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HOUSE IN HEAVEN, OR HOUSE OF GOD
A symbol of the causal-body or immortal
soul, the seat of the Divine nature of humanity.
"But Christ as a son, over his (God's) house; whose house are we, if
we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the
end." - HEB. iii. 6, 7.
The indwelling Self is the manifest Divine,-the son of the
Unmanifest,- who is seated in the potential causal-body. To evolve
the actual from the potential, the egos build up in the spirit of
Christ, the causal-body, and become one with it in actuality as they
are victorious over the lower nature and persevere unto the end of
the cycle.
"The piece of money-the groat, as he (Walter Hylton) calls it-is
lost in thy house. That is to say, the Divine treasure lies holden
in thy soul. Jesus sleeps in thy ship, as he once slept in the
little ship on the lake of Gennesaret." - DR. INGE, English Mystics,
p. 89.
“The body is the prâna's habitation, of which the head forms the
roof, in which it is bound to the breath as posts, by food as the
rope. Usually following Brih. II. 5, 18, and especially Chánd VIII.
1, 1, the body is described as the city of Brahman, heavenly,
desirable, the highest dwelling of Brahman, in which as a house the
lotus flower of the heart abides, in which during sleep the fires of
the prâna keep watch." - DEUSSEN, Phil. of Upanishads, p. 283.
The causal-body is the vehicle of the Self (prâna) in the
underworld, who is attached to it by the processes of
soul-nourishment and growth. The causal-body is the soul's centre
(city), perfect potentially if not actually; it is the seat of the
Higher Self (Brah-man); it is also the soul's innermost shrine in
which wisdom and love abide. When the causal Self indraws the life
(sleep) after an incarnation, the soul's energies await further out.
pouring.
"Catherine of Siena gave her testimony to the fact that the soul
bears ever within it the place where God lives by grace -the house
of our soul wherein holy desire prays constantly.'" - R. M. JONES,
Mystical Religion, p. 305.
"The second place of earth's joy is whereon the faithful one erects
a house wherein every blessing of life is thriving." - Vendidad.
III.
"Earth's joy" is so expressed, since the awakenment of the Self must
proceed first from the physical plane. The "second place " signifies
the plane of the higher mind whereon the indwelling Self, through
the egos, builds up the causal-body within which the transmuted
experiences are collected together.
"The earth brings forth for them many things of all sorts, of which
they carry the most serviceable into the house and use them." -
Anaxagoras, FAIRBANKS, 10.
The lower nature yields experiences for the mind, of which those
which are capable of transmutation conveyed to the causal-body
where-with to build it up.
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ARK
BOAT
CAUSAL-BODY
CHRIST
CHURCH
COTTAGE
Dwelling
GÂRHAPATYA
LOST SILVER
LOTUS LEAF
MANSIONS
PYLONS
PYRAMID
SHIP
SHRINE
STONE (Building)
TABERNACLE
TEMPLE
TREASURE
VICTORY
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