The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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" " " " " " " THE the Gnostics, so that we even find traces HE N ROBE of a Gospel of Judas. OF GLORY. 16 The Couriers," or Messengers (lit. Letter-carriers, Per. Parwankin), are, in one sense, a Twin-Ray from the Mind of the Master of all masterhood, Boundless Light, the true Father-Mother of the Soul that is striving to bring itself to birth. Way 17 The from the East," in its more immediate mystical meaning, de notes a direct path through matter by means of a Ray of the True Sun, of the nature of a lightning-flash," as set forth so graphically in the mystery-poem known as The Chaldcean Oracles (II. 19) it ; blazes directly through matter, and does not meander through the labyrinth of the planes. In our Poem, however, there is a descent through planes or states. Maishan perhaps connotes the plane of the Quintessence 78 or One Element
" " " " (Buddhi), the complement and source of THE HYMN OF THE ROBE The Land of Babel suggests presumably OF GLORY. the confused sounds (the confusion of tongues) of the personal astral or emotional state ; and the walls of Sarbug may stand for the city of the personal formal mind, the labyrinth of mind-made planes. personal- Thereon comes the plunge into the physical body (Egypt), when the direct guidance of the Twin- Ray ceases for a time. In mystical physiology this Serpent 21 may signify something within the "blood," or perhaps the elemental essence," which must sleep, or be quieted, before the heavenly ichor can be born, or the pearl," the real root-purity within form, be detached from the downward current, and attached again to Atman. Compare A Mithriac Ritual (p. 28) : "For that a man/, N.N., Son of 79
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