Paul Thomas
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I begin with the name Emmanuel. The Christ child was first called that and it means: God (El) is with us. This is given as God's truth for every living human being. We have Christ as part and parcel of our "being" nature. He is our personal "other," our spiritual brother! How long has this been true? Isaiah wrote that "his" beginning goes back to the beginning of time and Jesus said that he was already long here before Abraham came. Our Bible begins with Abram and so he was among our kind before that. Where did he come from? The Gospels attest to the truth that He came from Mary, conceived without sin as the Catholics like it said. Mary, the word, means: young woman, like the "dressed out" flesh partner to the man in the garden. Woman is the word for the flesh body. Christ is the light of "being" in a living flesh body, a certain kind of consciousness, a kind that begins in childhood and will mature or not through the generations. The Gospel accounts of Him are the accounts of a man, a man in the image and likeness of God, and his manly name was Jesus Christ. He is/was the only Son of God and His Spirit, a new manifestation of man's conscious mind. Who was He? Let's look at his name to answer that question.
Jesus Christ literally means: Yahweh saves the Anointed One. Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Hebrew and Greek. Joshua, Yahweh Saves, was Moses' assistant and companion, always at Moses' side. (Jesus was with Moses [Moses means: child], attested to by the "word" of our Bible!) Yahweh, from the Genesis account, was God's partner and Spirit. Jesus Christ means that the spirit of God somehow plays a role in saving the Anointed One's being, his life. Spirit is "father" in the Gospel accounts. All that is left to unravel is the meaning of the Anointed One. Where did this name come from? In the Old Testament anointing was a rite performed by a prophet on a wanna be king. The anointing made the man God's appointed king. Jesus was anointed by a woman, silently proclaiming Him her king. And he was God's only king; but the rite came first as a promise to Abraham and Sarah when Sarah's protracted barrenness was finally to end. God, not Yahweh, promised Abraham that out of his wife would come kings. (He is the King of the Jews, according to the Romans at his crucifixion.) A king is "master" of all feelings, all things, like God. A king would fulfill the duty put on the first man in the garden, put upon all men everywhere; "let them be masters!" and therefore FREE. But the anointed "one?" Are there stories that give us more of an understanding of the Bible's meaning? Yes, there is one story. The Jacob's ladder story!
Yahweh, you can read the story in Genesis 28:10-22, promised to be Jacob's guardian spirit and to never desert him until Jacob had mastered all his fears and was brought backt to his natural habitat, his home or right mind. (Jacob succeeded when he was given a new name: Israel = he fought with God Almighty and prevailed! He won his "being" nature back and all those rewards "being a man" entail.) The following morning Jacob anointed the "rock" that cradled his head through his night's dream. The anointed one is the personal mind's new baby, the image maker and the dreamer's desire, that part of all of us that imagines and sees and solves (trial and error) the desires of the living body, to have life and more of it, "un-ending" life. Spirit saves, serves, the image making faculty of our being, what in recent times has become known as the imagination. Jesus Christ means relationship, like between father and son, or like between mother and child, or like between will and desire. It wasn't known, in the beginning of our Bible, that spirit wasn't really the maker of everything God wanted. It took the whole of the Book of Genesis to begin untangling the relationship between father, mother, and child to begin coming out of the dark and the Gospels to finally become certain. But the certainty has been clear in God's mind for some two thousand years now and that is the truth. But everything God wanted from the seven days of creation is already well done and just waiting to come again into the light, the full light without night as Revelations promise. Which brings me back to the "lost and the forgotten," that I said I would return to later.
In God's flood (Noah's) human life was returned to bare bones, where ALL feelings, all ideas, all urgings and cravings were reduced to a pair of opposites, a male feeling and a female feeling, with no offspring - except of course the lambs. The lambs were guaranteed a full life time until Noah burned a few to appease his fire god, Yahweh. This flood is repeated, according to Genesis, in every third generation. The flood is the onslaught of hormones, the emotions gone wet and wild. And, according to Shem's genealogy, the first two generations get lost or, as seems more appropriate for today, are left incomplete, never reaching the last day, "rest," like the number 66 that was Jacob's number when he left Canaan Land to live with his son Joseph in Egypt land. Maturity, cognitive development, was hardly begun in the minds of the storytellers for mankind at that time in our Genesis Story. What about "man," though; was he completely lost? No, the Bible tells of one who God took before the flood happened and his name is Enoch.
