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EARTH (SPECIALISED)

A symbol of the physical nature, or the physical plane, as the lowest plane of manifestation.

“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.” — GENESIS i. 22.

And now the Divine nature energies the functions of the physical, astral, and astro‑mental natures, and enjoins that the higher emotions are to increase in the soul, through the discipline of the physical nature (earth).

“The first of four human beings flew from the North, son of the essence of Water; the second from the South, son of the essence of red Earth.” — Chinese Legend.

The first world‑soul vehicle is the buddhic, which is ensouled by the Atman. The second is the physical, which is a response to the atmic from below, and, through the law of attraction, becomes the epitome of the atmic or love (red) aspect. (The third and fourth vehicles are the astral and the mental.)

 

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CREATURES
ELEMENTS (Five)
MULTIPLY
WATER (Lower)
WHALES