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EAST & WEST

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The Holy Bible contains all the spiritual knowledge we need for the salvation or healing of our soul, combining ancient practices of the east with the ancient instruction found in the Sacred Text of the west.  “And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD…”  Exodus 14:13. The word still means quiet self, be silent, keep (put to) silence.   “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”  Revelation 8:1. Silence in heaven is the key to opening the seventh seal.  Heaven symbolizes the mind. The seventh seal is the seventh chakra.

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”  Revelation 1:7. If this were about the physical eyes, it would be plural, not singular. This is about “the third eye,” the spiritual eye, through which we gain insight pertaining to the things we cannot see. The verse is clearly about Jesus, symbolizing truth, which “cometh with clouds;” coming with or through the thoughts of that spiritual heaven called the mind. Truth comes to us through our mind by way of the Spirit.  East and west, Spirit and word. The Spirit is the power that delivers the word of truth, first to our mind, and then to our heart if we don’t resist it. “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:27. The “lightning” and the “Son of man” share the same symbolic meaning, which is “truth.”  Jesus was called the Son of man, the son symbolizing the seed or word of truth through which man is spiritually healed.

The East is associated with the Spirit and the Mind. The Spirit works through mind-body disciplines or practices such as yoga to bring calmness to the mind, and wellness to the body. During the practice, one is encouraged to “trust the breath,” the breath symbolizing the spirit. When the children of Israel journeyed through the wilderness, they were to trust Moses, symbolizing the Spirit of God.  But they resisted, forfeiting what comes with the holy spirit working through the mind, which is tranquility.  In stark contrast, is the anxiety that is possessing the minds of so many, the cause of panic attacks.  So many on anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs. Clearly, man is resisting the holy spirit, whose deepest purpose is to bring us into the truth regarding the source of this anxiety and depression. “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do aways resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.” Acts 7:51.  In the eastern practice of yoga, one is often led to put his hands to the third or inner eye, which is associated with higher consciousness or spiritual sight— the meaning behind the mythological Cyclops. Another example of the spirit working at a mind-level is the eastern practice of Reiki, performed through a technique similar to the laying on of hands for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental disease.  It’s when we combine the ancient practices of the east with the ancient instruction found in the Sacred Text of the west, that we activate the ultimate healing power called christ.  When meditation is done according to the ancient instruction of the Holy Bible, the 7th chakra is opened, through which the deepest level of the soul is healed. The Spirit, activated or manipulated through ancient practices of the east, while evoking a response that can heal mind and body, cannot, by itself, heal the sub-conscious, which is the heart— the deepest and most important aspect of the soul.  To heal the heart requires us to follow the ancient instruction of the Sacred Text of the west.

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”  Matthew 19:28.  The word regeneration means the act or process of re-forming.  As Spirit and word formed the physical heaven and earth, spirit and word are needed to form our new spiritual heaven and earth.  The word is the works of creation.  Those that are in the process of the regeneration are metaphorically sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, which are the works that bring their new creation into existence, “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing a new mind and a new heart. (Revelation 21:1). Judgment is symbolized in scripture by fire.  “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”  Revelation 3:18

Perhaps you have heard new age teachers talking about the “violet flame,” their understanding of which will be limited to the source through which they received it— through the Spirit, which makes it an incomplete truth. To receive complete truth on these spiritual matters will require us to incorporate the Word. The gold tried in the fire symbolizes the purity that comes through the judgment.  A “flame” is part of the fire.  The seven colors associated with the twelve tribes of Israel or twelve sons of Jacob are the seven colors of the rainbow.  And what do we find at the end of the rainbow— upon the conclusion of our spiritual judgment? Gold. Purity. The color “violet” is associated with Naphtali, a son by Rachel’s bondmaid, symbolizing bondage.  This is the point in the trans-formation process where we go from seeing the bondage of our mind to seeing the bondage of our heart.  This is where we make the transition from the kingdom of heaven, symbolizing the realm of the mind to the kingdom of God, symbolizing the realm of the Heart; the throne of that healing power called christ. Krishna or Christ, east or west, the meaning is the same: the source of all existence.

