Book of Revelation is that interesting book that uses alot of symbolism, and is quite involved.
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My interest in Revelations began over 30 years ago in 1986. At that time, I had an interest in Jungian psychology and collective human symbolism. I become self actualized and had become somewhat of an expert in collective human symbolism. Revelations and Prophesy started out as an applied application to test my symbolism skills. Nobody had solved the mystery of Revelations, so I thought it would also be a good way to see how my unconscious mind would deal with the unknowns; secondary Jungian experiment on myself. Previous work in self experimenting had increased by creativity; unconscious rapport.
One quote that caught my eye, early, was Revelations 22:18-19
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Although this quote is normally interpreted as a warning, I intuitively saw it differently. I saw it as a clue as to how one needed to approach Revelation symbolism. The clue said, one needs to not add their own words; to force a fit, or take away words; leave things out so as to create the wrong context. One logical way to satisfy both criteria, at the same time, was to look at Revelations and Prophesy, as the randomized pieces of a zig saw puzzle. Using only these pieces, I needed to rearrange all the pieces, to form a coherent story; complete the puzzle.
I took the bible, Old and New Testament, and visually scanned the entire book, like a college student would do a text book, highlighting any quote that had anything to do with prophesy. I then hired a girl to type the 100 plus pages of quotes, into my old 1980's DOS computer. I then printed it out, and cut it all up, until I had all the pieces; quotes, for my puzzle all over the floor. All I had to do was assemble these. I did not leave anything out, and I did not have to use a single world of my own. It met all the needs of the clue.
I took me about 6 months until all the pieces were used and a story appeared. I have never published it, because it had a profound archetypical affect, on me, that induced a type of mystical psychosis. In my experience, prophesy turned out not to be a group thing, but an individual induction, leading to an update in my brain's operating system.
The update process lasted over two years. When my ego was rebooted, I had amnesia. The essence of who I was had been maintained, but without a past. I was back to paradise for several months, but without a past, even in terms of my education. The old subroutines of thinking and behaving had been disrupted.
I eventually felt a need to leave paradise and reinvent myself. My earliest writings, were quite bizarre, since I developed new ideas in isolation, without my past memories from education. I was also avoiding the present so my mind would develop natural. In the about 2004 I decided to discuss my idea in forums, beginning with physics forums and science forums. The contact with the present and past of science and knowledge, made me build a bridge, between my unique thinking and that of others. Now I am about par with the present, but with a unique angle on most things, due to the early isolated reeducation process.
The Puzzle Building
My approach to making the puzzle was to start in the center and build the puzzle outwards. I used the symbolism of the four horsemen as the hub. This choice was to due with the sign of the Christian cross and the number four. Many of the prophesy quotes give the details in terms of these four phases in the update process. The four horses have a connection to the four beasts of Daniel around the throne of God due to the number four.
To give one a feel, the first horseman is white and has a bow and arrow and crown in his head. Those who add their own words, say he is about war. But he is white wth a golden crown so he is righteous and not a war monger in the secular sense.
The first beast of Daniel is a lion. The white lion, in terms of collective human symbolism, is wisdom. Wisdom is a female, so this combined symbolism had a connected to the Divine woman who is pregnant with child. This child is caught up to the thrown of God. The child becomes the White Horseman later in the drama. Firs there is a very stressful time as the Dragon pursue the divine woman. The war the first horseman wages is not military but the war based on wisdom. He fights from a distance; arrows, and pass in safety by a way he did not traverse with his feet. It sounds very modern, like the internet.
