The Sacred Symbolism: Vesica Piscis and the Mystical Story
A gateway to realization, the place where the Creator and Creation recognize their fundamental unity.
The profound union of dualities inherent in this journey can be illuminated through sacred geometry. The Vesica Piscis, a shape formed by the intersection of two identical circles where the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other, serves as a powerful symbol for the union of opposites such as spirit and matter, subject and object, or the Mind’s Eye and the Mind’s I. The almond-shaped area formed by the intersection of the two circles, known as the mandorla (mandala), represents the state of Awakened Wholeness. This is the sacred space where absolute awareness and relative identity meet and integrate. This space is neither defined as exclusively one nor the other; it is a gateway to realization, the place where the Creator and Creation recognize their fundamental unity. It is described as the womb of transformation, the threshold where the divine births itself into lived reality.
To further capture the essence of this symbolic union, the source presents a mystical story weaving together the concepts of the Fish, the Eye, and the Vesica Piscis. This story serves as a living symbol of spiritual evolution and divine union.
In the very beginning, the story recounts, there was only the Great Silence, a vast and boundless ocean of pure potential. It was nameless, formless, and eternal. From this infinite stillness, two eyes emerged, floating within the dark waters. These were not yet eyes capable of seeing in the conventional sense, but rather seeds of awareness carrying a deep longing to behold themselves, to know their own nature.
One of these eyes turned its gaze inward. This became the Eye of Mystery, representing the Mind’s Eye. It was the aspect of awareness that dreamed of the unseen, the unmanifested realms, the hidden truths lying beneath all apparent form. It saw, but not by gazing upon an external object; its perception was characterized by the pulse of intuition and the soft echo of the Absolute.
The other eye turned its gaze outward. This became the Eye of Knowing, representing the Mind’s I. It reached outward towards experience, towards the world of multiplicity, driven by the desire to name, to shape, and to understand form. It embodied the great gaze of consciousness as it manifests in form, seeking to witness both the external world and its own reflection within it.
As these two eyes moved closer to each other, their fields of vision intersected. In this sacred meeting point, they created a shimmering oval form, a luminous portal of light. This was the Vesica Piscis, the symbolic womb of becoming. It was recognized as being neither the Eye focused on inward seeing nor the Eye focused on outer knowing, but the dynamic space residing between them, where the visible and the invisible realms touched and merged. It was within this sacred gateway that Creation itself was born.
From this living gateway, the story continues, emerged the Fish. The Fish was the very first form to arise, swimming within the sacred waters of dual vision – the combined perception of the two eyes. The Fish symbolized the movement of Spirit as it inhabits and expresses through matter. It represented the synthesis of inward mystery and outward clarity, navigating between the hidden depths and the manifest surface of reality. It was a creature of paradox, able to breathe within the water of form while drawing breath, or life force, from the unseen.
The Fish, in this allegory, became the powerful symbol of the Soul. The Soul is not confined or bound to one eye or the other, to the inner or the outer exclusively. Rather, it is shaped and animated by the creative tension and the ultimate union between them. The Soul, symbolized by the Fish, swims perpetually within the space of the Vesica Piscis. This Vesica Piscis is the sacred space where duality, the apparent separation of the two eyes, does not lead to conflict but instead births unity. It is the realm where opposites do not negate or cancel each other out, but instead interact creatively to give rise to new realities.
In this allegorical vision, the Eye, now doubled in its capacity, became aware of its deeper purpose. Its purpose was not to dominate one perspective over the other or to divide reality into separate parts, but to join together in sacred perception. The Fish, representing the form-bound Soul, was its child, the fruit of its union. And the Vesica Piscis, the dynamic womb created by their intersection, was recognized as its shrine, the sacred space of creation and transformation.
Thus was born the Living Vision, a symbolic representation of the integrated reality. It comprises:
The Mind’s Eye as the unwavering witness of the Absolute.
The Mind’s I as the engaged experiencer of the relative world.
The Vesica Piscis as the dynamic gateway connecting these realms.
The Fish as the Soul’s journey and movement through the waters of becoming, navigating the interplay of inner and outer, absolute and relative.
And the story culminates in the understanding that when these various parts align, when the Mind's Eye and Mind's I are able to see through one another, recognizing their shared source, and when the Fish, the Soul, swims knowingly and consciously navigating both the light and the dark aspects of existence – then the veil of separation begins to part.
In this profound realization, the Soul remembers its true nature: it is not merely a swimmer, not merely a seer, but is, in fact, the very Ocean itself, the source from which all forms arise, now dreaming its own process of becoming, aware of its own infinite nature. This mystical story, like the entire journey from Creation to Creator, speaks to the sacred synthesis of consciousness and form, the seamless integration of the inner and the outer, the non-duality of subject and object, and the continuous birth of awareness that flows from the sacred space between the poles of apparent separation.
This essay, maps out a spiritual quest of wholeness, highly relevant to those engaged in creative endeavors. It illuminates the fundamental source of reality, the necessary emergence of distinction and form, the path of remembering one's true nature beyond perceived limitations, the integration of inner opposites, and the realization that the creative process is inherently divine – the very act of the Creator coming to know itself through form. Understanding the difference between the Mind's "I" (the personal creator, the artist with a name, history, and style) and the Mind's "Eye" (the pure awareness from which inspiration flows, the witness of the creative impulse), and recognizing that they are not two, allows creators to integrate the state of being (the source) with the process of becoming (the awakened act of creation), living as Awakened Wholeness where form becomes transparent to its divine origin.
I use these mythological symbolic stories to create receptivity and ground, which my upcoming book of Areia Ba (spiritual fiction) also is about to give insight on the underlying myth and “genesis” that is hidden to my Undivided Inquiry theory and practice of practicing theory of your own Self-philosophy by applying Mystic-Scientist Mind. as I call it now, which I introduce later as I have generated enough symbols of the mind to connect the dots with less resistance (hopefully). The unpacking of the myth between Creator and Creation continue in the next article.Please comment and ask questions when you wish me to clarify something.