(Q) Please interpret the 2nd Chapter, 17th verse of
Revelation. "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of
the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the
stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that
receiveth it."
(A) In giving the interpretation of this particular portion
of the Revelation, it must all be kept in mind that, as has
been indicated, while many of the references - or all - refer
to the physical body as the pattern, there is that as may be
said to be the literal and the spiritual and the metaphysical
interpretation of almost all portions of the Scripture, and
especially of the Revelation as given by John.
Yet all of these to be true, to be practical, to be
applicable in the experiences of individuals, MUST
coordinate: or be as one, even as the Father, the Son and
the the Holy Spirit.
In the interpretation of the Name, then: Each entity, each
soul, is known - in all the experiences through its
activities - as a name to designate it from another. It is
not only then a material convenience, but it implies - as has
been given, unless it is for material gain - a definite
period in the evolution of the experience of the entity in
the material plane.
Then as each entity under a given name makes its correlating
of that it does about the Creative Forces in its experience,
it is coming under those influences that are being fed by the
manna - which is a representation of the universality as well
as the stability of purposes in the Creative Forces as
manifested to a group or a nation of peoples.
So it becomes that as the Master gave, "Ye shall not live by
bread alone but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth
of the Father."
That indeed is the holy manna which each entity, each soul in
each experience must make a part of its mental and spiritual
self. Thus it becomes as is indicated, in that the name - as
in each experience - bears a relative relationship to the
development of the individual entity in each experience.
Then in the end, or in those periods as indicated, it is when
each entity, each soul has so manifested, so acted in its
relationships as to become then as the new name; white,
clear, known only to him that hath overcome. Overcome what?
The world, even as He.
For what meaneth a name? John, Jane, Peter, Andrew,
Bartholomew, Thaddeus, Rhoda, Hannah? All of these have not
only the attunement of vibration but of color, harmony; and
all those relative relationships as one to another.
Then as has been asked, and has been indicated in another
portion of Revelation, all those that bear the mark, those
that have the name, those that have the stone - these are
representatives then of the same experience in the various
phases of an individual experience for its activity.
Then the interpretation is that they HAVE overcome, they HAVE
the new name, they HAVE the manna, they HAVE the
understanding, they HAVE their relationships as secure in the
blood of the Lamb!
(Q) Continuing with the references to the 7 angels described
in Rev. 8:9, are we correct in interpreting the sounding of
these 7 angels as the influence of spiritual development in
these other planes becoming active through the vibrating
centers of the physical body during the process of
purification?
(A) Correct. But these are not always interpreted in
individual experiences as the true sound, true tone.
Now, this is not to confuse but rather to clarify for those
who are studying these, in the relationships to what takes
place as the various centers in the body are opened, that are
represented by the Spirit's activative forces upon same; that
these may be the more perfectly understood:
Just as the individual who has by practical application
gained the correct pitch, correct tone in a musical
composition. This may be as a soul-expression or a
mechanical expression; and only when it is in the true
accord, as from the soul, is it perfectly understood. See?
(Q) Do the 7 angels govern in order the major glanular
centers of the physical body?
(A) In their order, as they have been set.
(Q) Please explain the meaning of some of the symbols in the
sounding of the 7 angels: 1. Hail and fire, blood and 1/3 of
earth burned. What is the earth in this connection?
(A) As has been intimated or given in the first
interpretations of what the elements represent, that are
apparent or a portion of the First Cause; as the Earth, Air,
Water and the like. These are then as has just been given,
ever to represent or be symbolical of the same influences or
forces throughout; else we may become confused as to their
place. Earth - that as we represent as being in a state of
transition, or as earthy. Not necessarily lowly or unduly a
condition that would belie development. But as Fire is
purifying, as Hail is the crystallization of the Water, the
Air and the temperaments, so all of these then represent
those as figuratives of that as may be purified by the fires
of Nature; as may be represented by the earth when they are
met and conquered and used for the development - as in the
Hail and the like becoming purifying in their natures for the
crystallization and the oneness of the individual's purposes
and desires.
For to go back just a bit, that we may ever keep what is the
purpose of the Revelation: Was it for the purpose of
confusing, of being mysterious? (This has been gone over
before, to be sure) Rather was it not to present it that
each entity, each soul, might find within itself that which
answers to that within, that makes the real answer to that as
was before stated, "My Spirit beareth witness with thy
spirit"? And until the answer is in accord, in attune, is
there the consciousness of the prompting of the ability in a
manifested material world to make same practical?
Then as the progress is made, as the understanding comes more
and more, NEVER, NEVER does it make the manifested individual
entity other than the more humble, the more meek, the more
longsuffering, the more patient. Of this ye may be sure.
Then in all of the experiences of the opening of the centers
as are represented, and those vibrations that find expression
in the various temperaments of individual souls, these come
not as justifications in SELF but justification in the Lamb
of God!
(Q) 2. Mountain of fire in sea, sea becomes blood.
(A) Again as the body elements that becomes conflicting one
with another, which shows the overcoming within the
individual activities of the influences that are constantly
warring within.
How has it been said? "O today there is life and death, good
and evil - Choose thou." This may be said to be symbolical
then of these conflicting forces within the influences that
are ever present, or as given by another, "The Spirit is
willing, the flesh is weak." These are symbolical then, one
interpreting the other.
(Q) 3. Great star falls from heaven. What are the 1/3 part
of the rivers and fountains that it falls upon?
(A) The star signifies simply the coming of the influence
from without to the influences from within, as is signified
by "His Star have we seen." Then this becomes that as falls
upon the 3rd, or that is a 3rd portion of the bodily
activities - and as interpreted in the experience of the
individual, ye have made so many steps as it were along the
way.
(Q) 1/3 part of sun smitten and 1/3 of stars.
(A) These are symbolical and represent in the experience of
the individual that of life and heat, beauty and that as
given in another portion, "The stars declare the glory of
God, the firmament showeth His handiwork." These than
represent in the experiences the vibrations of the emotions
that are being aroused, as has just been given. Again less
and less then is it of self, and more and more unto the glory
of the Father.
(Q) Star from heaven, Key to bottomless pit. What are the
locusts as described in this sounding? King Apollyon in this
connection?
(A) As has been given as to how each of these vibratory
forces arises from the lower portion, or as has been put in
another setting - that which represents in the bodily forces
the most uncomely, or that from the depths of the bottomless
pit, or from out the presence of God, again has the spirit of
man arosen to the glory of the star as in the Son (not sun,
but Son), to those glories that become as the natures of the
bodily forces, and every influence as comes through the
earthly natures becomes lost in that beauty in the Son.
(Q) Voice from 4 horns before the throne.
(A) As indicated by the horns of the altar, as indicated by
the 4 forces in nature, as indicated by the 4 influences in
the experiences of the individual soul which cry then in the
voice raised as a sweet incense, or as the essence of the
purifying that has come to the individual entity or soul to
arise before the Throne of Him who is Lord of Lords and King
of Kings, for His love as given, as shown in that as
accomplished in the raising of self in the Christ, the Son,
in Jesus.
We are through for the present.
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