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PLOUGHINGSymbolic of the fashioning of the vehicles and producing the conditions wherein the lower self is placed and operating, with a view to the sowing and reaping by the True Self of that which the lower self appears to do and undergo in the life periods. “And I am glorious therein (the Garden); I drink therein; I plough therein; I reap therein; I move therein; I am wedded therein; my utterance is powerful therein.” — Book of the Dead, Ch. CX. (trans. M. W. Blackden). In these experiences of life, I (the Self) realise myself; I derive Truth and Love; I fashion the bodies and conditions wherein the lower self is engaged; I sow and reap the fruits of the Spirit; I live therein. In me the two aspects of the Higher Self (atma‑buddhi) become One. Power is mine, and the Will of the Absolute is within me. “Brahman; I plough and sow, and of my ploughing and sowing I reap imperishable fruit. My field is the Dharma (truth); the weeds which I pluck up are the cleaving to existence; the plough which I use is wisdom; the seed which I sow, the seeking of purity; the work which I perform, attention to precepts; the harvest which I reap is Nirvâna.” (Buddhist parable) — Bunsen, *The Angel Messiah*, p. 47. “Thus it is with the world of men, if there was not the second Adam (Christ) to plough them and sow them, they could none of them become saints; no, not the elect themselves; because the means are determined, as well as the end.” — J. Bunyan, *Exp. of Genesis*. |
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