Book Two Chapter Three

THREE

Actions initiated from the Other Side

We’ve pretty much traded in our stone implements for implements of bronze. Now instead of using stone, we are using our more highly evolved tools to make little marks in stone – something formerly accomplished with finger paint. At this point in the study, the concept of acts being initiated from ‘the other side’ is pretty much etched in stone. But, we want to ask, “How?” The concept of a spiritual/corporeal handshake has been painted in the simple ochers of a dance in which one partner leads and the other follows. Since the partner that leads is invisible, we must assume that when the visible partner spins it is because the invisible partner spun her.

Still, though, we are left with only our guessing. It is like radar that may or may not return a ‘ping’. In the illustration of the dance above, the spinning partner, while following suit, is not precisely mirroring the spinner’s movements, but is more like an extension of them. What we want to know, then, is how does this play out between the spiritual and the corporeal.

Consider Deuteronomy 4:34, “Or hath God assayed to go and take Him a nation from the midst of

another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?”

In all these terrors, temptations, and wonders that we may fully understand, being things that occur on this plane, what exactly is going on over there? Are there nations in turmoil on the other side? Or, is something else going on? Are the things that happen here merely ‘spin-offs’ of very different actions that take place on the other plane? I think perhaps there is a little of each going on: exact mirroring and spin-offs.

A movement and a rest. Look at Deuteronomy 5:15, “And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.”

Are there slaves in Heaven? We have broached the concept of realization, whereby the medium that receives the intrusion must be continuously reworked. For God to be realized on this corporeal plane, it must be reverse-engineered until it is spiritual. You can’t just throw a fish into a bowl: you have to first add the proper medium for it to exist in. So, then, this constant reworking may be viewed either mechanically (as in a two-stroke engine), or else biologically.

If we view the human body as a living machine, we may say that the lungs are a sort of two-stroke engine. The act of breathing in is work; exhaling, on the other hand, is a state of rest. Let’s call it the ‘in/out handshake’. The cycle repeats over a broad expanse of time only to facilitate a larger process of becoming. We know that there is a spiritually repeating cycle; we assume it is intended to facilitate a

larger process of realization.

See Deuteronomy 7:19, “The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.”

Two contending scenarios present themselves to our attention. They must be worked through to determine the various degrees of exactitude and spin-off that we may understand. Heaven is a place; spiritual beings called angels are its inhabitants. Yet, it is our Christian assumption that we will be like the angels. Are there angel slaves in a spiritual Egypt? Are we their exact counterpart? Are they the roots, and we the fruit-bearing branches? Is the bearing of fruit the end result of a process of realization? If the actions on this plane are more spin-off than exactitude, then our turbulent history may easily be seen as the process of the realization of God on the corporeal plane by means of reverse-engineering the corporeal into the spiritual.

Of course, this suggests that the garden over in Eden was a spiritual intrusion. A grand new thing had been introduced: an angel with a corporeal body, able to exist on this plane. Certain elements rebelled, causing the prototypes to fall completely into corporeality. That great experiment did not fail, for the power that had originally sustained it could salvage it. Now, this may only be more of my imaginative ranting, but has anyone else noticed the application of ‘power’? Can anyone else see that for God to walk again among us as our God, Eden must be realized? Not only that but for men to become angels we must be thoroughly convinced to move forward.

Check out that motivating power in Deuteronomy 9:29 & Deuteronomy 26:8, “Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest out by Thy mighty power and by Thy stretched out arm. And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders.”