Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

FOUNTAIN OF WATER

A symbol of the source of Life, as an outpouring of Truth from above.

"Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain: if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sink into the muddy pool of conformity and tradition." - JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica, Scott's Lib. Ed., p. 31.

"For with thee (O God) is the fountain of life; in thy light shall we see light.” - Ps. xxxvi. 9.

“The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death." - PROV. xiii. 14.

The law of Truth brings eternal life to the aspiring qualities.

“The fountain is treated as a living thing, those properties of its waters which we call natural are regarded as manifestations of a divine life, and the source itself is honoured as a divine being." - W. R. SMITH, Religion of the Semites, p. 184.

"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water." - PROV. viii. 23, 24.

The Higher Self was, is, and shall be, and existed before the lower nature. Prior to the reflection of the Self in the lower nature,-astro- physical, (the depths), the Self had emanated from the Supreme. The Self existed before the Truth was declared.

"The fountain that rises in my heart can only spring up heavenward, because the water of it flowed down into my heart from the higher level. All love must descend first, before it can ascend." - A. MACLAREN, Sermons, 1st Series, p. 190.

See Also

ANDUISUR
AQUARIUS
WATER
WELL
WHITE