is this a projection of truth or just an opinion? (please comment)

[Clifford Black]

What do you think?

The story of Creation in Genesis contains the item that represents mankind as having been condemned to eternal death as the consequence of our first parents' disobedience to God's command
not to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and knowledge which is in the midst
of the Garden of Eden. Here we are confronted with another of those features of
the great allegorical drama of creation that has more than baffled the best
efforts of theologians and scholars for two millennia. It provides another
instance and example of the pitiful manner in which stupid attempt to interpret
the Bible literally and factually has made of scholarship and Bible exegesis a
laughing-stock and a mockery of sense and sanity for lo! these many centuries
of Christian astounding, indeed well-nigh incredible, narratives that,
unfortunately, must now be told. It seems impossible to get across to the minds
of clergymen and religious leaders today the simple truth that the ancient Bible
writers did not commit themselves, as a writer does nowadays, to an effort to
clarify their meaning in the simplest and most revealing language. Bibles were
not written for this purpose or with this end in view. They can almost be said
to have been attempts to hide, rather than to disclose, the truth they aimed to
tell. For the purpose was not to broadcast for millions of readers (we must
remember that there was no printing in the world then) the truth that was to be
expressed, but rather to embalm for the sake of preservation a body of basic
truths of life, religion and philosophy that might be lost if not thus edited.

The ancient method was based on a now completely lost and unknown literary practique. Instead of writing treatises in ordinary language, the aim was to put truth in the form of representations or
pictures of it, such as dramas, allegories, myths, parables, fables, apologues,
number graphs and pictographs on the star clusters in the sky. The
pictorialization of truth was the work of dramatists rather than of plain prose
expositors. The elements in man's nature, that were the real actors in the
drama of his life, were made personal in the characters in the story, just as
in Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow white represents the pure
divine nature in man, his soul, and the Dwarfs personify the seven elementary
principles that build up his physical body and thus serve her in all mechanical
ways.

The archaic method was designed to dramatize truth, not to write elaborate dissertations upon it. The genius which strove to construct the formulas that expressed the forces and processes of
life was dramatic genius, not specifically literary genius in the modern sense.
When neither writing nor reading was universal the only practical way to
portray idea was by pictorializing them in an allegory, myth, or a construction
that might appear outwardly fantastic to an ignorant person, but would
nevertheless subtly intimate to deeper intuition the forms of mighty truth. The
sagacity that dictated such a methodology took in the recognition that for the
mind of childhood a pictorial representation would not only convey for the
moment, but impress in perpetuity, the idea designed to be taught. Much as the
housewife puts up in jars the fruits to be preserved, the myth-makers and the
dramatic poets (and the word "poet" means "a maker")
embalmed in myths and dramas and a variety of concrete formulations the great
ideographs of recondite wisdom which they transmitted to early humanity for its
guidance throughout evolution. What the individual learns in his childhood
serves him throughout life, for the memory of childhood is everlasting. It is
the same with humanity in its infancy. The early races were all given the
systems of moral and spiritual philosophy, done in myths and dramas, so that
the graphs of living truth should never be wanting for human instruction in
wisdom. The evidence is mountain high that all early peoples were the
beneficiaries of essentially the same original body of sage wisdom, and that
this primal deposit was the one unitary source of all the world's religions.
They are thus proven to have been the "one true religion" at the
start. By recovering that deposit the greatest need of the world today could
readily be met, - a universal religion for all mankind. Toward this desirable
consummation the present series should contribute no mean impulse, since its
articles will come close to reconstructing in toto the outlines and
substance of that mighty truth of old time.

