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AIR; THE ATMOSPHERE“A symbol of the mental plane; the plane midway between earth "" the lower planes, and "'heaven" the higher planes. Air (mind) is that element in which "animals " (desires and emotions) and "plants" (instincts, feelings, etc.) live and move. The higher mental plane is the plane of creation in which ideas take form for embodiment beneath. "The air, moreover, is the engine or machine, through which all things are made." - HERMES, The Perfect Sermon, § 3. “By air as by a thread, O Gautama! this world and all beings are strung together." - Brihad. Upanishad, III. 7, 2. “The intermediate space of air, between heaven and earth. These three, heaven, earth, and air, are the favourite group of three in the Rigveda, underlying all manner of applications of the number." - H. W. WALLIS, Cosmology of the Rig Veda, pp. 113, 114. "By the air is signified all things relating to perception and thought, and respiration corresponds to the understanding, thus to perception and thought, and also to faith, because faith is of the thought according to the perception of the understanding." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 708. "The air is the guru, water our father, and the great earth our mother; “Day and night are our two nurses, male and female, who set the whole world a-playing “ (The Japji).—M. A. MACAULIFFE, The Sikh Religion, Vol. I. p. 217. The higher, or spiritual, mind is the teacher of the soul; the Divine Reality, or Truth, is the source of all things; and Buddhi gives birth to, and directs, the lower nature. Involution and Evolution are the processes, masculine and feminine, by which the Self is tended and brought up, and through which the lower nature is filled with activity. When a novel opinion begins to be widely accepted it is said to be "in the air," that is, in the mental atmosphere or general mind of humanity. Thus this very common sacred symbol air as signifying mind is generally recognised by people, though so seldom applied in the interpretation of the Scriptures. |
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