Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

AMENI, THE SON OF MAN

 A symbol of the Higher Self born in the Soul.

"An Egyptian poet in the reign of Thothmes III had said :- A king shall come from the South, Ameni, the Truth- declaring, by name. He shall be the son of a Woman of Nubia, and will be born in [the south]. He shall assume the crown of Upper Egypt, and lift up the red crown of the North. He shall unite the double crown. The people of the age of the Son-of-man shall rejoice and establish his name for all eternity. He shall be removed far from evil, and the wicked shall humble their mouths for fear of him." - Papyrus 1116, St. Petersburg.

"The words 'son of man are a literal translation of the original si-n-sa." - SAYCE, Gifford Lectures, p. 248.

The Christ shall appear from within, and shall declare the Truth and the Right. He shall be born of Wisdom on the higher mental plane. He shall be ruler of the upper planes, and raise up through love the lower self. He shall triumphantly unite the higher and lower natures in the soul. The qualities (virtues) of the evolutionary period of the Divine Son-of-mind shall be transmuted, and his differentiation, or upward rise of consciousness, shall be established for ever. The Soul shall then be exalted above all relation to the lower planes, and illusion and error shall no longer be expressed within it.

"The half-mythical country in the South was known to the Egyptians as the land of the Gods.'" - Ibid., p. 134.

"Nubia," therefore, is a symbol of the Buddhic, or Wisdom plane; Upper Egypt, of the higher mind plane; Lower Egypt of the lower mind plane. The " great sea is the astral plane. In evolution the "Son" is necessarily greater than the "father"; so Son-of-mind is greater than mind.

The "wicked are the bad qualities which cannot be expressed (mouths) in the higher nature.

"Look not abroad for the blessings of Christ. His reign and chief blessings are within you. The human soul is his kingdom. There he gains his victories, there rears his temples, there lavishes his treasures. His noblest monument is a mind redeemed from iniquity, brought back and devoted to God, forming itself after the perfection of the Saviour." - W. E. CHANNING, Works, Vol. II. p. 204.

"One like unto a Son of Man (REV. i. 13). "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like unto a son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." - DAN. vii. 13, 14.

"There is very little doubt but that the imagery of the book of Daniel has inspired to a great extent that of the author of Revelation. The governing idea is the same in both, namely, that at the heart of the universe there is enthroned a being, a principle, a divine intelligence and power, so closely akin to ourselves that it (or rather he) might be said to wear the likeness of our humanity. It is remarkable how this conception rose and grew both in later Judaism and in Greek thought till it reached its culmination in Christianity.

This assertion of the cosmic significance of Christ is of the greatest value and importance to religion. It is nothing less than the revelation that that which has produced the world of worlds, that which has both created and redeemed us, that which is our source and our goal, has a nature like our own-nay more, is in a sense verily and undeniably Man. This idea did not come into the world with Christianity, it was here before it; it has received its highest development in Christianity, but one is glad to know that spiritually minded people had felt it to be a necessity of religious belief." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Eternal Man.

See Also

ARCHETYPAL MAN
BIRTH OF JESUS
BUDDHIC PLANE
CHRIST'S 2nd COMING COMING
CLOUDS OF HEAVEN
CROWNS (Egyptian)
EGYPT (higher and lower)
EVOLUTION
FATHER (lower)
HIGHER & LOWER NATURES
JESUS (son of man)
KING (great)
MAN (bad)
NAME
NUBIA
SEA
SON OF MAN
SOUL (middle)
SOUTH
WICKEDNESS
WISDOM
WOMAN
WORLD