Bible STORIES are sometimes
symbolic not always literal
Sit down and really THINK
about these silly things
we believe that don't make sense
Adam and Eve
the first 2 literal people ?
what about bones/artifacts and writings
that are 10k yrs old ?
Adam was masculine
Eve feminine
MIND/male
WISDOM/female
2 aspects of Divine Mind
Evolution of Consciousness!
There are Chinese writings of
Yin and Yang
2 aspects of divine mind
male/female way before the
Old Testament existed
Hindus - Deva masculine and Devi feminine
Yin Yang or Yah Weh - same meaning
Cain and Abel
Carnal and Divine
thoughts/mind
CAIN
Cain is the carnal lower mind
the FLESH - the animal nature
Abel
The higher mind
Divine, Godlike
Sacrificing animals
It's not LITERAL
allegory !!!! all symbolic stories
Jesus even warned about allegories..
hidden meanings for the elect
Sacrificing the animal inside us ..
sacrifice the animal nature and spark the divine GOD within
Noah's flood
8 people got every animal on earth from all
over the world into an ark
and fed them for a year ???
what about the poop ?
what about the climate specific animals ?
the wild elephants, bees, lions,
cobras and so on and so on ???
*doesn't mean there wasn't deluges and cataclysms !
The RED sea
Exodus/Exit the lower mind/flesh and open
yourself to higher mind/God
move across the desert(meditation/clear mind)
and become a new person
Circumcision is not literal cutting of the weewee!
circumcise your heart
it's sick we have taken this literally...
don't do any of the rest of the
barbaric rituals ..they are done away with
but not this ??!!!!
Represent in man
Shem = spiritual
Ham = physical
Japeth = mental
Jonah in the belly of the whale
symbolism
The first is the number 3.
Jonah was in the belly of the whale for 3 days and 3 nights.
Similarly Jesus was in hell for 3 days and 3 nights after the crucifixion.
You might even remember that the Apostle Paul was
blinded after meeting Christ (in a bright light) on the
road to Damascus for 3 days.
What’s so important about 3 here?
This recurring pattern in Biblical literature is
symbolic of the initiation process into higher conscious awareness.
It is representative of what some call Christ
consciousness where the subconscious and conscious become one.
So why the number 3? Most ancient religions before
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were based on the
zodiac and the sun. During the winter solstice,
the sun can symbolically be thought of as dying because
during the 3 days around
December 21st, 22nd, and the 23rd
(it varies slightly from year to year) the sun seems to stand still.
Far from being literal, the tale of Jonah is astrological,
as “Jonah” in the “belly of the whale” for three days represents the sun in the “womb” of the earth.
These three days are the “entombment” of the sun in darkness, nightly but also during the time between a new and old moon, as the “whale” is also the “moon-fish.” As Thomas Doane says in Bible Myths
There is a Hindu fable, very much resembling [the Jonah tale], to be found in the
Somadeva Bhatta, of a person by the name of Saktideva who was swallowed up
by a huge fish, and finally came out unhurt.
The ancient Greeks narrated the story of Heracles who fought a sea
monster but was devoured in the process. After 3
days and three nights he managed to free himself by fighting his way out.
In Grecian fable, Hercules is said to have been swallowed by a whale,
at a place called Joppa, and to have lain three days in his entrails.
That the story is an allegory, and that it, as well as that of Saktideva,
Hercules and the rest, are simply different versions of the same myth, the significance of
which is the alternate swallowing up and casting forth of Day, or the Sun, by Night,
is now all but universally admitted by scholars. The Day, or the Sun, is swallowed
up by Night, to be set free again at dawn . . .
The Sun was called Jona . . . Jonah, Hercules and others personify the Sun,
and a huge Fish represents the Earth.
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