It is time to incorporate the Word, which provides us with the ancient instruction through which we are made holy. It is time to bring a deeper meaning to the many religious ceremonies and celebrations through the Word.  Let’s look at the eastern festival called Holi, also known as the “Festival of Love,” the “Festival of Colors,” or the “Festival of Spring.”  It celebrates the eternal and divine love of Krishna, and signifies the triumph of good over the evil.  The east is associated with the Spirit of God, which is Love.  The west is associated with the Word of God, the Holy Bible containing the the spiritual works through which we reach Love, which is why Jesus said, “believe the works,”  the word believe meaning “to obey or put action to.”   And why Jesus, the truth personified, said, “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me,”  which is to say, no man comes to Love, except by truth, which being the word of God, is the spiritual works or instruction through which we are made holy, triumphing over evil.

East and West.  Spirit and Word.  Love and Truth, through which we are healed on a soul-level.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2001

9/11 DECODED

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Twin TowersThe following is a revelation I received over three days following the event. The two towers symbolize the two witnesses in the book of Revelation: “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city.”  The great city, in the literal sense, is New York City.  In the early morning of September 12th 2001, I heard upon waking: “This is the opening of the sixth seal.” 

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal… there was a great earthquake.”  Revelation 6:12.  It was a great metaphorical earthquake that took place on September 11th, 2001.  Its purpose?  To bring down the wall of false peace that is governing the mind of man.  The first in a series of catastrophic events.  At 8:46 am, a commercial jet was hijacked and flown into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Eighteen minutes later, another commercial jet was hijacked and flown into the second tower. Soon after that, another hijacked jet would be flown into the Pentagon, and at 10 am, a fourth hijacked jet crashed before hitting its target, the Capital, the Heart of our great nation. Thank God this was not accomplished.  In this is our hope!

The North Tower symbolizes the Spirit of God.
The South Tower symbolizes the Word of God.
The Pentagon symbolizes Protection.
The Capital symbolizes the Heart.

The external enemy that brought down the two towers was a radical lunatic fringe, those of the Arab nation, descendants of Ishmael, son of the bondmaid, symbolizing bondage. “For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.” Galatians 4:22.  But what continues to give power to these external enemies are the internal enemies of the mind. Two spiritual enemies, represented in two physical enemies: Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.  It was a foreign physical nation that terrorized our nation on September 11th, the manifestation of a negative and destructive spiritual nation ruling the mind of man; a terror hidden deep within, keeping us in the bondage; keeping us from being completely free.  “For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.” Galatians 4:25.  Jerusalem is referred to as the Mother, exemplifying protection.  But it is important to note that Abraham had two sons by two mothers: Sarah the freewoman and Hagar the bondwoman.  The physical Jerusalem is far from freedom and peace.  She is in bondage, revealing the spiritual bondage of that spiritual Jerusalem called the Heart.  This internal bondage is revealed through Rachel’s bondmaid, Bilhah, which means terror, the external terrorism generated by the terror or fear existing deep within; so deep within the psyche that most of us are still unaware of its existence.  Hagar is mount Sinai, where the children of Israel erected the gold calf, symbolizing the false images or beliefs that cause man to remain in spiritual bondage. These false beliefs are sin, the wages of sin, death, September 11th resulting in 2,997 deaths.

The two towers symbolize the Spirit and Word of God.  But man has chosen to follow his own spirit and word, giving power to their negative and destructive energies, manifesting in the physical through destructive events, wars, and catastrophic events that are increasing in size, intensity, and frequency.  These destructive events are not God’s doing.  They are man’s doing, as spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, “man’s word shall be his burden,” man’s word being the sum of his false beliefs.  It is time to take responsibility for what we are bringing upon ourselves through the power of our own word; through the negative and destructive power of our many false religious and personal beliefs.  Ishmael and Isaac, two brothers, existing without in the nation of Israel, as well as within.  The ongoing physical battle between the Israelis (descendants of Isaac) and the Palestinians (descendants of Ishmael) is a manifestation of the ongoing spiritual battle taking place within us, as was spoken by James, the brother of Jesus: “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come thy not hence, even of the lusts that war in your members?”  James 4:1. Our members are our own mind and heart.  If we don’t get on with battling the enemy within, there will be more and more laws added without, until we are left with no freedom at all.  The real enemy lies hidden within, and as long as it remains hidden, the battle against evil can never be won, its negative and destructive energy continuing to bring death, destruction, sorrow, pain, and suffering.

