CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

ON THE STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND MEANING OF THE HOLY BIBLE

Over two hundred years ago Emanuel SWEDENBORG pointed out that many Christians do have an idea that the Bible is holy and that it contains the Word of God. However, most people do not realize that the holiness of the Bible is not determined by its literal meaning or external sense or by the historical events and various literal statements that the Bible reflects. Instead it is determined by what these things represent and signify in their internal, inner or higher sense. Most people have no idea that such a sense even exists. Despite the fact that Swedenborg revealed this crucial and vitally important spiritual fact about the Bible a long time ago, not too many people in this world are aware of and ready for, want or desire to accept the fact that the holiness of the Bible is determined primarily and solely by its internal, inner sense and content. The literal meaning or the external sense of the Bible can be conceptualized as clothing for the body. As the body needs to be clothed in order to be preserved and safeguarded from exposure and various adverse influences on it, so the literal sense of the Bible serves that purpose to the internal sense. Thus, the holiness of the external or literal sense is not derived from itself but from the fact that it serves as a vessel in which the holiness is contained.

It was also Swedenborg who revealed that not all books of the Bible have this inner, higher or internal sense. Those which contain such a sense and therefore which are truly the Word of God are the following books: All five Books of Moses, (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, Two Books of Samuel, Two Books of Kings, the Book of Job, All the Psalms, All the Books of the Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi) in the Old Testaments and in the New Testament the Four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and the Revelation of Jesus Christ. All other Books, such as Ruth, the Two Books of Chronicals, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon and all the Epistles of the Apostles, as well as the Acts of the Apostles of Jesus Christ, do not contain this internal, inner or higher sense.

There is an important spiritual reason why the Books in the Holy Bible, containing this internal, inner or higher sense, are written the way they are written. Every single word, every letter, every dot or punctuation in those books and their particular sequence contain very deep and profound knowledge, mysteries and secrets of all-out universal implication. The names of people, countries, individuals and things, and the sequence in which they are named and in which they follow each other, reflect an Order of Creation and some aspects of the Most High’s Absolute Nature, as well as the process of steps in which a spiritual rebirth and transformation of people and individuals takes place and spiritual progression occurs, proceeds and becomes.

People indiscriminately believe that all books in the Holy Bible without exception or exclusion are the Word of God. However, this is true only to a certain extent. All books that do not contain this internal sense are inspirational, historic and illustrative books which reflect the times, customs and necessary evolvement of the spiritual issues that were valid under those conditions, under those historical set ups. In that sense they are the Word of God relevant to those times and to those conditions. However, as time goes by, their usefulness is only in being an example of devotion and faithfulness, loyalty and determination to serve God by those people who either wrote those books or by those whose life and events are described in them. In the case of the Epistles, they are structural arrangements for the establishment of the young Christian Church which needed some outlines and rules to follow in order to survive under the conditions existing at that time.

The applicability of the content and philosophy of these books (that do not contain the internal sense) and the Epistles is a different matter. It is no longer valid for the present time, under the presently existing condition on planet Earth. They are outdated, outlived and outmoded, and clinging to their literal content contains a certain danger for one’s spiritual progression and the proper understanding of spirituality as well as the Nature of the Most High. This is especially true in view of the fact that most Christian churches build their doctrines on the Epistles that, as of today, contain only fifteen percent of the ideas, concepts and understanding that are applicable to the present structure of spirituality. Eighty-five percent of their content is no longer applicable and is utilized by the negative state to keep Christians and their churches in the darkness of stagnation, regressiveness, rigidity, dogmatism and fanaticism which kill any spiritual life in their followers.

However, if one takes into consideration the content of the Epistles in the New Testament from the standpoint of their time, and the conditions under which they were written, that content and that philosophy was the most progressive, most appropriate and most correct from the standpoint of the spiritual needs which people had during that period of time. They become reactionary only if people consider them to have absolute value, containing the Absolute Truth beyond and above which there is nothing more or beyond and above which no progression or anything new is possible or conceivable because it was supposedly a revelation of the Most High and the revelation of the Most High cannot ever be updated or changed. Unfortunately, people do not realize that the Most High reveals His/Her Truth in steps so as to accommodate it to the current needs of every time and every condition. Such truths have relative value and usually they are apparent truths which do not contain any deeper, higher and more inward spiritual meaning or they are certain aspects of the Absolute Truth manifested in the temporal-spacial continuum at the level of comprehension that is acquirable by people of their time.

The reason why it was permitted by the Most High that Christian churches and all their members (or the majority of them) built their doctrines primarily on the Epistles, particularly and mostly on the Epistles of Paul, is to protect people from profanation of the Holiness of the Word which is contained in the books of the Bible that do have such an internal, inner, higher sense. Since most Christians pay very little attention to those books which contain that sense and particularly to the Old Testament and instead they are preoccupied either with the external, outward degree of the sayings of Jesus Christ during His incarnation on planet Earth or mostly they base their doctrines on the Apostle Paul’s and other Apostles’ Epistles, which do not contain any inner, higher meaning or sense, they cannot profane anything and thus they do not doom themselves in an ultimate sense to the total destruction and elimination of their being and existence from the Most High’s Creation.

If one takes into consideration this fact, which is being revealed by the Most High, the Lord Jesus Christ, One God Indivisible at the present time, one can see on what grandiose falsities and distortions the entire Christian church in its present form is built.

Yet, despite this fact, the Holy Bible is the Word of God, it is holy and if one approaches it with the purity of one’s heart, it can lead one to the higher understanding of its content, meaning and structure.

As mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, Swedenborg was the first one through whom the Most High revealed this mystery about the Bible. However, few people paid attention to this revelation. Even at the present time not too many people in this world are aware that Swedenborg ever existed or revealed such a profound knowledge to mankind. But even Swedenborg was not allowed to know at his time the full extent and mystery of what the Bible truly contains and what its true meaning is. Swedenborg was aware only of three levels which are contained in those books of the Bible that have the internal sense. He talks about the literal sense, about the spiritual sense and about the celestial sense. And he did reveal the certain content of the spiritual sense which is contained in some books of the Holy Bible and to a very limited extent some ideas of what the third or celestial sense is all about.

But let it be known at this time, as it is being revealed by the Most High, the Lord Jesus Christ, One God Indivisible, that those books in the Holy Bible that contain that internal, inner sense, which constitute the true Word of God and which have eternal value, are not limited by those three senses as revealed through Swedenborg. The reality of this situation is that there are, all in all, nine meanings and senses that are contained in those books designated as having the internal sense plus one that transcends them all.

The Holy Bible is structured exactly in accordance with the structure of the Most High’s Creation. As the reader remembers, in chapter eleven of this book, it was revealed that there are nine circles in the Most High’s Creation and nine pseudo-circles in the Zone of Displacement. Each circle has a very specific and at the same time very general content, structure, meaning and function and position in regard to all other circles in the Most High’s Creation. The same is exactly true in relationship to the structure of the Bible. The Bible, or to be specific, those books in the Bible that contain the internal sense, is patterned and structured exactly in the manner of the entire Creation to accommodate and to connect all circles of Creation through the Word of God as reflected in those books in the Bible. For that reason there are nine levels and meanings and senses that are contained in all those above-mentioned books plus one that transcends them all.

