The second paragraph introduced me to a word I was not, previously, aware of: En-theo-genic ==> the God Within. I am not into Carlos Castenada-esque psychotropic substances to enhance spirituality. But, the word's use to also refer to musical/artistic alternatives is intriguing.
Also intriguing ... certain 13:8 biblical verses about the Prime Efficacy of Love:
- 1st Corinthians 13:8 "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they shall cease; Tongues, they shall be stilled; and where there is knowledge, it shall will pass away. "
- Romans 13:8 "Owe no man nothing, but to love one another. For the one who loves has fulfilled the law."
- Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ --- the same yesterday, today, and forever."
So much in the bible beyond the infantile perceptions of Christianity.
Everyone is familiar with the appearances of the numbers 12 and 7 in the bible. But, fulfill the 12 with the One to get 13 ... the 7 with the One to get 8. The One completes [JC described it as 'fulfilling' the law] All by connecting the Beginning with the End. Hence, musical octaves are not just 7 notes , Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Te, but also the Do as the One which begins and ends. World without end. Amen ... Jesus Christ ... Love.
Ah, but we live in an age when Love is rejected as foolishness. And Jesus the Christ is mistaken to be the false deity of Christianity.
Still, what is lacking in Christianity's perception of the 12 Gates to the City is one more --- the One who is All. What is this city not made by hands? Heaven? Yes, but so much more than the Lo, here, lo, there of Hellenic Christian myths.
The Temple of Nine Gates, aka as the Temple of 12 Gates, plus One. The God Within --- En-theo-gen.
2 ears + 2 eyes + 2 nostrils + 1 mouth + 1 anus + 1 sexual organ = 9.
Or ...
2 ears + 2 eyes + 2 nostrils + 1 mouth + 2 nipples + 1 navel + 1 anus + 1 sexual organ = 12.
But, 9 or 12, refers only to the body. Thou art not that.
To Know Self, complete the 9/12 with the One who is All, Beginning and End, Amen.
L O V E
12 gates to the temple of Flesh within which lives, breathes, and has Its being the One, the God Within, the Kingdom of God within, Love.
The entire Universe sings the Song Of God --- As above, So Below.
En-theo-gen.