A mind blowing surge goes through me, when Truth comes my way, instead of me persuing it. That is the same feeling as being loved. I keep on to it throughout the day, reminding myself when I doze off, getting sidetracked.
Wouldn't you love to know the Truth? It may be scary at first, but then you realise that it is your ignorance that held you back. You deserve to know the Truth. In fact you do know it already, but you may not recognize it yet.
It took me a long time to recognize that fear is something that keeps you back and that is rather counter-intuitive. Wouldn't you think that fear protects you from harm? In fact, this is only partly true. Most of the time, fear protects a false sense of security and instead is the signal to expand your thinking. Fear is just the signal that something is required of you, but you may not know what that is. Hence, fear points to ignorance. Once you start addressing the area where you feel fearful, you have already progressed to make conscious whatever held you back. The next step is addressing the underlying ignorance and replace it with knowledge.
Eventually, fear starts to help you and guides you exactly in the direction you have to grow. It is an automatic process once you acknowledge your fear. Once you know that, fear becomes your best friend because it is the fastest path to your well-being. This is one of the things that helped me to start this blog in the first place.
To battle ignorance, you have to find information that addresses that ignorance. That is when you start finding answers. Those answers I want to share with you, so check out the Mind Reality link I added to my blog (or Click Here!). Thank you for using this link.
What everybody has in common is the ability to change. To change takes courage, because it requires facing your fears, acknowledge them and get rid of them. That process may be more fun than you expected, though. This will be a good reminder for every time you need to change. The thing is, you can change into anything you want. If you succeed, you live your best life and that is worth more than anything, you'll see.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The total worth
This reality is a miracle. No! What do I say? A miracle? It is a continuous miracle. No! Then it would still be singular. If the miracle continues, divided by any measure of time, it is a countless number of miracles compressed in those time capsules. No! There is no division of time! No, no, no, what is a miracle anyway?
The miracle of all this, is the fact that its worth is defined by that which gives it worth. So, when somebody says that it is worth more than any earthly possession, then it is. And in that instant where it is acknowledged to have this worth, the abundance of this reality called a miracle from the beginning, is poured out in front of you to enjoy every bit of it.
So, let me ask you, is there a name that combines thousand, hundred and ten?
Yes, there is, and I heard this name yesterday for the first time. Yesterday is the name of the things that have lost their worth. So, to preserve things, we have to dig into the past and bring them back into the present and assign its proper worth to it. In a sense, the past becomes the future: when we are in the process of digging it up, we are in the process of forming the future. When we present it in the present, and assign worth to it according to our opportunity and our capability we receive its worth a thousandfold in return. So, whenever we dig something up, we'd better give a positive worth to it. If it is a negative worth we assign, we will lose a thousandfold as well and it had been better it stayed in the past.
So, here is this name, it is Millicent. This name belongs to a kind lady with whom I had the pleasure to talk for a while in the train. Let's look at this name.
Milli (not Milly) is used in millimeter and other measures. It derives from mille, meaning thousand or thousandth part.
Cent is used in centimeter and other measures. It is derived from cent, meaning hundred, or centesimus a hundredth part, such as a cent is a hundredth part of a currency unit.
Putting the two parts together Millicent is a name that assigns a worth (or value) of 1000 x 1/100, which becomes 10. This name is not meant to be a calculation - as if to assign quantity - but to express quality. What quality does it express? In this regard it is also (surprisingly?) an exact name. If we are to identify with this name, it tells us that we consist of many (mille) parts (cent) and its result is 10 (ten), expressed in 1 (one) name.
Now, to explain this 10, let me introduce the Hebrew Letter י (Yud). It is the tenth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It is the first letter of those that express a relationship with existence, opposed to the previous nine that express archetypes, not yet existing, as before or beyond time. Yud as 10 expresses existence of its archetype א (Aleph, 1). By expressing in existence that which is beyond time, it can only do it partially. But Yud is powerful in that its expression is unique and irreplaceable.
