The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Blacksmith forge

  • a place where metal is worked with, symbolizes the process in which concentration and acts (fire) transform the solid structure of metals (rigid relations) into liquid, thereby allowing for emotions to enter the process of forming new relations.
  • with a burning furnace: the continuous transformation of the mind's content via the inner fire ignited by concentration; the glass product characterizes the mind's content or symbolically the unification process that can also be depicted by the melting itself.