2 Corinthians 3:6King James Version (KJV)
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Here is the first chapter to the ebook I'm writing …
First off a couple of things I want to make clear. I am not religious. I don't believe in any religion whatsoever. I think all religions are crap. Pure evil. I do however read the Bible constantly, as in hours every day. I can't put it down. I just don't take the meaning literally, I take the meaning allegorically and that's what this book is about.
The allegorical meaning is the "hidden" meaning of the Bible. What did the author of the bible passages
intend to say.
Secondly, I don't want you to think the way I do. Think for yourself. My goal in writing this book is to kindle the spirit of God within you to "read the bible" with a new set of eyes so that you can see for yourself. And the key to unlocking the hidden meanings of the bible is to understand that, as Led Zepellin wrote in the song "Stairway to Heaven", "sometimes words have two meanings". I want you to look up the meanings of the common word you thought you knew. You'll be shocked and surprised what these words also mean.
I want you to experiment with different interpertations for the words as I have done to uncover the hidden meanings behind every bible verse. Take for example the story of Noah'a Ark and the word "pitch". In Genesis 6:14 God instructs Noah to build an ark. "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up the word "pitch". As a noun, pitch may refer to a (resin), a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum. Something one might smear in the cracks between the boards of an old boat to keep the water from seeping in. The hidden meaning however is the other definition of "pitch". Pitch is also defined as "the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone", like in a pitch pipe a singer uses when practicing to make sure they have the right tone or pitch.
So I ask you, does the bible mean to say that Noah's Ark is a physical boat made of wood and that you can keep the boat from sinking by spackeling in the cracks with a tar-like substance called "pitch"? Or does the Bible means that the Ark is not a physical place but rather a place in your mind where you can go in meditation that will shelter you when you are faced with a flood of lifes problems and you can seal out the flood of problems while they drown by Chanting the pitch OM?
Another bible story popular with christians is when Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple. I will prove beyond a shadow of a douby that the bible means that the "temple" is a place in your mind" and not a physical building. If we know that the temple is in our head, what is Jesus driving out of our head? Could it be greed, desires, worrys about money? Could meditation kill our money problems by putting them in perspective. When Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple, is he a real person, physically throwing people out of a building, or does Jesus represent meditation and the temple is your mind and the money changers thoughts about money?
It's not as crazy as it sounded at first is it? "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, but and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up "gopher wood" ... it doesn't exist. Why would God tell you to make a boat out of a wood that doesn't exist? Maybe God means that the ark is not physical? Does "within" mean going within one's self in meditation? I think it does. And why is the verse placed at 6:14? What happens at 6:14? Did you know that that 6:14 is the average time of the sunrise and sunset in the northern hemisphere? Therefore allegorically I am being told in the story of Noah's ark that I am to build a shelter within my mind through meditation, and to focus my mind on quietly chant OM, sealing my ark within with pitch. There I'll be given the knowledge to defeat the flood of problems that I face in life, and that the times of day that I should meditate is at sunrise and at sunset. I go into my ship, my ark and I passover to the right bank, the right side.
It's not always easy to uncover the hidden meaning of a word, but if you meditate on it, it will come. Sometime I'll dwell on certain words or concepts for weeks on end without getting the hidden meaning. Such was the case with the words silver and gold. The word gold is mentioned everywhere in the bible, especially frequently when it comes to the construction of "the house", or "the tabernacle" or "the altar". Everything is covered in gold.Eventually it came to me that gold represents "sun light". A few weeks later I figured out if gold meant sunlight then silver represents moonlight. So now when I read that this or that is "covered in gold" it means exposed to the sun.
In Numbers 10:2 I was stuck on the word silver for the longest time: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that..." What is silver? I asked myself over and over again until I realized that if gold meant the sun, then silver must mean the moon! I know that the word trumpet meant chanting OM. So two trumpets means chant Om twice. Then I got stuck on "of a whole piece of silver thou shalt make them". And then is dawned on me that a whole piece of silver must mean "the full moon"! So now Numbers 10:2 says: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that...", but it means, "chant OM twice per day during the full moon". Every bible verse has a hidden meaning when you plug in the second or third possible definition of the words that are used.
And as your list of hidden meanings of words grows you will start to see a picture emerge. You'll realize that every bible story has the same basic meaning and it's that you are to go within yourself in meditation and kill your enemies, the dragons, the beasts, whatever you want to call it, and when you do you will passover from the left hemisphere of your brain, the 10%, to the right hemisphere, the 90% and that's where the garden of eden is planted, that's the land that flows with milk and honey. That's the reason the bible says to give 10%. It doesn't mean money!!! It means give up the 10% of your brain, desire, greed, fear, etc, and passover to the part where God resides, the "right" side. When the bible says "beasts" it doesn't mean a physical animal, it means the beast "within" you. When the bible says a temple, it doesn't mean a physical temple, it means your mind. Understanding allegory is the key to the kingdom of heaven!
In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", author Robert Frost wrote that he has "miles to go before I sleep." The literal meaning of that sentence is that he will travel miles down the road, and then go to bed. The allegorical meaning is quite different. "Miles to go" means years to live, and "before I sleep" means before I die. The hidden meaning is that Frost is saying that he has a lot of life left in him before he dies, while the literal meaning is that he's going to bed. As you can see, the allegorical meaning yields a much different result than the literal.
Wikipedia.com defines allegory as folows: "As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art, largely because it readily illustrates complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey."
It is the premise of this book that the bible is an allegorical book and not a history book and that there is a second meaning, a "hidden meaning" behind each word, verse and chapter that produces a radically different understanding of what the bible tells us, about the world we live in and about God.
Here are a few bible passages that state point blank that the bible is allegorical and not literal. The selected Bible verses are in Bold type.
2 Corinthians 3:6 "Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life." When Jesus speaks of the spirit of the law, he is speaking of the "intent" of the passage and not the literal meaning of it. Jesus goes as far as to say that taking the bible literally is so bad that is "kills" and also that if understood spiritually it will give you life. He doesn't mean that you will kill, he is implying that's it's very, very bad. That's the allegorical intent of the word kill.
The "letter" means literal as in "letter of the law". Wikipedia describes the difference between letter and spirit in the following: The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis. When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not the intent of those who wrote the law. Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording."
Matthew 13:34-35 "All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables and without a parable he didn't speak to them." Like "the letter vs the spirit", a parable is an entire story who's intent is to impart a lesson rather than just make a statement". "You reap what you sow" has nothing to do with gardening. It means you will get out of something exactly what you put into it. Saint Matthew is clearly saying that everything that Jesus said in the Bible is a parable, not literal. "All these things" means just what is says ... everything, every word of the Bible is allegory.
Mark 10 "And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" Being without is the opposite of going within, and going within is a metaphor for meditation. If you are not in meditation you are without. If you do not go within to meditate, you will take the bible literally. It's not what you physically see, it's the perception, and not what you physically hear, it's what you understand. It's about perception and understanding. It's allegory.
Mark 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them." Taking the bible literally is the one and only sin. Your sins are "forgiven" when the sunrises. September 21 through March 20 is Sin.
Psalm 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:"
The lord will speak to you when you understand allegory!
Psalm 11:1-4 "In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? "
Yet religion has a literal answer for everything. "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
But know this: "The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
If you meditate, if you go within, you will see God face to face, you will be given the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven.
Allegory makes reading the bible fun. If you understand allegory your understanding of the kingdom of heaven will grow also. Mark 4:20 "And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred." 30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."
I know that silver is moonlight and gold is sunlight and since mother and father are where you came from, sons and daughters mean where your going and Egypt is the bad guys I understood the following: Exodus “3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.”
