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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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HONOUR, MEED OR PRIZE OF
This signifies the treasure of the things of the
Spirit laid up in heaven as reward for merit, as it were, for those
egos who have done valiantly and have conquered the lower nature.
"To him then made answer fleet-footed god-like Achilles : 'Most
noble son of Atreus, of all men most covetous, how shall the
great-hearted Greeks assign thee a meed of honour? We know naught of
any wealth of common store, but what spoil we took from captured
cities hath been apportioned, and it is not fitting to collect all
this back from the folk." - Iliad, Bk. I.
To the Desire-mind (Agamemnon) comes by way of the Intellect, the
questioning spirit, and it perceives that the Personality (Achilles)
is illusory and rooted in egoism; and is led to ask how the higher
mental qualities shall uplift and transform the lower self,
assigning honour to it. The Personality is unaware of the existence
of any inexhaustible mine of wisdom, and cannot conceive of that
which is self-derived from within ; and falsely imagines that
knowledge is only borrowed, or acquired through study, or captured
from without. It perceives that the knowledge it has already
acquired has been applied to life (i.e. turned to personal
advantage), and the ends which were sought have been attained. These
low ends which have been realised are not to be forfeited, but are
to be expanded to the real objects of evolution.
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