He Came as a Thief in the Night

These are the healthy and unhealthy states and interrelations of the heart and mind, will and understanding, platter and cup.   righteousness : understanding :: sin : error ::: bread : wine :: bread of wickedness : wine of violence ::: sun shining sevenfold : moon shining as the sun :: sun black as sackcloth of hair : moon turned to blood gold : silver :: spiritual good : spiritual truth ::: brass : iron :: natural good : natural truth (marriages/conjunctions) Bread : wine :: love : wisdom :: honour : glory :: bride and bridegroom sounding joyously ::: (adulteries/disjunctions) bread of wickedness / bread of mourning : wine of violence/ wine of the wrath :: sin : error :: shame : contempt :: bride and bridegroom sounding no longer These are the two faculties of the human, the two candlesticks and two olive trees and two witnesses that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. These are the platter and cup which are to be clean on the inside not just the outside.  When the will is ...

"10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have ...