Baruch YHWH!

Great news, Bill.

Sounds like He has another mission for you, Marine!

Ribs are still very sore.

Come'n members; let me hear your good news!

That is good to hear, YT. Yes, I remember your post, rather depressing about job and health. I must admit, as you will, being here, learning Torah, getting to know Yah, coming closer to him, takes care of all issues in our lives. Focus, define, understand, resolve and act. Once on that path to know Yah, praise Him, one is helpless to turn back, being so mindful and appreciative of our new corrective lenses.

GREAT news Yah Tselem, and an encouragement to me.
Good news I have to report that even though my vac & sick time ran out, some of my unmet family of Yah here steeped in & helped fill that gap.
HalliluYah for Yah working through people like that.

I put my trust in Yah, 100%.
My wife is getting so much better. I have spoken to some brothers on this forum by phone and they know her story somewhat, but to be a witness myself to her healing has been wonderful for me. I just love seeing Fathers hand at work. I will tell her story when she's back to her 100% self.

Though the word (correspondences) may not be used in Scripture, the concept is used throughout. Parables use physical things to describe spiritual things and these correspond to one another.

When our Savior said that He is the bread of life, we know He means spiritual food, not physical. When He spoke about living water to the Samaritan woman, it was spiritual water, the water of Truth, not physical water. His words that “seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear” mean that they do not see and hear with the heart and mind – their inner, spiritual body – not their physical body. We’re told we must be born anew – this is spiritual, using language of the physical. In these examples correspondence is the relationship between the physical and the spiritual.

It makes rational sense to me, that the Word of God would be like a man. A man is both internal and external. His heart and mind, what he loves, what he believes, his personality – these are the internal man. Then there is the external, physical body. But the “real man” is the inner man. “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” “As in water, face reflects face, so the heart of a man reflects the man.”

It makes rational sense to me that the Word of God, the Son, would have an internal and external composition just like a man. And the external corresponds to the internal, like a smile (external) corresponds to an affection or feeling (internal).

Danshelper, I am a sucker for most references posted, and as a result I did read extensively on the correspondences. In fact, I spent the most part of two days reading your reference. Unquestionably, the author was the most astute and brilliant of the science of man in his day, and probably still in our time. In reading the Torah, especially the earlier writings, it is apparent to me that Yah does explain to educate His people by patterns, experiences to instances that can be compared to every days life, morally and immorally. For every thing, there is a counterpart and, to me, an external and internal would fit the author's proposition. It is one of the better papers I have read demonstrating the factual connection (correspondences) between heaven and earth. To read all his works, I would have to live another twenty years, something very unlikely. However, I do intend investing a significant numbers of hours to the treatise. Thank you for the referral.

In my mind I kept thinking, howcome this guy wasn't at least let in on all the corruption (really?) that's so prolific on those pages, but I kept reading until I reached here. Then I started getting a little clearer picture. Maybe there's an alternate motive to his ascension he speaks of..maybe up was down?

"But the scientific white man knows that the earth is a globe, and that it rotates on its own axis, and also revolves about the sun. And these facts are plain to him, after he has learned them. If the Lord, as a Spirit, wishes to speak to men, He will speak to them in the same way in which they speak to each other, when they speak as spiritual beings. And when you read what our Lord says to men, you are to interpret His sayings by the same laws which you must use in interpreting the inward meaning of what men say to each other."

"But the scientific white man knows that the earth is a globe, and that it rotates on its own axis, and also revolves about the sun. And these facts are plain to him, after he has learned them."...I think this guy should join up with Pastor Manning on YT.