It is important to realize that each circle of Creation is discrete and synchronous to any other circle of Creation and at the same time it is continuous within its own sphere or domain of function and purpose. Each circle in turn has its own three levels and degrees and each level and degree has its own three levels and degrees and it goes like this ad infinitum. This arrangement reflects the Absolute Inexhaustible Nature of the Most High. Because each circle is discrete but at the same time synchronous to all other circles, the communication and connectedness among all circles is effected by the Law of Correspondences. This law states that there is a Common Denominator to all the circles of Creation through which they are connected and interrelated. This Common Denominator, however, is manifested in each circle in an entirely different way and manner than in any other circle. But it uses the same categories for describing of the nature of the Common Denominator. Thus, there is a word and an image which describes that Common Denominator and as that word and image is uttered or projected in synchronicity and simultaneity to all other circles, the content and meaning of that image and word describes the nature of that Common Denominator to each particular circle and its degrees, levels and spheres the way it is perceived, understood, comprehended, accepted and acknowledged by the inhabitants relevant to that circle.

Such ideas and images take forms, concretizations and manifestations all the way to the outermostness of the outermost degree in the natural world where they become a concrete event or a happening or a historical fact. Through such historical events, happenings and facts the entire Creation in all its nine circles and their degrees and levels is continuously connected and it is in a constant interaction.

The same is true about the Zone of Displacement only in a perverted, upside down fashion. All levels and degrees of the Zone of Displacement from the lowest hells to the most outward degrees of the natural world are interconnected and interrelated through the negative correspondences reflected in various historical events, happenings and facts as they occurred during the history of the various nations and individuals on planet Earth.

But as mentioned many times before, the entire Zone of Displacement cannot survive by itself and in itself without any connectedness to the true Creation of the positive state particularly to its nine circles. Yet, no such a connectedness in a sense of directness or contact is possible between the Zone of Displacement and the true Creation or the true Zone of Placement of the Most High’s Creation because such a direct contact would instantaneously annihilate everyone who exists in the Zone of Displacement. For that reason the Most High established a certain external way and means by which anyone in the Zone of Displacement could be kept in an indirect contact with the true Creation and the Most High in order to provide the life support system to the entire Zone of Displacement. One has to remember that the Zone of Displacement is a perversion of the Order. While in the true Creation everything proceeds from within to without, in the Zone of Displacement everything goes in the opposite direction from without to within meaning from the unreality of pseudo-creation to the pseudo-reality of the false within, fabricated by the lowest hells where the pseudo-creators dwell. Now, since this is the pseudo-law of the Zone of Displacement, which is based entirely on the externals without any consideration for any inner sense or the internals, it is necessary to devise an external tool by which one would be reminded of, and through such a reminder, connected to the rest of Creation for the purpose of bringing that one back home, should that one at one point choose to relinquish the perverted order of life or pseudo-life which is manifested in the Zone of Displacement. For that reason the Most High dictated the Holy Bible and utilized the language of the externals or literal sense which is the only language through and by which people on Earth communicate with and understand each other.

As everyone knows, communication among people in the Zone of Displacement is impossible from the internals to the internals. Instead it is done by the mouth, vocal cords and externally audible words or labels devised for that purpose. Now, these words and labels are used for writing books that would contain the eternal truth of the Most High’s Creation and that would keep mankind and everyone in the Zone of Displacement in some contact with the reality of the true Creation and the spiritual world. Thus, certain places are chosen, certain names are given, certain people are designated for such a purpose. On their history and development the entire reality of the true Creation and the spiritual world can be reflected and through their corresponding meaning that reality can be connected to everyone in the Zone of Displacement as well as everyone in the Zone of Displacement can be connected to all other circles of the true Creation to which they need to be connected not only in order to survive but eventually to come back home. Thus, for example, the history of Abraham’s life or Issac’s life or Jacob’s life and the history of the Jewish and Israeli nations and their wars and all other events described in the Bible by themselves and in themselves are just that — the history without any connectedness to the spirituality. However, those people, those nations, their wars and the events which are described in the Bible correspond to a certain spiritual reality and they represent in the positive sense everything that takes place in the nine circles of the true Creation and in the negative sense everything that happens and is represented in the nine pseudo-circles of the Zone of Displacement. But in the highest sense, beyond those nine meanings that are contained in those books and in their historical events, examples, names, nations and their wars, is contained the most profound, the most mysterious meaning which relates to the Absolute Nature of the Most High, the Lord Jesus Christ, to His/Her various Absolute Attributes, Principles, to His/Her incarnation on planet Earth, to His/Her upbringing, to His combat with the negative state, to His descent into the hells and subjugation of the hells and bringing the hells under His control and into an order and the other infinitely deeper things related to the Most High’s mission as a Savior and Redeemer of Creation and mankind. These combats are particularly described by the wars of the children of Israel, in Psalms and in the prophets. Also these books in the Bible contain the step-by-step process of a human’s spiritual rebirth and transformation from being negative and evil into becoming positive and good as well as a thorough outline of the entire sequence of everyone’s spiritual progression. And this is what makes the Holy Bible truly holy and the true Word of God.

In view of these facts it is obvious how important it is to approach the Bible with a reverence and to read it, if possible, on a daily basis because it connects one to the entire Creation and directly to the Most High by placing one into the internals where the true Kingdom of Heaven is and where the true Most High abides (that is in one’s true Inner Mind). The Bible directs one to the Inner Mind. A good example of this arrangement is the first words of the Lord’s prayer “OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN ...”. At the same time the Lord says in the Gospel according to Luke, Chapter 17, verse 21 that “FOR INDEED, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU”. (All quotes from the Bible are used from the New King James Version). Thus, the words, “OUR FATHER, IN HEAVEN”, being that the Kingdom of God is Heaven, signify that God is within us. Thus, we could easily say, “OUR FATHER WITHIN US” etc. However, for the sake of correspondences it is said “IN HEAVEN” because by that word is meant all and every state and process of the entire Creation of the Most High and of all existing individuals’ internals or withins. Or take the next words: “YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.” If “HEAVEN” in this connotation signifies the “within”, the “Inner Mind”, where the will of God is always done, then the word “EARTH” in this connotation signifies the externals, without, outside where the negative state was initiated and by that initiation it blocked the will of God to be done also in the externals of man. Otherwise there would be no need to pray “YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN” because it would be so anyway. Obviously, the process of rebirth starts with initiation of the Most High’s Will to be done also in the externals, in “without”, so that it is conjoined to the within, to one’s Inner Mind where God is since wherever God’s Will is done there God is. In the deeper sense of this prayer is contained the mystery of the Zone of Displacement which does not do the Will of God. If one does not do the Will of God, one finds oneself in the Zone of Displacement, on the outside of the Creation of the Most High. The Will of God is done only in the true Zone of Placement which corresponds to HEAVEN or the entire positive state. The prayer here signifies the desire that the Will of God is done also in the negative state so that it can be eliminated and everyone can be saved and become positive.

Now, it does not make any difference if a person who reads the Bible does not understand or is not aware that it contains the internal sense of those ten levels. Even if one is only in the external or literal sense of the Bible, by reading it one is unconsciously connected to all levels, degrees and spheres of the entire Creation from the position of one’s Inner Mind which situation prepares one to discover, eventually, the truth about this whole arrangement particularly if one approaches this reading in the purity of one’s heart, with a proper, correct, right and positive good motivation and good intention for the purpose of being or becoming a better human being, a truly spiritual human being.

