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The doctrine of analogy and correspondence, present in all esoteric schools of thinking, upholds that the Whole is One and that its different levels (realms, worlds) are equivalent systems, whose parts are in strict correspondence. So much so that a part in a realm symbolically reflects and interacts with the corresponding part in another realm.
41. "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” — Psalm 150:6. 42. "Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your ...
all knees must bend, all hearts must bow; and things celestial Thee shall own, and things terrestrial, Lord alone. O Thou whose coming is with dread to judge and doom the quick and dead, preserve us, while we dwell below, from every insult of the foe. To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One,
Of these the one appears from above, the great power, the Nous of the universe, administering all things, male; the other from beneath, the great Epinoia, female, bringing forth all things. To Nous and Epinoia correspond Heaven and Earth, in the list given by Simon of the six material counterparts of his six emanations.
Heaven is the abode of God and of celestial beings – the angels. The underworld is hell, the place of torment. Even the earth is more than the scene of natural, everyday events, of the trivial round and common task. It is the scene of the supernatural activity of God and his angels on the one hand, and of Satan and his demons on the other.
Svarga is a set of celestial worlds located on and above Mount Meru, where those who had led righteous lives by adhering to the scriptures delight in pleasures, before their next birth on earth. It is described to have been built by the deity Tvashtar , the Vedic architect of the devas.
An example is the 18th century works of Jonathan Edwards' recorded interpretation of 1722/23. [7] The four living creatures that John of Patmos sees in the Book of Revelation , is the author's reworking of the living creatures in the visions of Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 1:5–28 ) [ 8 ] and Isaiah ( Isaiah 6:2 ).
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...