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FISH, GREAT

A symbol of the Higher Self as the supreme fact in the Ocean of Reality. The Divine Life of primordial Truth (water).

“He (God) had his dwelling in the Great Sea, and was a fish therein (Zohar).” - MYER, Qabbalah, p. 336.

“St. Augustine says of Jesus: ‘He is a fish that lives in the midst of waters.’ ‘So many fishes bred in the waters, and saved by one great fish,’—says Tertullian of the Christians and Christ and the Church.” - BLAVATSKY, Secret Doctrine, Vol. II. p. 327.

Brahma, Vishnu, Ea, Horus, Dagon were said to appear in fish form. In Christian iconography a symbol of the Saviour Jesus is a fish.

 

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ABTU FISH
DELUGE
EEL-GOD
HORN OF SALVATION
JESUS (Fish)
LAKE
OCEAN
PISCES
SHIPS OF MANU
WATER