Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00386)

Dear John,
Yes, the dictionary has been invaluable to me, and as I have a bent for research, you will be keeping me busy all day dipping into it.
The book is
Dictionary of all Scriptures and Myths, by G A Gaskell
Published by Avenal Books distributed by Crown Publishers. Inc.
Copyright MCMLX by the Julian Press, Inc.
Avenel 1981 Edition, manufactured in the USA.

I believe him to be a theosophist of sorts as he shares many of the same beliefs in his interpretation of symbols, just a little quote
"In regard to the scheme of the symbolism, it will be found that in the sacred writings the activities which apparently are of the outer world of senses stand really for the activities of the inner world of thought. The aparent sense-world of consciousness symbolises the real soul-world of humanity, in which we become aware of all the emotions, faculties and activities of the soul's experience of life."
He states that there are five planes of Manifestation
1 Physical which includes the Etheric - Sthula
2 Astral The Lower Emotion Nature - Lower Self - Kama
3 Mental The Higher Mind or Individuality and the Lower Mind or Personality - Manas
4 Spiritual The Wisdom Nature - The Higher Emotion Nature - Buddhi
5 Celestial The Manifest God or God the Son, The Self Higher Self, or Christ - Atma

The Absolute or Unconditioned
The Unmanifest God or God the Father

Cheers
Cass

samblo@cs.com wrote:

Cass,
Nice, thanks for your comments and definitions, makes me wonder which 
Dictionary you quote from, it seems to be a very nice resource, why not tell all 
of us the Title and Author? Also nice to see some one expend the effort to 
look up the terms and analogs.

Well, the question remains why "Gold?" Is it more than just an analog 
and symbol? What is the Midnight Sun? The Buddha was already a Buddha before he 
was a Buddha, his enightenment is intrinsic, all beings are Buddha, for the 
same reason Krishna is seated in the Heart of all beings. Ramalinga for instance 
I beleive said " there are two hearts in man, the one on the left side of the 
chest, the physical, and the one on the right side of the chest, the 
Spiritual. Which Heart is Krishna seated in? 

The cloth on the forearm of the Buddha in the Temple was "folded," and I 
guess this is correlate to the latent you describe in your selected 
definitions. When the cloth is not folded and is infinite then what is it?

Last night I was at a website that displayed a beautiful nebula, the 
remains of an exploded sun,beside it another picture, a very appealing artistic 
rendering of a Celestial Dragon . Astronomers see remnents of stars all over 
the universe, are these "exploded Buddha's and Logos? 

I do like the definitions from the Dictionary of Myths.

John



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