How to convey all the nuances inplicit in the first two genealogies of our Bible taxes the imagination to extreme. You have to be like a carpenter, holding all the disparate parts in your mind until a time comes to add each piece to its proper place in the house of the spirit, that is your personal home. I have had a lot of practice and so for me it seems clear. God is one's flesh body and inside and at the top of every one of us is our brain and out of that brain, somehow, comes the mind and then from mind comes imagination, the only offspring of "it." The original question posed at the beginning of our Bible is how to raise the young and the vulnerable into secure and responsible adults? Motherhood had perished before the Bible's beginning. The first 11 chapters of the Bible is an account of the events of mankind's history that precede the Bible's beginning. Fatherhood was also lost when our Bible begins. It was unknown. Sons were strange creatures, too. Everything was MAN, and then HE began breaking apart. Cain had made a son, Enoch. Then Enoch had a son who became a father. The first being father! Then later Mathuselah fathered Lamech, Noah's dad. Now we jump over to Adam. Adam is the first "flesh" Man, made "like" God. Adam, we are told, is the first flesh father also; but we can assume he is a teenager, the third generation. (In the Bible, the third generation is the one with the "ban" on it, and it is the degenerate one, because it refuses religion.) You can read the genealogies; but here's the rub! After seven generations, meaning a whole cycle is complete, Enoch shows up in the flesh. He lives 365 (years! I just think that is amazing, that they have the days of a whole earth cycle down to the day back THEN!) and then God takes him. Body takes him, memory takes him, and holds him until the time is ripe for memory to once more wake up and dream a new dream. The new dream is the old order before it all came apart. In every body, just like God kept Noah in his mind, the land of the original generations (Elam) and the flesh God (Asshur, the mother god) in the beginning is waiting to return. That has already happened in Christ in you, in myself, and in everybody else a long time ago and now can we talk about THAT?
We are looking for peace, aren't we? Look at what is happening as I type this in the "holy" land. War. Look at what is happening in America and the world. Financial chaos! Look at education, look at the work-a-day world. Anxiety and confusion, fear and anger. Who is causing all this distress? Bodies are! God is! Why? BECAUSE we are not connected with life in the flesh and because of that we keep allowing death to continue feeding on the living. This can change with the blink of an eye, when we are ready to speak truth to feelings.
Jesus Christ literally means: Yahweh saves the Anointed One. Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Hebrew and Greek. Joshua, Yahweh Saves, was Moses' assistant and companion, always at Moses' side. (Jesus was with Moses [Moses means: child], attested to by the "word" of our Bible!) Yahweh, from the Genesis account, was God's partner and Spirit. Jesus Christ means that the spirit of God somehow plays a role in saving the Anointed One's being, his life. Spirit is "father" in the Gospel accounts. All that is left to unravel is the meaning of the Anointed One. Where did this name come from? In the Old Testament anointing was a rite performed by a prophet on a wanna be king. The anointing made the man God's appointed king. Jesus was anointed by a woman, silently proclaiming Him her king. And he was God's only king; but the rite came first as a promise to Abraham and Sarah when Sarah's protracted barrenness was finally to end. God, not Yahweh, promised Abraham that out of his wife would come kings. (He is the King of the Jews, according to the Romans at his crucifixion.) A king is "master" of all feelings, all things, like God. A king would fulfill the duty put on the first man in the garden, put upon all men everywhere; "let them be masters!" and therefore FREE. But the anointed "one?" Are there stories that give us more of an understanding of the Bible's meaning? Yes, there is one story. The Jacob's ladder story!
