The Holy Bible has been used as fly paper since its compilation. For many hover about its pages eventually their wings are stuck, and they fly no more. A paper false idol, there are many, a service manual. You,ve been serviced.
The thread starter and his argumenting buddy have been into that for years, judging by their conversation here :lol:
We all admire and respect your brilliant conversation which always seems to lead to sound judgement.
And the Egyptian scripts state that the aeonial battle of Armageddon is fought on this dividing line between the beast and the god in man. The more we permit the Christly power in us to rule, the more completely are the six elemental energies, blind and unconscious, brought into the service of their Lord, the seventh. They are figuratively trampled under his feet. This is the meaning of the Christ’s power to tread on serpents and scorpions, the inferior six powers being typed as the serpent.
Creation was begun in
Genesis to be consummated in a climactic episode of the progressive Revelation. Humanity is to uncover this final Revelation when the seven great seals have been one by one opened; when the seven lamps of spiritual capacity have been lighted; when the
seven vials of wrath (the lawless, furious natural energies!) and the seven censors containing the Promethean fire of spirit have poured forth their contents over earth amidst the inhabitants thereof; and when the Beast, the animal self, with its seven heads, shall have been chained for an interval of peace at the end of the cycle by the triumphant power of the god in man.
One now sees the sweeping implications of the femininity of the six creative powers. They built up the body of man, not his soul, and the body is the animal, the Beast. But it is also the physical, which is the feminine, the Mother, the Woman. Hence the Dragon-Beast and the Scarlet Woman of
Revelation run pretty close to parallel in that symbolism. The six maternal energies comprise the anima or soul of the animal part of mankind. And both the Beast and the Great Harlot, the Woman whose fornicatory ways polluted the nations of the earth, were cast out of the upper worlds. And the Beast pursued the Woman to earth, and let loose a great water flood to overwhelm her, as he went on to
make war with her seed; but the "earth helped the Woman and swallowed up the water flood" and saved her. All this imagery relates directly to positive anthropological history; but there is not space here to go into it. Both the animal part of man and matter as
contra spirit, gathered in time the connotations of evil character. Asceticism exemplifies the one, and Christian Science, predominantly, the other.
But the only "devil" in theology anywhere was the lower animal nature in humanity, for it was held to be in constant opposition to the upper Self of spirit. It is animal and it is feminine. Hence the Scarlet Woman, the Great Harlot, who
sat on seven hills, was cast down, and even the seven mountains themselves were thrown down into the sea, which they set on fire! (The introduction of spirit, typed by "fire", into the bodily man, typed always by "water", the body being seven-eighths water!). The seven elementary energies of the Beast portion of our nature had to be subjugated and finally dispossessed (by a change of nature) by the spiritual Man who came late as the last brother of the six gods, to be raised eventually to the place of their father and ruler. The seventh son leads the foregoing brethren to the heights. The seven elementary powers, now typed as the Woman, were cast out and her place knew her no more. The primary, natural, physical Mother Creation was finally supplanted by the greater lordship of the second Adam, the fruit of her own womb. This is allegorical as the dethronement of the Woman, and the casting out of the Beast.
New Lectures on the Ancient Wisdom--No 7.