The nation of Israel continues to fight for peace.  But there will be no peace in Jerusalem until there is peace in the Heart of man; a peace that comes through the purification of the Heart.  “To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord…” Ezekiel 13:16.  September 11th, 2001 was only the first in a series of calamities that will bring down the wall of false peace that keeps mankind from entering into his own heart. “So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall…” Ezekiel 13:14.  The word Jerusalem means founded peaceful.  Will mankind continue to choose the bondage of false peace over the freedom of authentic peace?  What remains of the wall in Jerusalem is called the Wailing Wall, and on 911, a desperate cry for help rang out!  Ishmael, son of the bondwoman, means God will hear.  This is the first covenant, which begins to be fulfilled within when we cry out from our heart in our personal time of trouble to be delivered from our spiritual bondage, the source of our many physical bondages or addictions.  This cry is the beginning of our journey from bondage to freedom; the beginning of our spiritual birth.  “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered… ”  Daniel 12:1

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2001

THE GODHEAD

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The Principles of Creation.  The Foundation of Spiritual Truth.

Principle: a basic truth, which applies to both the physical and the spiritual.  Foundation: the basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported. 

“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.”  Genesis 1:1. To create is to have the thought.  Nothing has been made yet.  “And the earth was without form… ”  To bring heaven and earth into existence would take two things: “And the Spirit of God moved… “And God said…”  Genesis 1:2,3. Spirit and word.  Energy and seed.  “And the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.”  Luke 8:11.  The two divine attributes of the Creator; the two things needed for the Creation, are symbolized in scripture by the “two witnesses,” and the “two olive trees” or “two olive branches,” which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, and John and Jesus, personified.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… male and female created he them.”  Genesis 1:26,27.  We were physically made after this likeness when our father, sowed his seed, by his energy (male) in our mother (female), as God sowed His word, by His Spirit (male) in mother earth (female).  We are spiritually made in the image of God when the holy spirit sows the seed or word of truth in our heart. We see the image of God in the Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, representing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  The Hebrew name for God is ELOHIM, revealing God’s image: EL = God the Father.  OH = the Son.  IM = the Holy Spirit; the I AM, revealing the Godhead.  Some Christians say there are three persons in the Godhead, while others say one, proclaiming Jesus is God.  The truth is, the three are of one, as God, spoke His word, through His Spirit.  And as man, sows his seed, through his energy.   

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with the God, and a god was the word.”  John 1:1  (Original Greek translation). “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  John 1:1  (King James translation). “A god was the word” has been changed to “the Word was God,” an error in translation that has Christians calling Jesus God, through which they are unwittingly denying the Son.  “The same was in the beginning with God.”  John 1:2. Jesus was with God in the beginning, being the seed through which the creation was made. “All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.”  John 1:3. All things are made by a seed. When seed is sowed in the earth, as truth is sowed in the heart, it does not produce its fruit in a day.  “… Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once?”  Isaiah 66:8. The words of the Prophet Isaiah, which admonish the teaching that we are born [again] the moment we accept Jesus into our heart.  The spiritual Jesus is the seed of God. This elementary-level of acceptance is not the sowing of God’s seed or word of truth into that spiritual earth called the heart. 

“Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods. If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came… [why] say ye of him, Thou blasphemest because I said, I am the Son of God.?  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not… thou you believe not me, believe the works…”  John 10:34-38. Here, Jesus is teaching us that the works are synonymous with the son.  The way we bring fruit unto God, becoming a god or son, is through works. Christians who follow the teachings of Paul are unwittingly rejecting the Son by omitting the spiritual works, which the Son finished, and instructed us to finish, saying, believe the works, the word believe meaning to obey or put action to. The works of a spiritual creation, which as gods, being made in the image of the God, we have the power to bring into existence. The word of God is the seed of God.  Having the seed of God makes one a god, not God. In like manner, if the seed of the man is conceived in the womb of the woman, that seed becomes a son or daughter, not the father that sowed it.  Jesus is not God.  Blasphemy is to make oneself equal with God, or God’s power, which Jesus never did.  Jesus never said he was God.  There are two verses used to proclaim that Jesus is God. The first, as discussed, a mistranslation. The second, “I and my Father are one,”  John 10:30,  a misunderstanding.  Jesus is not saying he is God.  He is saying that he and his Father are one with respect to the works of creation, God’s physical creation being a pattern or instruction for the spiritual creation formed in us through spiritual works, which Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on this earth. 

