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ADONIS OR TAMMUZA symbol of the Higher Self, the incarnate God
born in the soul. Adonis was conceived of the Divine Father, and
born of Myrrha-the purified lower nature. But before the birth,
Myrrha was changed into a tree, the " Tree of Life " from which
alone, as the Divine Ray from the Supreme, the Self may be born. The
lower love nature (Aphrodite) concealed the Holy Babe in the soul
(chest) and entrusted it to the emotion -nature (Persephone) which
being allied with the desire -nature (Hades) is detained in the "
underworld," or lower nature, subject to the developing process of
transitory form lives. The incarnate God is therefore bound by the
Divine (Zeus) law of the reincarnating cycle, and has to pass
through short periods of earth life or physical existence, with
intermediate periods of astral and mental existence of longer
duration. The death of Adonis through being wounded by a boar,
signifies the release of the soul from the underworld. The soul
being perfected, the last thrust of evil (the boar) causes, as it
were, the rise of the consciousness from the lower life to the
higher.
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