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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

A symbol of the Higher Self, the centre of perfection and fount of truth.

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.” — MAL. iv.2.

To the disciplined qualities which yearn for perfection, the Higher Self (sun) shall arise within to impart truth and transmute their nature. They shall then go forth on higher planes, and develop in harmony and peace the higher emotions.

“The visible world is a book in which, if our spiritual eyes are open, we can read the nature of the invisible; in the soul of man we can discern the lineaments of God. … Metaphors and illustrations of spiritual ideas are only possible because of this undoubted correspondence between the two planes of being (higher and lower) with which we have to do. Take such a beautiful figure of speech as the following: ‘Unto you that fear my name, saith the Lord, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings.’ Here the sun of our visible universe is used as an image of God’s purifying action on the life of the soul; the righteousness of God is spoken of as rising like the sun upon human experience, bringing healing exactly as the rays of our earthly sun dissipate darkness and war against disease. … Everything in the universe that has power to awaken in us feelings of delight and elevation of soul is really a spiritual symbol, directly connected with that which it symbolises, a word of God. … The universe is a spiritual whole, a system within a system, a work revealing a work; it all means, for those who have eyes to read; it tells of what is hidden.” — R. J. CAMPBELL, *Serm., Spiritual Correspondences*.

 

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CALVES
CREATION
HEALING
HIGHER
IMAGE OF GOD
NAME
PROTOTYPES
WINGS