The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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" " " consistent with o (18-20, 69-71), but THE ROBE puzzling in some of its details. OF GLORY. Hyrcania was the mountainous region on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. The territory of Maishan lay between Mesopotamia and the sea ; Maishan the city (Forat Maishan = Messene) was in all probability the chief emporium of the sea-borne commerce of Babylonia and the West with India, and lay slightly to the south of the present-day Basra. Babylonia was the Tigris-Euphrates valley. Sarbug is a puzzle,. The best solution seems to be that it stands for the City of Babylon itself. Now, strangely enough, the Greek, in both traditions, renders Sarbug by the Labyrinth." This may possibly refer to the labyrinth of the streets of the great city. But it may also preserve for us a hint of how the geography was allegorized by the Gnostic exegetes for The ; Labyrinth 62
" Now was a technical term of the Gnosis, as N QF may be seen from a fine Naassene Hymn, THE RQBE two lines of which, referring to the soul, OF GLORY, run as follows : is born, with no way out for her ; in misery She enters in her wandering the Labyrinth of ills." (H. i. 191). Whatever the precise situation of the otherwise unknown Sarbug may have been, it must be very patent to the Mystic that the Gnostic poet intended it for a certain stage of the descent of the soul, or spiritual mind, into the regions of manifestation. Hoffmann (pp. 289 ff.) has attempted an interpretation on these lines. The Way of the Soul, he says, leads from (i) Heaven as the God-realm, through (2) the Firmament, to (3) the Earth corresponding with the three natures of man : spirit, soul, and body. 63
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THE HYMN OF THE ROBE OF GLORY. CONT
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