Chapter 859

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Book of the Dead, xcix. 33; and clvi. 4. The reader is referred to Stanza VII, Shloka 1 (i. 240), wherein this verse is explained in another of its meanings, and also to the Book of the Dead, cix. 4 and 5. This is a direct reference to the Esoteric division of man’s “principles” symbolized by the divine wheat. The legend which inscribes the third Register of the papyrus (Book of the Dead, cx.) states: “This is the region of the Manes [disembodied men] seven cubits high—[to wit, those just translated and supposed to be still sevenfold with all their ’principles,’ even the body being represented astrally in the Kâma Loka or Hades, before their separation]; and there is wheat three cubits high for Mummies in a state of perfection [i.e., those already separated, whose three higher principles are in Devachan] who are permitted to glean it.” This region (Devachan) is called “the land of the Re-birth of Gods,” and is shown to be inhabited by Shoo, Tefnoot, and Seb. The “region for the Manes seven cubits high”—for the yet imperfect Mummies—and the region for those “in a state of perfection” who “glean wheat three cubits high,” is as clear as possible. The Egyptians had the same Esoteric Philosophy which is now taught by the Cis-Himâlayan Adepts, and the latter, when, buried, have corn and wheat placed over them.