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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Whether the genus of the bird be ''cygnus'', ''anser'', or ''pelecanus'', it is no matter, as it is an aquatic bird floating or moving on the waters like the Spirit, and then issuing from those waters to give birth to other beings. The true significance of the symbol of the Eighteenth Degree of the Rose-Croix is precisely this, though poetised later on into the motherly feeling of the Pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little ones with its blood.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Whether the genus of the bird be ''cygnus'', ''anser'', or ''pelecanus'', it is no matter, as it is an aquatic bird floating or moving on the waters like the Spirit, and then issuing from those waters to give birth to other beings. The true significance of the symbol of the Eighteenth Degree of the Rose-Croix is precisely this, though poetised later on into the motherly feeling of the Pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little ones with its blood.

† The reason why Moses forbids eating the pelican and swan, classing the two among the unclean fowls, and permits eating “&nbsp;bald locusts, beetles, and the grasshopper after his kind&nbsp;” (Leviticus xi. and Deuteronomy xiv.) is a purely physiological one, and has to do with mystic symbology only in so far as the word “&nbsp;unclean,” like every other word, ought not to be read and understood literally, as it is esoteric like all the

† The reason why Moses forbids eating the pelican and swan, classing the two among the unclean fowls, and permits eating “&nbsp;bald locusts, beetles, and the grasshopper after his kind&nbsp;” (Leviticus xi. and Deuteronomy xiv.) is a purely physiological one, and has to do with mystic symbology only in so far as the word “&nbsp;unclean,” like every other word, ought not to be read and understood literally, as it is esoteric like all the  

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{{Style P-No indent|Self-Existent), and penetrating into the Mundane Egg, it emerges from it at the end of the divine incubation as Brahmâ or Prajâpati, a progenitor of the future Universe into which he expands. He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter). Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves&nbsp;—&nbsp;Brahmâ-vâch (the female) and Brahmâ-Virâj (the male), that the Prajâpati becomes the male Brahmâ.}}

{{Style P-No indent|Self-Existent), and penetrating into the Mundane Egg, it emerges from it at the end of the divine incubation as Brahmâ or Prajâpati, a progenitor of the future Universe into which he expands. He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter). Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves&nbsp;—&nbsp;Brahmâ-vâch (the female) and Brahmâ-Virâj (the male), that the Prajâpati becomes the male Brahmâ.}}