“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” John 1:18.  But Jesus was seen, being the seed or word of God made flesh.  Jesus said he proceeded and came from God.  The seed proceeded from the Father, sowed in the womb of Mary.   “…neither came I of myself, but he sent me”  John 8:42.  The seed does not sow itself.  Energy or Spirit is needed to sow the seed, whether it be in the earth, or in the heart.  There are two fathers, two seeds, two energies, and two creations.  The good seed, sowed through holy spirit, is attributed to christ. The evil seed, sowed through unholy spirit, is attributed to antichrist. “… He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”  1 John 2:22. One denies the Father and the Son literally by saying Jesus is God.  One denies the Father and the Son spiritually by omitting the spiritual works that are synonymous with the Son.  Christ is not Jesus’ surname. It is the spiritual power through which we perform these spiritual or internal works.  If we  have not been doing the works because we have been taught that Jesus finished them for us, we are antichrist; against the spiritual power needed for our new spiritual creation to come into existence. 

“Ye are of your father the devil… When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”  John 8:44.  Each of us acts as a spiritual father, having sowed spiritual seed through spiritual energy, in our spiritual mother.  We have all eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sowing good and evil seed in that spiritual earth called the heart.  In the process of time, the evil seeds choked out the good seed, as we learn from Jesus’ parables. The unholy creation that has been formed in us is called “the first heaven and earth,” which passes away upon the formation of our holy creation through six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual) works. “ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and earth were passed away…”  Revelation 21:1  

The Godhead reveals the principles of creation, the foundation of all spiritual truth. 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000


EGYPT & THE BIBLE

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Could their symbolism be revealing the same spiritual truth?

egypt-bible2Why did our ancient ancestors, who had no knowledge of this God of the Bible, look to heaven as the source of power they knew intrinsically existed?  Why do their ancient ruins in the earth, through their very construction, reveal the builders preoccupation with the lights of heaven; with the sun, the moon, and the stars?  Was their devotion to the Sun in a way prophetic, predicting man’s future devotion to the Son?  Could Ra, the Egyptian Sun god, and Jesus, the Son of God, be emanating the same spiritual truth?

Look at the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who did away with the worshipping of many gods, proclaiming there was only one god, the sun god Ra?  And Abraham of the Bible, who left the worshipping of many gods in the land of Ur to worship one God in the land of Canaan.  And Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, dedicated to the worshipping of one God (as Akhenaten before him), who after becoming an Egyptian was given great power, second only to Pharaoh.  And Moses, who after living forty years as an Egyptian was introduced to the God of his fathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, leaving Egypt only to return forty years later to retrieve his brothers (the Hebrews) out of a land that worshipped many gods, and bring them into a new land where they worshipped one God.  And last but not least, Jesus, “the light of the World,” the “Ra” of Judea, who came to bring his brothers (the Jews) out of the bondage of serving many laws, as Moses had brought his brothers out of the bondage of serving many gods. Today, there exists many religious truths.  But there is only one spiritual truth. 

Why did so many important Biblical figures go into Egypt?  Why is Egypt repeatedly interwoven into the stories of the Bible? The Bible is the Word of God, the source of godly intelligence— the source of spiritual knowledge. Egypt is associated with the Spirit of God, the source of spiritual abilities, Egypt being the key to unlocking the spiritual truths encoded in the Bible.  I believe they went to Egypt to show us the importance of bringing the Word of God back to Spirit— back to a spiritual interpretation through an understanding of It’s symbolism, the language in which the Bible is written.   

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

SACRED TEXTS SYMBOLISM

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download (3)When the ambiguity that exists in the literal interpretations of our Sacred Texts is removed, we are left with ONE spiritual TRUTH.

“It is He who has revealed to you the Book. Some of its verses are precise in meaning-they are the foundation of the Book— and others ambiguous. Those whose hearts are infected with disbelief follow the ambiguous part, so as to create dissension by seeking to explain it.”  The Holy Qur’an 

The word ambiguous means susceptible to multiple interpretations.  The discord among Christians and Muslims is due to their literal interpretations. They follow the ambiguous part, not building upon the true spiritual foundation, resisting the holy spirit, through which they would receive a spiritual interpretation of the Book.

“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the holy spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.”  The Holy Bible

In resisting the holy spirit of their heart, their spiritual eyes and ears are shut, preventing a spiritual understanding of the Word or Book, which would bring unity instead of division.  If the holy spirit does reveal a literal interpretation, it is ultimately for the purpose of seeking its deeper spiritual meaning, which carries the blessings of life and peace through its application.

