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ASSUMPTION OF THE MADONNAA symbol of the raising by the indwelling Self, of the purified emotion nature. "The Church speaks of the Ascension of Christ, and of the Assumption of Mary. Christ being deific in nature and of heavenly origin, ascends by his own power and will. But the soul is 'as. sumed' or drawn up by the power and will of her Son. Of herself she is nothing; he is to her all in all. Where he abides, thither must she be uplifted, by force of the divine union which makes her one with him. Henceforth she abides in the real, and has the illusions of sense for evermore under foot. It is not of herself that Mary becomes Mother of God in man. The narrative of the Incarnation implies a conjunction of human, though not physical, and Divine potencies. Mary receives her infant by an act of celestial energy over- shadowing and vitalising her with the Divine life."-The Perfect Way, p. 243. "In the Babylonion system it was taught that Bacchus went down to hell, rescued his mother from the infernal powers, and carried her with him in triumph to heaven (Apollodorus, lib. iii.). Now, when the mother of the Pagan Messiah came to be celebrated as having been thus 'Assumed,' then it was that, under the name of the 'Dove,' she was worshipped as the incarnation of the Spirit of God, with whom she was identified. As such she was regarded as the source of all holiness, and the grand 'Purifier,' and, of course, was known herself as the 'Virgin mother, 'pure and undefiled.' Under the name of Proserpine (with whom, though the Babylonian goddess was originally distinct, she was identified), while celebrated, as the mother of the first Bacchus, and known as 'Pluto's honoured wife,' she is also addressed in the Orphic Hymns, as 'All-ruling Virgin, bearing heavenly light.' To the fact that Proserpine was currently worshipped in Pagan Greece, though well known to be the wife of Pluto, the god of hell, under the name of the Holy Virgin,' we find Pausanias, while describing the grove Carnasius, thus bearing testimony: This grove contains a statue of Apollo Carneus, of Mercury carrying a ram, and of Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres, who is called ' the Holy Virgin.' The purity of this Holy Virgin did not consist merely in freedom from actual sin, but she was specially distinguished for her 'immaculate conception'; for Proclus says, 'She is called Corè, through the purity of her essence, and her undefiled transcendency in her generations.'" - A. HISLOP, The Two Babylons, pp. 125 |
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BIRTH OF JESUS
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