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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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WINTER

A symbol of a period of latency and unfruitfulness; of globe obscuration and extinction of the lower personality and lower planes; of pralaya-absence of life.

“The five months of winter are cold as to water, cold as to earth, cold as to trees. There is the heart of winter; there all around falls deep snow. There is the worst of evils." - Vendidad, I.

These "winter” months represent periods during which no manifestation occurs. There is no outpouring of life and truth (water), no lower nature (earth), and no growth of qualities. The "deep snow signifies the latent condition of the lower planes before the awakenment of the Life takes place.

 

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ANGRA-MAINYU
DEARTH
DEVASTATION
FROST
PRALAYA
SABBATHS
SNOW
SUMMER