If you have the least predilection for spirituality, or a belief in life after death, this essay should be left unread. I am going to discuss a particular use of language that the majority of the human race is not capable of understanding.
Have you ever given it much thought as to why some people can look at a geometric drawing and just see lines? The figure has no meaning. Have you ever wondered why you can explain things to people in plain English, but they just do not get the meaning? Have you ever wondered why a theorist can state a law, but then miss every opportunity in applying it? Since tautologics imply the relation, and relatiologics imply the term, when we do not understand something, it is because we cannot supply what is implied.
There are two reasons for the inability to supply what has been implied, lack of experience, or of conceptual ability. One is called ignorance, the other stupidity. Anyone can admit their own ignorance, but it is logically impossible to ever admit ones stupidity. We admit our ignorance through constant study, which is humbling ourselves to truth. This was the meaning of humility given in the Bible. Stupidity is something we must always submit.
Learning corrects our ignorance, but stupidity cannot be corrected. Since this essay cannot correct stupidity, the vast majority of the human race should not read it—they will not understand it, but if it is read, it should simply be ignored.
A good portion of this text was written in the late ‘80’s and I will just leave it as was.
The Beast
When I was exploring the lucid dream-state, I was exploring it under the notion that I was interacting with my own subconscious. I had put before myself a question; “Can the lucid dream-state be useful?” Can we go over things we have experienced to abstract the utmost from them? Years later I learned that lucid dreaming is considered a free for all fantasy state, a typically savage response.
That session I had a dream and in that dream was a sign post, “Express C.M.” The format of the statement is a clue to its meaning.
For several days I wondered why I would express anything about the Common Market. Political economics is something I know the least about. I then came to look in a dictionary, and Common Market was not listed under this abbreviation, but Congregation of the Mission was. I was really let down, if I know nothing about the Common Market; I cared less about any Congregation of the Mission. I then remembered that C.M. was used in elementary math books, “common multiple” and could mean “common message.” I then tried to read the Bible; it was very hard. On one level, it made no sense at all, on another level it was repeating the same messages over and over again. The Bible is downright soggy with body to mind metaphors. The observations made seem to be just simple facts; there is no magic at all.
In this essay, I will explore solutions to just two puzzles of the Bible, the beast in the Garden of Eden and the beast in the Revelation of St. John. In both cases, I shall not interpolate anything; I will simply let the text define the meaning of the metaphors used.
Eden
When I read the third chapter in the Bible, things looked rather odd,
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
In regard to the serpent, is it normal to condemn someone for telling the truth? If one has a relative perspective, their minds start racing around to justify the condemnation, “Yes, but…” “Yes, but…” The truth is the truth, eternal and good, or it is not. Make up your mind. One either lives by a single standard, or they do not. Will not the Law instruct you to judge things as they are and not by the stature of the individuals involved? Mention an argument like this to a religious person and it is like turning the ignition on to a motor boat, “But…but…but…but!”
In fact if one actually examines the text, the serpent spoke in the name of the Lord, what he said came to pass, and God confirms his words. I later became aware that this series of events has a meaning under “Mosaic” Law and that they identify a character—a prophet sent by God.
Now that this character has been identified, does the identification continue throughout the text? Let us go to the other end of the Book.
The Number Of His Name
“The names of the Bible have been a favorite field for gematry. Most famous is the Number of the Beast, given in the Revelation of St. John (13:18) “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred three score and six.” In spite of the innumerable researches on this question through the centuries it seems impossible to arrive at any definite solution. Clearly many names will have the same number. In the violent theological feuds of the Reformation it was a vicious stroke to write the opponent’s name in such a way that his number became the fatal 666 of the beast.” Number Theory and Its History, O. Ore © 1948
Now do you suppose that the person who developed this puzzle would use gematry which is not a standard and could produce countless answers? Let us stick to the simple standard of Hebrew numeration and let it tell us the letters of the name.
“or the number of his name … for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”
He H 5 Ayin ‘ 70
Vav V 6 Pe P 80
Zayin Z 7 Tsade Ts 90
Heth H 8 Qoph Q 100
Teth T 9 Resh R 200
Yod Y 10 Shin Sh 300
Kaph K 20 Tav T 400
Numerology chart found in “From One to Zero.” by George Ifrah.
666
Tav T 400
Resh R 200
Samekh S 60
Vav V 6
400, 200, 60, 6. Trsv. No word listed in Hebrew Dictionary that I have. So is this string of letters meaningless? The first hint will be repeated several times, the first letter ends a word—it is called the conversive. The letters are backwards—image.
Re:13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Who described themselves in the Bible using all three images?
Ho:13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
Ho:12:8 I will meet them as a beer that is bereaved of he whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them.
The beast is described as God, but the text reveals that it is the name of a man.
Re:12:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
What is the relationship of God to man given in the scripture?
Ge:1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And it will say again about reversing the letters here:
Re:13:14 … “that they should make an image to the beast…”
And it will repeat it for the fourth time here, counting sequence is also the image of the standard numeration.
“Let him that hath understanding count the number”
At least four times we are told to simply put the numbers in the same order as an image produces.
Now what Hebrew word does “Vsrt” make? “To shutter” with the conversive (turning the past into the future and the future into the past.) Found in the dictionary written by R. Alcalay.
“The shutter that takes the past and turns it into the future and makes the future into one’s past.” Now it does not take a genius to figure out that the human mind, that which is responsible for judgment, is the topic.
Is:22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.”
Shutters
Shutters are a very important metaphor used in the Scripture. This is because these shutters regulate the coming and going of life for the human body. Gates, doors, windows, women, etc., In fact, there are seven of them;
6…having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Seven ways to perceive, to protect one’s life, seven areas of will.
Now I am going to make a definition such that I can locate these seven.
That human body system which must acquire something from the environment, process that which it has acquired, for a product that sustains and promotes the life of the body. So that we can have life, and have it more abundantly.
- Ocular System. Environmental Reference.
- Digestive System. Food.
- Cardio-vascular System. Oxygen.
- Manipulative System. (Not just touch, human craft.)
- Vestibular System. Gravitational positioning.
- Procreative System.
- Judgment. (The Mark of the Beast, how well we think determines how well we can sustain and promote our life.)
A thing
One should next examine this list, in accordance with the definition of a thing. They will notice that the definition divides the list into two groups, those systems which abstract form and disregard material, and those which abstract material and discards form.
Form Material - Ocular System. 2) Digestive System
- Vestibular System. 3) Cardio-vascular System.
- Procreative System. 4) Manipulative System.
- Judgment.
Logic itself is divided into these two primitive categories. If, in a logic system, one is given a form, one must supply the implied material to the form, such as conversational grammar, arithmetic, algebra. If one is given material, one must apply a form to it, such as geometry, woodworking, etc.,
A true Formal System pairs both logic systems such that they both say the same thing. This implies a lot about what is wrong with education today.
There is a great deal more, but this essay is not the place for it, this is just an introduction.