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GOLD, FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH, AS OFFERING TO THE DIVINESymbolic of philosophy, meta-physics, and logic, the productions of intellectual concentration. "And (the wise men) came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh." - MATTHEW ii. 11. And the faculties enlightened intellectually and seeking for Truth came into the soul's innermost sanctuary, where the Divine Truth and Love ensouled in the purified nature that bore It was revealed to their opening intellectual vision. In deep veneration they bowed down before their highest Ideal, and then they were able to offer up to It their best, --their much valued treasures of philosophy, metaphysics, and logic, through which they sought for Truth. "The Magi, opening the stores of Scripture, offer its threefold sense, historical, moral, and allegorical, or Logic, Physic, and Ethics." - Gloss, Anselm. "The reason why the Magi offered these three was because gold signified celestial good, frankincense spiritual good, and myrrh natural good, and from these three goods all worship is derived." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 277. After Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden, then at God's command, gold, frankincense and myrrh are brought by angels." - Book of the Conflicts of Adam. The Supreme, through His messengers or subjective agencies, imparts to the mind and emotion, nature in their innermost capacity,-spiritual wisdom (gold) purity or grace (frank-incense) and peace or bliss (myrrh). These await their development within the soul. |
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