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DEITY, HIDDEN OR CONCEALED

A symbol of the one Unmanifest Being, the Absolute, the Source of all.

“Manetho the Sebennyte is of opinion that the 'hidden or hiding is expressed by this word Ammon Hecatæus of Abdera says that the Egyptians invoke the Supreme God as being hidden and invisible, and implore Him to make himself visible and apparent, and therefore call him Amun '; great was the piety of the Egyptians in their teaching about the Gods." - PLUTARCH, Isis and Osiris, § 9.

So far as God is unmanifest in the soul and its qualities, he is, as it were, hidden, or in hiding, from the lower consciousness. The aspiration, therefore, of the soul is that God should manifest his nature in the higher qualities, and appear as a centralizing Ideal to the consciousness. When God is born in the soul, he becomes, as it were, "visible and apparent in the religious consciousness, and receives the adoration of the higher qualities of mind and emotion.

 

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ABSOLUTE
AFU-RĀ
Ain Soph
AMEN, OR AMON
FATHER
GOD
GODHEAD
HIDING
TRINITY
ZERANA