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I encourage learning. It is apparent that I am quite educated, a result of my own position that a wealth of knowledge is preferable to wild guesses.
Knowledge is never dangerous and ideas are always welcome until they go against the evidence to the point that the ideas reveal themselves to be baseless.
Your picture, for example, is not what you represent it to be. It comes from a manuscript written by a Christian (a Trinitarian Mystic with a Hebraist focus, to be more exact). It is not Jewish, nor is it 800 years old. It is also not in regard to thinking. It is a sketch in regard to the beard, not the brain.
BTW, i have never advised against discussing any topics. We can discuss any topic all day long to your heart's content. My beliefs are in no danger because we are not even discussing the bible at this point. We are discussing YOUR private invention, external to what the bible says or implies.
You are projecting, now. It isn't me who is being stubborn and repressive. You have a pet theory which you want to be true so you avoid, ignore or manipulate the facts so you don't have to acknowledge that your belief in this matter has no grounding in reality.
Discussing ideas is much different than worshipping them as gods.
I assume you obsess over making the perfect model for your ideas under the misquided perception that you are actually making the real thing. Again, I advise you that the work of men's hands neither see, hear, eat, smell or speak. This object is part of an illness and puts distance between you and God.
I disagree.
You are you absolutely "advised against discussing any topics" in inferring that this discussion of Urim and Thummim is in the realm of astrology and numerology.
My reference to the 800 year old resurrection of Jewish Kabbalah in the 12th century was correct.
The picture that I posted was in reference to that Kabbalah, and the implication that the Tree of Life has some mental significance is clear.
My advice to you is to be more open from the very beginning and set aside your self confidence in being "quite educated" so you may learn things new.
Rev. 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold,... (the golden spiritual insights of the irrepressible idea of psychic Consciousness emerging from scripture) ... tried in the fire... (of time),... that thou mayest be rich... (in continued church leadership); and (re-interpret upon) white (yet unwritten, new pages), raiment,... (of revised books of your evermore obvious misinterpretations), ...that thou mayest be clothed... (and protected in thine thinking with secularly acceptable scriptural confirmations), ...and that the shame... (as visited in Geocentricism does not reoccur concerning magical Creationism, impossible literal world-wide floods, genealogies of individuals who lived inordinately long personal life times, Sun and Moon and Stars absent from the Heavens while light shines through the Cosmos, etc) ...of thy nakedness... (of your unsupportable intuitive irrationalities) ...do not appear... (and confront you as happened before The Reformation); ...and anoint thine eyes...(awaken!)... with (the) eyesalve... (of reality!), ...that thou mayest see... (socio-psychologically).
My focus is on the reasonableness of the 12 jewels of the curious breastplate...
...taking the same order of placement as the tribes are arranged around the square hole where the Levites camped inside the Tabernacle:
I believe you are educated and smart enough to see that I have a point.
The 12 jewels have the 12 names of the tribes scribed on them.
The arrangement of the twelve tribes was "foursquare" around the Tabernacle.
That is certainly a concrete and objective obseravtion which is a first step in supporting my theory.
Then we read that Aaron, the father of the Levite priests, wore this curious foursquare breastplate on his heart, placing the center hole right on his own heart,...
...the cube analogy places the fifth, inside geometric, in the center of its own square orientation with the three triangular faces that represent the three tribes of the Levites.
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