The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- represents the shortest path to conflict with the plane to which the perpendicular line is bound; the unconscious is therefore showing the dreamer in this image the fastest possible solution of inner conflicts even though their impact is substantially harsher.
- the intersection of two perpendicular lines: like the intersection of a cross unites antitheses, the upper three shoulders represent the trinity*74 (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and the fourth, resting on the ground, refers to the connection with the earth element containing darkness and the evil of the lower nature.
