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STARS AS SOULS, OR GODS
Symbolic of the Divine Sparks or Monads of life (atma-buddhic),
which descend into the lower vehicles, and are the spiritual egos in
the causal-bodies of every human being.
"God divided the whole mixture into souls equal in number to the
stars, and assigned each soul to a star." - PLATO, Timæus, 41.
"Souls equal in number to the stars." - PHILO, De Som., I. 22.
"Philo also (besides Plotinus) accepted the opinion attributing life
and mind to the stars." - WHITTAKER, Neo-Platonists, p. 88.
"At the time when the pictorial hieroglyphics were first being
formed (in Babylonia), the star was already the symbol and
representation of the divine. At most we can only suggest that the
zi, or spirit, was localised in the star. A spirit of the sun was as
conceivable as a spirit of Ea, and the son of Ea, it must be
remembered, became a sun-god. 'The zi of the god' meant originally
the spirit of the star.' - SAYCE, Rel. of Egyyt. and Babyl., p. 481.
"The fixed stars are also the essences, or souls of matter. A living
soul, the sublimated essence of matter, is denominated a star. These
stars and essences became Gods. They were regarded as having divine
attributes. The stars look down from their region of purity and
stillness on the world of men, and they influence the fortunes of
men invisibly, but most powerfully. There is a remarkable analogy in
the double meaning of our word spirit and that of the Chinese word
sing (star). The terms for soul and for essence-in Chinese shin and
tsing-are often convertible, as they are in our language." - J.
EDKINS, Religion in China, pp. 106-7.
In the Greek and the Japanese legends "star-gods" "star-gods" are
also mentioned. They are the Divine spirits within the souls of
humanity powerfully influencing their development.
"Our forefathers in the most remote ages have handed down to us
their posterity, a tradition in the form of a myth that these
substances (i.e. the stars) are gods, and that the divine encloses
the whole of nature." - ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics.
"By the stars we understand two things (1) How innumerable the
saints, those spiritual stars shall be (HEB. xi. 12). (2) How they
shall differ each from other in glory" (1 COR. xv. 41). - J. BUNYAN,
Exposition of Genesis.
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