Caves
                                       as places of
                            divine manifestation

                                        the cave birthplace of jesus christ

                                              the garden tomb in jerusalem

Elijah in the Cave

Then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the
mountain of God.

At that place he came to a cave and spent the night there...

Then the word of the Lord came to him saying...
"Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by."

Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking
rocks in pieces before the Lord,
but the Lord was not in the wind;

and after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
and after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire;

and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.

When Elijah heard it he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out
and stood at the entrance of the cave.
                                                                                                            1 Kings 19:8-13

C.G.Jung
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
1968

The 'middle' is the centre where the jewel reposes, where the incubation or
the sacrificial rite or the transformation takes place.
Anyone who gets into that cave,
that is to say into the cave that everyone has in himself,
or into the darkness that lies behind consciousness,
will find himself involved in an -
at first - unconscious process of transformation....
The source of life is the place of darkness.

                                                                                When gold lay shining threading the cooled-off rock: God is born! God is born! bright yellow & ductile He is born.
                                                                                                                    D.H Lawrence

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