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NORNOR, OR NORNSSymbols of the life forces of specialised tendency and fixed limitation to an ideal type or figure, which operate in forming the soul-sheaths or bodies on the several planes. “Near the fountain Urdar, which is under the ash Yggdrasil, stands a very beauteous dwelling, out of which go three maidens, named Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld (i.e. Present, Past, and Future). These maidens fix the lifetime of all men, and are called Norns. . . . They draw every day water from the spring, and with it and the clay that lies around the fount sprinkle the ash, in order that its branches may not rot and wither away. The water is so holy that everything placed in the spring becomes as white as the film within an egg-shell. The dew that falls thence on the earth men call honey-dew, and it is the food of the bees.” – Prose Edda; MALLET, North. Antiq., pp. 413–414. In the higher mind, which is a fount of truth to the lower nature, is placed the causal-body as a centre for the life forces which go forth to construct the vehicles wherewith the individual soul manifests itself on each plane of nature. The present vehicle is the astro-mental, the past the astral, and the future the causal. These forces are determined by the Archetype or Divine pattern within, which fixes for each soul the instrument through which it may work. Drawing intelligence and formative direction from the higher mind, they conserve and nourish the Divine Life (the Tree) in each human being. The water of Truth purifies every quality that receives it, and as it flows downward it becomes sustenance to the striving egos. |
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