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JORDAN
A symbol of the “river of Life,” the spiritual
life-essence flowing from above and traversing the lower planes.
“Under the Jordan we have to understand the Word of God who became
flesh and tabernacled among us, Jesus who gives us as our
inheritance the humanity which He assumed.” – Origen, Comm. on John,
Bk. VI. § 25.
For he (the Logos) is Ocean—“birth-causing of gods, and
birth-causing of men”—flowing and ebbing for now up and now down.
When Ocean flows down, it is the birth-causing of men; and when he
flows up it is the birth-causing of gods. For from water alone, that
is Spirit, is begotten the spiritual man, not the fleshly. This is
the Great Jordan, which flowing downwards and preventing the sons of
Israel from going forth out of Egypt, or from the intercourse below,
was turned back by Jesus and made to flow upwards (Naassene
Document). – Hippolytus, Philosophumena.
This refers to the Divine Life or Spirit (water) descending into
Matter, and again ascending therefrom. The descending process is
Involution which perfects the Archetypal Man, and causes the birth
of human souls on the mental plane. The ascending process is
Evolution, which causes the birth of the higher qualities (gods) and
souls made perfect through the power of the indwelling Christ
(Jesus). “Egypt,” etc., signifies the lower nature in which the egos
are immersed, until the flow of the Divine Life is reversed by the
Spirit (Jesus) and through Evolution rises to the buddhic plane
(Jerusalem above) carrying with it the souls of humanity, raising
them from death unto the life eternal.
“In all we think and feel, and do, and suffer, we are like the water
that comes down from above, seeking to get back to where we came
from. Despite all hindrances and setbacks, we are one and all making
towards the ocean of perfect unity in Christ, whence our full
humanity, now knowing itself divine, shall be lifted up and
glorified eternally by the Holy Spirit of God.” – R. J. Campbell,
Serm., Our Quest for God.
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