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Post by LorrB on Aug 2, 2011 14:43:00 GMT 9.5
You are assuming that Moses was a real person.
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Post by LorrB on Aug 2, 2011 14:45:24 GMT 9.5
Key 14
All differentiation is the result of various combinations of spiritual energies, which cross and recross at different angles according to the receiving poles and centres within the evolving life. The various combinations of these forces in the invisible world spell out the archetypes of bodies, and these bodies become the consonants of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Post by paul on Aug 2, 2011 15:02:16 GMT 9.5
You are assuming that Moses was a real person. Is there anyone in the OT who actually existed?
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Post by tamrin on Aug 2, 2011 15:58:31 GMT 9.5
You are assuming that Moses was a real person. Is there anyone in the OT who actually existed?From Ezra on appears more or less secure.
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Post by LorrB on Aug 31, 2011 13:09:56 GMT 9.5
Key15
The vowel points, which were never written by the ancient Jewish people – because the represented divine elements and were too sacred to be symbolised upon paper – represent the life centres which animate and give expression to the consonants or forms. In the same way the swirling vital centres in the human body are the invisible causes which lie behind our visible bodies. As there are seven vital centres, so there are seven vowels; but as two vowels (w and y) are at the present time only partly used, so certain spiritual centres are latent under certain conditions at the present time. As no word can be formed without vowels, so no body can be built of consonantal elements alone. Every body must have its unwritten but sounded and admitted life element.
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Post by LorrB on Aug 31, 2011 13:11:30 GMT 9.5
That key is very special.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 1, 2011 13:00:26 GMT 9.5
Key 16
The vowel points and their sound, colours and forms were grouped together by the ancients as the spirits before the throne, and composed the unspeakable name of the unknowable God. (In the Sanskrit the seven vowels are the Dhyani Chohans radiating the life force of Fohat.)
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Post by LorrB on Sept 5, 2011 9:49:22 GMT 9.5
Any relationship between the 'vowels', the chakras and the officers of a lodge?
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Post by LorrB on Sept 5, 2011 9:50:43 GMT 9.5
Key 17
According to the Jews there are two great worlds. The higher or superior world called the Macrocosm, and in it rules the divine man, Macroprosophus. The lower world or the lesser sphere was called the Microcosm (little cosmos), and in it ruled an emanation of Macroprosophus, known as Microprosophus, or the lesser reflection of the greater. Man made in the image of his Father, the Great Man – Adam Kadmon, the archetype – contained both the nature of the human, or lower, and the nature of the divine, or higher. In order to understand Nature and God, these philosophers taught that man must unravel the mystery of his own being, which was made in the shadow of God, and find the sacred meaning of the twenty-two hieroglyphic letters and the vowel points as they play our their drama in the realms of spirit and substance.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 5, 2011 9:57:13 GMT 9.5
Again, the reflections.
Reflections in Freemasonry
3 Principal Officers/3 Assistant Officers 3 Overseers/3 Principal Officers 3 Sides Porphyry Stone/3 Principal Officers 3 Prinicipals/3 Sojourners 3 Sets of Light/3 Columns
etc
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Post by paul on Sept 5, 2011 10:17:15 GMT 9.5
Any relationship between the 'vowels', the chakras and the officers of a lodge? Certainly, bearing in mind that the term "vowels" when applied to the Dhyani Chohans is metaphorical. It is true however that the logoi of the traditional 7 sacred planets do sound, each of them, their ray throughout the solar system and of course through the corresponding chakra in each sentient being. The earthly lodge being a model of the heavenly lodge has (in theory) a strong resonance with the sounds of the rays.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 6, 2011 15:05:11 GMT 9.5
Key 18
It is said that there are a number of mysterious forces playing through Nature. These forces are correlated to the letters of the divine name Tetragrammaton, which in turn is correlated to the four elements; and these, combined into seventy-two combinations, are referred to as the ministering angels, or the intelligences dwelling in and manipulating the life-giving forces. The celestial language, which we see around us in our world of ever-changing lights and colours, is called the Bible of Nature. The work Bible here has its original meaning, a book. This book is composed of the consonants of the divine alphabet. When these letters are given meaning and illuminated by the unuttered and unwritten vowel points dwelling within the senses, man then reads his own destiny as it is written by the hand of divinity. Ahaa.. the original 72 Elders?
