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Commentaries On the Teaching: “Who Can Compare With the Beast? How Could Anyone Defeat Him?”
Friday, August 15, 2014 10:38
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The Knowledge Revealed in the Revelation of John has been hidden under multiple layers of florid symbolism; the purpose of which is to misdirect, confuse, distract and seduce the ambitious, the arrogant, the superstitious, the greedy, the unquestioning, the gullible, the mentally unbalanced, the witless, or the wicked —who simply do not have either the commitment to the Truth or the strength of character necessary to endure such Knowledge; and, so, they ‘entertain’ themselves by engaging in conflicts with each other over their intricately detailed (dis)interpretations of those symbols—but, especially, in order that such Revelations will be ‘unsealed’ and explained only at the “time of the End”, and in specific fulfillment of the Prophecy in Chapter 12, verse 9 of the Book of Daniel.
As stated quite clearly in (interestingly enough) Chapter 12, verse 9 of the Revelation of John—there is also another ‘interesting’ (or synchronistic) parallel between Chapter 2, verse 7 of Genesis and Psalm 2, verse 7 with regards to the Revelation of the Memory of Creation—the symbol of the “dragon” is an echo of the symbol of the “serpent” mentioned in the allegory of the origin of the ‘fallen’ consciousness in Chapter 3 of Genesis; and, as such, represents the origin of the duality at the very foundation of what is generally referred to as human consciousness (“…who had deceived all the world”).
It is then stated that the “dragon” turns over “his power, his throne and his world-wide authority” to the “beast of the sea” consciousness of the “self”; and, then, that the “beast of the earth” consciousness of the ‘thinker’, that “speaks with the voice of the dragon”, ‘emerges’ as a “servant” to the “first beast”; the “power” of the “dragon” being the reflexive division and separation from reality, the creation of illusion, and the formation of images—the first image being the (voiceless) image of the ‘spatiality’ of the consciousness of the “self” itself; the “throne” of the “dragon” signifying its unchallengeable role as the very origin of all images; the “world-wide” authority of the “dragon” signifying that it is an element of every—to repeat, every—human consciousness; and the “voice of the dragon” signifying dualistic thought.
With regards, then, to the question “Who can compare with the beast?”; the answer is no one…
For the very simple reason that every “who” is composed of a “beast of the sea” consciousness of the “self” in the first place.
But the question “How can anyone defeat him?” cannot be answered theoretically—that is, at the level of the dualistic ‘fallen’ consciousness of the ‘thinker’.
On the contrary, that is something that must be demonstrated in real time only in the actual conflict between the non-dualistic consciousness (signified by the Hebrew phrase “Mi cha el?”) and the relentless and reflexive generation of both images and dualistic thought…
With regards to which any words read from a computer screen are of no help whatsoever.
Michael Cecil
What the Christian theologians and the Christian writers (and video makers) on this forum do not understand is that their very interpretations of the Revelations originate in the ‘fallen’ consciousness of the “self” and the ‘thinker’ in the first place; that consciousness which is reflexively opposed to and stands in defiance, denial and contradiction of the Knowledge that is received through Revelation; and that consciousness which seeks only intellectual and psychological pleasure rather than the Truth.
Long before the masses of people were able to write, Truth was conveyed by word of mouth as a Teaching conveyed to small groups and individually by a teacher. The day that the vast majority of people learned how to read was also the day that a very fundamental mistake was made: that Truth can be conveyed ONLY by the written word. But it is in conversation rather than in books or even videos by which the LIVING word is conveyed.
Jesus is reported to have spent some 3 years in give and take conversation with his followers, answering questions and explaining orally Revelations which they were probably not even able to read in the first place.
Today, however, books of theological “truthiness” are bought by the millions; notes and videos on this forum receive tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of page views; sermonizers provide precisely the same nonsense to people 15 years old as they do to people 40 and 60 and 80 years old…and always in large groups (or mobs).
