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BIRTH OF THE MAN-CHILDA symbol of the emergence of the Higher Self or Soul on the buddhic plane at an early period during the cycle of involution of all qualities and forms. “And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness." - REV. xii. 5, 6. The Wisdom principle at its highest level brought forth the Self into manifest existence in which the dual aspects spirit and matter, or good and evil, are evidenced. The incarnate Self is destined to rule all the various qualities of the soul through the mind (iron); and the Self being involved it is retained in a state of subjectivity in the causal-body (throne) above the conflicts of the opposites, while the Wisdom principle also becomes subjective and inoperative for a season. The Christ is here represented as born upon the buddhic plane in relation to the purified part of the lower nature below. “By the woman clothed with the sun,' John meant most manifestly the Church, endued with the Father's word, whose brightness is above the sun. And by the moon under her feet' he referred to her being adorned, like the moon, with heavenly glory. And the words, upon her head a crown of twelve stars,' refer to the twelve apostles by whom the Church was founded. And those, 'she being with child, cries, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered,' mean that the Church will not cease to bear from her heart the Word that is persecuted by the unbelieving in the world. And she brought forth a man-child, who is to rule all the nations'; by which is meant that the Church, always bringing forth Christ, the perfect man-child of God, who is declared to be God and man, becomes the instructor of all the nations. And the words, her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne,' signify that he who is always born of her is a heavenly king, and not an earthly." - HIPPOLYTUS, Christ and Antichrist, § 61. "Church" is a symbol of the religious consciousness which, when purified sufficiently, must bring forth the Christ in the human soul, the expression (Word) of the Truth within. “There is to be mentioned the mystic suggestiveness of the declaration that the Christ born in any human heart is immediately caught up to the throne of God. . . . Once let a human soul attain to Christ-consciousness-that is, once rise from the merely natural to spiritual plane-once look out upon life from that standpoint, and I do not believe it is ever really possible to lose the glad possession and be as though it had never been. For what comes, then, in this new birth, as it is rightly called, is an inrush of the eternal, of the invincible reality which is enthroned far above all the vicissitudes of time and sense. ... .. Caught up to the throne of God, far above the reach of evil, does not mean taken away from the human heart. Spatial dimensions have nothing to do with the matter. The throne of God is in the soul itself; the eternal dwells in the midst of time; there is no leap to take, no gulf to cross, to reach the Christ of glory; here he is." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Assumption of the New-born Christ. |
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BIRTH OF HORUS
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