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BA, THE SOUL

A symbol of the spiritual ego, or Divine spark, within each individual soul.

"In many texts the Ba is made to live with Ra or Osiris in heaven. . . In the Papyrus of Nebquet it is seen in the form of a human-headed hawk flying down the funeral pit, bearing air and food to the mummified body to which it belongs." - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, Vol. I. p. lx.

As the spiritual ego is atma-buddhic it is the same with "Osiris (atma) in heaven (buddhi)." The human-headed hawk" signifies the spiritual aspect of man. The "mummified body" signifies the purified personality which the spirit vitalises in its inner being, though its astro-mental form is left inactive and dead. The Ram-headed form of Osiris is sometimes called Ba

See Also

EMBALMENT
HAWK
MONAD OF LIFE
MUMMY
SON OF GOD
SPARK