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SUN-RISING, OR DAWN

A symbol of the commencement of new cycle of life. The Higher Self (sun) beginning to appear in manifestation on the higher planes.

"That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." - MATTHEW v. 45.

The qualities of the soul are exhorted not to strive against their fellow qualities, but to assist them to purify themselves, so that all may be transmuted to the spiritual realm. For the Higher Self is established in the cycle from the commencement, for the purpose of raising all qualities, both evil and good, and therefore truth (rain) is poured forth both on the perfect and imperfect alike in response to their aspirations.

“Now the rising of the dawn' is the brightness of inward truth, which ought to be ever new to us. For the rising of this dawn is in the interior, where the brightness of the Divine Nature is manifested ever new to the spirits of the Angels." - ST. GREGORY, Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. I. p. 213.

"We learn that the highest is present to the soul of man, that the dread Universal Essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one, and each entirely, is that for which all things exist, and that by which they are; that spirit creates; that behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound, it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth, and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator." - EMERSON, Nature, Ch. VII.

See Also

ADITI
AIR
CHILDREN OF EAST
CREATION
DAWN
EAST
FATHER
HEAVEN
HORIZONS
HORSE SACRIFICE
JOB
LION-GOD
RAIN
SELF
SPIRIT