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APES (CYNOCEPHALI) NINE,
"WHICH SING TO RÅ AS HE ENTERETH THE TUAT"
These are symbolic of the myriad of egos who
shall rise through Christ to divine manhood. “Nine” is their
symbolic number, in that man becomes more than man when the “tenth”
— signifying completion and accomplishment — is reached. “The Souls
of the East (i.e. the Souls or Spirits who take the forms of apes
immediately the Sun has risen) pay homage to thee, and when they
meet thy Majesty they cry: ‘Come, come in peace!’ (Hymn to the
Setting Sun).” — Budge, *Book of the Dead*, p. 80.
“Open to me (Osiris) the doors with your hands, O ye Apes, unfold to
me the portals of the Courts, O ye Apes, and welcome the gods or
goddesses who have come into being from my divine Souls; come ye
into being for Khepera, O ye who have your being at the head of the
Tuat.” — Ibid.
This statement refers to the first division (Aries) of the cycle of
life (the Tuat). It is on the upper levels of the buddhic plane that
the Self (Sun) commences to manifest in abscondito (night). The
spiritual egos (apes) are represented as opening the “way of the
Lord,” because it is through their volition in harmony (singing)
with the Supreme (Ra) that manifestation takes place; and they enter
into being in order to undergo the suffering and sorrow of the lives
on earth. They come into being for Christ (Khepera) that they may
triumph over ignorance and evil, and rise with him to power and
glory at the end of the cycle.
“All protest against being coerced by an almighty power outside
ourselves ceases to have any point when we realise that the power
outside ourselves is what we ourselves essentially are. Indeed there
would be no power outside ourselves, we should never feel it or know
anything about it, if there were not power within ourselves
impelling us to enter into relations with it.” — R. J. Campbell,
Serm., *Who Compels?*
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