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SETH, SON OF ADAM

A symbol of hope, or mental desire for immortality, a sense of the real within.

“And Eve bare a son, and called his name Seth for, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him." - GENESIS. iv. 25.

And the lower emotion-nature expands and realizes more of the nature within the soul, so that it is vouchsafed Hope (Seth). The emotion-nature (Eve) now realizes that it may be receptive of that which cannot be taken away,-hope being a promise of eternal life. The self (lower) is slain by the Self (higher), but this perception of the real Self shall not be slain.

"And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died." - GENESIS. v. 8.

And the period (12) during which this stage of Hope continued was in conformity with its own nature: and at length it also is dispersed.


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ABEL
BEGETTING
CAIN
EVE