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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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TROY

A symbol of the causal-body, the seat of the Self on the mental plane.

"The tale of Troy. Many of its incidents and characters are clearly symbolical; and the entire story can now be treated only as a sacred legend, a drama of religious strife reflecting the supposed operations of nature. . . . Troy was a divine city, its capture a divine event." - R. W. Mackay, Progress of the Intellect, Vol. I. p. 168.

"Ye sons of Atreus, and ye other well-greaved Greeks, to you indeed may the gods, possessing the heavenly dwellings, grant to destroy the city of Priam, and to return home safely." - Iliad, Bk. I.

The appeal of the spiritual mind (Chryses) is made to the Self through illusion (Atreus). From the higher planes (heavenly dwellings) may the Divine Power (gods) grant that the desires, in captivating the mind, become the means of apparently destroying the perfect causal-body, and so assist in furthering the evolution of the soul which is to return to its home above.

 

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ATREUS
CAUSAL-BODY
HELEN
ILIUM
PRIAM
SHIPS (Ilium)
TROJANS