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GARMENTS (LOWER ASPECT)
Symbolic of opinions, prejudices, confining
notions, narrowness of ideas, habits of low thought, literalism, and
the “higher criticism” of scriptures.
These limitations of mind pertain to the lower mental plane, and
enclose the ego in shells of mental matter, often very difficult and
painful to get rid of. They have to be broken up by the advent of
life and truth from the Spirit within.
“And he (blind Bartimeus), casting away his garment, sprang up, and
came to Jesus." - MARK X. 50.
The aspiring mind rises and casts off his garment because he has,
first, to make the effort to rise of his own accord, and stand (as
it would appear); and second, he must needs cast away his old
prejudices and confining opinions, symbolised by the garment, before
he can go to the Christ within.
"Proclus has it: The soul, on descending into the body, forsakes
unity, and around her, from all sides, there grow multiform kinds of
existence and manifold garments; ‘love of honour is the last garment
of souls’; and when, in mounting up, we lay aside our passions and
garments which, in coming down, we had put on, we must also strip
off that last garment, in order that having become (entirely) naked,
we may establish ourselves before God, having made ourselves like to
the divine life." - From HUGEL, Mystical Element, Vol. II. p. 98.
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