Figuur 1 Clay imprint from a Sumerian cylinder seal, ca. 2000 BCE

Figure 1 shows the clay imprint of a Sumerian cylinder seal (ca 2000 BCE) and the tiny cylinder itself next to it. You can see for yourself how tiny the cylinder is and what craftmanship it would take to carve this into the stone material. The message it carries though is huge!

While there are 4 human figures on this clay (Earth and Water) imprint the tiny cylinder seal carries only two of them on it;

• One Yang energy; the outward directed ‘male’ energy of thinking holds a ladder on the left hand side , with 5 steps representing 5 dimensions of consciousness. The ladder ‘floats’ above the 2^nd (Water) and the base on the 1^st dimension (Earth, the body). This indicates the goal of our individual Yang energy of connecting the ladder of Yang with two more dimensions in self and ground all seven of them by going deeply within self and knowing what you are here for
• One Yin energy; ‘the inward directed ‘female’ energy of feelings and emotions (2^nd dimension) will lead you towards knowing what you are here for and who you really are. This ‘knowing’ will erect the 3 dimensions (body, feelings and thinking) and ground them at the same time on Earth.
• A 3d ‘invisible’ energy in between them that is marked by the 4 dots that need to be connected by our own individual Free Will. As of then it will look like an X . This is the task of our 2^nd Yang energy in self; connecting the dots of Yin and Yang in the self and applying the higher Self in our daily lives on Earth.

Both Yang and Yin figures are standing rectangles (portals) and in between is the X that is formed by ‘connecting the dots’ ( for the meaning of X: https://www.eternalsymbols.com/the-mathematical-number-phi-and-its-true-meaning/).

While ancient Sumeria  is nowadays present day Iraq this symbolic representation of ancient knowledge still lives in the consciousness of people that live at a remote distance of Iraq; in Myanmar close to the Chinese border. The women of this particular tribe, the Akha, embroider these motives on their costumes, bags and they adorn their infants with them as they still are aware that all is energy and we are not just our bodies. They surround themselves with constant reminders of that Truth. They wear that Truth themselves as women from the beginning of days, were regarded to be the bearers of Wisdom and closer to that ideal of Wisdom on Earth than men are.

Figuur 2 Detail from an embroidered bag from ethnic minority in Northern Myanmar; the present time

The motive in green is referred to by the community as ‘the buffalo’ (water buffalo). This animal is used as a workforce on the watery rice fields and connected with anything to do with strength and power. You can see that the two rectangles in the green and white are like communicating vessels by means of the X in between. The Yin energy communicates the light (Love) from the depth of inner Earth dimension (Wisdom) and via the X the Yang energy needs to walk this Wisdom in the daily ‘outer’ life on Earth. In this way he/she  fulfills his task of lifting the Yang energy in Self; it was ingrained in the seed that was to be his/her body. The embroidery is very detailed as the twofold exchange in energy is doubly embroidered and referring to the number 4 which means bringing the two lower dimensions in an upgrade to the 4^th dimension. The duality is superseded and ‘the waters’ have calmed, can be ‘walked over’.

The motive of the buffalo appears in the middle of the 5^th layer and it is green. By being an uneven number 5 refers to Yang energy integrated in Nature (green, 4) where the seed of everything contains the whole tree or whatever it is the seed of; it is a teleologic ordering of Yin and Yang that is active in Nature to bring forth new life; its purpose is already ingrained in the seed and that applies to the human being too!  On the decorative bag there are thus 8 layers, a Yin number. When I carry this bag around unknowingly to the world I show people how this Universe we live in is structured…as a reminder that we are all on a Mission (https://www.eternalsymbols.com/a-global-and-an-eternal-symbol/).

The whole embroidered front covers a black layer and the lower two dimensions cover a red (consciousness) section of that black (unconscious). It indicates clearly the two lowest dimensions in self; Earth and Water that underpin the 3 dimensions that are in duality here on Earth and that therefore need investigating to overcome that inner duality. It may take as long as you live…No easy task!!