Yud is the birth of affirmation, and it causes the addressing of its demands. This process of affirmation of things that have never been, but have been buried in the past, is itself the expression of the letter Yud. Yud has been born from the past, therefore it is alive in the present rather than dead. Even for a single moment, it is a witness of its origin, in that moment before it is gone. And when it does witness of its origin and assigns a worth to it, it becomes the thousandfold exaltation of an expectation. Who is content with an empty hand? If it is filled with what it deserves, the owner's heart is filled a thousand times.
(Yud idiomaticly also means hand.)
I kissed Millicent's hand before I stepped out of the train. I kept the inner witness of life for myself, at least temporarily. I trust it to express the total value of its origin; it is Aleph exalted ten times or a hundred times or a thousand times!
The miracle of all this, is the fact that its worth is defined by that which gives it worth. So, when somebody says that it is worth more than any earthly possession, then it is. And in that instant where it is acknowledged to have this worth, the abundance of this reality called a miracle from the beginning, is poured out in front of you to enjoy every bit of it.
So, let me ask you, is there a name that combines thousand, hundred and ten?
Yes, there is, and I heard this name yesterday for the first time. Yesterday is the name of the things that have lost their worth. So, to preserve things, we have to dig into the past and bring them back into the present and assign its proper worth to it. In a sense, the past becomes the future: when we are in the process of digging it up, we are in the process of forming the future. When we present it in the present, and assign worth to it according to our opportunity and our capability we receive its worth a thousandfold in return. So, whenever we dig something up, we'd better give a positive worth to it. If it is a negative worth we assign, we will lose a thousandfold as well and it had been better it stayed in the past.
So, here is this name, it is Millicent. This name belongs to a kind lady with whom I had the pleasure to talk for a while in the train. Let's look at this name.
Milli (not Milly) is used in millimeter and other measures. It derives from mille, meaning thousand or thousandth part.
Cent is used in centimeter and other measures. It is derived from cent, meaning hundred, or centesimus a hundredth part, such as a cent is a hundredth part of a currency unit.
Putting the two parts together Millicent is a name that assigns a worth (or value) of 1000 x 1/100, which becomes 10. This name is not meant to be a calculation - as if to assign quantity - but to express quality. What quality does it express? In this regard it is also (surprisingly?) an exact name. If we are to identify with this name, it tells us that we consist of many (mille) parts (cent) and its result is 10 (ten), expressed in 1 (one) name.
Now, to explain this 10, let me introduce the Hebrew Letter י (Yud). It is the tenth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It is the first letter of those that express a relationship with existence, opposed to the previous nine that express archetypes, not yet existing, as before or beyond time. Yud as 10 expresses existence of its archetype א (Aleph, 1). By expressing in existence that which is beyond time, it can only do it partially. But Yud is powerful in that its expression is unique and irreplaceable.
Yud is the birth of affirmation, and it causes the addressing of its demands. This process of affirmation of things that have never been, but have been buried in the past, is itself the expression of the letter Yud. Yud has been born from the past, therefore it is alive in the present rather than dead. Even for a single moment, it is a witness of its origin, in that moment before it is gone. And when it does witness of its origin and assigns a worth to it, it becomes the thousandfold exaltation of an expectation. Who is content with an empty hand? If it is filled with what it deserves, the owner's heart is filled a thousand times.
(Yud idiomaticly also means hand.)
I kissed Millicent's hand before I stepped out of the train. I kept the inner witness of life for myself, at least temporarily. I trust it to express the total value of its origin; it is Aleph exalted ten times or a hundred times or a thousand times!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It's only the beginning
Trying to come to grips with Truth is a continuous process. Once you are drawn into its direction, you have no choice but to become more focussed. You have to start somewhere. Actually you always start now. 'Now' is a concept that never fades.
Did you see a variation of this in a pub? 'Tomorrow the beer is half price.'
