Mountains were seen as DIVINITIES by our ancestors, They had the POWER to SEND RAIN and they were also PLACES which the DEAD WERE SENT. They were the DWELLING places of EMPERORS and GODS.
In the LANGUAGE of allegory and SYMBOL, mountains stand for an EXALTED state of CONSCIOUSNESS of the INVISIBLE WORLD, in which the individual is ABOVE the level of SENSE PERCEPTION of the everyday REALITIES.
The King DAVID WORSHIPPED GOD ON a MOUNTAIN and MOSES RECEIVED the TEN COMMANDMENTS from GOD ON MOUNT SINAI.
In the New Testament, MARY, after the ANNUNCIATION, and fully CONSCIOUS of the IN-
DWELLING DIVINE LIFE, RETREATED TO HIGH PLACES; later CHRIST often WITHDREW
TO A STATE OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS BEFORE giving out the TEACHING, the most important of which was DELIVERED ON THE MOUNT.
So, like the Pyramids, MOUNTAINS ARE SYMBOLS of the ASCENT FROM the EARTHLY
PLANE to the SPIRITUAL in our attempt to know THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
MOUNT SINAI correspond to the Olympus of the Greeks and correspond also to Mount Meru, the mythical mountain at the centre of the Buddhist Universe.
But AS WE CLIMB A MOUNTAIN, this new level of AWARENESS CANNOT BE REACHED
DIRECTLY; it demands EFFORT and INSTRUCTION on HOW TO REACH IT, HOW TO APPLY THE GIVEN TRUTH, living this Truth SINCERELY by one's own INNER EFFORTS.
But , on REACHING the SUMMIT, the disciple LOOKS AROUND and THERE ARE EVEN
HIGHER MOUNTAINS TO BE CLIMBED UNTIL the disciple REACHES THAT MOUNT OF
TRANSFIGURATION, which means, in the Greek, "METAMORPHOSIS" or "TRANSFORMA-
TION OF FORM," a going beyond ordinary form.
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