The Bible interpreted thru myth and metaphor
In our current studies thru Bible basics we are covering the place of 'allegory' and 'metaphor' within biblical stories, archetypes and pictures representing ideas, principles and concepts in a universal domain and spiritual application. In the history of the biblical drama we find examples within growing human cultures and individual experience that relates to our own social and personal evolution. The Bible therefore is not an outdated or 'dead' book, when we translate its images, symbols and signs thru psychic insight and spiritual illumination. The mythos of stories is a canvas with many colours painting for us a rich illustration of Life and the journey of the human spirit.
We begin with the Omnipresence of Mind, the One Consciousness that contains all, pervades all...and so translate all images, ideas, concepts thru its Light...giving us true information as revelation. It is thru Light that all translation and interpretation transpires, the whole drama of creation and every relationship within Infinity. Soul is the medium thru which we behold and experience Life in all its dimensions. The Soul of God and Man interface as One Reflective MIND. Myth and metaphor are therefore mediums of Mind and Spirit.
allegory: The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.
- American Heritage Dictionary
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