(Q) What is meant by the 2 witnesses mentioned in Rev. 11:3?
Are they the mental and emotional bodies of the soul of man?
(A) As has been made reference, now - the Book of Life has
been eaten. It is in the mouth, sweet; in the belly (or the
body), bitter.
This may be the interpretation then: the mental or the
subconscious; but rather is it the CONSCIOUS PHYSICAL lives,
or the attributes and the consciousness in the EXPERIENCE of
the soul in the attributes of a physical consciousness!
Do not confuse self; and many of you are wondering just what
it is. Then, as has been so oft given, all of this was
recognized by John. Hence all of this is given in form,
ritual, the emblems, what we may term numerology, astrology,
and all the forms of the ancient wisdoms; yet it is
represented by the activities of same upon a physical being.
As has so oft been given, an individual experience in the
earth plane is motivated by that which arises from its
sojourns in the influences of the consciousnesses outside of
the physical being - or as ye would say astrologically the
sojourn in the environ of Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Neptune,
Saturn, Uranus, Sun, Moon, and the constellations and those
effects upon same - emotionally from the INNATE forces; AND
by the EMOTIONAL effect from sojourns in the earth. Both of
these are witnesses.
As the Book of Life then is opened, there is seen the effect
of that which now has been attained by the opening of the
system, the body, the mind; all of those effects that have
been created by the ability of the entity to, in the
physical, being attune self to the consciousness of being
at-one with the divine within.
Now we see those in the material world using these influences
for self-exaltation, self-indulgence, self-glorification; and
yet we see those using same for the glory, the understanding,
the knowledge, the wisdom of the Father.
These then are the witnesses. The innate and the emotional;
or the spiritual-mental, the physical-mental; the
subconscious, the superconscious.
(Q) Explain the symbol of the death of the 2 witnesses.
(A) As in the symbol of - Does the individual, unless -
Let's illustrate by what has been given: The Master gave,
"Before the world was, I AM! Now if ye abide in me and I in
the Father, then I will bring to thy remembrance ALL THINGS -
from the foundations of the world!"
Yet these are as dead, or the only consciousness that arises
from same is that which is fanned into life or activity by
the application of the laws concerning same. Hence they are
as dead, yet become alive again by remembrance, by the
application of thought. In what? The light of that which
has been attained by the entity or soul that has applied the
former lessons in its experience.
(Q) What is meant by the "great city which is called Sodom
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified"?
(A) As has been so oft given, all places - as Egypt or Sodom
or the Crucifixion, or the Lord - are conditions,
circumstances, experiences, as well as individual places.
Then in the minds of those who would attempt or that would
seek knowledge, they represent their own experiences. Thus
these to the people represent - Egypt, the release from
bondage; Gomorrah, as a reckoning with sin - as the Lord was
crucified there. As has been given, there has never been an
experience when His Christ-mas, His death, His birth, wasn't
an experience of the age, the people. Though it may go under
many names, as an individual may be under many names, in many
environs, there is one - ONE that ever comes as is shown in
that later given as to those who have the name in the hand,
in the head or in the forehead and the like; that is, what is
the intent and purpose. Just as the Savior of the world, as
Lord, as Christ - what do these as names indicate? That
which is as a help in a time of trouble alone? or that to
glory in, in thy joy, thy gladness, thy happiness? How many,
O how many have there been that have laughed with God, that
have wept with Jesus, that have gloried with the Christ! or
rather has it been, "My happiness and my joy is of myself"?
No condemnation; but rather is there the pattern pointed to
as was set by Him. He was ALL things to ALL men; rejoiced
with those that did rejoice; He wept with those that wept.
He was glad, He was happy, He was sorry, He kept the faith.
(Q) What is signified by the revival of these witnesses?
(A) How hath He given? "If ye meditate on these things, I
will bring to thy remembrance all things." The reviving, the
renewing, by the abilities of the soul to take hold upon the
witnesses of the life itself! And what is life? God!
(Q) What is meant by the sounding of the 7th angel? How
should time be interpreted as given?
(A) Remember, as has been given to him that was given a
measure, as a mete, as a rod to measure heaven - as to how
large his heaven would be. Alright! Then we have as to how
much time - What is time? Is it a record merely of the
events of self or of the glory of God? What is the extent
of the glory of thy heaven or of thy God? This is as a
reckoning. Yet as is shown by the indication of so many
days, so many weeks, it is the INCLINATION of the individual
mind in materiality to set (as was said of John) metes and
bounds; and we judge from - How many days or years have ye
set? Nineteen thirty-seven (1937) is what? And thy Lord
has been continuous! yet ye say only 1937!
(Q) In Rev. 12 we find the symbols of the Woman, Dragon and
Child. Do these represent the part played by souls in the
creation and fall of man? Please explain the reference of
these symbols.
(A) Rather is the reference given to show to the individual
entity that from which or through which the soul in the earth
has passed in its creation, its activity in the earthly
sojourn, see?
For as we go on or interpret further we find: The war was in
heaven, see? The woman - or the mother - earth; the source
from which all materiality is to become a conscious thing -
and these are brought forth.
Now, as is given, ye have reached to that understanding of
thy perfection with God; how in materiality ye may attune the
attributes of self.
Now, from what have ye arisen? These are emblems,
significant of that as given as the name of Satan, the Devil,
the Dragon or the like, through which man's rebellious forces
arise, even though he has attained to the Book even itself
in his body! And these are the experiences then to be met.
(Q) What is meant here by the war in heaven between Michael
and the Devil?
(A) As has just been given, as is understood by those here,
there is first - as is the spiritual concept - the spiritual
rebellion, before it takes mental or physical form. This
warring is illustrated there by the war between the Lord of
the Way and the Lord of Darkness - or the Lord of Rebellion.
(Q) What is meant by the symbols of the wings of eagle given
to the woman for escape and "the time and times and half a
time"?
(A) This is as the entrance into or the flight from
materiality into those influences through which the body may
rest within itself; as physical, or the mental flight, or
that to the astral forces as about its various changes. It
is figurative of the transitions from the various spheres of
mental experience; by the mind, the spiritual influences as
arise - and are as the use of same. Remember, all of these
should be then in accord with that ye have attained to, that
the Book of Life is given thee. What is the Book of Life?
The record of God, of thee, thy soul within and the knowledge
of same.
We are through for the present.
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