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APOSTLE OR DISCIPLE
A symbol of a developed and disciplined quality
of the soul, in harmonious relation with the central Ideal, and
which becomes a means for teaching and raising the lower mental
qualities.
"The highest faculty in the soul is not, like each of the inferior
faculties, one faculty among others; it is the Soul itself in its
totality; as such it is called the 'spark,' also Synteresis
(corresponding to the soul-centre of Plotinus). This highest faculty
is served by all the faculties of the soul, which assist it to reach
the Source of the soul, by raising the latter out of the sphere of
inferior things. The Spark aspires to the Absolute, to that unity
outside of which there remains nothing (Eckhart). - UEBERWEG, Hist.
of Philos., Vol. I. p. 472.
The “apostle” is one of the superior faculties grouped about the
highest faculty (Jesus)-the Divine Spirit within. "We are
assimilated to divinity by virtue." - PLOTINUS, On the Virtues, § 1.
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