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WIFE
A symbol of the emotion-nature (woman) in
alliance with the mind (man).
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." - GENESIS. ii.
24.
The mind, recognizing a superior duality within itself, shall quit
sense and desire, its lower parentage, and go in search of the ideal
higher emotions (buddhic, feminine). The twain are one when the mind
and higher emotion-nature are harmonious and at peace together.
"The Sacrificer addresses his wife, 'Come, wife, ascend we the sky'
(by the ladder). . . She, the wife, in sooth is one half of his own
self; hence as long as he does not obtain her, so long he is not
regenerated, for so long he is incomplete. But as soon as he obtains
her, he is regenerated, for then he is complete. Complete I want to
go to that supreme goal,' thus he thinks." - Sata. Bráh., V. 2, 1,
10.
The "sacrifice” is the ego manifesting as mind allied with the
emotion-nature. He seeks the ideal on the buddhic plane (sky); for
the emotion-nature is the complement of the mental-nature in the
regenerate soul. When complete union is accomplished between manas
and buddhi, then the supreme goal is attained.
"Wives be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife." - EPH. v. 22, 23.
The emotions must always be ruled by the intellect, until the Spirit
(Lord) rules both. For the intellect is the regulating,
rationalising, and balancing factor. (The best emotions exercised
without intelligence are productive of much evil). As the soul in
its religious aspect is subject to Christ, so let the emotions also
be subject to the intelligence in everything. The intelligence must
love the higher emotions, as Christ also loved the spiritual soul.
"To keep our emotional nature well under control of reason and will
is our duty." - A. MACLAREN, Sermons, 1st Series, p. 143.
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