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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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SILVER AND GOLD (NOT AS MONEY)

Symbols of the mental qualities and the buddhic; or silver = moon, passive, and gold = sun, active.

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine (JOB xxviii. 1). In silver the power of speaking, in gold brightness of life or of wisdom is used to be denoted." - ST. GREGORY, Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. II. p. 343.

"The Alchemists held that the Divine Idea is always aiming at Spiritual Gold — divine humanity, the New Man, citizen of the transcendental world, — and 'natural man' as we ordinarily know him is a lower metal, silver at best." - E. UNDERHILL, Mysticism, p. 169.

 

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ALCHEMY
GOLD
LOST (silver)
MAN (Natural)
METALS
RACES