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GEUSH-TASHA
CUTTER OF THE OX; AND GEUSH URVA (GOSHURUN)

Symbols of the lower self which cuts off the intuition, and the personality which differentiates the qualities.

"The Geush-tasha frightened by this cry (of the Geush-urva for help), asked the archangel Asha as to who had been appointed to protect the Geush-urva. Asha referred him to Mazda, who is the most wise and the giver of oracles. Mazda answered that Geush-urva was being cut into pieces for the benefit of the agriculturalist.'"-Yasna, 29; HAUG'S Essays, p. 148.

The "Geush-tasha" is that principle of the lower self which defines and limits, causes contrasts and perception of differences; and leads also to perception of affinities on the life side. The Geush-urva" is the personality which had been imperilled of its homogeneity by onslaughts from with-out upon it, which cause it to exert such kama-manasic energy as suffices to enable the lower self (Geush-tasha) to function completely on the astromental plane. The conditions which give rise to this functioning are for the time powerless to withstand the strenuous attempts to triumph over them (or prematurely supersede them) made by the Self through its outgoing energy. In self-protection the impulse then comes to the lower self to turn within from the outer conditions, to that Divine Life which ordains them as a means whereby development is rendered possible. Then it is that the inner conviction is borne in upon the soul that the personality is being hewn in pieces (because homogeneity limits the Life) for the sake of the operations for growth which are being carried forward in the astral nature,— to wit, the resulting expansion of the higher emotions which necessitate that the lower and now outgrown and imperfect astro-mental receptacle of the reflection of the Self shall be superseded by the higher vehicle.

The literal meaning of the word Geush urva, 'soul of the cow,' implies a simile; for the earth is compared to a COW. By its cutting and dividing, ploughing is to be understood." - HAUG, Ibid., p. 148.

See Also

AGRICULTURE
ASHA-VAHIST
BULL
Cow
CULTIVATION
GOLDEN FLEECE
GOSHURUN
ORACLE
PERSONALITY
PLOUGHING
VESSEL