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FUGITIVE AND WANDERERA symbol of the ego or soul, separated apparently from its spiritual source and undergoing a series of transient terrestrial incarnations. "Behold thou hast driven me (Cain) out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and wanderer in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that whosoever findeth me shall slay me." - GENESIS iv 14 The ego, as the lower self, is brought to realise that it may no longer depend upon the lower knowledge for soul-subsistence, and it cannot tell where it shall seek for food convenient for its needs. Evolving from the lower nature, it does not yet know the Higher Self or source of its spiritual inspiration. It nevertheless sees that it must necessarily become a fugitive and wanderer, condemned to traverse a series of terrestrial incarnations, each of which is but temporary. And the ego fears that it shall lose its identity, knowing that it is at the mercy of higher stages of growth which practically as with animals admit of its extinction as individual continuity of consciousness at successive periods. "There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever anyone defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another. For mighty Air pursues him seaward, and Sea spews him forth on the threshold of Earth, and Earth casts him into the rays of the unwearying Sun, and Sun into the eddies of Air; one receives him from the other, and all hate him. One of these now am I too, a fugitive from the gods and a wanderer, at the mercy of raging Strife." - Empedocles FAIRBANKS 369 There is an indwelling inspiration of the Divine nature expressing itself in conscience, which is adapted to interpret to the inner soul, by way of experience under karmic law, the spiritual Truth underlying evolution. The Truth is then perceived through appearance or the falsity of the form-side of nature or is seen in the mayavic reflection below of things above or is recognised whenever an effort is made to transcend the limits of the form of thought. One of those spirits, a monad or ego, which inherits the eternal impress through its cyclic evolution, is separated from primordial perfection the blessed during the process of manifestation, being successively embodied in terrestrial forms of different kinds, exchanging one more or less hard and bitter pathway of life for another. For the Divine Mind mighty Air emanates the soul on the mental plane and precipitates it to the astral plane and the astral principle Sea as it were forces the soul on to the physical plane. That is, the functioning of the desire-principle which is the inverted reflection of the love-nature of the soul is the means of directing the physical vehicle through which the ego works and thus the consciousness is drawn to the physical brain and nervous system. Then the physical earth activity is the means of bringing the soul upward to the Higher Self the Sun and thus is the ego brought to self-consciousness on the mental plane. From plane to plane of nature growth towards perfection is accomplished and upon no one level is the pilgrim soul at home or at peace. Such an ego am I as it were a fugitive a wanderer passing from life to life cut off seemingly from the Divine source of my being the inner Self of all and in sorrow and suffering immersed in error and conflict. |
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