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Unicorn – Job  “You are a soul with a body, not a body with a soul.” – Dr. Russell Whitesell

            In Alice Bailey’s From Bethlehem To Calvary p. 153:  “In Job’s three friends, the three aspects of his lower nature stand revealed.  The same is the case when we study the names of Daniel’s three friends.”

            In Light of the Soul pp. 402+:  “There are impulses which be hidden in the physical vehicle or in the astral body which are not in themselves wrong.  They become wrong from certain angles when twisted from their right use, and it was this realization that led the disciple in the Book of Job to cry out and say, ‘I have perverted that which was right’.

            Through bringing in of spiritual force, we will realize the point in evolution at which his brother stands, and cease to criticize them for what may be to him wrong action, but which is for them the natural activity of the form during the cycle wherein form and soul are identified and considered the same.”

            This realization of different levels of consciousness was touched upon in our previous newsletter #8 on Duty from May, 1994,  Dr. Whitesell was asked about which author on the Christian scriptures did he prefer.  He stated that you could not go wrong studying the works of Geoffrey Hodson.  The following paragraphs come from his book: The Hidden Wisdom in the Holy Bible – Vol. I pp. 137+

            The unicorn or horned horse is a symbol for the sublimated creative force in man.  The horn, emerging from the brain, indicates that the expression of the creative power and desire occurs through the will-inspired intellect and its cranial organ, which is chiefly the pituitary gland.  The horn is occultly phallic and the horse is an oft-used symbol for the lower quanternary.  (Note: Sagittarius’s symbol starts as half-man, half-horse [still animal man] with the man shooting a bow and arrow.  Next the symbol becomes the upper part of the man shooting the bow and arrow.  Eventually as the initiate moves higher in consciousness, the symbol becomes the arrow alone pointing the way.)

            In Job 39: 9-12, Job is being tested.  The unicorn in him must no longer be wild, even though its universal nature is symbolized by wildness and freedom.  In the Book of Job, the change from the wild ass to the unicorn is significant, for the ass is a symbol of stubbornness and in its wild state all its qualities are unharnessed.  The candidate for initiation must tame the hitherto wild ass, so that thereafter, as a docile quaternary, it may bear the threefold Ego onward to its goal, even as the ass bore the Holy Family and the Christ in triumph out of Egypt (the sanctuary of the greater mysteries) in triumph to Jerusalem (a higher state of consciousness).

            The unicorn is a fabulous animal whose spinal cord is presumed to extend beyond the medulla oblongata, through the pituitary gland and out between the eyes, after which it becomes hardened into a horn.  Occultly interpreted, this refers less to the physical spinal cord than to the interior etheric canal which is called the Sushumna.

            The sublimation of the creative force, this ascent of the whirling, serpentine, creative fire, occurs as a result of the sublimation of the sex-force by the continued practice of yoga (or union with God), aided by passage through valid rites of initiation.

            Many symbols are employed to refer to this redeeming, liberating power in man.  In most of them, serpents, often intertwined, figure largely – Moses, Laocoon, Hermes, etc.

            The authors of the Book of Job used the conjoined symbol of the wild ass and the unicorn to indicate that Job had progressed through the wild, stubborn and sexual phases of human development and, Moses-like, was horned, if with but one horn.  The horn of the unicorn is sometimes pictured as helical, which is a veiled reference to the spiritually intertwining forces of kundalini, “the power that moves in a serpentine path.”

            In this sense the unicorn (conjoined mind, emotion, vitality and physical body of a man in whom the serpent fire is fully aroused) is willing to serve him (“abide by the crib”), can be bound and made to “harrow the valleys”.  The horned animal (controlled personality) is to be trusted.  It is also mighty in “strength”.  Labor can be left to it.  The owner can believe in it, knowing that it will “bring home (sublimate) thy seed (the procreative power) and gather it into thy barn” (the brain and the causal body).

            The unicorn is also a symbol of that early race of men in whom the pineal eye was at the surface of the head.  The unicorn, however, did not die.  Like the pineal eye has retreated into the brain.  The unicorn and cyclopean man are awakening from their long slumber.  The human quaternary finds its vestigial horn reappearing at the surface of the forehead, not as hardened tissue but as whirling creative fire.

            Thus, as a symbol, the unicorn white and gleaming with fire which coruscates, whirls and shoots forth from between the eyes again roams the mountain sides.  The Cyclopes are here on earth again, but no longer one-eyed.  Rather they are endowed with three organs of vision, two physical and one super-physical.  They are partly represented by the men and women of today who are already possessed of these intuitional faculties, which will be natural to later races.