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BOTTOMLESS PIT

A symbol of the desire and sensation nature which is never satisfied. The "beast" within it is the desire-mind, the adversary of the Spirit.

"What does he call the bottomless pit' but the hearts of men, which are at once by the Fall all floating, and by the mistiness of double-dealing full of darkness?" - ST. GREGORY, Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. II. p. 368.

“Self-disease, the satiety which consumes, the dreadful loneliness which corrupts the soul, that passionate lust for more which is itself the unsatisfied worm which eats away the heart." - STOPFORD A. BROOKE, Serm., Individuality.

 

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AESHM
ARIZURA
BEAST
BOAT OF WISDOM
PIT
SERPENT (hissing)
STENCH