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  1. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    I thinks it's a valuable exercise to try and put yourself into the shoes of an ancient scribe and understand how they saw the world. I would like to know what you have figured out from it. Thanks.
  2. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Its not mine either.
  3. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Thank you. Adam and Eve were in the heavens and therefore unborn, and not subject to death until they partook of the light which God had already decreed must come to earth, and so they had to come to earth too. God wasn't punishing but describing the consequences of their actions. It seems...
  4. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Yes, I shall be happier if you don't read my book too. It is not for everyone and not for you.
  5. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    I'm sorry, but I don't believe the story of Jesus was one about a literal man. The early Christians ported biblical gematria across to the Greek script, and again... gematria. The value of the stories as moral teachings and guidance are not less for that fact, but Jesus was the personification...
  6. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    q) 2 Kings 2:11: ויהי המה הלכים הלוך ודבר והנה רכב אש וסוסי אש ויפרדו בין שניהם ויעל אליהו בסערה השמים׃ "And there as they still went on and talked and behold: a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and separated between the two of them, and went up Elijah in a whirlwind to the heavens." אליהו...
  7. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Yes, the flood is entirely possible, but the details of the Noah story are for the purposes of gematria. The creation story likely originated in Mesopotamia but the details of it are all due to gematria and the conformations of the chambers of the Merkabah. There are broader strokes of truth...
  8. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Such as?
  9. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    May I refer you to my papers on academia.edu which details that. You can find a link to them on page 1 reply 6.
  10. Bethsheba Ashe

    What is true meditation?

    I shall look him up. Thank you. :-)
  11. Bethsheba Ashe

    What is true meditation?

    I rather liked Terry Pratchett's description of 1st, 2nd and 3rd thoughts in connection with this. It doesn't always have to be dispassionate. Sometimes letting go can be painful, and its best to feel it deeply before it can be let go of, but there does need to be absolute self-honesty as a...
  12. Bethsheba Ashe

    What is true meditation?

    Meditation is like the Ocean. Towards the beach there are shallow kinds, such as prayer, or concentrated activities like painting or playing an instrument, and then there forms of meditation that involve sitting in asana and concentrating on the breath. There are forms that involve...
  13. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    I hope most people are as sensible as you are. Numerology is not the same as gematria. Gematria is ancient math. Numerology is more like astrology. Interesting about Bach. I did not know that. Did it influence his music?
  14. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    There's always PI. Only God knows PI. True, but there are technical difficulties that argue against that. For instance, each time a scribe says "in-between" it means divide by 2. Or when they say לא "not" it means to disregard the next word. "all" means use several words together while...
  15. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    They're using the wrong number set for the bible. People who use Standard gematria get closest but they have 2 letters with the wrong values, so they go wrong with their calculations even while seeing some of the picture. There's a lot of self-delusion about it. In the case of Genesis 1-2 the...
  16. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    Why not? My analysis of Genesis 1-2 shows there were probably 2 scribes working on the same project, probably tasked to it by a high priest of a Temple. They follow the same conventions but they have slightly different styles which are discernible. Its impressive work, but not beyond human...
  17. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    How is the biblical God different from God? We may believe in God no matter how different people from different cultures perceive divinity historically. In fact one could argue that a belief in God requires that we frame our beliefs according to the knowledge of our times in order for it to...
  18. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    I hope she has a wonderful birthday party, David, and you're quite right, love is an absolute that cannot be quantified. I agree.
  19. Bethsheba Ashe

    You're welcome. I had no idea there were so many creator Gods. :-)

    You're welcome. I had no idea there were so many creator Gods. :-)
  20. Bethsheba Ashe

    Spirit or Superstition?

    I suppose that David would say it was because of subconscious archetypes, but personally I think everyone has a type of transcendental consciousness that dimly remembers its origin as a singular consciousness around the earth before there was life here and bodies to incarnate into. Science is...
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