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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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OANNES
A symbol of the Higher Self or Archetypal Man.
"The founder of civilisation in the Assyrian and Babylonian myth is
the Oannes of Berosus. During the day-time Oannes held intercourse
with men, taught them sciences and arts, the building of cities and
temples, laws and the introduction of the measurement of planes;
further he showed them how to sow and reap; in a word, he instructed
them in everything necessary to social life, so that after his time
they had nothing new to learn. But when the sun set, Oannes fell
into the sea, where he used to pass the night.'"'—Goldziher, Myths
among the Hebrews, pp. 214-15.
During the period of involution the Self instructed the mental
qualities in every kind of knowledge and all potencies of
growth-material and spiritual; also in the laws of progress and the
stages of development; preparing them for every variety of
experience and discipline. In short, the soul was perfected in every
particular. At the end of this "golden age" the Archetypal Man was
fully involved in matter, and ready to produce from himself the many
souls in which he is to evolve in the present period.
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