Yahweh, you can read the story in Genesis 28:10-22, promised to be Jacob's guardian spirit and to never desert him until Jacob had mastered all his fears and was brought backt to his natural habitat, his home or right mind. (Jacob succeeded when he was given a new name: Israel = he fought with God Almighty and prevailed! He won his "being" nature back and all those rewards "being a man" entail.) The following morning Jacob anointed the "rock" that cradled his head through his night's dream. The anointed one is the personal mind's new baby, the image maker and the dreamer's desire, that part of all of us that imagines and sees and solves (trial and error) the desires of the living body, to have life and more of it, "un-ending" life. Spirit saves, serves, the image making faculty of our being, what in recent times has become known as the imagination. Jesus Christ means relationship, like between father and son, or like between mother and child, or like between will and desire. It wasn't known, in the beginning of our Bible, that spirit wasn't really the maker of everything God wanted. It took the whole of the Book of Genesis to begin untangling the relationship between father, mother, and child to begin coming out of the dark and the Gospels to finally become certain. But the certainty has been clear in God's mind for some two thousand years now and that is the truth. But everything God wanted from the seven days of creation is already well done and just waiting to come again into the light, the full light without night as Revelations promise. Which brings me back to the "lost and the forgotten," that I said I would return to later.
In God's flood (Noah's) human life was returned to bare bones, where ALL feelings, all ideas, all urgings and cravings were reduced to a pair of opposites, a male feeling and a female feeling, with no offspring - except of course the lambs. The lambs were guaranteed a full life time until Noah burned a few to appease his fire god, Yahweh. This flood is repeated, according to Genesis, in every third generation. The flood is the onslaught of hormones, the emotions gone wet and wild. And, according to Shem's genealogy, the first two generations get lost or, as seems more appropriate for today, are left incomplete, never reaching the last day, "rest," like the number 66 that was Jacob's number when he left Canaan Land to live with his son Joseph in Egypt land. Maturity, cognitive development, was hardly begun in the minds of the storytellers for mankind at that time in our Genesis Story. What about "man," though; was he completely lost? No, the Bible tells of one who God took before the flood happened and his name is Enoch.
How to convey all the nuances inplicit in the first two genealogies of our Bible taxes the imagination to extreme. You have to be like a carpenter, holding all the disparate parts in your mind until a time comes to add each piece to its proper place in the house of the spirit, that is your personal home. I have had a lot of practice and so for me it seems clear. God is one's flesh body and inside and at the top of every one of us is our brain and out of that brain, somehow, comes the mind and then from mind comes imagination, the only offspring of "it." The original question posed at the beginning of our Bible is how to raise the young and the vulnerable into secure and responsible adults? Motherhood had perished before the Bible's beginning. The first 11 chapters of the Bible is an account of the events of mankind's history that precede the Bible's beginning. Fatherhood was also lost when our Bible begins. It was unknown. Sons were strange creatures, too. Everything was MAN, and then HE began breaking apart. Cain had made a son, Enoch. Then Enoch had a son who became a father. The first being father! Then later Mathuselah fathered Lamech, Noah's dad. Now we jump over to Adam. Adam is the first "flesh" Man, made "like" God. Adam, we are told, is the first flesh father also; but we can assume he is a teenager, the third generation. (In the Bible, the third generation is the one with the "ban" on it, and it is the degenerate one, because it refuses religion.) You can read the genealogies; but here's the rub! After seven generations, meaning a whole cycle is complete, Enoch shows up in the flesh. He lives 365 (years! I just think that is amazing, that they have the days of a whole earth cycle down to the day back THEN!) and then God takes him. Body takes him, memory takes him, and holds him until the time is ripe for memory to once more wake up and dream a new dream. The new dream is the old order before it all came apart. In every body, just like God kept Noah in his mind, the land of the original generations (Elam) and the flesh God (Asshur, the mother god) in the beginning is waiting to return. That has already happened in Christ in you, in myself, and in everybody else a long time ago and now can we talk about THAT?
We are looking for peace, aren't we? Look at what is happening as I type this in the "holy" land. War. Look at what is happening in America and the world. Financial chaos! Look at education, look at the work-a-day world. Anxiety and confusion, fear and anger. Who is causing all this distress? Bodies are! God is! Why? BECAUSE we are not connected with life in the flesh and because of that we keep allowing death to continue feeding on the living. This can change with the blink of an eye, when we are ready to speak truth to feelings.
