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BULL, PRIMEVALA symbol of the Divine matrix of forms and qualities on the buddhic plane and reflected below on the astro-etheric plane. "In the second age Ormazd had also produced the great primæval Bull, in which the seeds of all living creatures were deposited." - Zoroastrian System. During the second period of cosmic activity, the Divine Will had created on the buddhic plane the womb of all living things upon the astral and etheric planes, and therein the mental seed-germ of the lower activities and forms is placed. "May he who is the strong Bull of the Vedas, assuming all forms, may that Indra strengthen me with wisdom." - Tait. Upanishad, 4. May the Divine Life which germinates within all forms bring the soul, through its devotion to truth and right, the strength of wisdom which is its heritage in heaven above. "The original of the universe contains in itself all intelligible beings, just as this world comprehends us and all other visible creatures... There is and ever will be one only-begotten and created heaven." - Plato, Timaeus, Jowett, Vol. III, p. 614. "The Mnevis Bull is called 'the renewing of the life of Rā.'" - Budge, The Mummy, p. 283. "Leather straps were made from the hide of the Mnevis Bull, which was burnt by Suti." - Budge, Egyptian Magic, p. 168. "There is no other thing besides like unto him; he is the Bull that beareth heaven and earth; of his own power he maketh his skin a source of light, when the bay horses carry him as the Sun." - Rig-Veda, X. 31, 8. In the Ottoman Sufi cosmogony a great Bull is one of the supporters of heaven and earth. The symbol "Bull" indicates the positive aspect of activity on the buddhic plane (Cow), and as this is the highest plane of the quaternary, it therefore bears, as it were, the higher and lower natures which are formed in it. The "renewing of the life of Rā" signifies the Divine Life out-poured on the buddhic plane (sign Taurus) at the opening of the manvantara. The skin or hide of the Bull is a symbol of the ordinances of the universe, which are external to the Self (sun) on the mental plane (horses); and the leather straps are the Divine laws binding on nature. The burning of the Bull by Suti (Set) has the same meaning as the killing of the Bull by Ahriman, with also a reference to purification of the soul by fire (buddhi). |
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