Regis Signum Symbolum Reginae - The King is the Sign, but the Queen is the Symbol Posted by Asafoatse Nii Okaikoi I, Cmmr on December 22, 2014 at 10:02pm . A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something (or someone) else.[1] A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm. A Sign is a Harbinger: a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another. Synonyms: herald, sign, indication, signal, portent, omen, augury, forewarning, presage; More: a forerunner of something (or someone) The Sign: Symbols are a means of complex communication that often can have multiple levels of meaning.[6] This separates symbols from signs, as signs have only one meaning. Symbols are the basis of all human understanding and serve as vehicles of conception for all human knowledge.[7] Symbols facilitate understanding of the world in which we live, thus serving as the grounds upon which we make judgments. a symbol, like everything else, shows a double aspect. We must distinguish, therefore between the sense and the meaning of the symbol. It seems to me perfectly clear that all the great and little symbolical systems of the past functioned simultaneously on three levels: the corporeal of waking consciousness, the spiritual of dream, and the ineffable of the absolutely unknowable. The term meaning can refer only to the first two but these, today, are in the charge of science – which is the province as we have said, not of symbols but of signs. The ineffable, the absolutely unknowable, can be only sensed. It is the province of art which is not expression merely, or even primarily, but a quest for, and formulation of, experience evoking, energy-waking images The Symbol:
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