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TYRUS OR TYRE, PRINCE OF
A symbol of the mind, intellect, or mental
nature.
"Thus saith the Lord God: Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou
hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the
seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thine
heart as the heart of God. . . . Therefore, behold, I will bring
strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall
draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall
defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit; and
thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of
the seas." - Ezek. xxviii. 2-8.
The lower consciousness established in the incipient causal-body
(seat of God) centralises the mind midway between the higher and
lower natures (seas-waters above and below). The mind commences to
act or observe as from itself, owning no superior rule or law. It
gathers its knowledge intuitively from the higher planes, and rests
unreflective and unprogressive in complete content with itself. But
the Supreme requires the mind to be self-conscious and responsible,
there fore the lower qualities (strangers) presented to it. They
assail the beauty of its wisdom"; and the higher influences
(brightness) are obscured and lost; so the mind is brought down to
the desires (pit) and subjected to the succession of deaths of the
personalities on the lower planos. In the lives on earth, the lower
mind must learn to serve the Spirit and to sacrifice itself.
“Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth; and I set thee, so
that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up
and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in
thy ways from the day that thou wast created, til unrighteousness
was found in thee." - EZEK. xxviii. 14–16.
The mind originally observed the requirements and laws of the higher
intelligence and Spirit to which through love it aspired. Its
consciousness appertained to the higher planes (holy mountain); its
development was brought about through the functionings of buddhi
(stones of fire). The mind was perfect in its manifestation from the
first until it was deflected by the lower emotions and desires. The
"anointed cherub that covereth" signifies the buddhic consciousness
above the consciousness in the causal-body. On the descent of the
mind, the buddhic becomes reflected on the astral plane (cast to the
ground).
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