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MA-A'SEH MERCABAH, OR THE OF EZE-CHARIOT-THRONE KIELA symbol of the Soul, that is, of the quaternary enthroning the higher triad, and constituting the vehicle of the Higher Self. "Four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and four wings. And their feet were straight feet." — EZEK. i. 5-7. Four soul-bodies, causal, mental, astral, and physical. The four faces stand for the interrelated means of the soul's progression, through mind (man), desire (lion), obedient flesh-body (ox), and the buddhic function (eagle). The wings typify aspiration and growth, and the feet, the physical foundation of advance in time and duality. "And they four (wheels) had one likeness and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. When they went, they went upon their four sides they turned not when they went." — EZEK. i. 16, 17. The four wheels of one likeness symbolise the incarnating cycles which are within the great cycle of life. Incarnation requires growth on the four planes (sides); and the souls advance and retreat unerringly to and from the physical existence. "And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible crystal. And under the firmament were their wings straight." — EZEK. i. 22, 23. And above the lower mind (head) was the higher mind (firmament), which the souls cannot consciously attain to until perfected (crystal). The souls rest when withdrawn to the higher mind, and their lower vehicles disappear. "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and upon the throne was the appearance of a man." — EZEK. i. 26. And on the higher mental plane was the causal-body (throne) formed through wisdom-love (sapphire), and it is the seat of the Higher Self. "And the Lord spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both thine hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city (Jerusalem)." — EZEK. x. 2. The Self enjoins the spiritual mind to take the buddhic fruits of the soul's experience on the lower planes, and purify therewith the central nature of the soul. "And their whole body (of cherubim), and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had." — EZEK. X. 12. And the soul-vehicles and all their attributes and functions, together with the re-incarnating life cycles, are to the ego the means of mental perception (eyes) of the activities on the various planes. |
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