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Israelites during their stay in the
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wilderness. The manna with
which they were supported was symbolic of the Ma Nah — the
nourisher, the comforter, the Holy Spirit of God. Surely, living
as they were in Arabia (the very country where Ma Nah was
adored) the Israelites must have been well aware of the symbolic
or mystical meaning of the heavenly food which was for many
months their daily bread.
Then again we read in the Bible that the Ark of the Covenant
(the sacred chest or coffer which was deposited in the most holy
place of the Tabernacle and the Temple) was made the receptacle
of the original tables of the law, of a quantity of manna
in a golden pot, and of Aaron's rod that had budded. Here is,
therefore, a connection between manna and a pot. The manna
was found by the Israelites in the early morning, after the dew
had evaporated, and before the sun had sufficiently risen to
melt it. Manna, the deio, and the rise of the sun are thus connected.
An omer of the manna was preserved as a memorial in
the sanctuary, testifying to God's power and willingness to give
food for the subsistence of his people, in the most apparently
destitute circumstances.
The names Meni and Mazaloth, used by Isaiah, 1 both mean the
" Holy Spirit of God, " the " Bread Dispensers. " Meni was also
Mona, and Mon (Welsh), the Sacred Mountain of Paradise; she
was Mens, the Everlasting Mind, the Logos of the Gentiles.
Now observe the highly-figurative nature of the passage lately
quoted from the Sylva Sylvarum. The manna, the sweet dews
which fall in the stillness of the night, are not found upon such
mulberry trees as grow in the valleys, but upon trees and herbs
growing upon the mountains, the sacred hills and mounts of
knowledge, the Mountain of Paradise, the Everlasting Mind.
Here, indeed, we see the apparently dry notes of a commonplace
book gilded by the beams of heaven-born poesy, and converted
into " gold potable," a parable " deep and rich," truly "drawn
from the centre of the sciences."
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