Come tomorrow, you ask for the reduction and the bartender says: 'Can't you read? Tomorrow. Only tomorrow is the beer half price.' What a joke, or is it? Yes, tomorrow never comes. Even at the moment that 23:59 hours changes into 0:00 hours, it is still not tomorrow. It is always today! In fact, day, the measure of time, is arbitrary. It is always this year, this month, this week, this day, this hour, this minute, this second, this moment, this - this is always now.
So, yesterday, when it was now, I went to see a professor at the university where I studied. It was an experiment. I tried to go there and see whether I could make him enthousiastic about the hidden meaning of the Hebrew Letters. As a mathematician he ought to be interested if I tell him that these letters are like variables in math. Except that they also have some basic properties, to be specified later. So, after he had given his opinion about the bible - which is not relevant at all - I could ask him, what he thought was the most important book in the bible. He did not know. It is Genesis. And I asked what is the most important chapter of it. He did not know. It is the first. And I asked what the most important word was. He did not know. The first word. I said: 'The first word is pronounced berayshiyt.' (There may be some variations around, but it is pretty close - it is an old word, mind you.)
I wrote it on the blackboard. It reads
בראשית
He asked what it means. I said: 'Nobody knows what it means, it can not be translated. But I can still give meaning to it.' And I wrote the following sequence of numbers:
400.10.300.1.200.2
Yes, you are required to read the word and the sequence from right to left, as is customary in Hebrew. The professor started talking again and in between he asked the question why I thought it was the most important word. The situation was rather peculiar in that he had talked most of the time. And I had the opportunity to give the meaning. I said: 'I am trying to tell you a very important information, that is hard to explain, because it is rather abstract. But you, as a mathematician, may be able to understand it, if I am allowed to explain it. The words in this Hebrew text are equations, expressed in the letters. And their meaning is the solution, depending on the context. But it is not an ordinary language. It is unknown, but we can find its meaning by understanding the letters.'
Now the miracle happened. The professor told me a story related to the formation of creole languages.
He said that people sometimes migrate to another country into another language area. When they are older, they are not able to pick up the language any more, but only that part of it that is necessary to survive, or to express the basic things to get by in stores and such. This effect is even stronger when these people come from different language areas themselves. Their language is even cruder and poorer. The children of these people, however, because they become socially active in their community, have the need to express their emotions, especially when they become interested in having a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Then, all by themselves, they tend to creatively form a complete new rich language that becomes their native tongue. A new language is born.
This is what he told me. I was very surprised to note that what he told me is a possible translation of the word berayshiyt!
I coupled the letters as follows:
(B) 2 - children (in Hebrew the word bar 2.200 means son or child)
(R) 200 - feeling poor in their community; expressed as an enlargement of 2.
(A) 1 - have a need to express themselves
(Sh) 300 - become creative
(I) 10 - invent a language
(T) 400 - that answers their needs as a NEW language.
When he was finished I had written these interpretations next to the letters and said: "Your story is perfectly mapped on this word. It surprises me that I could do that, but it is an honest translation. The word expresses the process you have just described. Such is the generality of the meaning of these letters. According to the 'flat' translation, it means 'in the beginning'. But its meaning can't be expressed in a single expression like that. It explains a process."
He was sceptic and said: "It looks more like poetry."
Considering that he may not only express scepticism, but also tried to get back to his work, I tried once more to leave the impression that there is more at stake then only the question of whether this is poetry or not. He started to tell me another story and I understood that he was not ready to take it in. I left him to his work.
Now, when I went home, I realised another thing, I had gone through the same process myself:
2 - lonely me
200 - entering a building of the mathematical community
1 - wanting to explain the first word
300 - used the professor's story as a creative way to do it
10 - giving the explanation in a mapping
400 - leaving it at that, whether it was understood or not.
