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A symbol of the lower nature in which the personality (corpse) is interred. A mode of functioning on the lower planes.

"The Tomb, that is to say, the present world, which is the receptacle of corruptible things." - DANTE, The Banquet, IV. Ch. 22.

"The Chapter of coming forth by day after having made the passage through the Tomb. Saith Osiris Ani:-

"Hail Soul, thou mighty one of strength! Verily I am here, I have come, I behold thee. I have passed through the Tuat (underworld), I have seen my divine father Osiris, I have scattered the gloom of night. I am his beloved one. I have stabbed the heart of Suti (Set).. I have become a sahu, I have become a khu." - BUDGE, Book of the Dead, Ch. IX. p. 57.

This is the joyous outpouring of the liberated soul on the higher planes, after having accomplished his course through the lower nature.

Saith the soul: I acclaim the Self, the mighty indweller! Truly I have risen, and now I perceive the Self within. I have progressed through the Cycle of the lower quaternary, and I behold the archetypal Self who begot me. I have done away with ignorance and have attached myself to Truth. I have overcome and cast out the lower principle (Set), and have become an Individuality (khu) in a causal-body (sāhu).

“Religious people are always tending to seek the living among the dead, and having to be recalled to the obvious truth that the soul of good can never be shackled in the bonds of matter, or buried permanently in any tomb of failure and misunderstanding, however strong." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Resurrection Life.

 

See Also

ARCHETYPAL MAN
COMING FORTH
CORPSE
DEFUNCT
Entombment
Ka
KHABIT
KHUS (higher)
LAZARUS
MOUTH (Speech)
NIGHT
OSIRIS
PERSONALITY
QUATERNARY
RE-STAU
RESURRECTION
ROCK SEPULCHRE
SET
SPICES
SAHU
SEPULCHRE
TUAT
UNDERWORLD