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FORTY DAYS AND NIGHTS

A complete series of re-incarnations in a stage or period of the soul's evolution. These re-incarnations are transitory conditions on the lower planes.

“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.” – Genesis vii. 4.

“Yet seven days,” — a numerical period which signifies completeness of a stage of activity. A flood of truth (rain) is to descend and envelop the lower nature. This outpouring from above is to last forty days and nights, meaning a period which corresponds to a term of the reincarnating cycle. The lower nature at this stage is to be transformed, that is, raised and purified; hence it will no longer exist as heretofore, but pass away.

 

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FACE (Ground)
RAIN (Deluge)
REINCARNATION
WILDERNESS