Symbols

7 Parallels

So, how much parallelism is there in the Bible? Tons. The Bible is parallely self referential to an extreme degree. Names are adapted to imply the events connected with the individual. Names are adapted to be a comment on social relationships. Numbers stand for words. Sentences refer to the same thing twice. Two sentences in a row say the same thing from a different viewpoint. Two paragraphs in a row say the same thing from a different viewpoint. Two stories in a row talk about the same thing in a totally different way and use different names for the same characters. Chapters of a book are structured to be about things in a condign order. Two entirely different books recount the same history differently.

This all has caused many modern interpreters of the Bible to assume that it is a patchwork of poorly edited sources. Far from it. People see the parallelism easily. They don't notice the self referentiality. Parallel and self referential is recursion.

Some people say it is History, some say Fiction and some say Allegory. Blavatsky's Ebionites say something quite different. That the Bible, Torah, Prophets and Writings, is a parallel recursive structure that defines the world, what God does, and humanity, especially the Jews, within a recursive reality that defines who and what humanity is, what it should be, how it should be and provides a method and support for people to become what they should be. Kind of like a great big Zen Koan.

Some of it based on History, some Fiction, heaps of Symbolism, but these are not what it is. They are the boundaries that define the virtual outlines that create the Bible, and especially the Torah, as a kind of immersive tool of recursive evolution. Reading the Bible in Hebrew, so as to perceive the puns, wordplay and parallelism, on a regular basis causes changes in the individuals and in the people as a whole that brings them back upon themselves. Horrible events are remembered and resolved, personal judgments are made. Good is nonpreferentialized and evil is potentialized.

Unfortunately for non Ebionites today many of the meanings of Hebrew words have been lost, the reasons for many of the injunctions are obscure and many of the symbols are no longer clear. Blavatsky's Ebionites claim to know the reasons for all 613 injunctions. Not as opinions but completely, root stem and branch. They claim to know all the words and all the technical terms and symbols. Some examples...

Tohu Bohu is originally Tohu Bahu and means literally "that which is 'To', to that which is 'Ba' ". Which, in the Alephbet, means from Death, Nonexistence to Birth, Existence. So Tohu Bohu does not mean formless and void as it is usually translated, but means "potentiality of existence" and is also called "the deep" and "the waters". It is the Clear, virtual nonexistence, the possibility of selfness which is defined as potential by the three major aspects of recursion and which through the process of evolution driven by the causality of the days of creation, becomes the world and us.

Pomegranates. They are a fruit with a lot of seeds jammed close together. As a technical term it means anything that is connected to, or which connects anything else. If the context is nets, then the pomegranates are the knots that tie the meshes together. If the context is chains, then pomegranate is the word for the links of the chain. And of course, sometimes it's just the fruit.