Thus, when one reads, for example, something in the Old Testament, such as Joseph’s life in Egypt and what happened to him, one externally understands it to be a specific event that occurred to a certain historical person, something that happened and that has an interesting value and shows faith or faithfulness and devotion to one’s God. However, that event or that situation, described by Joseph’s life, for example, and by his stay in Egypt, triggers corresponding spiritual ideas, thoughts, states and processes which take place continuously in all nine circles of Creation, in all nine pseudo-circles of the Zone of Displacement and above all which directly relate to the transcending understanding of the Most High’s Absolute Nature and His/Her combat with the hells, His/Her temptation, His/Her Glorification and Salvation of all who will choose to accept His/Her act of Salvation and Redemption and which also describe the process of everyone’s spiritual rebirth and spiritual transformation.

These correspondences connect one to all levels of Creation and to the Most High directly even if one is not consciously or externally aware of that fact. They also prepare one for a change and show the way and the proper procedures by which anyone who chooses so, from one’s free will, can start the process of one’s spiritual rebirth or spiritual transformation.

As mentioned above, Swedenborg knew about this situation although he was aware only of the three levels or senses that are contained in the Holy Bible. At his time, under the conditions that existed both in the spiritual world and in the Zone of Displacement, from which Zone he was writing, it was not appropriate to have the knowledge of the other levels, meanings and senses of the Holy Bible. However, it is time now to know that there are basically nine levels, meanings and senses of the Holy Bible plus one which is the most transcending or that transcends all of the above and which relates directly to the Absolute Nature of the Most High and His/Her Grand Plan of the Salvation of Creation from the negative state, elimination of the negative state and eventually bringing everyone in the negative state home through the process, carefully designed by the Most High, of spiritual rebirth or transformation.

This mystery of the manners and ways in which the Bible was written, and all other holy books which were before the Bible, was not always a mystery. There were times before the so-called “Fall” when all the knowledge of correspondences was available and when people, through such knowledge, had a continuous intercourse with all degrees, levels and spheres of the entire Creation. However, the situation changed after the Fall. Gradually it was provided by the Divine Providence of the Most High that the closure of the understanding of all other degrees except the external and literal degree, which is apparent and obvious and in which people are on planet Earth, occurred. The reason that this closure was necessary was for protection of people in the Zone of Displacement. If they had retained that knowledge directly and yet, were identified with evils and falsities, they would have utilized that knowledge for the destruction of the entire Creation and, in the ultimate sense, their own destruction.

The point here to be aware of is that all that knowledge available in the nine circles of the Most High’s Creation, as well as everything that is contained in the nine pseudo-circles of the Zone of Displacement, is contained or hidden in those books of the Holy Bible that have those ten meanings, levels and senses. And particularly the transcending, higher knowledge of the Absolute Nature of the Most High and the mystery of spiritual rebirth and transformation would be extremely dangerous for people who identify themselves with the negative state and its evils and falsities. With that knowledge they would succeed in wiping out totally, completely and entirely any ideas of spirituality in the human mind. If they were to succeed with that, all of life would cease to be and to exist. The reason being that life can be sustained only by the spiritual principles regardless of whether one is, or is not, consciously aware of this fact. (For details see “Fundamentals of Human Spirituality”).

However, as mentioned previously, the pseudo-creators possessed that knowledge and they used that knowledge to fabricate the pseudo-man and pseudo-mankind and the conditions and situations which exist on planet Earth. Not only that but they used that knowledge to establish themselves in the Zone of Displacement of the spiritual world. They fabricated and established the hells, they utilized that knowledge to travel backward in time and to start to infest and invade the spiritual world of the true Creation, particularly the first heaven. They had access also to the other levels of heaven. This was a dangerous situation because no one except the Lord could prevent them from doing it as long as they had that knowledge of all correspondences and their utilization and manipulation, the knowledge which is contained in those holy books and to which they had access even before any of those holy books were written.

One of the major acts of saving Creation from the doom that the pseudo-creators planned to cause was that the Most High incarnated on planet Earth in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ and, as mentioned previously, went to the hells and removed or, in fact, closed that knowledge from the pseudo-creators and all others there. He isolated and separated them from the rest of Creation and from the other creatures in the Zone of Displacement and established a principle, that no one can approach any longer, that knowledge with any other intent or motivation than with the purity of one’s heart from the position of unconditional love and wisdom and from the condition that has in mind the ultimate elimination of the negative state from the Zone of Displacement. Only with such an approach can one be gradually, step by step, led to the greater awareness and knowledge of what is truly contained in those books of the Holy Bible. Such an awareness and knowledge brings one to a greater and greater degree of unconditional love and wisdom, and closer and closer to the conjunction, connectedness and interrelatedness with all levels, degrees and spheres of the nine circles of the Most High’s Creation and in an ultimate sense with the Absolute Nature of the Most High Himself/Herself.

As mentioned previously, the first people on planet Earth, that existed before the so-called “Fall”, had the knowledge of the correspondences through which they were able to discern, to perceive, to understand and to know at any moment of time what was happening at all levels, degrees, spheres and steps of all nine circles of the Most High’s Creation. They also had a perception and knowledge of the true nature of the Most High and how the Most High relates to His/Her Creation. That knowledge was their life and it could not be taken from them. However, later on, when the scientists of that time decided to experiment with that knowledge and to bring people to this world by bi-cloning and not by direct endowment of the Most High, it was necessary to establish a written description of those knowledges and correspondences that would compensate for the next generation of people what they lacked in experience and knowledge of the direct endowment of life from and by the Most High.

Thus, even the second generation, through those written descriptions of correspondences and their meaning and utilization, had full knowledge and understanding of everything that was going on in the entire Creation of the Most High, as well as the true Nature of the Most High.

However, as long as such knowledge and understanding of correspondences was available to people, no true recession from spirituality was possible and no initiation of the activation and dominance of the negative state could come to its fruition. Therefore, in order to prove the point that life can originate from a source other than the Most High and spiritual principles, it was necessary to fabricate pseudo-humans as described before and eliminate from them all knowledge of such correspondences and interconnectedness of the entire Creation of the Most High.

In order that people, fabricated by the pseudo-creators, by the principle of tri-cloning, as described in the previous chapters, would have some spiritual awareness and would not ultimately perish in eternal non-spiritual death, the Most High provided a way for them to reconnect themselves to the true Creation and to those nine circles of Creation and, in an ultimate sense, to the Most High Himself/Herself.

Since at that point, under those conditions, no human being had a tendency to turn inward, thus to turn to the Most High and to the true Creation, it was necessary to utilize the available resources and tendencies of humans to derive everything from externals. Thus, the so-called external Bible was written by various people from the Most High, by the Most High, through the Most High and with the Most High with an external type of language that utilized familiar and known events, histories of nations and individuals which would disguise those inner, higher meanings, senses and contents that would enable people to discover the existence of the spiritual world, the Inner Mind, the inwardness, the within and, most importantly, the Creator, the Most High Jesus Christ, in that Inner Mind.