And those who make videos for this website have UNI-directional ‘communication’ with their listeners; NEVER responding to questions in real time on their videos, or often, even in writing to those who comment on their videos. That is the modus operandi of an authoritarian who does NOT want to be questioned about whatever NONSENSE she is teaching.
But, in the final analysis, any Truth which is of any real value can most effectively be transmitted ONLY in a close relationship between a teacher and a student…
For the same reason that doctors will typically not diagnose or recommend treatment over the phone.
Michael
“Long before the masses of people were able to write, ”
When are you talking about, prehistory?
It’s not the time of the end, that would be Ragnarok, the end of everything in a final conflagration of the Universe. The Greek book of Revelation talks about the end of the age, ie the age of Pisces, the next age is Aquarius, estimated to begin in c150 years time. There being no set boundary between them. Signs in the heavens = the 12 houses of the zodiac. Jesus said to look out for his return, a man carrying a pitcher of water outside the house of bread = Aquarius.
Pix
Your statements are the statements of a consciousness which has no Knowledge of any other dimension of consciousness other than itself. All of these apocalyptic stories are, fundamentally, stories of the destruction/annihilation of the consciousness with which the world is perceived. The world is not destroyed; rather the fundamental psychological perceptions that have been taken for granted for all one’s life are completely annihilated.
But that is something beyond your experience, which is why you write what you write.
The fundamental Truth demonstrated by such “apocalypses” is the existence of another dimension of consciousness which emerges out of the destruction of the “normal” consciousness.
Esoterically, the two dimensions of the ‘fallen’, dualistic consciousness are symbolized by the “king of the South” and the “king of the North” in Chapter 11, verse 40-45 of the Book of Daniel; their mutual annihilation resulting in the emergence of that third dimension of consciousness beyond the consciousness of the “self” and the ‘thinker’.
But I seriously doubt that that is anything that you–or your frenemy Christian religionists, for that matter–has any interest in.
Michael
Cecil?! You’re called Cecil?!!
Is that a Jehovah Witnesses name or something?
People with white short sleeved shirts and ties called Cecil with the good news of how everybody is damned but their boss.
Meidan.
It’s important to see behind a name. Feel it.
We are no exception.
“Dark Water of Cecil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUW6m6SOP0
In this case the individual has provided the following tri-UN identities of himself over time.
Cecil + Michael + Christopher
(blind)+(militant archangel)+(Christ-bearer)
Which one is the true identity?
How do we reconcile the three?
ZeroSum
This may be above your pay grade, but I’ll try to explain:
1) Christopher (that is his given name) sends these notes to Before It’s News as a courtesy for me;
2) My given name (before I was born, but you wouldn’t understand) is Michael; my legal last name is Cecil; and,
3) I write these replies.
Not sure that you can comprehend these things.
But why would anyone WANT to focus on such trivialities, were in not for an inability to focus on what I am saying?
Michael
We live during a time in which there is little appreciation of the differences between the written and the spoken word. In conversations between one person and another, there is the conceptual meaning, there is a specific context in terms of individual and mutual life experiences, there is body language, there is inflection, there are phonetic tones, and there is meaning conveyed by reverse speech; all of which is crucial to the understanding of the meaning of those words.
What if husbands and wives, parents and children communicated with each other only in writing? Is there anyone on the face of the earth who would suggest that those relationships could be considered as the epitome of what human relationships should be?
And, yet, this is precisely what the Christian theologians are suggesting about Truth when they refuse to answer questions from individuals, but tailor their message to hundreds of people at a time; when they make YouTube videos as if the messages conveyed by video tape are actually different than written messages, although there is NO interaction with the audience, who cannot interrupt with questions or need for clarification.
All of these technologies of communication have only been able to kill the living Truth which is conveyed between a teacher and his students–just as love between a man and a woman is conveyed by conversation and all that accompanies conversation–by means of conversation and an immediate interaction. So, it should not be any surprise that a civilization that has KILLED Truth through the writing of that Truth, or through the video transmission of ‘Truth’ to hundreds if not millions of people at the same time, will ultimately commit suicide.
As can readily be seen by anyone who reads the news.
Michael