So, in a way, my wish had been granted - I had explained it to somebody that is much smarter than I am. But his way of thinking blocked understanding. I was slightly disappointed, but I understood that it means I can not force the outcome. Next time, somebody will ask me to explain it even better. This prospect filled me with satisfaction.
This word berayshiyt is much more then this even. It is the explanation of the fact that everything that happens is always the answer to all the questions you ask or have asked. A basic understanding of this fact is itself the beginning of becoming sensitive to the value of this answer, when it appears to you now.
It's only the beginning - and it means there is nothing else.
Did you see a variation of this in a pub? 'Tomorrow the beer is half price.'
Come tomorrow, you ask for the reduction and the bartender says: 'Can't you read? Tomorrow. Only tomorrow is the beer half price.' What a joke, or is it? Yes, tomorrow never comes. Even at the moment that 23:59 hours changes into 0:00 hours, it is still not tomorrow. It is always today! In fact, day, the measure of time, is arbitrary. It is always this year, this month, this week, this day, this hour, this minute, this second, this moment, this - this is always now.
So, yesterday, when it was now, I went to see a professor at the university where I studied. It was an experiment. I tried to go there and see whether I could make him enthousiastic about the hidden meaning of the Hebrew Letters. As a mathematician he ought to be interested if I tell him that these letters are like variables in math. Except that they also have some basic properties, to be specified later. So, after he had given his opinion about the bible - which is not relevant at all - I could ask him, what he thought was the most important book in the bible. He did not know. It is Genesis. And I asked what is the most important chapter of it. He did not know. It is the first. And I asked what the most important word was. He did not know. The first word. I said: 'The first word is pronounced berayshiyt.' (There may be some variations around, but it is pretty close - it is an old word, mind you.)
I wrote it on the blackboard. It reads
בראשית
He asked what it means. I said: 'Nobody knows what it means, it can not be translated. But I can still give meaning to it.' And I wrote the following sequence of numbers:
400.10.300.1.200.2
Yes, you are required to read the word and the sequence from right to left, as is customary in Hebrew. The professor started talking again and in between he asked the question why I thought it was the most important word. The situation was rather peculiar in that he had talked most of the time. And I had the opportunity to give the meaning. I said: 'I am trying to tell you a very important information, that is hard to explain, because it is rather abstract. But you, as a mathematician, may be able to understand it, if I am allowed to explain it. The words in this Hebrew text are equations, expressed in the letters. And their meaning is the solution, depending on the context. But it is not an ordinary language. It is unknown, but we can find its meaning by understanding the letters.'
Now the miracle happened. The professor told me a story related to the formation of creole languages.
He said that people sometimes migrate to another country into another language area. When they are older, they are not able to pick up the language any more, but only that part of it that is necessary to survive, or to express the basic things to get by in stores and such. This effect is even stronger when these people come from different language areas themselves. Their language is even cruder and poorer. The children of these people, however, because they become socially active in their community, have the need to express their emotions, especially when they become interested in having a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Then, all by themselves, they tend to creatively form a complete new rich language that becomes their native tongue. A new language is born.
This is what he told me. I was very surprised to note that what he told me is a possible translation of the word berayshiyt!
I coupled the letters as follows:
(B) 2 - children (in Hebrew the word bar 2.200 means son or child)
(R) 200 - feeling poor in their community; expressed as an enlargement of 2.
(A) 1 - have a need to express themselves
(Sh) 300 - become creative
(I) 10 - invent a language
(T) 400 - that answers their needs as a NEW language.
When he was finished I had written these interpretations next to the letters and said: "Your story is perfectly mapped on this word. It surprises me that I could do that, but it is an honest translation. The word expresses the process you have just described. Such is the generality of the meaning of these letters. According to the 'flat' translation, it means 'in the beginning'. But its meaning can't be expressed in a single expression like that. It explains a process."
He was sceptic and said: "It looks more like poetry."