However, since all humans, that were fabricated by the pseudo- creators, were born into this world into nothing but evils and falsities, and with very little spiritual awareness of the true spiritual reality, the availability of the entire knowledge that is contained in those ten levels of the internal sense of the Holy Bible would constitute to them an instant annihilation. No state of evil and falsity can survive such knowledge for a second. For that reason the Divine Providence of the Most High leads people from the Zone of Displacement in steps from no knowledge of anything spiritual to the gradual knowledge of greater and greater spirituality. First, they are kept in the externals of spirituality as reflected in the external or literal sense of the Bible. Those events, historical examples, history of people, nations, individuals, description of the earthly life of Jesus Christ, simple clear statements of everyday conduct, behavior and actions of everyday living, that are entirely of external content, constitute the externals of spirituality. As people identify themselves with the externals of spirituality and have some awareness of the spiritual principles in external events, which are reflected in the obvious reliability of God the Creator, they are gradually, slowly, step by little step, at their own pace, led to the greater, more inward knowledge and understanding of those mysteries, secrets and contents that are contained in the internal sense of the Bible all the way to the highest level of awareness which relates to the nine circles, and in an ultimate sense to the true Nature of the Most High and His/Her life on Earth, His/Her Grand Plan, etc.

In this respect different people have different needs; they have different assignments, different choices and different paces. Therefore, during their life time on planet Earth they can be at a different level of understanding of the Bible. As mentioned previously, most people are only in the understanding of the literal or external sense. Such a sense very often creates tremendous problems because different people interpret that external sense differently. Such a different interpretation gives an impetus for the development of numerous sects, different doctrines and religions that all claim to be correct in themselves and by themselves, and that rigidly cling to their understanding of the way the Bible should be interpreted. Because the external sense of the Bible is in apparent truths and not in the real truths, all such religions and their doctrines are only in an apparent truth. Therefore, they can differ and even be opposed to one another.

However, as the internal sense is opened more and more, step by step, such differences are eliminated and there is a total unity, oneness and harmony which is revealed and which is the nature of all levels, degrees and spheres of the entire Creation. Whatever difference of opinion occurs in the internal sense or levels, it is not a matter of opposition or disagreement but a matter of a different perspective and aspect, as reflected in each circle of Creation. But because that aspect is known everywhere else, it is accepted by all as a beautification, enhancement and enrichment of the understanding that each circle has and not as an opposition, heresy, split or descension. Thus, they are all part of the whole and not the whole of one part as it is in the Zone of Displacement.

Once anyone transcends the external or literal meaning of the Bible, the next step or the next meaning, sense and level is revealed until it is incorporated, absorbed, assimilated and put in one’s life or becomes an integral part of one’s life. When that is accomplished, then one is led to the next transcending step and it goes on until one becomes a complete spiritual being with the opening of all levels, degrees, spheres and understanding of all circles of Creation and in an ultimate sense one finds himself/herself being in the Most High as well as the Most High being in that one. Of course, this is a process which takes time and in most instances it is never accomplished while one is in the Zone of Displacement of the planet Earth. In fact, on planet Earth, under the presently existing conditions, one can acquire understanding and knowledge which is contained in the second and partially in the third level of the inner sense of the Holy Bible. The rest of the knowledge and understanding is acquired in gradual steps after one departs from this body and enters the world of spirits or the so-called intermediate world in preparation for the next step and choices related to that step in one’s spiritual progression.

The reason why people are not capable or not permitted by the Most High to acquire the knowledge and understanding of the higher sense and meaning than the second, and partially the third, level is because in the deeper meaning of the third sense and all other higher steps of that sense are the laws by which one can manipulate correspondences and influence, by one’s mind, nature and Creation and read people’s thoughts, intentions, motivations; transcend time and space, and have powers of mind control over matter; to acquire inter-stellar travel; to have knowledge of how to surpass the speed of light and other knowledge that people do not even dream about at the present time. If such knowledge were available to them under negative, evil, egoistic, corrupt and false intentions and motivations, which are full of evils and falsities, they would misuse and abuse that knowledge for the wrong reasons and for wrong purposes, and thus they would put themselves in the position of profanation of the Holiness of the Word and commit the unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit. In fact, this is what the commitment of an unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit means. Since such a sin cannot be forgiven, because it destroys the very principle of life and eliminates the Most High from it, they could never be saved and the negative state would have to exist forever to eternity without any hope for salvation.

For this reason the Divine Providence of the Most High, the Lord Jesus Christ, One Indivisible God very carefully makes sure that no one prematurely, from the position of evils and falsities or egoism, enters or acquires such knowledge and understanding. This is what the cherubim in the Garden of Eden, who guard its entrance, signify. The Garden of Eden signifies all knowledge, wisdom, understanding and interconnectedness that exists at all levels, degrees and spheres of the nine circles of Creation but most importantly it signifies the knowledge, understanding and application of the True Absolute Nature of the Most High and everything that relates to the Most High and the Lord God Jesus Christ, One Indivisible Creator of everything.

Adam and Eve before the Fall signify mankind which was in the fullness of that knowledge, understanding and application and their utilization in their life for good and positive purposes from the condition of unconditional love and wisdom. The serpent in the Garden of Eden signifies the scientific curiosity that stems from the sensorial level of the most external degree of the external mind which is accommodated to the environment of the natural degree, or in this case, of planet Earth. It is the serpent or the external scientific curiosity from sensorial inputs and outputs which questions or asks the question, what would happen if life could be explained from any other source than a spiritual source or if life could originate not from God, not from spiritual principles but from some kind of manipulation or interplay of the natural laws and combination of various cells or genes that are available from both in humans and animals.

Taking and eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies the consent of mankind to start to bring people to this world by the process of bi-cloning (Adam’s cell and Eve’s cell) and not by the direct endowment of the Most High. Expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden so that they would not eat from the tree of eternal life signifies the closing of the most important and vital knowledge, the knowledge of the true Absolute Nature of the Most High from their awareness and the secret of life-making so that they could not destroy themselves spiritually and the entire Creation by making the negative state exist forever.

As mentioned above, the Most High put cherubim to guard the gate of the Garden of Eden so that nobody could enter it with wrong intentions and motivations from the position of evils and falsities and from the Zone of Displacement.

Now, what happened after that is described in the first eleven chapters of Genesis or the first book of Moses. That description in the internal sense reflects step by step the spiritual deterioration of mankind in the last thirty million years to the point of the fabrication of pseudo-man or a cave man with 95% of its genes from the ape-like creature and the 5% of remnants or remains of spirituality, as described in chapter seventeen of this book. Also, in those first eleven chapters of the Bible, in the internal sense, is described the travel of the pseudo-creators through time, many eons backward, and the way they established the hells, the manner in which they fabricated all kinds of demons, satans, devils, evil spirits and various creatures in the hells and corresponding to them vicious, violent, predatory animals, poisonous plants and everything hurtful and harmful that infested planet Earth and people on planet Earth. They also fabricated those evil and negative entities and spirits in order that they would infest the true Creation of the Most High before the Most High’s incarnation in the form of Jesus Christ on planet Earth during which time the Most High abolished their domain and influence in the spiritual world of the heavens and throughout Creation and also in the Zone of Displacement.

