Chapter 62The Animal World · Peacock
Book 5. Part Two: The Opening of the Inner Senses · Section Three: Symbols
The peacock is the Bird of Victory.
* A peacock is the symbol of spiritual victory.
* The peacock signifies victory — in Yoga the divine victory. The clear sky would indicate perhaps the mental part cleared of ob-scurities. Seeing the higher part of the bodies [of the peacocks] would mean a victory in the higher parts of the consciousness, in the mental (head and neck) and perhaps also in vital mind and in emotional.
3 The correspondent saw four ducks with uplifted necks, illuminated with white light, advancing in a row. — Ed.