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessings, even life for evermore.”   The Holy Bible 

Aaron symbolizes the Word of God, which is why he spoke for Moses, who was “slow of speech.”  Aaron’s beard symbolizes the wisdom of God’s Word.  It is not our knowledge or understanding of the written Word that makes us wise.  Or our physical obedience to literal interpretations over millennia.  It is the action we apply to the spiritual instruction found in the Word or Book, revealed through the Spirit of God, which Moses symbolizes.   Spirit and Word— the precious spiritual ointment or anointing.

The ambiguous parts of the Quran are those parts that have been assigned multiple literal interpretations, which continue to be discussed, debated, and followed by “those whose hearts are infected with disbelief,” wasting precious time, and adding to the negative and destructive energy in the earth.  Disbelief is not something that takes place in the mind.  Disbelief is something that takes place in the heart.  Disbelief is spiritual disobedience— failing to obey the spiritual works encoded in the verses of the Book.  The word ambiguous means doubtful, uncertain, to wander about.  When we seek literal interpretation over spiritual interpretation, choose mind-body disciplines over a heart-discipline, offer carnal sacrifices instead of spiritual sacrifices, we become as Cain, wandering about, getting nowhere spiritually, our world becoming uncertain, which the children of Israel illustrated for us by wandering about in the wilderness, choosing carnal service through their obedience to the carnal law, which could not make them perfect.

“The Holy Spirit thus signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.”  The Holy Bible  

The way into the holiest place of all, symbolizing the heart, is not made known to us as long as the first tabernacle, symbolizing the carnal mind, still stands, which continues to assign literal interpretations to the words of the Book.  The carnal acts taking place in the previous “era of Isaac” (animal sacrifice, baptisms, ritualistic baths, anointing, fasting, healing, speaking in tongues, casting out devils, etc.) are now, in what is the third and final “era of Jacob,” to take place spiritually.  Any physical demonstrations of these are now considered mockery, the negative meaning of the word Isaac. These carnal acts have no power to purify the mind, and stand in the way of us entering into the holiest of all, where we offer up the spiritual sacrifices that purify our heart.  The time of spiritual reformation is now!

“… if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?  How much rather than, when he saith, Wash, and be clean?  And then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”  The Holy Bible  

The number seven pertains to the spiritual, to the spiritual process through which we are made spiritually clean.  So the children of Israel, refusing to obey the spiritual instruction, which would have purified their hearts, remained in bondage to the carnal law for 1500 years, after which time they were to fulfil the carnal law by obeying the spiritual instruction for salvation that the Messiah brought them, of which the carnal law is a figure or pattern.  But they rebelled once again, unable to grasp the spiritual concept, which would have made them free.  Not only of their physical bondage to the carnal law, but of their spiritual bondage to the seven spiritual impurities of their heart.

“Do you not yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man”   The Holy Bible  

Physical things do not defile the man.  Neither can they purify him. Putting ourselves under the law of controlling our mind and body may stop the external acts.  But it does not put a stop to the internal acts. Thinking we have taken care of the problem, we relax, entering a state of false peace.  We find this in the story of the man who swept his house clean, unaware of the seven unholy spirits or impurities in his heart.

“When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.”  The Holy Bible

These seven abominations, symbolized by the seven nations the children of Israel were to drive out of the promised land, are the spiritual enemies residing in our spiritual temple or mosque!

“Drive them out of the places from where they drove you.  Idolatry is more grievous than bloodshed.  But do not fight them within the precincts of the Holy Mosque unless they attack you there; if they attack you put them to the sword.  Fight against them until the idolatry is no more and God’s religion reigns supreme.”  The Holy Qur’an 

We are to drive these spiritual enemies out of the places that they have driven us.  And they have driven us to some very painful and destructive places in our life.  And yet, it will be the enemies that work in these dark places, through the havoc they wreak in our life, that will drive many back to their heart as they begin to question the circumstances of their life.  These spiritual enemies have attacked us within the precincts of the Holy Mosque, which like the Holy Temple, symbolizes the Heart.  We are to put them to the sword, which is to hold them up against what the sword symbolizes, which is truth.  And what did Abraham ultimately sacrifice with his sword? The ram, symbolizing idolatry—the worshipping of idols or images. Spiritual idolatry is the worshipping of false beliefs.  We are to fight against these until TRUTH reigns supreme in that spiritual temple or mosque called the heart.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000