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ARGONAUTS
A symbol of twelve, or fifty, higher qualities
and Divine attributes, centred about the incarnate Self (Jason) in
the causal-body (Argo).
When the heroes were all assembled, they took auguries, and offered
sacrifices to Zeus, the Winds, and the Waves, the Night, and Paths
of the Sea. The signs being favourable, they got on board and put to
sea." - Argonautic Expedition. KEIGHTLEY, Mythology.
And when the higher qualities were assembled, they sanctified
themselves, or consecrated their powers to the service of the
Infinite which they beheld, as it were, by regarding the
manifestations of God's wondrous might in the Universe. And all
being now favourable, they embarked in the vessel of the soul which
should carry them to the "promised land “ whither they went. The
"sea signifies the reflection upon the astral plane, of what occurs
from buddhi the higher plane being the plane of causation and
prototypal perfection.
Nature is the realm of things, the supernatural is the realm of
powers. There the spinning worlds return into their circles and keep
returning. Here (within) the grand life-empire of mind, society,
truth, liberty, and holy government, spreads itself in the view,
unfolding always in changes, vast, various, and divinely beneficent.
There we have a Georgic, or hymn of the seasons; here an epic that
sings a lost Paradise. There God made the wheels of His chariot and
set them rolling. Here He rides forth in it, leading His host after
Him; vast in counsel, wonderful in working; preparing and
marshalling all for a victory in good and blessing; fashioning in
beauty, composing in spiritual order, and so gathering in the
immense populations of the worlds to be one realm-angels,
archangels, seraphim, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers and
saints of mankind-all to find, in His works of guidance and
new-creating grace, a volume of wisdom, which it will be the riches
of their eternity to study." - H. BUSHNELL, Nature and the
Super-natural, p. 189.
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