A very specific symbolic language

This is an excerpt from an email conversation I had with one of the performers in "Mysterion Mellisius". It is a nice little look into a very specific form of symbolic link making; the languages that are built up within cosmologies that join images to images, thoughts to thoughts, ideas to ideas, but then, perhaps, cease to function meaningfully outside that cosmology. The symbolic language creates a web that enables the link-maker to find a trail through his or her own thoughts.An artist like Simon Denny works with link-making in a wider context with a symbolic language that is accessible and understood by a greater audience. This gives his link-making the ability to travel and be read by a large audience, but in many respects it's the same sort of pattern recognition process being brought forth. A targeted net is cast and the relevant ideas are pulled together for the viewer to discover and question.Obviously the below quote is rather 'occulty' because it's dealing with that particular symbolic language, but it's interesting to see how T.P. drew correlations between ideas:"...the more I thought about C's divination of the 8 of Disks for the rite the more I thought it was especially fitting.... From the surface level: where the figure 8s we did in the great Disk that was the hive befits the card... To the idea of storing the harvest, which is the traditional "sun in virgo" attribution (and the essential meaning of the word 'prudence' in this respect) - the harvest of course being the honey, but also the idea that honey can be used as a preservative for storing other foods. (Indeed, the very life of bees depicts this idea of prudence, in how they work so hard to build hives and store food for their fellows.)... The picture on the card is of 8 whirling red flowers, to suggest the activity of the bees... Even the yellow background of the card suggests honey!" -T.P.