Considering that he may not only express scepticism, but also tried to get back to his work, I tried once more to leave the impression that there is more at stake then only the question of whether this is poetry or not. He started to tell me another story and I understood that he was not ready to take it in. I left him to his work.
Now, when I went home, I realised another thing, I had gone through the same process myself:
2 - lonely me
200 - entering a building of the mathematical community
1 - wanting to explain the first word
300 - used the professor's story as a creative way to do it
10 - giving the explanation in a mapping
400 - leaving it at that, whether it was understood or not.
So, in a way, my wish had been granted - I had explained it to somebody that is much smarter than I am. But his way of thinking blocked understanding. I was slightly disappointed, but I understood that it means I can not force the outcome. Next time, somebody will ask me to explain it even better. This prospect filled me with satisfaction.
This word berayshiyt is much more then this even. It is the explanation of the fact that everything that happens is always the answer to all the questions you ask or have asked. A basic understanding of this fact is itself the beginning of becoming sensitive to the value of this answer, when it appears to you now.
It's only the beginning - and it means there is nothing else.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Welcome
Welcome to those who are interested in the questions regarding life and everything.
Welcome to those who are not, for they may always become interested after reading this.
May this blog inspire you - if it does, let me know and you inspire me.
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Have you ever wondered why there are so many religions?
I had one. I had one. I had one. (Three times one.)
Now I have got eternal life and what that is, is really not that easy to explain. For in all religions this term has been called different. But eternal life is a rather correct expression in comparison to others like 'enlightenment'. If something can be said about their relationship, then it is that enlightenment causes eternal life.
I'll give some statements that form the core of the path that I have walked. To make an honest contribution I should be able to explain these statements. I'll try.
1. Jesus' words in the New Testament are utterly incomprehensible, unless you have grasped them at his level.
2. The words in the Old Testament cover up the letters.
3. There is something to know that has more value than every earthly possession.
4. That which is to know is uncomprehensible by the mind alone, it is unfathomable by the heart alone, but it is perfectly logic when it involves mind and heart. It is called Truth.
Ad 1.
To explain the first may be the hardest at this point, for it requires we go through those sayings of Jesus and point out how they are incomprehensible and how they are comprehensible. This is already a tricky one. To point out that they are incomprehensible, it is to show that they can be understood in more than one way, and on first observance, it is not clear what to choose. To point out that they are comprehensible, a threshold must be crossed and if the reader is convinced of the incomprehensibility, how can he be convinced of the comprehensibility? As an example I like to refer to
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
First of all I like to point out that the Greek text uses the same word for life and for soul. It is the word 'psuche' or 'psyche'. (see http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/c.pl?book=Mat&chapter=16&verse=25&version=KJV#25 and http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/c.pl?book=Mat&chapter=16&verse=26&version=KJV#26)
Is it so difficult to translate this word? And if so, what are we to lose, what are we to find? Our life or our soul or our psyche? It seems utterly confusing to use the same word in different ways in the English translation. In the Greek it is psyche. The psyche is that which we identify with, that which makes us who we are. And this holds the same for our soul and our life. If we can not pinpoint what our psyche, soul or life is, we have lost it already - and we may find it according to this saying. If we find it, however, we will lose it.
I hope it is clear that in this way of thinking about what it is, we are hopelessly lost in its meaning. It becomes incomprehensible. When it hits you that what is most essential to you is unknown by you, then you come a bit closer to understanding what this is about. Can the reader answer the question for himself "Who am I?" I doubt it. If he can, it can't be true. If he can not, although honest, the question remains unanswered.
Where does it lead us? It leads us into the unknown. The unknown is where the answer lies. It requires to cross a threshold into the unknown. Yet, everything inside you is there and it contains everything there is to know about you, or does it? The unknown is a magnet and when you are fully aware of the vastness of this magnet, you are drawn into it and you lose your soul. But then you will find it. So, this saying of Jesus becomes comprehensible. By the experience of the unthinkable.
