Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

WATER (LOWER ASPECT)

A symbol of the astral plane in which are errors and illusions. The inverted or distorted reflections of truths.

"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so." - GENESIS. i. 9.

And the Supreme now directs that the "waters" under the higher nature, namely, the astral matter (green sea), shall be organised, so that preparation shall be made for the dry land,' namely, physical matter, to appear; and so it came about.

"Loke frequently changed himself by day into the likeness of a salmon, and then concealed himself in the waters of the Frananger Force." - Prose Edda.

The lower self or desire-mind (Loke) varied its aspects on the astral plane. The day" is a symbol of a period of kama-manasic activity, and the "night" signifies the submergence of the experiences with which the soul identifies itself.

"Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep (JOHN iv. 11). "Tropologically, St. Augustine. The water in the well,' he says, 'is the pleasure of the world in a dark abyss, which men draw with the pitcher of desire. For this makes men always to thirst, because cupidity is insatiable.' "-C. A. LAPIDE, Great Comm. St. John iv. p. 138.

See Also

ASHES
DOVE
FLOOD
HEALING (epileptic)
NAVIGATION
RU
SEA
THIRST
WALKING UPON WATER