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TABLE OF THE LORD

A symbol of the highest part of the lower nature or the quaternary (four legs). It is in the religious consciousness (table top) that the selfish desires and aims are offered up to the Divine Ideal within. The desires being transmuted become the sustenance of the soul.

"Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. Ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and the table of devils."—1 Cor. x. 21.

It is not possible to receive measure of the Divine Life, while filling the consciousness with the life of the desires. The qualities cannot partake of the Divine sustenance of goodness and truth when they are being fed by the sensations and desires (devils). The Divine life of Wisdom and Love (the cup) is the antithesis of the self-seeking life of passion, appetite, and desire. If the higher life is to be accepted, then the lower life must be renounced.

See Also

ALTAR OF SACRIFICE
ANOINTING
BREAD
CUP
CUP OF WINE
OFFERING
RELIGION
SACRAMENT
SACRIFICE
TRANSMUTATION