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ANIMALS, TAMED AND WILDA symbol of the desires passions and appetites both disciplined and undisciplined They are of the astral plane and pertain to animal man of the lunar pitri development Thus in the living soul shall there be good beasts in gentleness of action and good cattle and good serpents not destructive to do hurt but wise to take heed Augustine Confessions p 377 The animal nature the fighting nature even the ape and tiger qualities have their use as the sheathing of the divine humanity that is to be they have to be transcended but never wholly destroyed R J Campbell Serm Coming to the True Self If the animal in us is not subject to the mind it is because the mind or man is not subject to the Lord A Jukes Types of Genesis p 125 In the Levitical Law the inferior animals were made by God to be symbols to man of his own vicious propensities and so became instruments of moral and spiritual teaching to His people Wordsworth Bible Job p 96 A twice born man who knowing the true meaning of the Veda slays an animal for sacrifice causes both himself and the animal to enter a most blessed state Manu V 42 An individuality who realises the truth of the Divine scheme offers up his desire nature and by so doing attains a state of bliss while the desire nature itself is transmuted to the buddhic plane |
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