Elohim
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In my last post, we explored what actually transpires after the seventh seal is opened by the Lamb of God in the Book of Revelation. We also learned that the seventh seal is Netzach, the seventh Sefirot on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. We further learned that Netz-ach means “falcon-brother” in Hebrew, rather than “eternity”
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According to Google, the word Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) appears between 2,500 and 2,700 time in the Hebrew Bible — the original form of the Judeo-Christian Old Testament. Google, among many other sources, also suggests that Elohim is a plural form of the Hebrew words Eloah and/or El, all three of which translate as “God.” As stated in my
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Today I’m going to reveal — probably for the first time ever — what the first chapter of Genesis actually says. So, prepare to have your eyes opened. Let’s begin at the very beginning, with the title word genesis. A word of Greek origin, genesis means “beginning” — the same definition, more or less, assigned
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The Spiritual Truths we’ve explored so far are bound to provoke some compelling questions. One of these might be, “What possessed us to leave Heaven in the first place?” The simplest answer is that we yearned to experience what Course-Jesus calls “specialness.” Bored with the egalitarian grind of Oneness, some of the Souls belonging to
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To understand the dynamics of Holy Creation, we first need to apprehend the paramount role Agape plays in the process. The Greek word for Divine Love (for which there is no English equivalent), Agape is the Creative Force of Divine Will that God extends or projects to create the Perfect and Eternal. God is the
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Much more than a central tenet of Judaism and Christianity, the Law of Love is (according to Course-Jesus) God’s most basic mandate that “Love creates itself, and nothing but itself.” The Law of Love further dictates that we receive what we give, as is clearly stated in the affirmation for Workbook Lesson 344: Today I
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Get comfortable, because this post is lengthy, but also chock-a-block full of insightful information – as will be most of my future postings about Spiritual Truth. Originally, I published this as a four-part series called “What is God?,” which made it less daunting to read, but looked awkward in the browser. So, here we are
The Holy Meeting Place 