01-23-2011, 12:00 AM
Good subject matter Lex and good post Ninth,
I have written on these subjects years ago on this forum. I have seen the Great Emanations and been enveloped by them. In the bible they are known as Jacob's Ladder and Joseph's Coat of Many Colors. The disciples in the upper room at Pentecost experienced this Vision/Spiritual Experience also and this experience was promised to Nathanael in the first chapter of the Gospel of John.
The Holy of Holies has been opened to believers for 2000 years now because the veil was rent ("..from top to bottom.."meaning it was God's doing, not man's doing) When Jesus died on the cross saying "It is Finished."
What was "finished" was the Old Covenant of works. Now came the time of the New.
Under the Old the Holy of Holies was closed to the people. Only the High Priest could enter and then only once every year at Atonement. At that time he cleansed himself ritually and entered and spoke the name of God only once.
This demarcation between the unknown and unknowable is well established in both the Qabala and the bible. In the Qabala there is an Emanation called the Hidden Sephirah of Daath, or Knowledge. (note the similarity of terms here with the "Great Emanations")
This Sephirah sits across Abyss. Above this are the three Supernal Sephiroth. They can be experienced but not comprehended.
The Path of Grace taught by Jesus and the way of the Middle Pillar are parallels to what the New Seers were shooting for, I think.
Jesus said that any coming through a back door were thieves and robbers. Those would fit with both the Old Seers and those who think they are justfied by the Old Covenant Laws.
Good subject matter and hard to be understood.
Those are the Mysteries. They can be experienced but not always explained. But they are available to those who seek them.
Bob
I have written on these subjects years ago on this forum. I have seen the Great Emanations and been enveloped by them. In the bible they are known as Jacob's Ladder and Joseph's Coat of Many Colors. The disciples in the upper room at Pentecost experienced this Vision/Spiritual Experience also and this experience was promised to Nathanael in the first chapter of the Gospel of John.
The Holy of Holies has been opened to believers for 2000 years now because the veil was rent ("..from top to bottom.."meaning it was God's doing, not man's doing) When Jesus died on the cross saying "It is Finished."
What was "finished" was the Old Covenant of works. Now came the time of the New.
Under the Old the Holy of Holies was closed to the people. Only the High Priest could enter and then only once every year at Atonement. At that time he cleansed himself ritually and entered and spoke the name of God only once.
This demarcation between the unknown and unknowable is well established in both the Qabala and the bible. In the Qabala there is an Emanation called the Hidden Sephirah of Daath, or Knowledge. (note the similarity of terms here with the "Great Emanations")
This Sephirah sits across Abyss. Above this are the three Supernal Sephiroth. They can be experienced but not comprehended.
The Path of Grace taught by Jesus and the way of the Middle Pillar are parallels to what the New Seers were shooting for, I think.
Jesus said that any coming through a back door were thieves and robbers. Those would fit with both the Old Seers and those who think they are justfied by the Old Covenant Laws.
Good subject matter and hard to be understood.
Those are the Mysteries. They can be experienced but not always explained. But they are available to those who seek them.
Bob