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TUAT, OR DUAT, THE UNDER-WORLD

A symbol of the manvantara, or great cycle of life manifestation in nature (underworld). It is described as "night" because the Self (sun) is unapparent to the lower consciousness. The Sun-god Afu-Ra, the incarnate God, is the Hidden Deity (Amen Rā) immured in his cabin on the Solar-boat (World-soul), which traverses the twelve divisions of the cycle in the twelve hours of the night. The Tuat embraces all nature below the plane of atma; the first and last divisions being on the higher sub-planes of the buddhic plane, for the Soul (boat) commences in the first and finishes in the last; it descends in the first six divisions, and ascends in the second six. The descent is the involutionary process of spirit entering matter, and the ascent is the evolutionary process of spirit rising from and ultimately discarding matter.

The Solar Boat on the river of Life (river Urnes), is a symbol of the World-Soul, or buddhic causal-body, the vehicle of the Higher Self (Ra) and its powers (deities). The World-soul contains the complete collective experience humanity. The higher mental causal-bodies are individualised in mankind, but there is only one buddhic causal-body for the human race, and in this all souls are one potentially.

 

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ABRAXAS
ADAM (Lower)
AFU-RĀ
AMENT
APEP
ARIES
BOAT
CABIN
CAUSAL-BODY
COMPARTMENTS
EONS (twelve)
EQUINOX
EVOLUTION
HADES
HOUR
INCARNATION
INVOLUTION
KHEPER
MANVANTARA
NET-RĀ
NIDANAS
NIGHT
NIGHT, PRIMORDIAL
OCEAN
RIVER OF LIFE
SAMSARA
SAU
SEVENTH
STRIDES
TATTU
TRIBES (Twelve)
TWELVE
UNDERWORLD
ZODIAC