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The Libretto

An Epiphany (5/5/24)

    As I mention below, I discovered I can work on the script using an older workstation and that definitely moves things forward.

   So, right out of the box, the text says "Let Us make man in Our image."

   What does that mean? Us and Our? Well, I have numerous explanations for this, but all of the require complex discourse. The Lord enlightened my mind to understand that; the Us and Our refers to the Alpha and the Omega. The all encompassing composite of the Heavens and it's Creator.

A little elucidation is in order; 

   The Mind of God transpires outward and downward from the ultimate essence of Being - first to the Celestial Degree, then down to the Spiritual Degree, and then finally into the Ultimates of the Natural Degree. 

   Man, in the Natural Degree created hell, by willfuly, though inadvertently, perverting his understanding of Truth. Because of his propensity to the sensual nature of the Natural Degree, he sought Truth and drew his conclusions from his natural perceptions. Thus, his separation from (even) the Spiritual Degree, (let alone) The Celestial Degree, blocked his influx from the Heavens and the Wisdom of God. Because God's influx comes to man down through the heavens to him, man's propensity for sensuality blocks influx. Yet God's mercy prevailed (indeed it still does) but not without vastations. The depths of hell, because of the connection to man, are encompassed in the Omega, the ending, intended to be the outermosts of Creation. It was man's choices that created hell and infused the deepest hell into the outermosts of Creation.

   So all that is and was, beyond the Natural Degree; is the Us and Our, because the Creation of man refers to his creation in the Natural Degree, which is the outermost, the foundation and the ultimate of Creation.  

   The Spiritual and Celestial Degrees had an array of created beings in them, who were not men, but rather; Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, Cherubim, and even Nephilum, none of which were human.

   Mythology might even point to other non-human creatures, if one may choose to expand those horizons.

   "Let there be Light" refers to Natural Degree Light, as Heavenly light is inherent in the existence of the Celestial and the Spiritual Degrees, and comes directly from God's Essence, although in varying intensity, in accordance with it separation from God by descret degrees.

   In the Natural Degree, a natural sun, moon and stars were required, which are only correspondential, because the sensual nature of the natural degree corresponds the the Spiritual and Celestial and is manifested in appearances.

   Hence, the darkness present could only be remedied by use of a correspondential sun, since anything in the Natural Degree cannot even deign to approach God in His Divine Essence, which indeed neither can the Spiritual or Celestial, but even less so can the Natural.

  God in the garden approached Adam & Even by virtue of the same body he had when He visited the Natural Degree in human form, as Christ,  after mankind perverted the Natural by allowing falsity and evil to prevail.

   This is all part of the Libretto, conveyed in representations crafted with Artistic License.

   I will integrate this (expanded) explanation into the script. Of course in a more proseic fashion.

AG

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