02-06-2011, 12:00 AM
Hey Ninth,
Good example of setting up a marker. Crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land is definitely one that would fit as something intended for all. And so to mark it is to point to it's importance.
You can also look at these markers as markers in our memories.
My teacher used to say that if you want to repeat an experience, you remember the feeling associated with it. Though something as important as this, you would never forget. And maybe that is the idea of stones. They last longer than anything in this earth plane.
About 2 1/2 years ago I was working as a security officer at the flood site in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The entire downtown area was abandoned and without electricity and I was there for a full month from 6 pm to 6 am all by myself. I had a lot of time to ponder things. Staying alert and lack of sleep kind of altered my awareness of my surroundings.
It occured to me that, in a way, I "owned" everything I was surrounded by. In a way that the actual owners did not, I was making use of their land and buildings.
I would guess that the Promised Land is something like that. No matter where we are, a "spiritual appreciation" of our surroundings is our inheritance. People can put up fences and write deeds and stake claims, but if they are not "seeing", they are not in the promised land.
And now after thousands of years the same two groups are fighting and killling each other over their "inheritance", not knowing that that "inheritance" was actually spiritual in nature, not the physical land they have been warring over. Those who see through the veils of this world are the inheritors.
I have only had glimses here an there but enough to know that that is what it is. Again the importance of a map. You know when you are approaching something even if you cannot imagine what that something is.
Good example of setting up a marker. Crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land is definitely one that would fit as something intended for all. And so to mark it is to point to it's importance.
You can also look at these markers as markers in our memories.
My teacher used to say that if you want to repeat an experience, you remember the feeling associated with it. Though something as important as this, you would never forget. And maybe that is the idea of stones. They last longer than anything in this earth plane.
About 2 1/2 years ago I was working as a security officer at the flood site in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The entire downtown area was abandoned and without electricity and I was there for a full month from 6 pm to 6 am all by myself. I had a lot of time to ponder things. Staying alert and lack of sleep kind of altered my awareness of my surroundings.
It occured to me that, in a way, I "owned" everything I was surrounded by. In a way that the actual owners did not, I was making use of their land and buildings.
I would guess that the Promised Land is something like that. No matter where we are, a "spiritual appreciation" of our surroundings is our inheritance. People can put up fences and write deeds and stake claims, but if they are not "seeing", they are not in the promised land.
And now after thousands of years the same two groups are fighting and killling each other over their "inheritance", not knowing that that "inheritance" was actually spiritual in nature, not the physical land they have been warring over. Those who see through the veils of this world are the inheritors.
I have only had glimses here an there but enough to know that that is what it is. Again the importance of a map. You know when you are approaching something even if you cannot imagine what that something is.