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5 Planes of Existence
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CARAPACE, THE COSMIC
A symbol of Matter as the encasement of Spirit,
resulting from the process of involution.
"The Lord and Maker of all things. . . when He perceived that the
Essential Man could not be lover of all things, unless He clothed
him in a cosmic carapace, He shut him in within a house of body." -
"The Perfect Sermon," G. R. S. MEAD, T. G. Hermes, Vol II. p. 321.
It is necessary that the Essential or Archetypal Man should be fully
involved in the soul or cosmos through love the Divine Sacrifice,-in
order that afterwards it shall be evolved in the many souls of
humanity.
CARAPACE OF THE TORTOISE
A symbol of that which shuts off the lower nature
from the higher nature. A symbol of limitation, or of the mental
plane.
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