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MEDEA

A symbol of the intuition aspect of the mind, merging into Wisdom; that is, buddhi-manas rising into buddhi.

"Jason was in perplexity about the accomplishment of these hard tasks, when Medea, the daughter of the king Eetes, who had conceived a sudden affection for him, profferred her aid in securing the Golden Fleece, if he would swear to marry her and take her with him to Greece." - Argonautic Expedition.

The indwelling Self (Jason), working upon the plane of the mind, is sore perplexed about accomplishing the soul-development required: but the intuition aspect (Medea) comes to its aid, and, as it were, promises help, providing that Wisdom (Medea) and Love (Jason) be thereby united in the higher mind, and the dual aspects of the Self become as one, "in Greece," which here signifies the sublimated astral instinct raised through the mind to the buddhic plane.

 

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ABSYRTUS
AEËTES
BUDDHI
CRETE
DRUGS
GOLDEN FLEECE
ICHOR
INTUITION
JASON
SALVE
WISDOM