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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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FACE OF THE GROUND

A symbol of the knowledge of appearances, or of the surfaces of things of the lower nature.

"'Behold, thou hast driven me (Cain) out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid." - GENESIS. iv. 14.

The lower self, or personality, is brought to realize that it may no longer depend upon the lower knowledge for subsistence or satisfaction, and it cannot tell where to seek for food convenient to its evolving nature. It does not yet know the Higher Self or source of its inspiration.

 

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CAIN
FORTY (Days)
Ground