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MESSENGER OF THE DIVINE

A symbol of an outpouring of the Spirit according to cyclic law.

“Behold I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in, behold he cometh, saith the Lord." - MAL. iii. 1.

This is the assurance of the gift of the Spirit, which independent of the limitations of time and space “cometh without observation." The temple is the "temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens "; and into that temple" or causal-body,-so as the Lord's "willing servants," or lower functionings of the consciousness in the virtues, are ready to receive him,-will come the Sun of Righteousness, the Higher Self or Higher consciousness, who will for ever make his abode among the chosen of the Lord; i.e. among the transmuted qualities.

"God dwells in the highest part of the soul. He who ascends this height has all things under his feet. We are united to God when, in the practice of the virtues, we deny and forsake ourselves, loving and following God above all creatures (Ruysbroek). - VAUGHAN, Hours, etc., Vol. I. p. 328.

 

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ABODE
AMSHASPANDS
ANGELS
ARCHANGELS
CAUSAL-BODY
CONSCIOUSNESS
DEVAS
HEIGHTS
SELF
SERVANTS
TEMPLE
TIME