Ad 2.
Hebrew words consist of letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. These letters have meaning in and of themselves. Combinations of letters form a word and its meaning relates to the letters and to the context in which the word is used. But most of all, the letters are like algebraic unknowns with some basic proberties: x is prime, y is even, z is a square, so x+y+z is? Such is the way one thinks about words written in the Hebrew Alphabet. The meaning of each letter is a well kept secret, or maybe it is just too plain that it has been forgotten? In a future episode, I will go into this a bit further, but I invite the reader to do some research on the internet to find out if he can figure out the meaning of the Hebrew Letters. A hint: they differ from any other alphabet.
Ad 3.
As pointed out earlier, in my first quote of some of Jesus' recorded words, that worth has to do with you. But also with how you perceive you. Not how I perceive you, but how you perceive you. And it seems that you are different from me. Well, the things that differ between us, are temporary. But the things we have in common are eternal. That which is eternal deserves a special name. And the thing 'how do I perceive myself' is a common theme within our different personalities. Are you living? Are you human?
Ad 4.
Whatever eternal means - and it does mean little in the context of our limited understanding - it means something like constant. The saying 'the only constant is change' tries to point out that there are no constants, so how can anything be eternal? Well, it depends on the way you view reality. For every practical purpose, the Universe is eternal, but its physical aspect might end sometimes. Just by accident I read in the new 'Scientific American' (see p.44) that the Big Bang theory is being modified as we speak. It is becoming a Big Bounce theory, because the theory of matter as it stands can not allow for the supposed compression of all matter in a single point. Hence it must never have been a point, never started, but may have bounced through certain near-single points (a relatively small volume) - as through the eye of a needle, it jumped through it towards a new form, a new future at its end, and we are part of its development after its previous bounce. I am not making this up! This is the mind-part. The mind tries to understand.
Eternal according to the heart is that which allows for constant development, in peace, in love, in acceptance, in understanding, in empathy. And those desires which surpass the individual physical circumstances, they impact everybody around you in the measure you express them.
Eternal becomes something that is very close to your mind and very close to your heart. Your mind is used to fulfill the desires of your heart, it becomes very down to Earth. Your heart is used to pierce through time into those regions of joy that we call the Heavens. Both Heaven and Earth are then drawn together towards their unity. And when they come close enough, the lightning of Truth bridges their imaginary distance. Who will see its flash? It is the same who lives eternal.
--
Consider this the opening accord of a written symphony. Can you pick up its harmony?
Welcome to those who are not, for they may always become interested after reading this.
May this blog inspire you - if it does, let me know and you inspire me.
--
Have you ever wondered why there are so many religions?
I had one. I had one. I had one. (Three times one.)
Now I have got eternal life and what that is, is really not that easy to explain. For in all religions this term has been called different. But eternal life is a rather correct expression in comparison to others like 'enlightenment'. If something can be said about their relationship, then it is that enlightenment causes eternal life.
I'll give some statements that form the core of the path that I have walked. To make an honest contribution I should be able to explain these statements. I'll try.
1. Jesus' words in the New Testament are utterly incomprehensible, unless you have grasped them at his level.
2. The words in the Old Testament cover up the letters.
3. There is something to know that has more value than every earthly possession.
4. That which is to know is uncomprehensible by the mind alone, it is unfathomable by the heart alone, but it is perfectly logic when it involves mind and heart. It is called Truth.
Ad 1.
