Chinese Ideogram Shan for Mountain The Chinese ideogram shan for mountain has three strokes— bottom k'an is a container with vertical down stroke kun appearing as "1". On "Kabbalah" lecture in Cambridge, Mass. June 6, 1973, Carlos Suarès gave insights on letters on the Hebrew alphabet— "Aleph, first letter is infinite energy" "Beth, house, is container of this energy" , together they form image shan for mountain. In Chapter III "The Way of Ascent" in Harold Bayley's Lost Language of Symbolism is a figure of "Dove on the mountain-top" with mountain image as the Chinese shan and the dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit for in myth, birds represent the human soul and Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens 1617 alchemical work shows birds on mountain-tops in Emblema VII and Emblema XLIII. Since the mountain peak is highest point on earth, it's the meeting place of heaven, home of the gods— all depicted in the Chinese ideogram shan for the vertical stroke kun is heaven and the bottom strokes k'an is earth— only a sage could have envisioned this! Wei Wu Wei says "an awakened sage lives & thinks vertically"— no wonder the Platonic Lambda Λ "Soul of the Universe" is shaped like a mountain.           Peter Y. Chou           Mountain View, 1-22-2018, 3:06 am Dove on Mountain-top Figure 74 on page 39 of Lost Language of Symbolism Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617) Emblema VII Eagles on Mountain-top Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1617) Emblema XLIII Vulture on Mountain-top Platonic Lambda (Timaeus 35b)