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PIETY IN CAR OR CHARIOT
A symbol of the Self in the causal vehicle.
“But, ye gods, avert the madness of those men from my tongue, and
from lips that are holy cause a pure stream to flow. And thee I
pray, much‑wooed, white‑armed maiden Muse, in what things it is
right for beings of a day to hear, do thou and Piety, driving
obedient car, conduct me on.” — Empedocles, Fairbanks, 11.
The Higher nature, under its aspects of Truth, Will, and Love, is
now called upon to seal the lips (tongue), or stay the attempts of
the personality at expressing its separative self — that is, to stop
its working from the lower self — and from the Higher Self, working
from the Infinite Reality, cause to forthpour from its potentiality
the Truth within, the stream of the Divine Life. And supplication is
made to the beneficent, presiding Wisdom‑principle, that fit and
helpful knowledge and the higher virtues be communicated to the
soul. Thus, in the causal vehicle to which intelligence (horses) is
harnessed, the Self and Wisdom are said to be driven in toward the
Spirit.
“That attitude of filial piety toward God which includes receptivity
of the truth, penitence and loving trust toward the forgiving and
purifying Divine Love, surrender of the self in the spirit of
obedience and of desire to do the Divine Will, is, indeed, the very
essence of religion, subjectively regarded.” — G. T. Ladd,
*Philosophy of Religion*, p. 540.
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