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THE THEOSOPHICAL PATH
the neck. This will, of course, be masked by stonework, and one valu-
able result of the repairs will be the restoration of the original graceful
curve of the neck and shoulders which has long disappeared by the break-
ing away of the upper surface of the living rock from which the figure of
the human-animal was cut. In the process of removing the sand a new
tomb was discovered and a tablet of Thothmes IV recording an early
excavation of the Sphinx.
The destruction of the great Egyptian Sphinx would be an ir-
reparable loss for it is the one outstanding world-symbol of the Dual
Nature of Man, the Higher - the human head royally crowned and
glorified - and the Lower, personal self, the animal which is to be sub-
jugated and controlled. A further and wider meaning of the Sphinx
will be found in H. P. Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, Volume 11, pages 123-4.
"TRUE DRAMA THE SOUL'S INTERPRETER":k
(An Address read at tlze William Qtian Judge Theosophical Club)
HROCGHOUT long periods of time, the spiritual element
in humanity has endeavored to instruct the lower and less
developed nature in the Science of Living. From whatever
fragments that still remain of long-forgotten civilizations,
we understand that the Drama has always, in some form, been used as
interpreting the relations and functions of the Gods. The Mystery-plays
of every age and race were at times enacted in the sacred and inner
chambers of spiritual initiation: in the temples, the caves, or the Pyra-
mids; at times openly and before the public during the periods when the
average intelligence and spirituality of the nations would allow it.
The Divine Law and its Representatives on this earth have never
abandoned mankind, even when the latter walked the most in the shadows
and but little heeded the promptings of Spiritual Instructors. Thus it is
that there has been handed down to our present humanity the very
fragrance and the spirit of a great, a tremendous, past for us to try and
interpret and render intelligible to the waiting millions. The great
heart of the world is eagerly longing for the soul's interpreters - one
of which is true symbolic drama.
From the days when classical Athens echoed the mocking laughter
of Aristophanes, from the time when Socrates, Plato, Pheidias, Aeschylus,
*A Quotation from Katherine Tingley
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