The Symbolism of the Ladder

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Ascending vs. descending. Culturally, we are stuck in the binary, that we must get up, ascend, transcend, escape this realm to get to heaven. But Jacob’s Ladder is a symbol for energy—angels—going up AND down. So much of our culture is fixated on going up and to the right, not understanding that everything is a circle, a spiral—there’s movement,…