Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

BRIDGE OF HEAVEN 

A world-wide symbol of the higher mental plane which lies between the lower mental plane and the buddhic plane or heaven-world, and therefore is, as it were, a “bridge "' from the lower nature to the higher nature.

"I (the Father) also wish thee to look at the Bridge of my only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, for it reaches from Heaven to earth; that is, that the earth of your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby. I say, then, that this Bridge reaches from Heaven to earth, and constitutes the union which I have made with man. And observe that it is not enough, in order that you should have life, that my Son should have made you this Bridge, unless you walk thereon." - ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA, Revelations, etc., LIX.

"In Him, the heaven, the earth, and the sky are woven, the mind also with all the senses. Know Him alone as the Self, and leave off other names. He is the bridge of the Immortal, i.e. the bridge by which we reach our own immortality.” - Mundaka Upanishad, II. 2, 5.

The Higher Self as the Individuality is seated in the causal-body on the higher mental plane, and thus he can be spoken of as the "bridge to immortality," the "way, the truth, and the life." The indwelling Self is the soul's Saviour by whom our deficiencies are made good, our imperfect nature built upwards to perfection.  

See Also

BALANCE (heart)
BIFROST
Bow
HIKOBOSHI
KINVAT
RAINBOW
RECOLLECTION
REINGA