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(''c'') Chhaya, as already explained, is the astral image. It bears this meaning in Sanskrit works. Thus Sanjna (Spiritual Consciousness), the wife of Sûrya, the Sun, is shown retiring into the jungle to lead an ascetic life, and leaving behind to her husband her Chhaya, shadow or image.
(''c'') Chhaya, as already explained, is the astral image. It bears this meaning in Sanskrit works. Thus Sanjna (Spiritual Consciousness), the wife of Sûrya, the Sun, is shown retiring into the jungle to lead an ascetic life, and leaving behind to her husband her Chhaya, shadow or image.
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> The “ Father of the Sacred Fire,” writes Prof. Jolly, “ is Twashtri . . . his mother was Maya. He himself was styled ''Akta ''(anointed, χριστὸς), after the priest had poured upon his head the ''spirituous ''(?) Soma, and on his body butter purified by sacrifice ” ; (“ ''Man before Metals'',” p. 190). The source of his information is not given by the French Darwinist. But the lines are quoted to show that light begins to dawn even upon the materialists. Adalbert Kühn, in his “ ''Die Herabkunft des Feuers'',” identifies the two signs [[File:Sd-svastica.jpg|x20px]] and [[File:Sd-svastica with dots.jpg|x20px]] with ''Arani'', and designates them under this name. He adds : “ This process of kindling fire naturally led men to the idea of sexual reproduction,” etc. Why could not a more dignified idea, and one more occult, have led man to invent that symbol, in so far as it is connected, in one of its aspects, with human reproduction ? But its chief symbolism refers to Cosmogony.
“ ''Agni'', in the condition of ''Akta'', or anointed, is suggestive of Christ,” remarks Prof. Jolly. “ ''Maya'', Mary, his mother ; ''Twastri'', St. Joseph, the carpenter of the Bible.” In the ''Rig Veda'', Viswakarman is the highest and oldest of the Gods and their “ Father.” He is the “ carpenter or builder,” because God is called even by the monotheists, “ the Architect of the Universe.” Still, the original idea is purely metaphysical, and had no connection with the later Phallicism.
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