o the seal of
perfection or Body of Glory, the Life with which the Risen and Ascended
Master is clad. While conferring character on all things, it is
entirely transcendent, modeless, and "un-walled." Through it God is
immanent in the Universe, hence it is also called "Mother." This is
what the symbolism seems to imply.

(6) This implies the doctrine of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, of
the Universe and of the individual soul as a perfect compendium
thereof. All the great cosmic processes are to be found within the
soul.

(7) A "name" was held to be that which manifests the innermost essence
of a thing. Hence it symbolised the spiritual body or ideal vehicle of
manifestation, the life clothing. The bestowal of a new name is
therefore the sacramental sign of the gift of a new body or mode of
life. The real and ineffable Name of God is the Concept or Conceiving
Thought referred to in note 5. But this is the Name "Mother" or
"Bride" of the Logos, Providence. To "name" was a sacramental way of
invoking a presence or "spiritual vehicle."

(8) _Cp._ Codex Akhmim: "Of Him it is said, He thinketh His Image alone
and beholdeth it in the Water of Pure Light which surroundeth Him. And
His Thought energised and revealed herself, and stood before Him in the
Light-Spark--which is the Power which existed before the All--which is
the perfect Forethought of the All--the Barbelo, the AEon perfect in
glory--glorifying Him, because she hath manifested herself in Him and
thinketh Him (_i.e._ gives Him birth). She is the first Thought, His
Image." Barbelo seems to mean "In the Four is God": in other words, it
is the personified Tetragrammaton or Great Name commonly rendered by
Jehovah.

(9) Kanoun. This is a flat, broad basket, originally made of rush or
cane, but often manufactured in precious metals in later times. It was
used in the sacrificial rites of the gods and was hence classed among
sacred things (_v._ "Basket" in Hastings' _Ency. of Rel. and Ethics_).
What it signifies exactly I am unable to say. Possibly the rites of
the school, if we only knew them, would throw some light upon the
question. The offerings of bread and wine at the Eucharist may have
been made in the Kanoun. Sometimes in the MS. it seems to be connected
with prayer.

(10) The Temple of the Pleromata or Fullnesses seems to be pictured as
being in the manner of that in Jerusalem. The AEons of the Inner Space
correspond to the Holy of Holies,