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HAIR,--SIDE-LOCK-- 

A symbol of intuition, or the buddhi-manasic functioning.

“Keresaspa, a youthful hero who wore a side-lock, and carried a club, who slew the serpent Svara." - Homa Yasht.

The Love-nature (Keresaspa) signifies the path of the soul in Devotion to the Ideal. The side-lock signifies the attainment of intuition. The “club " is a symbol of emotion. The nature is to be disciplined through the Love-element which conquers selfishness (Svara).

"The second sign (of a great man' or Buddha) is to have hair curling towards the right side, of a deep black, changing colour with the light." - The Lotus of the Good Law.

When the consciousness rises to the higher mind (great man) the intuition becomes active (right) and no longer latent (black), for the light of Truth shines in it, and its quality (colour) becomes apparent.

"As to Isis (when she heard of the death of her husband Osiris), she immediately cut off one of the locks of her hair, and put on mourning apparel." - PLUTARCH, Isis and Osiris, § 14.

Wisdom (Isis) now appears obscured, so that the lower mind cannot perceive her, for she is to the personality "black." The cutting off of the "lock of hair" signifies that the ego was deprived of intuition, or psychic faculty, which had hitherto been vouchsafed to the lower self. The deprivation occurs as the lower emotion-nature becomes active in the soul.

"And his (Ra's) hand stayed not, and he made his form into that of a woman with a lock of hair which became the divine lock in Annu." - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, p. 342.

This refers to the activities of atma-buddhi energising the intuition from the buddhic plane.

"For what is a lock of the head but the thoughts of the mind gathered together, so as not to be scattered and dispersed, but to remain bound by discipline. A hand is therefore put forth from above, and the Prophet is lifted up by the lock of his head (EZEK. viii. 3); because when our mind collects itself by watchfulness, a heavenly power raises us upward from things below." - ST. GREGORY, Morals on the Book of Job, Vol. III. p. 440.  

See Also

ANNU
BLACK
BUDDHA
CLUB
COLOURS
FALL
INTUITION
ISIS
KERESASPA
MOURNER
RA
RIGHT HAND
SERPENT (svara)
WOMAN