9. Knowledge and Wisdom: The Illuminating Spark
Blue lightning has been connected in various civilisations with unexpected insight, knowledge gained, or the bestowal of wisdom. Often perceived as comparable to the sudden awareness of a difficult idea or the disclosure of secret facts was the brief, brilliant burst of blue lightning.
Blue lightning was seen in some esoteric traditions to be a channel for heavenly information reception. Sometimes mystics and seers would try to use lightning’s force to obtain more profound understanding of the universe’s secrets.
The ubiquitous term “a bolt from the blue,” which recounts a startling and unanticipated incident or insight, reflects this symbolism. Blue lightning’s unusual and striking character made it the ideal metaphor for those flashpoints of insight that seem to strike from nowhere and instantly illuminate our knowledge.