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URANUS AND GAEA
Symbols of Spirit and Matter, the prime factors in the process
of Involution.
"Now Heaven (Uranus) used to hide his children from the light in the
hollows of earth (Gaea) which both she and they resented. The
children conspired against their father, and their mother assisted
them by producing iron, with which she bade them avenge their
wrongs. But fear fell upon them all except Cronus, who determined to
deliver his mother from Heaven's embraces. So when Heaven approached
his wife, Cronus, armed with a sickle of iron, mutilated him. Thus
Heaven and Earth were divorced; but Oceanus clung to his father." -
JOHN RHYS, Hibbert Lectures, P. 111.
Upon referring to Hesiod's Theogony (166-192), it will be seen that
this story is a variation of the world-wide symbolism of the
separation of Spirit and Matter at the commencement of the process
of evolution. Matter, it is to be understood, has, through the
preceding process of involution, been thoroughly impregnated with
the seeds of all qualities and forms which are afterwards to be
evolved. The symbol of emasculation is therefore used to denote the
cessation of involution when its time is fulfilled.
Spirit (Heaven) is said to hide in Matter (Earth) his progeny of the
essential conditions of manifestation, which, as it were, resent
their state of latency, and are eager to see the light of life. Upon
the dawn of mind (iron), brought forth of Matter, the means for
separation of Spirit and Matter appear, for the mental plane is
midway between the higher and lower natures. Then it is that cyclic
Time (Cronus) is said to effect the termination of the process of
involution. Mind becoming active in the multiplicity of ideas
presented to it (jagged iron sickle), begins, through desire, to
reverse the life currents outwardly, and so stop their course
inwardly. Thus Spirit and Matter were separated in order that beings
should be formed between them, and natural phenomena should appear.
But the Spirit of Truth (Oceanus) was obscured, for evolution
commences in ignorance and error.
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