To explain the first may be the hardest at this point, for it requires we go through those sayings of Jesus and point out how they are incomprehensible and how they are comprehensible. This is already a tricky one. To point out that they are incomprehensible, it is to show that they can be understood in more than one way, and on first observance, it is not clear what to choose. To point out that they are comprehensible, a threshold must be crossed and if the reader is convinced of the incomprehensibility, how can he be convinced of the comprehensibility? As an example I like to refer to
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
First of all I like to point out that the Greek text uses the same word for life and for soul. It is the word 'psuche' or 'psyche'. (see http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/c.pl?book=Mat&chapter=16&verse=25&version=KJV#25 and http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/c.pl?book=Mat&chapter=16&verse=26&version=KJV#26)
Is it so difficult to translate this word? And if so, what are we to lose, what are we to find? Our life or our soul or our psyche? It seems utterly confusing to use the same word in different ways in the English translation. In the Greek it is psyche. The psyche is that which we identify with, that which makes us who we are. And this holds the same for our soul and our life. If we can not pinpoint what our psyche, soul or life is, we have lost it already - and we may find it according to this saying. If we find it, however, we will lose it.
I hope it is clear that in this way of thinking about what it is, we are hopelessly lost in its meaning. It becomes incomprehensible. When it hits you that what is most essential to you is unknown by you, then you come a bit closer to understanding what this is about. Can the reader answer the question for himself "Who am I?" I doubt it. If he can, it can't be true. If he can not, although honest, the question remains unanswered.
Where does it lead us? It leads us into the unknown. The unknown is where the answer lies. It requires to cross a threshold into the unknown. Yet, everything inside you is there and it contains everything there is to know about you, or does it? The unknown is a magnet and when you are fully aware of the vastness of this magnet, you are drawn into it and you lose your soul. But then you will find it. So, this saying of Jesus becomes comprehensible. By the experience of the unthinkable.
Ad 2.
Hebrew words consist of letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. These letters have meaning in and of themselves. Combinations of letters form a word and its meaning relates to the letters and to the context in which the word is used. But most of all, the letters are like algebraic unknowns with some basic proberties: x is prime, y is even, z is a square, so x+y+z is? Such is the way one thinks about words written in the Hebrew Alphabet. The meaning of each letter is a well kept secret, or maybe it is just too plain that it has been forgotten? In a future episode, I will go into this a bit further, but I invite the reader to do some research on the internet to find out if he can figure out the meaning of the Hebrew Letters. A hint: they differ from any other alphabet.
Ad 3.
As pointed out earlier, in my first quote of some of Jesus' recorded words, that worth has to do with you. But also with how you perceive you. Not how I perceive you, but how you perceive you. And it seems that you are different from me. Well, the things that differ between us, are temporary. But the things we have in common are eternal. That which is eternal deserves a special name. And the thing 'how do I perceive myself' is a common theme within our different personalities. Are you living? Are you human?
Ad 4.
Whatever eternal means - and it does mean little in the context of our limited understanding - it means something like constant. The saying 'the only constant is change' tries to point out that there are no constants, so how can anything be eternal? Well, it depends on the way you view reality. For every practical purpose, the Universe is eternal, but its physical aspect might end sometimes. Just by accident I read in the new 'Scientific American' (see p.44) that the Big Bang theory is being modified as we speak. It is becoming a Big Bounce theory, because the theory of matter as it stands can not allow for the supposed compression of all matter in a single point. Hence it must never have been a point, never started, but may have bounced through certain near-single points (a relatively small volume) - as through the eye of a needle, it jumped through it towards a new form, a new future at its end, and we are part of its development after its previous bounce. I am not making this up! This is the mind-part. The mind tries to understand.
Eternal according to the heart is that which allows for constant development, in peace, in love, in acceptance, in understanding, in empathy. And those desires which surpass the individual physical circumstances, they impact everybody around you in the measure you express them.
Eternal becomes something that is very close to your mind and very close to your heart. Your mind is used to fulfill the desires of your heart, it becomes very down to Earth. Your heart is used to pierce through time into those regions of joy that we call the Heavens. Both Heaven and Earth are then drawn together towards their unity. And when they come close enough, the lightning of Truth bridges their imaginary distance. Who will see its flash? It is the same who lives eternal.
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Consider this the opening accord of a written symphony. Can you pick up its harmony?
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