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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE
Thereupon I ventured to interpret this statement in this sense: the earth, a revolving and therefore spheroidal body or watery globa, was subject to internal action and reaction, while inertia prevailed over the surface of the energizing mass, and the energy of the forces acting on and through it was m-r(11a) kh-pth-commencing its energizing action) functioning on the surface of the waters.
Then turning to the opening of the narrative I read, to create a vesture (Bra-sit) for self, the self-developing forces -represented as a veiled unity acting in an upperceivable way through its own energy-created Ha-Shamaim, "the internal essences" (or trans. parences) and the earth: the transparent essences or concealed energies representing the active principles of the Elohim. The creation of the heavens was certainly not spoken of here, for these--as commonly understood, with the bodies circulating in them-already existed. Indeed the word Shamaim only acquired the meaning "heavens" later, as did the word Ruakh the significance
spirit.”
An old Jewish tradition so far recognizes the Mystery Language as to claim that certain scattered portions of the law are susceptible of three several readings, which it terms the body, soul and spirit of the text-in this likening that text to men, whose conduct it prescribes; and regards these readings respectively as narrative, doctrinal and spiritual in their teachings:
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