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ANTHROPOS AND ECCLESIA
Symbols of the Divine Mind and the Soul or
Buddhic function, in relation to human development.
"The Valentinians maintain that the twelve apostles were a type of
that group of twelve Eons which Anthropos in conjunction with
Ecclesia produced." - IRENEUS, Against Heresies, Bk. II., Ch. 21.
The relationship of the twelve disciplined qualities with the twelve
stages of the cycle of life, is to be seen when we recognise the
close correspondence that obtains between the greater cosmic cycle
and the lesser individual cycle-between the macrocosmic and the
microcosmic processes. Each is typical of the other, or rather, the
lesser indicates the greater; that it will be seen that the
individual epitomises, as it were, the entire manifested
life-experience of the Logos. In each soul there are the twelve
"apostles" more or less developed, and these disciplined qualities
are to become more and more purified, and are to teach the lower
qualities and lead them upward to the Light.
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