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The heart has long been perceived by mystics, as the seat of the soul or spirit, the engine of passion, thoughts and life. Heartbeat is seen as a reflection of the cosmic processes of expansion and contraction, involution and evolution. According to one Egyptian cosmogony, the god Ptah creation conceived in his heart - a repository of thoughts. A similar perception can be traced to the Bible: I the LORD search the heart. Out of the heart come evil thoughts. The idea of the heart as the center of the image of the world emphasizes the spiritual aspect of creation of the world (while the center of the universe focuses his sex, genetic background). Vertical human body captures three focus vitality: the brain, heart, and sex organs. However, central, central position is exactly the heart (cf. the Russian language and the middle of the heart, the heart), which is the center of all the qualities and powers. Different concepts of the center were somehow related to the education of the heart. To the alchemists heart symbolized the sun within man, just as gold was the image of the sun on the earth. With the heart communicates love symbolism, because love is presented as a fundamental spiritual value, raises man above the world, above the limitations of his own nature. Heart pierced by an arrow, a well-known allegory of love, but that image can be given another meaning: it is the human spirit (personified through space arrow), grasp the essence (core) of things, center. In the heart of the iconography depicted in the form of vases, cups, hence his association with the Grail, the spiritual first principles. Heart inscribed with shamrock symbol of spiritual immortality in Zoroastrianism, where it has spread throughout the early medieval world. Another version of the origin of the symbol indicates that it was due to the visual similarity of pattern, which forms the space between a pair of swans that swim to each other at a meeting. Swan Love, which has become the standard of fidelity and devotion, has turned this pattern into a symbol of love.