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GARMENTS (HIGHER ASPECT)
Symbolic of the buddhic and causal vestures, or
sheaths, of the soul; signifying wisdom and the higher intellect.
The higher emotions.
"To give unto them (the captives) a garland for ashes, the oil of
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the
Lord, that he might be glorified." - Is. lxi. 3.
The egos are liberated from captivity to the lower nature, and are
given the higher emotions in exchange for the lower illusions; love
and bliss for sorrow and suffering; the buddhic vesture of wisdom
for the trammels of ignorance; that so they may become unified
aspects of the Divine Life, instituted by the Higher Self for the
fulfilment of the purpose of the Supreme.
"And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal
apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with
a garment of fine linen and purple and the city of Sushan rejoiced
and was glad," - ESTHER viii. 15.
The indwelling Self, or Christ incarnate, went forth of the Supreme
invested with celestial attributes of intellect and purity, and
having supremacy over the lower nature; also endowed with devotion
to truth and with wisdom,--the buddhic robe. Then was the soul
abounding with energy and bliss.
"By garments in the Word are signified truths which invest good, and
in an opposite sense, falses which invest evil; for man is either
his own good or his own evil, the truths or falses thence proceeding
are his garments." - SWEDENBORG, Apoc, Rev., n. 166.
"Man is essentially a spirit. When that is realised, and the soul
within him is allowed to seek its proper goal, it will develop into
glorious beauty and proportion, and as it grows, weave for itself a
garment worthy its God-like origin and nature." - J. BRIERLEY,
Studies of the Soul, p. 112.
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