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Song of Songs 3:9 ('King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon'): the chariot is the mind and the cedar of Lebanon the incorruptible, which worms do not attack. Solomon made it himself: no one can build another's mind; each must make and control his own.

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Song of Songs 3:9 | Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon

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Seedtime and Harvest ¶2
LectureSeedtime and Harvest
It means the wood of Lebanon is the incorruptible mind. But you make it for yourself
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The Rock and the Highway ¶31
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The Rock and the Highway ¶32
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Moses Elijah Jesus ¶12
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The horse is always the symbol of the mind; in this case the mind is harnessed, disciplined, and directed by the charioteer, the one who is in control of that disciplined mind, but no feeling, no emotion of love.
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A Mystical View ¶9
LectureA Mystical View
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A Mystical View ¶10
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A Mystical View ¶11
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A Mystical View ¶12
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A Mystical View ¶13
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A Mystical View ¶14
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