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Old 01-15-2011, 07:48 AM   #31
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. . . and of course converting reason into Pure reason is done in Galilee (Purgatory we call it), so that the disciples can be raised into the Upper Room and so leaving behind the conscious mind as a place where Joseph was in exile as a stranger in a foreign land, which then is why Judaism is a state of mind without borders and the homecoming of Joseph-the-Jew is into his own mind where "Rome sweet Home" is at for us which they called 'Is-ra-el' and thus 'one-with-God' -- and I can't help wonder why the nation Israel has warfare of its own and not that little big nation called Rome which really only exist to display it's richess as the city of God on earth and really is the greatest [envy] in the history of mankind on earth.

I find the 'untying of the colt' episode extremely telling that the author of Mark knew how the "entrance into the New Jerusalem" should be and he purposly used that metaphor to show the difference between heaven and hell on earth and how to get there in a hurry to later spend another 40 years there [pandering fallacies] and still die nonetheless (John 6:58; not sure what the Jews call it but they have a name for that in memory of their past).

"Revelation to Mary" you say Stephan? In Catholicism Mary is our seat of Wisdom and the Queen of angels presiding over the TOL who was never banned from Eden and so is the central station where all 'thinginess of things' is tied down in the mind of man (Gen.3:6) . . . and She knew exactly what she was doing in verse 7 to open our eyes to so become her slave in desire and in doing so effectively coined the 'essence of soulmates' in humans that love may prevail as the efficient cause of life itself, which then is why the figleaves were needed to confirm the opposites between male and female that eros or human love can be its contributing attribute (derrivative).
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Old 01-18-2011, 02:37 AM   #32
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Clement understood 'after three' to mean four:

. . . husbandmen derived advantage from the law in such things. For it orders newly planted trees to be nourished three years in succession, and the superfluous growths to be cut off, to prevent them being loaded and pressed down; and to prevent their strength being exhausted from want, by the nutriment being frittered away, enjoins tilling and digging round them, so that [the tree] may not, by sending out suckers, hinder its growth. And it does not allow imperfect fruit to be plucked from immature trees, but after three years (ἀλλὰ μετὰ τριετίαν), in the fourth year; dedicating the first-fruits to God after the tree has attained maturity.

This type of husbandry may serve as a mode of instruction, teaching that we must cut the growths of sins, and the useless weeds of the mind that spring up round the vital fruit, till the shoot of faith is perfected and becomes strong. For in the fourth year, since there is need of time to him that is being solidly catechized, the four virtues are consecrated to God, the third alone being already joined to the fourth, the person of the Lord.(τοῦ κυρίου τετάρτην ὑπόστασιν)
[Strom. 2.18]
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