NATURE'S BOOK OF REVELATION

The Tree of Knowledge was one feature of that great formulation that depicted truth in graphs and symbols. The Sages of antiquity did not have far to go to find not only apt and felicitous, but
absolutely inerrant types, symbols and mimeographs of the cosmic laws and
principles they had in mind to picture forth. The tools and instruments for
truth's portrayal lay right at hand, or right outside the door. They were
present in multitudinous form in the world of living nature. The sky, the
earth, the ocean; vegetation and animal life; the universal daily phenomena of
natural forces supplied the materials able to clarify the speech of truth.
These ancient dramatists knew a fact that we are largely ignorant of, - that
the processes and phenomena of creatural life are everywhere themselves, the
pictorial dramatizations of universal verity. They knew that every tree, bush,
insect, worm, beast, every tumbling rill upon the hillside, every cloud,
snowflake, mist and rainfall, was each in its way a visible delineation of cosmic
principle. For these processes and creations were themselves the outward
visible manifestation of the Soul of the Universe that was working to give
itself concrete expression in myriads of variant forms. They were themselves
truth come alive in the actual world. They were Universal Spirit's ideas that
were now crystallized in material form in the outer world. They were God's
archetypal ideas concreted in atomic matter, as an architect's ideas become
substantialized in brick, mortar, wood, stone and iron. And precisely so. God,
the great Architect, first formed in his cosmic mind the shape of things to
come in his purposed new creation and it was over their ideal pattern that he
later formed the physical universe. In our benighted ignorance today we deride the
idealist. But unless the individual is at all times striving to build his life
in conformity with the pattern of a noble ideal, he will get nowhere except
possibly to that bourne of all aimless drifting, or to the asylum over the
hill. Psychology tells us now in tones we dare not disregard, that minds break
down because of their want of aim, purpose and meaning in the struggle
of life. Bizarre and almost ridiculous as it sounds in the ears of modern
people, it can be said truly that Philosophy is and must ever be man's
true savior.

But the sublimest truths
and ideals are pictured to us ubiquitously in the commonest things in nature.
Possibly the commonest things in the world are trees. Just because this object
is so common, it must be presumed to embody universal ideation in truest form.
It does so indeed. When nature tells a story it cannot be false, it cannot lead
the mind astray. Nature can tell nothing but the truth, because it is truth
itself come to view in the actual world. Philosophers have argued for ages
whether the actual things such as trees, rocks, streams, are real
things, or only the appearance of real things. The whole visible world
of things may be an illusion of man's mind, they contend. The obvious truth is
that these things are indeed the appearance of real thing

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

I have got to read this several times to gain understanding. So far it has pinned me to my seat. My mind longs for this kind of treatise. It excites my soul. It brings to mind writings and ideas from the likes of Joe Campbell or Quinn.

I absolutely loved this part, "When nature tells a story it cannot be false, it cannot lead the mind astray. Nature can tell nothing but the truth, because it is truth itself come to view in the actual world."

More to come as I digest and integrate this.

[Clifford Black]

Besides finding Alice. after following the white rabbit down the deep hole,(the matrix) there to my astonishment I would also find snow white and the seven small persons--------what a way to tell a story-------the matrix as told by Walt in D's world. Atlas, we are going to get there, so hold on I'm a comin.

[Clifford Black]

Namaska Brother E.
What is thought to be the original 'European Bible' was the Guttenberg, it was a composition of pictures, Please remember the original writings (in specific cultures) were done in pictures. So it is extremely important that we learn to decode in a correct manner. The history channel on the boob tube has a program about the decoding of the Bible----be careful----sometimes things are not what they seem to be.
(B)

[Clifford Black]

let some of us stay on track---review this article and make sure that u do the work that will help to understand what is being transmitted.

B.

[Clifford Black]

IT IS TIME TO REVIEW THIS TRANSMISSION AND PLEASE TELL WHAT IS BEING SUGGESTED-RELATIVE TO-'SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS'

B.

[Clifford Black]

I know that the one is out there and I know that this post is going to reach Him/Her ---- it stays.

B.

[Adisa]

I will have to truly take my time with this topic.  I never put much thought into Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  Now I see kind of a reoccurring theme concerning seven.  Seven days of the week each ruled by a planet.  I will look more into this post and see what more I can find.

[Clifford Black]

Well it is good to know that someone wants to learn how to fly-Namaska Adisa.

B.

[Tricyah]

This is well hidden information about the allegories in the healing book.Its in plain veiw macro to micro cosmo.Like the four elements,air(lungs),Body(earth),temperture 98.6(fire),water(blood or urine.

[Clifford Black]

Not bad, not bad at all. Come to class so that I can know who I am interacting with.

B.

[Clifford Black]

What is thought of as 'Lost Books'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas

[Adisa]

It appears according to Cassell's Bible, the Garden of Eden was supposed to have been located in Qeshm (Persian: قشم‎, Persian pronunciation: [ɢeʃm]) is an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz, and separated from the mainland by the Clarence Strait/Khuran in the Persian Gulf. 

John Cassell (23 January 1817 – 2 April 1865) was an English publisher, printer, writer and editor, who founded the firm Cassell & Co, famous for its educational books and periodicals, and which pioneered the serial publication of novels.