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All characters in the bible, both male and female, illustrate, and dramatize certain states of mind. The geography of the bible, like Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, etc. all have symbolic meaning also. Every river, mountain, lake, or desert etc. represents certain states of consciousness.
Bible Key Bread: All physical things, clothing, shelter, money, education, food, etc. It also stands for spiritual things, like spiritual perception, or understanding, or spiritual realization, and the sense that God is within us. Prayer: A noble deed, a helpful word, living works. Prayer: A noble deed, a helpful word, living works. Prosperity: To have success in prayer. Spirit: Means Life Poor In Spirit: Lack of self will, to have renounced preconceived options in the search for God. To set aside present habits of thoughts, ideas, views, and prejudices. To jettison spiritual pride, the fear of public ridicule, or the need for worldly honor. To no longer be cocksure in your opinion. Meek: Open mindedness, faith in Gods will for us, and willingness to follow Gods will for us. Earth: The whole of your outer experience. The Body, the home the business life, the relatives, friends, and associates. Inherit The Earth: To have dominion over your outer experience. Righteousness: Right thinking, the dispelling of negative thoughts, to be rid of any thought that takes away from, or robs from a positive out look on life. If you want health you must think health, if you want to prosper spiritually, mentally, physically, or materially, your thought process must support this. Heart: Subconscious mind! Too See God: To have spiritual perception, or realization. Pure Or Purity: To recognize God as the only real cause, and power there in existence. Peace: Serenity Peace Maker: A person who brings about serenity in their own soul. Persecution For Righteousness Sake: To be persecuted, put down or tempted by owns on lower self not others. Water: Means the Human Soul, or Truth, or Spiritual Ideas not yet realized. To See God: Spiritual Perception or to apprehend truth. Pure Or Purity: Is to recognize God as the one and only source Heart: Means, Subconscious Mind. The Secret Place: The thoughts you have inside. Inside is your Secret place. The Eye: Means, Spiritual Perception. Hill or Mountain: Means, Prayer or Spiritual Activity or Uplifted Consciousness. Christ: Means, Absolute Spiritual Truth About Anything. Enemies, Wicked or Heathens: Means, My Own Doubts, Fears, Thoughts of criticism, and Self Condemnation, ETC. Wicked: Those Who Do Not Rely on God. River: Means, Purpose, Because it Always Goes Somewhere. Lord: Means, Our Indwelling Christ, The God Within. Hand: Means, Manifestation of Expression. Gates, or Doors: Always Mean Understanding or a Change in Consciousness. Chamber: Means, Ones Consciousness. Jerusalem: Mean's the Consciousness or Personality That Has Found God. Mount Zion: Means the Realization of God. Egypt: Giving Power to Material Things, or Poverty, Pain and Ill Health. Babylon: Means Negative Thoughts, or Attitudes. Holiness: Means Wholeness, or Bodily, Mentally, Spiritually, Materially, Completeness or Purity. Israel: Means Your Life, health, Job, Family, Finances, And Every Personal Problem. Darkness or Night: Means, Trouble or Limitation. Israelite: Means One Who Seeks God. She, Her, Woman, Wife: Means Soul. Skull: Symbolizes Intellect. Virgin Mary: Symbolizes the Soul; Centered on God. A Wicked Woman: Symbolizes a Soul Without God. Valley: Means, Trouble, Difficulty, Fear, and Limitation. Bethlehem: Represents Divine Substance. Forty: Whether it Days Years or Whatever it Stands for an Indefinite Amount of time. Sheep: Means Thoughts. Shepherd: A Keeper of Good or Bad Thoughts. The East: Always Stands for Sunrise, Hope or Spiritual Regeneration. Babylon: Means, Mental Limitation, Fear, Self Reproach, & Will Power. Egypt: Means, Physical Limitation, Poverty, Pain, Ill Health ETC. Moon: Means Subconscious. Door or Gate: Means Understanding, or a Change in consciousness. Great Wonder: Means the Soul has Realized its Oneness with God. Under His/Her/Their Feet: Means Dominion, or Control of whatever is Under Foot. The Number Twelve: Means Completeness. The Color Red: Always Stand for the Emotional Nature. The Horn: Means Power Ten Horns Means Tremendous Power. Seven Heads: Means that the Problem seems to be Everywhere. Man, He, Him, Husband: Means the Conscious Self. The Donkey: