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DISMEMBERMENT AFTER DEATH OF THE BODY OF THE GOD
A symbol of the potentially perfect homogeneous Soul becoming
throughout evolution the actual imperfect heterogeneous aggregation
of qualities. This refers to the Archetypal Man, who is perfected by
the completion of the process of spiritual involution, and therefore
dies out of that state in order to be reproduced piecemeal in
another.
"The soul of Osiris is eternal and incorruptible, but his body
Typhon did tear in pieces and put out of sight; and Isis wandered
about, sought for it, and joined it together again." - PLUTARCH,
Isis and Osiris, §§ 2 and 54.
The Archetypal Man in his higher nature in immortal, but his
potential perfect lower nature is subject to death and change of
state, and so the form or limitation tendency (Typhon), motived by
desire, presses apparently against the life within, resulting in the
evolution of a number of astro-mental qualities which operate upon
many sub-planes. Then the buddhic function (Isis) begins to act in
disciplining and harmonising the qualities, so that eventually they
may all be perfected and united in one, - the Higher Self (Osiris).
“The god Tem, the Governor and only One of the gods, hath spoken,
and his word passeth not away. Horus is both divine food and the
sacrifice. Horus hath passed on to gather together the members of
his divine father; Horus is his deliverer. Horus hath sprung, from
the water of his divine father and from his decay. He hath become
the Governor of Egypt." - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, p. 258.
The Higher Self in the expression (word) of Itself endureth for
ever. The Self below (Horus) in the sacrifice of Itself, is the
sustainer of all that arises by means of it. The evolving Self
restores in perfection the qualities proceeding from the involved
Divine Archetype (father). The evolved Self is the deliverer of the
involved Self, and the twain are One. The Self hath evolved from the
emanation of the Spirit within, and from the cessation of its
externalising activities. The Self hath become the ruler of the
mental plane (Egypt).
"Manichæaus says that God, in his own nature, was cut in pieces by
the race of darkness." - AUGUSTINE, Manichæan Heresy, p. 549.
"The "race of darkness" is a symbol of the forces of limitation and
ignorance.
"Philosophers figuratively tell of *tearings asunder ' and 'dismemberings
'; and in these aspects Apollo is variously called Dionysus, Zagreus,
Nyktelius, and Isodaites, and his 'destructions' and
disappearances,' his death and his resurrection are fittingly
expressing the true nature of the changes in God's essence in the
formation of the world." PLUTARCH, On the E at Delphi.
The symbolism of the Gods and their doings can be understood by
philosophers who rightly approach the subject, free from the
prejudices of scholars and mythologists. The Higher Self is
symbolised under a thousand names connected with ideas of emanation,
sacrifice, obscuration, death, and resurrection, which symbolically
express the true nature of the changes in the manifestation of the
Divine Life during the formation and development of the soul.
“The theologists say the mind (the 'heart') in this Dionysiacal
dismemberment was preserved intact by the wisdom of Athena; it was
the soul that was first divided, and it was divided seven-fold." -
PROCLUS, Parm., III. 33.
The causal-body (heart) on the higher mental plane was not subject
to the lower nature, but being immortal it was carried over from
involution to evolution, as the seat of the buddhic or Wisdom
principle (Athena). The lower soul, or astro-mental nature, yielded
its qualities in due order and sufficiency for the time being.
There is no member of my body which is not the member of some god.
And I am Ră day by day.” - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, Ch. XLIII.
“So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members
one of another." - Roм. xii. 5.
As the Archetypal Man, or Christ, is divided into many qualities
after involution, so the many qualities become one Christ after
evolution.
Adam was one man, and is yet the whole human race. He was broken as
it were, in pieces; and being scattered, is now being gathered
together, and, as it were, conjoined into one by a spiritual
fellowship and concord. And the poor that groan' as one man, is that
same Adam; but in Christ he is being renewed ; that Adam might renew
to himself the image of God. Of Adam then is Christ's flesh : of
Adam the temple which the Jews distroyed, and the Lord raised up in
three days." - AUGUSTINE, Gospel of St. John, Vol. I. p. 149.
The Adam referred to is the Adam of the first chapter of Genesis, a
symbol of the perfect Archetypal Man (atma-buddhic), the crucified
Christ, who gives his life for the salvation of humanity. His
members, or qualities, are scattered in every human soul and are now
being gathered together, that Christ may be renewed and manifested
in us as we show forth his qualities of Wisdom, Love and Truth.
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