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BIRD'S NEST

A symbol of the buddhic plan (heaven) in which the aspiration (birds) lodge, and in which are reared their progeny-the higher emotions.

"Bird is a Hebrew term for angel the Bird's Nest is heaven. . . In the Zohar the Bosom of God is called the Bird's Nest.' 'When the Messiah shall be made perfect, through the instrumetality of the righteous, he will enter the Garden of Eden, into that place which is called the Bird's Nest' (Zohar, 2 8b) - ISAAC MYER, Qabbalah, p. 217.

The "Messiah" signifies the Christ-soul, or indwelling Self, not yet perfect in expression but to be made so through the instrumentality of the evolving higher qualities (the righteous). When perfection on the lower planes is attained then the Christ consciousness rises to the buddhic plane (Eden), or the "bosom of God"-the "nest" of the great Sun-Bird, the eternal Self of all; the "nest of Brahman " broods.

“Birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof." - MATTHEW xiii. 32.

 

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ANGELS
BIRD (great)
BIRDS (heaven)
EDEN
TIME
TREE OF LIFE