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Post by paul on Sept 6, 2011 15:19:07 GMT 9.5
Perhaps the elders are the council of God
Psalm 82:1-8 (Complete Jewish Bible)
1 A psalm of Asaf: Elohim [God] stands in the divine assembly; there with the elohim [judges], he judges: 2 "How long will you go on judging unfairly, favoring the wicked?...... 6 "My decree is: 'You are elohim [gods, judges], sons of the Most High all of you. 7 Nevertheless, you will die like mortals; like any prince, you will fall.'" 8 Rise up, Elohim, and judge the earth; for all the nations are yours. "
Here God is "elohim" and the council are "elohim". Perhaps the council are the 72 elders and perhaps too they are annunaki
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Post by Henka on Sept 7, 2011 0:55:38 GMT 9.5
The significance of the number 72, encoded in the Bible as 72 Elders, among other metaphors, refers to the procession of the equinoxes, which is 1 degree every 72 years (Google it). The bible is an astrotheological text, and must be read with this in mind, otherwise, speculation about Annunaki and Sirian or Pleadian aliens is the (foolish) result.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 7, 2011 8:35:37 GMT 9.5
The significance of the number 72, encoded in the Bible as 72 Elders, among other metaphors, refers to the procession of the equinoxes, which is 1 degree every 72 years (Google it). The bible is an astrotheological text, and must be read with this in mind, otherwise, speculation about Annunaki and Sirian or Pleadian aliens is the (foolish) result. Does that include the New Testament? Astrotheology ... angels are angles? And just as effective!
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Post by paul on Sept 7, 2011 15:28:18 GMT 9.5
... The bible is an astrotheological text, and must be read with this in mind..... Certainly that is valid, there may however be more, at least according to HPB: "There are seven keys to this, as to every other allegory whether in the Bible or in pagan religions. "
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Post by LorrB on Sept 8, 2011 9:33:24 GMT 9.5
Key 19
All forms are composed of one substance, the difference being in the combinations and position of the life centres (the vowels). Nature furnished the book, but the positions of man’s seven-fold consciousness interpret the book. The consonants may, and do, change their meaning through the position of the vowels which give life to their dead forms. The early translations of Jewish literature experienced literally the difficulty that students of the book of Nature experience spiritually. The early Jewish Scriptures were written without vowels and without spacing between words. The confusion which resulted can be appreciated by taking two consonants such as l and g and trying to reason out whether the word is log or lug or leg, for with the vowel the meaning is changed. It is the same in Nature. The difference between a plant, an animal, and a man, the difference between the intelligences or different men is the result of varying the placing of the vowels (of consciousness) in the consonants (of form).
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Post by LorrB on Sept 8, 2011 9:34:33 GMT 9.5
Certainly that is valid, there may however be more, at least according to HPB: "There are seven keys to this, as to every other allegory whether in the Bible or in pagan religions. " What a timely post to make before Key 19
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Post by LorrB on Sept 9, 2011 9:59:08 GMT 9.5
Re Key 19... when reading it I immediately thought of the Cryptex in Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code". The (first) cryptex featured in the novel is described as a stone cylinder comprising "five doughnut-sized disks of marble that had been stacked and affixed to one another within a delicate brass framework"; end caps make it impossible to see inside the hollow cylinder. Each of the disks is carved with the entire alphabet and, since they can be rotated individually, the disks can be aligned to spell different five-letter words.
The cryptex works "much like a bicycle's combination lock", and if one arranges the disks to spell out the correct password, "the tumblers inside align, and the entire cylinder slides apart" (p. 200). In the inner compartment of the cryptex, secret information can be hidden, written on a scroll of thin papyrus wrapped around a fragile vial of vinegar as a security measure: if one does not know the password but tries to force the cryptex open, the vial will break and the vinegar will dissolve the papyrus before it can be read.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 9, 2011 10:15:00 GMT 9.5
Stone (cylinder) Five (senses and vowels) Stacked (built upon each other) Brass (and workers thereof) Caps (Man Know Thyself) Hollow (Pillars)
Entire alphabet (Untold possibilties) Rotated individually (Free choice) Different .. Words (Each temple 'stone' is unique)
Words are actions, actions are words ... no need for a mouth when giving the password.
Thin Papyrus (little knowledge or understanding) Vinegar (our own lower selves) Force open (accessing' higher degrees' by artificial or harmful means)
Interesting. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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