A Word With Regard to The Use of Symbols

In order to relate the SONG OF SOLOMON to the love-life of our Lord, it becomes necessary to use symbols. Yet the use of any object as a symbol does not involve its relationship to anything, or everything, else. A circle may be used to symbolize “endlessness”– eternity: yet this does not necessarily involve the fact that in a circle every point of it is equidistant from its center; nor that there are 360 degrees in a circle. These facts are not relevant to the purpose.

Blue is a color often used to symbolize faithfulness; yet its use as a symbol does not involve the fact that it can be the blue of the sky, the blue of the ocean, or the blue of a piece of material.

In the SONG OF SOLOMON, we have used the female breasts to symbolize an outgoing love – from one life into that of another. This does not involve the fact that only a nursing mother (married, or otherwise), can have milk-giving breasts! Not even the fact that the female breasts may be used to symbolize femininity, or beauty, is relevant here. In our symbolism, we are concerned only with this specific purpose, for which the female breasts were intended by the Creator. All else, is here, irrelevant! Let it be noted how the Apostle Paul uses the symbol, for he, who spoke of the Church of this Gospel age as an “espoused virgin” (2 Cor. 11:2), also declared that he (a member of this virgin class) had been a “nursing mother” to those of Thessalonika. (1 Thes. 2:7 – Way’s Translation; An American Translation).

Anton C. Frey