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ROCK SPIRITUALA symbol of the Higher Self atma buddhi who outpours truth to dissipate illusion on the lower planes And Moses lifted up his hand and smote the rock twice and water came forth abundantly and the congregation drank and their cattle Num xx 11 It is the province of the rational and ethical nature Moses to prepare the way for the Spirit atma buddhi to outpour truth water so that the centralised qualities congregation and their emotions of an obedient and docile order should be instructed Striking the rock twice is significant of the appeal of the lower duality to the one Self The rod is a symbol of power Our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them and the rock was Christ 1 Cor x 1 4 Our egos were all under the discipline of the buddhic function the cloud and all passed through the conflict of passions and desires the astral sea and were all purified by truth water baptism imparted by reason and ethics Moses for the disciplining of the lower nature and did all receive sustenance for the soul from goodness and truth manna and did all have a part in the Divine life drink for they received into their inner nature the Spirit of Truth that followed the moral awakening and that Spirit was the Higher Self now born in the soul It appears that the greatest sanctity attached to caves in the living rock and there are many remains of Mithraic altars cut in rocks nay more the rock came to be specially associated with Mithras who was named rock born and the phrase God out of the rock or Mithras out of the rock became one of the commonest formulas of the cultus J M Robertson Pagan Christs p 318 Mithras is a symbol of the Higher Self and cave is a symbol of the soul in which the Self is manifested born |
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