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Phoenix - definition of Phoenix in Encyclopedia (446 words) |
 | In ancient Egyptian mythology and in myths derived from it, the phoenix (also rarely spelled phenix or phoinix) is a mythical sacred firebird. |
| Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron -like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra. |
| This bird nests on salt flats that are too hot for its eggs or chicks to survive; it builds a mound several inches tall and large enough to support its egg, which it lays in that marginally cooler location. |
| Fire (1203 words) |
| The symbol of the living fire is the sun, cert ain of whose rays develope the fire of life in a diseased body, impar t the knowledge of the future to the sluggish mind, and stimulate to active function a cert ain psychic and generally dormant faculty in man. The meaning is very occult. |
| In all this it was recognized that terrestrial fire is the representative of celestial fire, a phase of cosmic consciousness. |
| Fire, whether heavenly or terrestrial, is the most perfect and pure reflection of the one universal flame ; it is life and death, creator and recreator; the origin and end of every material thing -- divine consciousness - substance. |
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