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Cain
A symbol of the center of the
personality-the I am I feeling in the lower mind, which causes the
illusion of separateness, and represents the lower self.
"Cain was a tiller of the ground.". - GENESIS. iv. 2.
The sense of self and separateness supervises the growth of the
lower desires which spring from the lower nature.
"That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural;
and afterwards that which is spiritual (1 Cor. xv. 46). What is
first developed out of man is carnal, that 'carnal mind which is
enmity against God; which is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be.' (ROM. viii. 7). This is Cain. But there is a second
birth; another life is born, which by grace springs out of the same
old Adam; and this second birth, this 'spiritual mind,' is Abel." -
A. JUKES, Types of Genesis, p. 88.
“By Cain is signified faith separate from love." "A tiller of the
ground' is one who is without charity, whatever pretensions he may
make to faith which when separated from love is no faith." -
SWEDENBORG, Arc. Cel. to Genesis. iv.
"Cain, who refers everything to himself, is the self-loving opinion.
Abel, who refers everything to God, is the God-loving opinion." -
PHILO JUDÆUS, Yonge's trans.Works, Vol. IV. p. 249.
“Cain, whereby is understood in the language of nature, a source out
of the centre of the fiery desire, a self-ful will of the fiery
might of the soul." - J. BEHMEN, Mysterium Magnum, p. 166.
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See Also
ABEL
AHANKARA
ATOм (perm.)
CITY
COUNTENANCE
FACE (ground)
FRUIT (ground)
FUGITIVE
MONAD OF LIFE
NOD (land)
SETH
WANDERERS
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