<Dd> "a symbol, like everything else, shows a double aspect . We must distinguish, therefore between the' sense' and the' meaning' of the symbol . It seems to me perfectly clear that all the great and little symbolical systems of the past functioned simultaneously on three levels: the corporeal of waking consciousness, the spiritual of dream, and the ineffable of the absolutely unknowable . The term' meaning' can refer only to the first two but these, today, are in the charge of science--which is the province as we have said, not of symbols but of signs . The ineffable, the absolutely unknowable, can be only sensed . It is the province of art which is not' expression' merely, or even primarily, but a quest for, and formulation of, experience evoking, energy - waking images: yielding what Sir Herbert Read has aptly termed a' sensuous apprehension of being' . </Dd> <P> Jared Elisha defined symbolism that is something that stands for another, it can be place, object, or a person </P> <P> Heinrich Zimmer gives a concise overview of the nature, and perennial relevance, of symbols . </P> <Dl> <Dd> "Concepts and words are symbols, just as visions, rituals, and images are; so too are the manners and customs of daily life . Through all of these a transcendent reality is mirrored . There are so many metaphors reflecting and implying something which, though thus variously expressed, is ineffable, though thus rendered multiform, remains inscrutable . Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves the truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them . Each civilisation, every age, must bring forth its own ." </Dd> </Dl>

Where do you place the symbols that represent the state of matter in an equation