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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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ADAM, DUAL

A symbol of the union in the soul of the mental and buddhic principles, -Buddhi-manas ,-the Divine Image.

"In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created." - GENESIS. v. 1, 2.

This passage refers first to the progeny of the mind, which are thought -states which proceeded successively when the mind came forth in its perfection as the image of God. The mind was endowed with " sparks " of the eternal " Fire ," namely the reason and intuitive principles. The "blessing " signifies the Divine Will operating through the human consciousness. The reference to the reason and intuition being " Adamic implies that the intellect is supreme over the intuition first of all.


 

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LIVING THINGS
MALE -FEMALE
TYRUS