As mentioned before, the pseudo-creators, who caused all this, were locked up, isolated and separated from the rest of Creation and until recently they had no influence and no contact with anyone in the entire Creation including the whole Zone of Displacement.

Now, all these and similar events, as well as events related to the Grand Plan of the Most High’s salvation and elimination of the negative state within this cycle of time, are contained and described in the internal sense of the Holy Bible, in those books which contain such a sense.

It is therefore proclaimed here by the will of the Lord God Jesus Christ, who is the Most High, One Indivisible Creator that everyone has the right and privilege to start one’s spiritual progression in the sense of opening his/her mind to the understanding of other than literal meaning or the external sense of the Holy Bible. However, this rule is true only under one condition. That one approaches the Most High with a request to open one’s eyes and understanding to those higher meanings, contained in the Bible, from the position of forgiveness, asking for forgiveness, repentance, confession of one’s sins, turning away from externals and with the request that it is done in the purity of one’s heart, with good and positive intent from the position of unconditional love and wisdom in order to be a better human being, a more spiritual human being so that the greater mutual benefit, common good and sharing to all nine circles of the Most High’s Creation and, in an ultimate sense to the Most High, can come to its fruition continuously in one’s life in accordance with one’s capacity and the structure of one’s mind and one’s personality without any ulterior, egoistic, evil or negative motivation or intention.

If one starts to approach the Word of God, which is contained in those books in the Holy Bible that have this internal sense, with these kinds of intentions and motivations, one will start to see the great light and one will be led from the myths, illusions and delusions of the negative state into the true reality of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom that rules and dominates the entire Creation of the Most High Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, One Indivisible God and Creator of all that exists in the positive state, and Who has many other names, because all names are His/Hers and Who also rules everything in the negative state.

For a better understanding of the preceding revelation about the Holy Bible, a summary of its structure, content and meaning is given in the following points:

1. There are 35 books in the Holy Bible that contain profound and a deep internal, inner and higher sense which is not discernible from their literal or external sense and meaning. These 35 books were designated at the beginning of this chapter. Whoever reads these books with the external mind has no idea that they contain such a sense and meaning. Without a proper revelation about this matter from the Most High directly through Swedenborg and through this book as well as the previous five books by this author, no one could ever know that this is the case.

2. There are 31 books in the Holy Bible, designated at the beginning of this chapter, which do not contain this higher, inner and internal sense. Their value for the reader is in their services as an example, illustration and demonstration of faithfulness, loyalty and devotion to one’s God or in their illustration of the outcomes and consequences of doing things with an evil and negative intent.

3. The knowledge, understanding and access to the inner, higher and internal sense of the Bible was closed after the so-called “Fall” and provisions were made by the Divine Providence of the Most High that no one can or may discover, enter, understand, accept, know and use this sense who approaches it from the position of the negative state, evils and falsities; bad and wrong intent; egoism, personal gain and predisposition; lust for power and ruling; control of other people and their manipulation; personal glory and any type of ulterior motivation; and particularly from the position of any false religious doctrines, dogmatism and fanaticism. This is signified (among many other things) by the following statement in the Holy Bible, Genesis, Chapter 3, Verse 24:

“SO HE DROVE OUT THE MAN; AND HE
PLACED CHERUBIM AT THE EAST OF THE
GARDEN OF EDEN, AND A FLAMING SWORD
WHICH TURNED EVERY WAY, TO GUARD THE
WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE.”

“DROVE OUT THE MAN” signifies in this particular connotation, the placement of the negative people into the externals and fall out into the Zone of Displacement.

“AND HE PLACED CHERUBIM AT THE EAST OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN” signifies in this particular connotation, closure of any direct access to one’s Inner Mind where all knowledge and wisdom of the entire Creation from eternity to eternity is placed and is contained, and where the eternal presence of the Most High is.

“AND A FLAMING SWORD WHICH TURNED EVERY WAY” signifies in this particular connotation that the Divine Truth from the Divine Good encapsulates that knowledge and wisdom in all directions in order to “GUARD THE WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE”, that is to prevent anyone in the negative state from profanation of the holiness of the Word and from the misuse of the knowledge and wisdom of correspondences for the purpose of making the negative state last to eternity, forever, without any change of its status quo. This is what the entire negative state strives for from the moment of its activation. This is what all spiritual wars are all about.

Of course, this is only one, limited meaning of the content of this verse as related to this particular subject.

4. The only way one may gradually acquire access to some levels of this internal, inner and higher sense of the designated books of the Bible is by disassociation and recession from one’s evils and falsities; from the upside down position; by cleansing and clearing oneself from all myths, illusions, delusions and insanities of the negative state; by relinquishment of all and any identification with the negative state; with an open mind, mobility and flexibility; without any egoism, dogmatism, fanaticism, personal gain, ulterior motivation, corruption; and only from the position of unconditional love and wisdom, in good and truth, with charity and faith, in objectivity and righteousness, with justice and judgment, with mercy and forgiveness; with confession of one’s sins and repentance; with kindness and gentleness, etc., for the purpose of becoming a positive, spiritual and better human being with one goal in one’s heart and mind: mutual benefit, common good, use and sharing with all and everyone in the Most High’s Creation.

5. Under presently existing spiritual conditions on planet Earth, no one can or may acquire any deeper knowledge, understanding and use than that which is available in the second level and partially in the third level of the internal sense of the Bible for the reasons which were outlined in this chapter.

6. In the inner, internal and higher sense of the designated books of the Holy Bible is placed the most profound, mysterious and mystical knowledge of the Absolute Nature of the Most High, His/Her Absolute Attributes, His/Her Structure, Function and Relatedness to His/Her Creation.

7. In that sense the Grand Plan of the Most High is described regarding His/Her Creation and the Zone of Displacement, His/Her incarnation into the human body in the form of Jesus Christ on planet Earth, His physical upbringing, His combats with the Hells; the process of gradual repudiation of the negative and evil aspects of hereditary contaminations which were transmitted to Him from His earthly parents and by which He could come in contact with evils and falsities, be tempted by the Hells and enter the Hells without annihilation of those who produced and identify themselves with their evils and falsities; His gradual unification of His Human (which is called the Son of Man) with His Divine (which is called the Son of God) and making His Human Divine and Divine Human One (which is called Jesus Christ or the Most High or Father); His descent into the Hells; closure of the Hells of the pseudo-creators; elimination of the knowledge of correspondences which the pseudo-creators had, particularly of travel in time; His subjugation of the Hells; their placement in order and under His domain and rule; and His glorification, which signifies His total merging into the Father, becoming once again One Indivisible God, the Most High with Human Divine and Divine Human.

8. The inner, higher or internal sense contains all laws, principles, knowledge and understanding of the structure and function of the Most High’s Creation; of all nine circles of Creation, in succession, discretion, synchronicity, simultaneity and continuity with all their activities, purpose, goal and wisdom and with illustration of how they are interconnected and interrelated and what their specific and general assignment is, placement and mode of their spiritual progression as well as their role in and influence on the process and outcome of the spiritual wars that all hells wage against the positive state for ruling, domineering and their eternal preservation and continuation.

