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SHEWBREAD, OR BREAD OF THE FACESA symbol of the higher qualities of goodness, love, and truth, evolved upon the buddhic plane, as result of transmuted experiences below during the soul's incarnations. “And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.” – LEV. xxiv. 5–9. “And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.” – EXOD. xxv. 30. It is enjoined that by the moral law (Moses), truth and goodness derived through the activities of the lower nature (two parts fine flour) shall be purified and transmuted (baked) into wisdom and love. These higher qualities of the soul are divisible into two sets, six of wisdom, and six of love, and these manifest in the higher mind (table) as the food for the soul. The mind thereby becomes purified and fragrant (frankincense), and so comes into harmonious relation with the vibrations from atma-buddhi (fire). Every periodic state of rest between incarnations, when the ego is indrawn, there shall be set forth this fruit of experience and the Spirit which devolves from the efforts and aspirations of the qualities (Israelites) according to the Divine law of growth. And this spiritual fruit shall become the food of the spiritual mind and its ideas (Aaron and sons) for the development of the causal-body (holy place), for these qualities of wisdom and love are the most perfect results following from the sacrifice of the lower to the higher, and the transmutations brought about by the eternal law. “The shewbread, literally the Bread of the Faces, or of the Presence, consisted of twelve loaves, which denoted the presence of Jehovah himself, under his twelve mystical faces at the altar.” – SMITH, Dict. of the Bible. The Divine “faces” signify the mental aspects of the higher qualities showing the Truth and Love of the Self (Jehovah); that is, showing the presence of the Self in the religious consciousness (altar). “The holy place, in which was the candlestick and the shewbread, the two great symbols of light and life, was the emblem of that more close and internal converse to which Christ admitted his faithful disciples and elected ones . . . And for the holiest of all, which was the abode of the Godhead.” – E. IRVING, Col. Writings, Vol. V. p. 259. |
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