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PILGRIMA symbol of the Monad, either of the World-soul or of the individual soul. It may be taken as atmic, or as atma-buddhic (two in one). "'Pilgrim' is the appellation given to our Monad (the Two in one) during its cycle of incarnations. It is the only immortal and eternal principle in us, being an indivisible part of the integral whole the Universal Spirit, from which it emanates, and into which it is absorbed at the end of the cycle." — BLAVATSKY, Secret Doctrine, Vol. I. p. 45. "Starting upon the long journey immaculate, descending more and more into sinful matter, and having connected himself with every atom in manifested Space, the Pilgrim, having struggled through, and suffered in, every form of Life and Being, is only at the bottom of the valley of matter, and half through his cycle, when he has identified himself with collective Humanity. This, he has made in his own image. In order to progress upwards and homewards, the God' has now to ascend the weary uphill part of the Golgotha of Life. It is the martyrdom of self-conscious existence. Like Vishvakarman, he has to sacrifice himself to himself in order to redeem all creatures, to resurrect from the many into the One Life." — Ibid., p. 288. "Within the divine infinitude all the aspects of the perfect experience which I have named (life, love, joy, rest, activity), are fully included and imply each other. But we are only on the way to this; we are in process of becoming; and hence it is necessary that at various points on our pilgrimage we have to pass from a lesser to a larger apprehension of spiritual reality by sacrificing it on its lower planes; have to die to live. But there is never any real dying, never any permanent giving up; it only seems to be so. You never can relinquish anything that is rightfully yours nor can you put it from you; you only lay it down for a moment to grasp it again with a greater power and closeness." — R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Life's Great Antinomy. |
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