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ARK (Noah)
A symbol of the causal-body as a means for
the preservation of the individuality and the qualities of the soul,
while lower conditions of growth are swept away.
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.' - GENESIS. vi.
14.
The Divine command is given the individuality (Noah) to form a
causal-body, and in this higher mental vehicle several compartments
for different functions are to be made. And it is to be limited in
its nature within and without. "Pitch" is a symbol of limitation
which provides for the distinguishment of truth.
"The ark, by which Noah (the spiritual mind) goes through the
judgment,- formed by cutting down and judging the pride and strength
of that soil in which the curse works,-figures the cross by which we
are severed from the world, by which it is crucified to us, and we
unto the world. As that ark was made up of many beams, so is the
cross which delivers us from the world composed of many parts. . .
While in the old world, or amid the waves, the cross, like the ark,
is our safety." - A. JUKES, The Types of Genesis, pp. 109, 110.
“The “Ark” does in a measure correspond with the "Cross," in that
they both indicate the junction between the higher and lower
natures.
“The stories of the Ark are the three Principles. The seven persons
point at the seven properties of the material life, that God will
have children out of all the properties into his eternal Ark. The
eighth person was Noah-the Righteous one." - J. BOEHME, Myst. Mag.,
p. 196.
The "lower, second, and third stories " are the three higher
subplanes of the mental plane; as the causal-body is situate on the
higher mind plane above the lower consciousness which perceives it
not.
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