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BOAT OF THE EARTH
A symbol of the sub-cycle of the re-incarnations
of the Self in the lower bodies below the causal-body, in the cycle
of involution.
"Immediately in the fair way of the course of Afu-Ra (in the third
division of the Tuat) is a group of eight gods who bear on their
shoulders a long pole-like object, each end of which terminates in a
bull's head. This object is intended to represent the long tunnel in
the earth, each end of which was guarded by a bull, through which,
according to one tradition, the night Sun passed on his journey from
the place of sunset to the place of sunrise. There is no doubt that
it originally represented a kind of Tuat which was complete in
itself, as the bull's heads, one at each end of it, prove." - BUDGE,
Egypt. Heaven and Hell, Vol. III. p. 126.
The third division of the cycle of life is on the mental plane. The
bull's head is a symbol of the lower quaternary, and the eight
figures supporting the pole indicate, probably, duality on the four
lower planes. The passage through the "tunnel in the earth"
signifies the incarnation of the Self (Afu-Ra) in the lower nature
(earth).
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