Category: The Lotus, As A Universal Symbol

"In the relics of ancient Egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the Solar Gods.   The god Khnemu - the moist power - water, as Thales taught it, being the principle of all [...]

"Shall this be call coincidence? A strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even Moses - found in the water of the Nile - having the symbolical consonant in his name. And Pharoah's daughter "called his name Moses...because", she said, "I drew him out of WATER" (Exodus 2:10).   Besides which the Hebrew [...]

"The Lotus and Water are among the oldest symbols, and in their origin are purely Aryan, though they became common property during the branching off of the Fifth Race.   Let us give an example. Letters, as much as numbers, were all mystic, whether in combination or each taken separately.   The most sacred of [...]

"Applied to practical and exoteric worship - which had also its esoteric symbology - the lotus became in time the carrier and container of a more terrestrial idea.   No dogmatic religion has ever escaped the sexual element in it; and to this day it soils the moral beauty of the root idea.   The [...]

"The lotus flower, represented as growing out of Vishnu's navel - that God resting on the waters of space and his Serpent of Infinity - is the most graphic allegory ever made; the Universe evolving from the central Sun, the POINT, the ever-concealed germ.   Lakshmi, who is the female aspect of Vishnu, and who [...]

"There are no ancient symbols without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them; their importance and significance increasing with their antiquity.   Such is the LOTUS. It is the flower sacred to nature and her Gods, and represents the abstract and the concrete universes, standing as the emblem of the productive powers of both [...]