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SOMA PLANT OR TREE
A symbol of the Divine Life or "Tree of Life" in
the soul, which has its rise in the Absolute, and extends through
all planes.
“The Chandogya Up. (8, 5, 3) and the Kaushitaki Up. (1, 3) have a
knowledge of the fig-tree which distils the soma,' and the tree of
life,' of the celestial world." - BARTH, Religions of India, p. 263.
“Agni and Soma (as spiritual conceptions) were invested with a
subtle and complicated symbolism; they were impregnated, so to
speak, with all the mystic virtue of sacrifice; their empire was
extended far beyond the world of sense, and they were conceived as
cosmic agents and universal principles." - Ibid., p. 9.
"To sacrifice is (also) to stir up, actually to beget, two
divinities of the first rank, the two principles of life, Agni and
Soma." - Ibid., p. 36.
Agni represents the force-aspect of the Self, and Soma the
life-aspect, and these are aroused in the soul as the soul aspires
in offering up the lower for the higher.
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