2005-3-9 04:04:00
Questions:
First we are told that God was to "look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald."
Now the interesting thing is that exactly what a jasper and sardine stone was 2000 years ago may have been lost to history. Plato mentions these three stones in his writings as very precious and they are mentioned several other times in the scriptures. Later in Revelations we are told that the light of the New Jerusalem "was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." Rev 21:11
Why is this significant?
Because the modern jasper is a dull opaque stone whereas the jasper of revelation was "clear as crystal." Some scholars think John may have been describing a diamond or something similar. On the other hand, the sardine stone was supposed to be blood red. Scholars believe the emerald of ancient times was similar to the modern emerald.
When John saw God he thus saw a translucent white light contrasted by a deep red and the reflection of a rainbow of colors around the throne that looked like light reflected through an emerald.
There is another mention of the contrast of white and blood red in Rev 7:14 "These (the saints) are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
The robes of the saints were made white by being washed in blood. Did John see a correspondence of this symbol in that the Jasper is made clear white through the contrast of the blood red of the sardine stone?
A major point to consider is John does not describe God as a man sitting on a throne, but as lights resting upon and around the throne.
Even so, when the disciple goes within he will discover a door and on the other side of the door he will discover a variety of lights, or God resting upon his throne.
Here is one description that DK gives of the light in the head:
"This pathway of light leads to the heart of a dark blue disk at the very centre of which you were told I could be contacted. Those of you who are in any way adept at meditation work know well that the light in the head when seen and recognised passes usually through three stages of intensification:
"a. It is, first of all, a diffused light, surrounding the head, discovered later within the head and producing an inner radiance, which is the rudimentary halo.
"b. This diffused light then consolidates and becomes an inner radiant sun.
"c. Finally, at the centre of that sun, a point of dark blue, or a small indigo disk, appears. This is, in reality, the exit in the head through which the soul passes out of the world of phenomenal existence, and it is the symbol of the path or the door into the kingdom of God. This is the symbolical interpretation of the phenomena."
In addition he makes another interesting statement:
"The human being who has taken the highest of all our planetary initiations is termed "the diamond-souled" the man who can perfectly transmit the pure white light and yet reflect equally all the colours of the rainbow, the seven colours of the chromatic scale. His personality is here called by the same term for it has become a transmitter of the inner light or radiance."
He also calls the link between the higher and lower self the rainbow bridge. The personality has all the colors of the rainbow which are merged into the one white light of God.
The lower self circulates around the throne of God, but the final light sitting upon the throne is white, clear as crystal.
Round about the throne were 24 Elders. When the scriptures says "elder" we have a tendency to think of a male dominated position, but the word comes from the Greek: PRESBUTEROS which implies old or ancient, These twenty four also sat on thrones, mistranslated as seats.
As we said at the beginning the book is about the unveiling of Jesus Christ and for what was Christ most famous? The first historical human molecule of twelve human units, twelve male with twelve female companions. The twenty-four have thrones as God does because they are extensions of the full consciousness of Christ.
Finally, the crowns of gold symbolize the victory over the lower nature and the ability to maintain soul contact at all times so the molecular order maintains its presence before the throne of God.
The next two verses read:
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Rev 4:5
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. Rev 4:6
Assignment:
Again, tells us what the symbols in these verses mean.
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Copyright 2005 by J J Dewey