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Understanding Biblical Symbolism


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MEASURE

A symbol of correspondence in quality.

"Man is the measure of all things; of those things which exist as he is ; and of those things which do not exist as he is not." - Protogoras of Abdera.

The human soul corresponds in quality with the whole universe. It has in it all the elements of the planes of manifestation. This truth is recognised when to the soul's actual qualities there are added the soul's latent qualities.

"To measure signifies to know and scrutinise the quality of a thing or state." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse Revealed, n. 486.

"And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel." - REV. xxi. 17.

The perfected soul is complete in all its qualities and attributes (12 × 12), according to its correspondence with the potential within it, that is, of the Archetypal Man (angel). - EPH. iv. 13.

 

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ALTER (fire)
ARCHETYPAL MAN
CITY of god
DESERTS
HeigHT OF OSIRIS
MEAT
MICROCOSM
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