Door
Transition and metamorphosis are the
most common ideas represented by the symbol of the door; it is a passage from
one place to another, between different states, between lightness and darkness.
According to Julien, the act of passing over the threshold signifies that one
must leave behind his materialism and personality to confront inner silence and
meditation. It is abandoning the old and embracing the new; an open door signifies
welcome and invites discovery and investigation, while a closed door represents
rejection, protection, secrecy, exclusion, and imprisonment. Is a feminine symbol
in connection with the hole that it leads to, the vagina; the antithesis of the
wall.
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