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SEKHET-AARU, OR FIELD OF REEDSA symbol of the lower nature, or astro-mental life, by means of which the individuality first manifests. "Grant me power to float down and to sail up the stream in Sekhet-Aaru, and may I reach Sekhet-hetep! I am the double Lion-god." - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, Ch. LXXII. The Soul relies upon the Supreme in passing downwards into the lower life, and by means of the astral life thereafter ascending to the buddhi-mental region, or Nirvana. In this undertaking the soul becomes involved in matter, and afterwards evolved. "The new man was conducted into the Fields of Aalu (or Aaru), into the kingdom of the blessed followers of Osiris, which was a country modelled altogether on earthly lines, but especially resembling the Delta: a Nile ran through it divided into many branches and forming many islands. Here the dead ate and drank, went hunting, fought with their foes, made offerings to the gods. But the chief occupation was agriculture, which differed from that of earth only in that the harvest never failed." - WIEDEMANN, Rel. of Anc. Egyptians, p. 254. The ego incarnates in a personality (new man) which descends into the arena of life to gather experience, overcome evil, sacrifice lower for higher qualities (gods), cultivate the faculties, and lay up treasure in heaven which never fails. |
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