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EATING
A symbol of the acquisition of knowledge as
sustenance for the mind, by means of sensation and experience. Also,
in a higher sense, the reception of spiritual food which is Wisdom,
Truth, and Love.
"As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so
he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me." - JOHN vi. 57.
As the Absolute and Unmanifest Supreme emanated the Divine life,
which is the life of the Manifest Self, so the quality that partakes
of the nature of the Self, it also shall live everlastingly by and
in the Self.
"Of every tree that is in the Paradise thou mayest freely eat.' He
exhorts the soul of man to derive advantage not from one tree'
alone, nor from one single virtue, but from all the virtues; for
eating is a symbol of the nourishment of the soul, and the soul is
nourished by the reception of good things, and by the doing of
praiseworthy actions." - PHILO, Works, Yonge, Vol. IV. p. 77.
"For my sighing cometh before I eat' (JOB iii. 24). All they are
starved of the food of truth that take joy in the emptiness of this
scene of our pilgrimage, but he 'sighs' (with sorrow), that 'eats,'
because all who are touched with the love of truth are at the same
time fed with the refreshments of contemplation." - ST. GREGORY,
Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. I. p. 251.
“To eat signifies appropriation of good or of evil things." -
SWEDENBORG, Apoc. Rev., n 832.
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