness. He searched for "wisdom" in the rising and falling of the wind, the twinkling of the stars, and the changing places of day and night. He discovered symbols in every sound made by nature; He reached the "secret" of the word in all the symbols. When they transformed the universe into a "small dot" and themselves as a "giver", which they perceived as a small dot, they produced truth from the "infinite void" or the essence of beings.
In the pursuit of the truth, he learned that "existence and non-existence are the same, or that good and evil are equal."

If you move away from life, the "symbol" avoids you; "nothingness" mocks you; When life plays its own game, "nothingness" gives birth to symbols and watches its own future; Life's own game is mostly a "tragedy" played on a stage surrounded by "death". In this tragedy, every symbol is a branch to hold on to.



Number of Pages: 1339

Year of Printing: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Key Books

First Printing Year: 2010

Number of Pages: 1339

Language: Turkish