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The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns. The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents the Holy Grail. The three stigmas represent three nails and the five anthers below them five hammers or five wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance).
Plants of the Bible, Missouri Botanical Garden; Project "Bibelgarten im Karton" (biblical garden in a cardboard box) of a social and therapeutic horticultural group (handicapped persons) named "Flowerpower" from Germany; List of biblical gardens in Europe; Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Plants in the Bible" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York ...
Sun-flower" and felt an affinity with what he thought was the Sunflower's seemingly imminent death (like his own). [58] Allen Ginsberg was one of the poets who admired this poem. In 1948 he had the hallucinatory experience of hearing Blake reading "Ah, Sun-flower" and two other works (see Allen Ginsberg: the Blake vision).
According to Wang, "The Flower of Life's vibration is 128 Hertz—the exact reflection of a proper note C. Serving as the central tone of creation, 128 hertz is deemed as the tone of ultimate balance.
The Avatamsaka Sutra (the Flower Adornment Sutra) with explanation; Introducing the Avatamsaka Sutra - an outline of the sutra by a disciple of Master Hsuan Hua; Articles by Imre Hamar; 大方廣佛華嚴經 Avataṃsakasūtra Chinese text with matching English vocabulary at NTI Reader digital library
According to Jonathan Silk, the influence of the Lotus Sūtra in India may have been limited, but "it is a prominent scripture in East Asian Buddhism." [117] Jacqueline Stone and Stephen F. Teiser meanwhile write that "it is perhaps no exaggeration to say that the Lotus Sūtra has been the most influential Buddhist scripture in East Asia."
Examples of deeper meanings lie within the language of flowers, and how a rose may have a different meaning in arrangements. Examples of common meanings of different coloured roses are: true love (red), mystery (blue), innocence or purity (white), death (black), friendship (yellow), and passion (orange).
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC – 17 AD) was also familiar with narcissi, in his recounting of the self-loving youth who is turned into the flower, in the third book of his Metamorphoses l. 509 "croceum pro corpore florem inveniunt, foliis medium cingemtibus albis" [57] (They came upon a flower, instead of his body, with white petals ...