9. The knowledge, understanding and perception of the process of the activation of and putting in dominance of the negative state, the so-called “Fall”; fabrication of the pseudo-humans; establishment of the hells; fabrication of the nine pseudo-circles of pseudo-creation; their function and pseudo-principles, pseudo-laws and pseudo-knowledges; their purpose and goal. It contains the knowledge and understanding of why the negative state was permitted by the Most High to be activated; what purpose and learning it serves; how to combat and overcome it successfully; how long the negative state will be in an activated and domineering form and all other things, without any exception and exclusion, about the hells and the entire Zone of Displacement which is the negative state.

10. The inner sense of the Bible contains the procedures, rules, principles, laws and steps for one’s spiritual reawakening, relearning, reformation, regeneration, renewal, restructuring and final spiritual transformation from the negative state into the positive state, from a person ruled by evils and falsities, by slavery and dependency, by externals or the “without” in a person ruled by love and wisdom, good and truth, freedom and independence and by the internals or the “within!” Thus, from being ruled by the Hells into being ruled by the Most High and the heavens. This sense contains the deep mystery of how the Most High accomplished this transformation from Himself/Herself, and how it can be initiated by anyone who desires and wants to be transformed from one’s free will and by one’s free choice. The availability of all the infinite variety of choices and their nature is contained in this internal sense.

11. This sense also contains a description of the very first mankind on planet Earth, its structure, function, goal and purpose as well as its gradual recession from the spiritual principles and the beginning of the process of spiritual deterioration which culminated in the activation of the negative state and in a drastic shift or warp in the fabric of the Creation that led the activators of the negative state to fall out or to be thrown out into the Zone of Displacement.

12. And, finally, the inner, higher sense of the designated books in the Bible contains the knowledge of all correspondences, their classification, their understanding, their arrangements and their utilization. All principles, rules, laws and procedures of how to re-arrange, influence, manipulate, utilize and apply these correspondences are contained in those books in their internal sense. One can acquire from that knowledge the understanding and ability to use them to create, produce or fabricate new things, new events, new energy, new life forms (both animal and plant as well as human), new inventions and many other things that one does not even dream about. The control of the natural laws, their influence, replacement, rearrangement, etc., is accessible through such a knowledge as well as the secret of life and its creation; total mind control; all so-called psychic phenomena; travel through time and space and outside time and space; interstellar travel; travel faster than the speed of light; the secrets of all natural, mental and physical forces that are known and unknown to the scientists, and how to utilize them, control them and influence them to one’s advantage are all contained in that internal sense.

All these things and many other things are contained in the internal, inner or higher sense of the Holy Bible (in those 35 books).

Of course, one has to be aware that the internal sense of the Bible is not limited to and by the above twelve points and what they contain. There are certain things and meanings in that sense which cannot even be uttered by the human tongue, or come to one’s thought or idea, because nothing is contained in the human imagination that would be even remotely similar to them.

Such then is the structure, content and meaning of the Holy Bible.

He/she who wants to hear, accept and apply what is revealed, here, let him/her hear, accept and apply. That one is eternally blessed by the Most High, who hears and does it.

In order to acquire a better understanding of how certain events in the Holy Bible should be interpreted and understood, the following very brief explanation of one limited level of the history of the children of Israel will be given, as described in the Books of Moses from the moment of their settling in Egypt. This explanation relates to one of the ten levels of the internal sense and is partially contained in the third level. It is necessary to be aware that what follows below is only a very brief exposition which covers only a very small part of the third internal sense of the Holy Bible.

After Joseph’s death, the children of Israel’s stay in Egypt signifies our bondage and slavery to various levels and degrees of evils and falsities and the lack of any true and genuine spiritual awareness. In this particular connotation the children of Israel represent the entire human mind which was originally created by the Most High’s direct endowment and to which the access is closed by iron-clad encapsulation of the false pseudo-mind built from the elements of the hells by the pseudo-creators. This hellish, false pseudo-mind is represented by the Pharaoh and Egypt. Egypt, in this particular connotation, represents the Hells and the negative state in which the human mind is trapped.

The Pharaoh’s order to kill all new-born Hebrew male babies signifies capturing all ideas, thoughts and concepts of genuine wisdom and truth which are being continuously produced in and transmitted by the Inner Mind of the true human mind from the presence of the true Most High in it. That Pharaoh left the female new-born Hebrew babies intact signifies the necessity for principles of love to be present since from love all life generates. But because the true spiritual life can be acquired and sustained only by the proper conjunction of love and wisdom or good and truth, by killing off the truth (represented by the killing of male Hebrew new-born babies), no such conjunction could occur and the life of the hells could be maintained as well as the reign of the externals could be assured. The conjunction of love and wisdom and good and truth constitutes the life of Heavens or the entire positive state. On the other hand, disjunction of love and wisdom, or good and truth, or their divorce, constitutes the pseudo-life of the hells or the entire negative state. The hells need some form of love (self-love and love to the externals) in order to have life, because life is sustained by such a love. This is why the Pharaoh did not kill female, Hebrew, new-born babies who signify the continuous emanation of love from the Most High, which love is captured by Hells and perverted into self-love and love of this world (to the externals). Such hellish love, of course, lacks any wisdom and truth because it kills everything that can originate or generate such wisdom and truth.

The point here is to realize that love without wisdom or good without truth has no substance or form and is blind and powerless. On the other hand, wisdom or truth without love or good is without any essence and is an empty notion that has no life in it. Thus, by keeping love or good and wisdom or truth apart or divorced, all pseudo-life of the entire Hells and the entire Zone of Displacement can be maintained. This act of separation or divorce is the originator of all evils and sins and is called adultery and fornication. The suffocation of all ideas and concepts of rationality, truth and wisdom, as represented by killing the male Hebrew new-born babies, is the origination of all falsities and perversions and is called insanity and foolishness. Put together they are called idolatry. If one starts to serve self-love and its falsities, one stops serving the true love and the Most High. Therefore, one commits idolatry and adultery.

The birth of Moses signifies a new-born idea of the Inner Mind, from the mercy of the Most High in that Inner Mind, of salvation from the bondage and slavery to the evil and dark forces of the hells represented here by Egypt and its Pharaoh. That Moses was not killed at his birth signifies that, once the true Most High initiates an idea of salvation of mankind from the hells, no power in the universe is capable of stopping that idea from producing its results relevant to its purpose and content.

The Pharaoh’s daughter in this connotation signifies some remains of the lower natural good that longs for conjunction with some degree of truth. It seeks such a conjunction through continuous attempts at self-purification, as here is signified by her going to wash herself in the river. Finding Moses floating in the river signifies that the natural good recognizes the opportunity for conjunction and takes the initial step for such a conjunction. But because lower natural good has no originating spiritual power in itself without the presence of any spiritual good (the natural good attempts to do everything from itself and not from the Most High as spiritual good does), it cannot feed or prepare itself for this conjunction by itself or by its own effort (one cannot do anything without the Most High). This is signified by the fact that the Pharaoh’s daughter did not feed Moses herself but, instead, Moses’ physical mother was hired to do the job. In this connotation Moses’ mother signifies spiritual good from the Most High which can prepare the spiritual truth of salvation for conjunction with its spiritual good (that is with the Most High) that would lead eventually toward eternal salvation from the bondage of the hells. No act of salvation can be done unless this conjunction is accomplished first.

