Cosmic symbolism : $b Being a discussion and exposition of some recondite and obscure points in the art of the Kabalists, the mysteries of sound, form and number, and the basic principles of cosmic symbolismSepharial
Religion
Cosmic symbolism : $b Being a discussion and exposition of some recondite and obscure points in the art of the Kabalists, the mysteries of sound, form and number, and the basic principles of cosmic symbolism
Sepharial
Cabala; Occultism; Symbolism; Symbolism of numbers
We have, I think, specific evidence of the Incarnation—of what? Of the
Christ, the Logos, the Word. Jesus the man, whose horoscope we have been
tracing, is not to be confounded with the Christ principle investing
that Personality, nor yet with the Spirit of God animating the Christ.
The relationship of these are apparently as Spirit, Soul and Body to one
another, that is—
Spirit = God.
Soul = Christ.
Body = Jesus.
This order seems to be supported by the earliest statements of the
Christian faith. The Master-Soul speaking through the person of Jesus
said: “These things I do not of myself but of the Spirit of God which
dwelleth in me,” and again, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God
and the Spirit of God dwelleth in _you_?” Further, the Master in bidding
farewell to His disciples said, “I go unto my Father and your Father,
unto my God and your God.” It is clear, therefore, in what relations the
incarnate Christ stood to humanity and to God. Other masters have
appeared at various times as manifestations of the Spirit of Truth,
Bodhisattvas as they are called in India, and are seen to be the
founders of schools of religious thought in all parts of the world. They
all answer to the universal paradigm, and consequently we find the same
myths and legends centring in them. Occasionally we get specific record
of the birth of these Great Souls. Thus we know that Confucius
(Kong-fu-tze) was born 550 B.C. on the 27th day of the 10th month, and
died on the 18th day of the 2nd month in the year 477 B.C., at the age
of seventy-three years. The birth of Gautama Sakyamuni is vaguely
indicated as having taken place at the full Moon of Jyestha. So far no
records have been discovered to throw light upon the year of birth, so
that we cannot determine the cosmic relations of this great luminary.
The birth of Sri S’ankarāchārya, however, is specifically indicated in a
stanza of Yidyāranya, where it is said that the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and
Mars were all in their exaltation signs, that is to say, in Aries,
Libra, Cancer and Capricorn respectively; and in _Kendra_, _i. e._ in
signs that were upon the angles of the horoscope. This is the ideal
horoscope of the successful reformer, and this Confucius of India, who
began his crusade at twenty years of age, has left his mark for all time
upon Indian thought and literature.
Wherever we can obtain the time of the incarnation of these Great Souls,
it is seen that either there are some special celestial portents
attending them or the planetary positions are such as to stamp the
horoscope at once as that of an epoch-making birth. The portents
attending the birth of Romulus, as recited by Dionysius, are no less
striking than those which signalized his death. Something of this sort
was obviously the belief in Shakespeare’s time concerning the death of
great men—
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