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The civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis perceived the Zodiacal sign of Pisces as the chamber or womb of the 'Holy of Holies' for humanity. The 'Holy of Holies' was the name given to the most central chamber in the Temple of Solomon, which contained the Ark of the Covenant at the time. However, this term was also used by the Lemurians and Atlanteans to denote the innermost center of any sacred temple, as well as the sacred center of each human being. Within the sign of Pisces the purification of the soul is begun. The soul enters the Holy of Holies and stands before the Altar of the Lord. Here, it supplicates itself and submits to the purifying waters of Love to wash away the encrustation of the soul's past sojourns in the karmic sphere of life. Long before Christians used the sign of the fish to represent Jesus Christ, the Vesica Pisces was the symbol for absolution of karma through the Greater Love which emanates from the Universal Christos into the human experience. The Vesica Pisces was the all-encompassing womb of holiness which embraced the 'unborn' (ignorant) and prepared them for an illumined birth. The Lemurian / Atlantean archetypal symbology for Pisces was a woman profiled in a sitting position, the lower half of her body immersed in the sea, the upper portion emerging from the sea and appearing as a mountain. In her hands she uplifts a large pearl to the heavens. The symbology is thus: the woman (feminine aspect) representing the emotional body, raises up out of the sea of the lesser emotional realm, extending the well-earned 'Pearl of Great Price' or gem of wisdom to the cosmos. The pearl, which is initially created by impurity, is nevertheless the sphere of pure illumination that has manifested as a result of the soul's journey of experience through the worlds of matter. By offering the pearl up to the heavens, so the soul unites the seed of purity in matter with the source of the seed's purest and most ultimate expression. From this Immaculate Conception, Grace is born from the 'Womb of the Fish.'
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