Moses’ killing an Egyptian, who oppressed the Jews, signifies that spiritual truth combats successfully evils and falsities which block and distort the natural truth as represented in this particular connotation by Jews. However, this natural truth with not too much good in itself, and being only an attribute of the external mind, does not recognize the authority of the spiritual truth and rejects it. This state is signified by Moses’ act of kind interference with the two quarrelling Jews and their rejection of his right to do so. The external mind, represented in this particular connotation by the Jewish nation, never recognizes the authority of the Inner Mind, here represented by Moses. Thus, the external mind rejects any help and guidance from the Inner Mind or real state of truth and wisdom which is moved by its real state of love and good from the Most High to save the external mind from its bondage and slavery to the externals, that is to evil and falsity or illusions and delusions of the external world which equals the hells.

That Moses had to escape to the far country to the Midian priest Reuel and his daughters, one of whom he married, signifies that spiritual truth first has to find proper means for conjunction and marriage to its good. This marriage is the key to the opening of the treasure and power of the Inner Mind and to the discovery of the presence of the Most High in the Inner Mind. This act elevates such a spiritual good and truth to the level of higher awareness, which is called love and wisdom. Thus, good becomes love, and truth becomes wisdom. This is what is signified by Moses’ living with the priest, tending his sheep and marrying his daughter and giving birth to the two sons. Now, with such an arrangement one is ready to meet the Most High in one’s Inner Mind. Note, please, that Moses could not meet the Most High before all this was accomplished first. This signifies that, unless proper procedures are followed and proper preparations are made, represented by the marriage of good to truth and truth to good, no proper conjunction and marriage of love and wisdom can occur and no key for the opening of the door for the purpose of contact with the Most High in one’s Inner Mind can be acquired.

Thus, once this conjunction is accomplished, the door is open to the Innermost Region of the Inner Mind — Super-Self, and the Most High reveals Himself/Herself and His/Her idea of the salvation of the human mind from entrapment and encapsulation by the hells.

That Moses was reluctant to accept this assignment signifies that the Inner Mind cannot do this by itself but only from the Most High through the interior mind which is represented here by Moses’ brother Aaron. Aaron — the interior mind or mentality, becomes a speaker of Moses — the Inner Mind, which transfers from the Most High the proper ideas of salvation to Aaron — the interior mind, who, in turn, manifests them to the exterior mind and to the false pseudo-mind of the Hells.

The ten plagues by which Egypt was stricken signify the totality of the evils and falsities that consume those who produce them and identify themselves with them through their free will. That all the firstborn in Egypt were killed signifies putting a permanent end to the birth of all ideas produced in the hells for continuation and perpetuation of the negative state’s life and keeping active the Zone of Displacement.

The exodus from Egypt signifies the breaking out of the true human mind from encapsulation and the trap of the pseudo-mind and its Hell. The destruction of the entire army of Pharaoh in the Red Sea signifies making the negative state of the hells totally powerless and impotent. It also signifies putting the negative state in its original state of dormancy and inactivity.

Once the children of Israel come out of Egypt, they have a different representation than during their stay in Egypt. From this point on they signify and represent, among many other things, the human external mind in a state of rebellion against the Inner Mind and the interior mind. Moses represents the Inner Mind here, because the Most High speaks only to the Inner Mind and from the position of the Inner Mind because the Most High is the Center of the Inner Mind. This is what “the Most High spoke with Moses face to face” signifies. Aaron signifies the interior mind which is the priest or mediator between the external mind and the Inner Mind where the Most High is.

Once liberation and salvation is offered to people and once they start the journey from being non-spiritual (or being in the hells) to becoming spiritual (or getting into the Heavens), which is signified by going into the Promised Land, the external mind needs to learn to be obedient and to serve the Inner Mind and to be led by the Most High from the position of the Inner Mind.

However, the external mind needs to get rid of all its aspects that were acquired from the hells during its stay in the Hells — Egypt. This is the reason why the children of Israel were led first into the wilderness and journeyed there for forty years. Forty years signifies the total and complete period which is needed for removal and elimination of all contamination, pollution and poison that the external mind contains from the hells. Everything old, reactionary, outlived and outdated must be put aside and die out before one can become integrated with one’s Inner Mind as a true spiritual being, ready to inherit the Promised Land — the Heavens, or the positive state. This is signified by the fact that all the generations of the children of Israel, who came out of Egypt, died out in the wilderness and only their children were permitted to enter the Promised Land of Canaan with the exception of Caleb and Joshua. Caleb signifies the remains of good, and Joshua the remains of truth that provided a life support system to the rest of the mind. Only remains, in our old selves, can be saved and permitted to enter the Promised Land because these remains are the five percent (5%) of the original true human in us which true human is the genuine endowment of the Most High from His/Her Absolute Good and Absolute Truth.

When the children of Israel came out of Egypt they came out with falsities and distortions only. This signifies that the external mind, before its instruction by the Inner Mind, being a fabrication of the hells, consists of nothing but falsities and distortions. These falsities and distortions must be repudiated before the truth, reality and order can be introduced in this mind. One cannot enter the Promised Land before one gets rid of all evils, falsities and distortions and acquires proper ways, means, knowledge and methods for purification and cleansing from them and before one procures the right spiritual truths and perceptions of reality and before testing them out in order to see whether they will be properly followed and applied. This was another reason why the children of Israel had to stay for forty years in the wilderness.

This entire process is signified by promulgation of all the laws, the Ten Commandments and various procedures on Mt. Sinai from the Most High to Moses, that is to the Inner Mind, who and which then transmits them to the rest of the people or mind for their testing and implementation. All those laborious prescriptions in painstaking detail for various sacrifices and burnt offerings, sin offerings, peace offerings, atonements and similar rituals, which needed to be rigidly followed, signify nothing else but various methods of purification and cleansing from all evils and falsities and all pollutions, poisons and contaminations of the hells and the externals.

A good example of such a purification is dipping a finger in the blood of a sacrificed animal and putting it on the right lobe of the right ear, on the right thumb of the hand and on the right toe of the right foot. In this connotation blood signifies the spiritual truth of affection (animal) for this truth (all animals signify various human affections); the right lobe of the right ear signifies purification and cleansing of the entrance into the Inner Mind or of the path that leads into the true Inner Mind. The right thumb signifies purification and cleansing of the interior mind; and putting blood on the right toe signifies purification and cleansing of the exterior mind and preparation of the external mind for its incorporation into the Inner Mind. (On this matter see also Swedenborg’s “Heavenly Secrets”.)

That Moses went to the top of Mt. Sinai to the Most High to receive all those laws and procedures, by the following and keeping of which one not only can be purified and cleansed but also one can survive in the Zone of Displacement and be brought into the Promised Land, signifies withdrawal of the Inner Mind into its own ultimate center — Super-Self (Mt. Sinai signifies the Super-Self), where the Most High resides in everyone. Only from the Most High in the Inner Mind can the true laws and procedures of the proper spiritual life originate.

This withdrawal of the Inner Mind is perceived by the external mind as a non-existence of the Inner Mind and the powerlessness of the interior mind to take proper charge of it. When the external mind loses its perspective of the existence of the Inner Mind, it tends to fall back or regress to its previous negative state. From that position, it forces the powerless interior mind into producing substitutes for the true life with a fake life and fake pseudo-creators — hells. Whenever the true Creator in the Inner Mind is rejected, the external mind automatically starts to worship the hells in any form (idolatry, dependence on external values, etc.)