Means the Mind that is Quite Stubborn. The Ox: Stand for the Body, or the Pull of the Animal Forces. The Lamb: Represents the Spiritual Nature. The East: Always Stands for Spirit, and Truth. Children: Means Our Work, and Achievements the results of our actions. The Ear: Means Understanding, the Decorated Ear Means Unfoldment. The Robe: This represents the Right Attitude of Mind, Right Thinking, and Right Action. Ring: This represents Spiritual Unity. Feet: Always means Understanding, Shoes or Sandals, ETC. Means Understanding Protected Against Error, or Doubt. Hill or Mountain: Means Uplifted Consciousness. The Son of Man: Means the Human Personality. The Winds: Means the Direct Action of God, the Holy Spirit. Holy: Means Physical Health, Freedom of the Soul, Peace of Mind, and All are one, and are of One, Unity of God And Man, Man and Man. Scales: Means Famine, or Lack. It means there is Not Enough to go around, so things must be Rationed. Crown: Stands for Victory. Face or Forehead: Stands for Intellect, or Recognition. Heart: Stands for Feelings. Calf or Bull: Stands for materiality, or Limitation. The Number Six: Stands for Work or Labor. The Number Seven: Stands for Individual Perfection, or a Completed Demonstration. Solomon: Stands for the Understanding of God. The Eagle: Stands for the Emotional Nature Redeemed, and Purified. Seas: Stands for Spiritual Truths that one Knows of. Darkness: Means Error. Light: Means Truth. Night: Means the Subconscious. God: Does not always stand for the Universal Creator. It may also stand for the Indwelling Christ, or True Self. Within: Signifies thought. Parents: Often Means Your Past. The Wrath of God: Does not mean the Anger of God but the Activity of God. Fish: Is the Symbol of Wisdom. Child: A Child in the Bible always means, The Indwelling Light, The Inner Light, The Spiritual Idea. Tree: Means life Leaves: Means words Fruit: Means deeds Sea: Means mind Sin: Means misunderstanding, or miscreating Red Sea: Means carnal mind Lamb: Means Innocence Dove: Means Peace Breath: Means Thought Holy Breath: Means Pure Thought Priest: Means the Right example. Pharisee: Stands for Spiritual Pride Temple: Means the body King: Stands for Love Kingdom: The Consciousness of Love Towns or Cities: Parts of the kingdom or consciousness, towns a smaller part of the consciousness, cities a large part of the consciousness. Holy: Means to be whole or complete India: means darkness, or death. Persia: Means fear Assyria: Means Doubt Egypt: Can mean mystery, the hidden, darkness, or lack. Satan, Devil, Beelzebub: Means our lower self, or ego. Hell: Means a life of frustration turmoil, and anxiety, due to our miscreating with our ego. God or Lord: Means Law Heaven: Means Thought. Earth: Means Life Yoke: Means to join together Burden: Means to carry a message Heaven: Means Higher Mind Earth: Means lower mind Perish: To undo Vengeance: Means to eliminate the ego's illusions. Father: Means higher or cosmic forces Mother: Means earthly or natural forces Hate: Means to forget Love: Means to remember Faith: Means knowledge Seeds: Means Ideas Wrath: Means action Light: Means Higher Consciousness or Thought Dark or Darkness: Means Consciousness that is not enlightened Man: Represents the Divine Wisdom of the thinking body. Woman: Represents the Divine love of the feeling body. Marriage: The joining together in full cooperation of the thinking and feeling bodies. The marriage brings correct actions to the acting body. A split separation or divorce of the thinking and feeling bodies brings disruption to them as well as to the acting body, which results in a life lived in hell. Hell: A life that is not in tune to natural and cosmic law and harmony. Sin: In harmonious action against natural and cosmic law which results in disease in body and mind, which leads a person to hell. Heaven: A life that is in tune to natural and cosmic law and is in harmony. Field, Pastures, Vineyards, Gardens, etc.: Means a persons consciousness or mind. To mourn, or Mourning: Means to suffer, or to recognize your suffering do to ignorance, or to have compassion for those who suffer do to ignorance. Suffer, or Suffering: Means to allow. Merciful: Means to forgive. Heart: Represents the feeling body. Peace: Means to be in harmony with all forces in and around us (Natural and Cosmic forces). Meek:
To be humble before the laws of nature and the universe.
© Lester F. Schone, Jr. 1992
Author: Lester F.
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