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The Spiritual Symbol serves a threefold purpose. It is an aid to concentration of attention. It expresses and teaches a universal truth or law. It evokes an intuitive perception of this truth or law. Moreover, it may even bring about a certain moral effect upon the character provided the foregoing three purposes have been successfully realized.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 5 : Visualizations, Symbols > # 46