World
As a prefix to mountains, trees, and so on, it denotes a universal belief. Thus the “World‐Mountain” of the Hindus was Meru. As said in Isis Unveiled: “All the world‐mountains and mundane eggs, the mundane trees, and the mundane snakes and pillars, may be shown to embody scientifically demonstrated truths of natural philosophy. All of these mountains contain, with very trifling variations, the allegorically‐expressed description of primal cosmogony ; the mundane trees, that of subsequent evolution of spirit and matter; the mundane snakes and pillars, symbolical memorials of the various attributes of this double evolution in its endless correlation of cosmic forces. Within the mysterious recesses of the mountain — the matrix of the universe — the gods (powers) prepare the atomic germs of organic life, and at the same time the life‐drink, which, when tasted, awakens in man‐matter the man‐spirit. The Soma, the sacrificial drink of the Hindus, is that sacred beverage. For, at the creation of the prima materia, while the grossest portions of it were used for the physical embryo‐world, its more divine essence pervaded the universe, invisibly permeating and enclosing within its ethereal waves the newly‐born infant, developing and stimulating it to activity as it slowly evolved out of the eternal chaos. From the poetry of abstract conception, these mundane myths gradually passed into the concrete images of cosmic symbols, as archæology now finds them.” Another and still more usual prefix to all these objects is “Mundane”. (See “Mundane Egg”, “Mundane Tree”, and “Yggdrasil”.) (TG).
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Shortly: As a prefix to mountains, trees, and so on, it denotes a universal belief. Thus the “World‐Mountain”...