Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

DEATHS OF THE HIGHER SELF

As the Higher Self is born so must He die. But these Births and Deaths on the planes are appearances only, and are consequent on the limitations with which the Logos, in manifesting, set forth. It is these limitations of Spirit which constitute the Divine Sacrifice taught in all Scriptures.

The great process of existence involves the law of birth and death, and the Supreme in coming forth as the Divine Monad, or greatest centre of consciousness, voluntarily places Himself under the law.

He is born into existence under a scheme of limitation in which He eventually dies, and is born again under another scheme. But in all this, He is the Wisdom, Life, and Consciousness of the universe; and all the lesser monads, or sub-centres of consciousness live in, by, and through Him; and eventually merge them-selves in Him, when at the end of the cycle He returns to His source, the Absolute.

The deaths are always below in matter, and when He dies below, His power is at its highest above. He provides His vehicles for Himself, for He is Lord over all.

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