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KOSICKUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
creatorship. But Cain was of a divine nature; Tie had within
him the creative instinct; and that was not to the liking
of the God.
QUESTION No. 88.
What is the esoteric significance of the Ark of the
Covenant?
Answer: We read in the earliest chapters of the Bible
about the Fall in Eden, when man took the creative force
into his own hands, used it ignorantly and thus sinned
against the laws of nature. Propagation is a faculty of the
vital body which is the shadow of the life spirit, the
second aspect of the threefold spirit in man.
Cherubim are described as having been put on guard with
a flaming sword when man was driven out from Eden, lest
he eat of the Tree of Life and become immortal, for they
are the great creative hierarchy which had charge over the
earth in the Sun Period, when the vital body germinated
and the life spirit was awakened.
Then commenced the long pilgrimage through the wilder-
ness of matter, and the ark of the covenant was the symbol
of man in this migratory phase of his existence. During
the pilgrimage in the wilderness, the staves which were