Willow Branch. With it Kwan-yin the Chinese goddess of mercy sprinkles about her the divine nectar of life. The willow branch is sometimes depicted in a vase.
Wood. Swedenborg makes wood a symbol of "celestial goodness in its lowest corporeal plane." Zen. The absolute is immanent in every man's heart. There is no use seeking Buddha outside your own nature-no Buddha but your own thoughts. Zen means' 'for a man to behold his own fundamental nature." Buddha is thought.
Zeus (Jupiter). In Greek art Zeus is always represented as a bearded map of noble and majestic mien. His attributes are the eagle, the sceptre and the thunderbolt. The thunderbolt in his hand typifies that he is the origin, beginning, middle and end of all things. He is heaven, earth, fire, water, day and night. His eyes are the sun and moon. He is space and eternity, the essence and life of all beings. He is sometimes represented in sitting posture in allusion to his immutable essence, the upper part of his body uncovered, typifying the upper regions of the universe, and covered from the waist down because in terrestrial things he is more secret and concealed. He holds the sceptre in the left hand because the heart is on the left side and the heart is the seat of understanding.
