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LOTUS, WATER LILYA symbol of Wisdom. The buddhic nature is that of Truth (water) and Beauty (flower) Water-lilies symbolise the free possession of all the treasures of God. For we notice four things in the water-lily. It keeps always above the water, and has four green leaves between the air and the water; and it is rooted in the earth, and above it is opened out to the sun - RUYSBROECK, Stoddart's trans., p. 52 He who, having entered the inner lotus of the heart, devours food, the same having gone to the sky as the fire of the sun, called Time, and being invisible devours all beings as his food. That lotus is the same as the ether: the four quarters, and the four intermediate points are its leaves - Mait. Upanishad, VI. 2 The indwelling Self being liberated from the lower nature enters the buddhic vehicle and partakes of the fruit of his experience,-wisdom and love; then having passed higher to the plane of atma at the end of the cycle, and becoming unmanifest, all qualities and beings become absorbed within Him. That buddhic nature is of the spiritual tree of Life, whose leaves may represent the lower quaternary and its centres of consciousness The lotus plant was as sacred with the Egyptians as with the Indians. According to Rouge, it was the symbol of the new birth; but Lepsius considers that it was the symbol of inexhaustible life - BARLOW, Essays on Symbolism, p. 32 |
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