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GOSHURUN
A symbol of the personality which proceeds from
the astral principle.
"But when the Bull died Kaiomarts (Gayomard), the first man, came
out of his right shoulder, and from the left Goshurun, the soul of
the Bull, who now became the guardian spirit of the animal race." -
Zoroastrian System, CLARKE.
This signifies the period at the commencement of evolution, when man
is evolved from the involved Monad. Kaiomarts is the Archetypal Man
who comes forth into activity upon the buddhic and higher manasic
planes. The "right shoulder" signifies the outgoing, positive force;
the "left" is the astral principle from which arises the personality
(Goshurun) which becomes the regulator of the desires and lower
activities. The "primal Bull" signifies the matrix of all living
things upon the lower planes, and its "death" is the ensouling of
the monad of form on the mental plane by the monad of life.
"Also the whole realm of the clean animals and plants came from the
Bull's body. Full of rage, Ahriman now created the unclean
animals,—for every clean beast, an unclean." - Ibid.
From the same matrix proceeded also the "clean beasts," that is,
those natural activities which were in the astral course of
production. And in process of time the opposites of these were
brought forth; the positive implying negative, the good, the bad,
the strong, the weak, and so forth.
"Thus Ormazd created the dog, Ahriman the wolf; Ormazd all useful
animals, Ahriman all noxious ones; and so of plants." - Ibid.
The "dog" and the "wolf" symbolise the higher and lower minds or
wills. The "useful" and "noxious" creatures represent those
apparently beneficial, and those deleterious functions, both of
which are, however, necessary to the evolution of the soul. The
plants signify the minor activities in the earliest functionings of
soul growth.
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