All this is represented by the fact that when Moses was delayed on Mt. Sinai and was not coming down from the mountain (from the innermost Super-Self, from the Most High to the external mind), they said to Aaron — the interior mind, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him” (Exodus, Chapter 32, verse 1). So Aaron made them a golden calf. This is regression to the worship of evils and falsities or the hells. All these things also signify that the external mind by itself and in itself, without any guidance and inspiration from the Inner Mind through the interior mind, has no truth, no reality, no sense and no ability whatsoever to perceive that which is right or that which is wrong because it does not contain in itself any truth. In itself the external mind consists of only illusions and delusions. Unless the external mind is led and guided by the Inner Mind, it leads one only into the doom of materialism, atheism, evils, falsities and all kinds of problems and miseries which one can see in people on planet Earth.

Moses coming down from Mt. Sinai and breaking the tablets with the Ten Commandments on them, given to him by the Most High, signifies that the Inner Mind realizes that the external mind has no capacity by itself to follow any of the laws and procedures of the Most High by which it can live and be happy and enter the Promised Land. Therefore, that kind of external mind, built from the elements of hell, has to be rejected and the knowledge of the real truth has to be concealed from it so that it could not profane it. Instead, this kind of external mind is given only the apparent or seeming truths that would represent and clothe the real truth without having any awareness that such a real truth exists. This is the reason why the whole mountain was in dark clouds and smoke. Dark clouds and smoke cover the real events and the real significance of them on the mountain. (The mountain represents here the Inner Mind). One cannot see through the dark clouds and smoke and, thus, one can only guess about those events. This is the true position of the external mind. It can only guess but not know the real truth.

Thus, all rituals and external procedures that the children of Israel had to follow are nothing other than representations or correspondences of the real truths about spirituality and proper spiritual life without being in themselves the real truth. These rituals, in themselves and by themselves are meaningless and empty notions without any true life in them. This is also true regarding all human rituals, traditions, conventions, customs and ceremonies by which people replace the real laws and commandments of the Most High thinking and believing falsely that their rituals, ceremonies, traditions, customs, conventions and establishments are the Most High’s laws and commandments themselves. As Jesus Christ pointed out, “For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men”. . . “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition” . . . “making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.” (Mark, Chapter 7, verses 8, 9, 13). Now, that kind of external mind with all its foolish rituals, customs, traditions, conventions, laws, prescriptions, prohibitions and ceremonies must be abolished and a new exterior mind, built from the elements of the true spiritual principles, must be established so that the arrangement of the entire human mind follows the structure as described by the symbolical arrangement of all the tribes of the Children of Israel in camps around the Tabernacle of Meeting and Ark of the Covenant.

This arrangement in tribal camps has many deep mystical significances. One of them is being revealed here as follows:

In the very center was the Tabernacle of Meeting, in the center of which was the Ark of the Covenant where the Most High appeared above the cherubim. The Tabernacle of Meeting represents the Absolute Power of the Most High that creates and unites the entire Creation. The Ark of the Covenant represents the spiritual sun in which the Most High resides and from which He/She creates and rules His/Her entire Creation. The spiritual sun is the sphere of the Most High’s Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. From the presence of the Most High in the spiritual sun all proper and right laws, order, ideas and procedures come forth or emanate. Around this Center, in the very center of the entire camp, were placed members of the tribe of Levite with its three major families which were assigned different functions regarding the work they performed for the tabernacle. Levites in the Center of the Camp correspond to or represent the New Heavenly Society or Dimension that has the function of integration and linkage of all Absolute Principles of the Absolute Nature of the Most High as well as connectedness and linkage of these principles as they are manifested throughout the entire Creation. The New Heavenly Society or Dimension, being positioned in the very center of Creation, is in proximity to the entire Creation and the Zone of Displacement and connects and integrates them all, that is all major nine circles of Creation as well as all else in being and existence. The three major families of Levites represent the structure and function of that dimension. Kohath represents its Inner Mind or its innermost degree — the Spirit; Gershon its interior mind or intermediate degree — the Soul; and Merari its exterior mind or the exterior degree — the Body or its form of specific manifestation.

To the East from this Center were encamped the three tribes: Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. The East encampment represents the Celestial Dimension of the Most High’s Creation and its structure. This is the dimension of LOVE and WISDOM. Judah represents its Inner Mind or innermost degree — the Spirit; Issachar its interior mind or intermediate degree — the Soul; and Zebulun its exterior mind or external degree — the Body or the form of its specific manifestation.

To the South of the Center were encamped the next three tribes: Reuben, Simeon and Gad. This encampment represents and corresponds to the Spiritual Dimension of the Most High’s Creation and its structure. This is a dimension of GOOD and TRUTH. Reuben represents its Inner Mind or innermost degree — the Spirit; Simeon its interior mind or intermediate degree — the Soul; and Gad its exterior mind or external degree — the Body or the form of its specific manifestation.

To the West of the Center were encamped the following three tribes: Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin. This encampment represents or corresponds to the Intermediate Dimension of the Most High’s Creation and its structure. This is a dimension of CHARITY and FAITH. Ephraim corresponds to its Inner Mind or the innermost degree — its Spirit; Manasseh to its interior mind or intermediate degree — its Soul; and Benjamin its exterior mind or external degree — its Body or the form of its specific manifestation.

To the North of the Center were encamped the last three tribes: Dan, Asher and Naphtali. This encampment represents or corresponds to the Natural or Physical Dimension of the Most High’s Creation. This is a dimension of WILL and REASON. Dan corresponds to its Inner Mind or the innermost degree — its Spirit; Asher to its interior mind or intermediate degree — its Soul; and Naphtali to the exterior mind or external degree — its Body or the form of its specific manifestation.

That this encampment takes place in the wilderness signifies that parallel to the true Creation of the Most High there is a Zone of Displacement which contains all those who fell out from the true Creation of the Most High by actualizing and realizing the idea of freedom of choice to deny and reject the fact that everything stems from the Most High and His/Her spiritual principles. By the act of that denial and rejection, they activated the negative state and established hells. The hells and the entire Zone of Displacement is structured in a similar manner as the real Creation only in the upside down and opposite fashion.

The order of the Most High to the children of Israel to destroy all inhabitants of Canaan without any traces or remains signifies that the positive forces will prevail over the negative forces and that the negative state and all its inhabitants, at one point in this cycle of time, will cease to be and to exist.

This is the positive correspondence and significance of the children of Israel. As mentioned above, the interpretation presented here of the internal sense of one brief segment in the history of the children of Israel is only one small aspect of the whole structure, content and meaning of the Holy Bible related to this particular segment. Besides this one interpretation there are at least nine more. They cannot be revealed at this time for the above mentioned reasons. However, the interpretation presented here was given for the purpose of an illustration of how the Holy Bible should be interpreted, understood and approached by anyone who reads it.

If one approaches the reading of the Holy Bible in this manner, and for the purpose of becoming a better human being, a truly spiritual being, one will be truly blessed by the Divine Love and Divine Wisdom of the Most High which are present in the internal sense of the Holy Bible.

Source: REALITY, MYTHS AND ILLUSIONS

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