04/04/04 04:04....a day and an hour we know not
Bob Neumann
Dear Stephen,
At 0404 am on Sunday Morning i will be "on duty"
in the ICU here in
It is also the NUMBER ""4"". In the GAMATRIA DALET represents
THE DOOR. While Ms Ames covers a whole lot of territory in the posting.....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Watchmen-Prophets-Assembly/message/10063
I had a very funny thought.....seeing we are to "spring forward" between
1am and 2am... wouldn't 0404040404 actually be 0304040404? Or does it really matter?
I guess what has disturbed me over the last 6 months has the "dates"
of anticipation that have been declared so frequently. All seem to have passed
without happenstance.
A year ago we were awaiting the invasion of
For 15 years we have known about the NEW MADRID FAULT... For 5 years the US GEOLOGICAL
UPDATES have warned about
same summer. So the fact that "something" will happen is just a matter
of "when" and "where".... Yet Y'SHUA went into quite a few
details. So did Jeremiah, and Isaiah, and Daniel, and Joel,....
ELIYAHOO said "it ain't gonna
rain". How long before they noticed? AMOS said there would be a "famine
in the land". Anyone notice?
MYSTICAL IMAGERY is all well and good....0404040404....how about 24:42....
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman
of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as
ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over
his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing
In spite of everything the "servants" who are "wise" and
"faithful" will serve "meat in due season". For almost a year
i have stayed away from the WPA for a number of reasons.
I wished "obedience" was the primary reason. if
it were i would have left 7 months sooner.
The issue is, why now?
For me the last 31 days have been filled with images and patterns. As I look at
the WPA you had 267 posts. I tried to go through what the "brothers"
and "sisters" were sharing, but it seems i
failed to find common ground. That bothers me that i
am so "off base".
For years i have enjoyed the flow of THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT
in the IMAGES, PATTERNS, and SEQUENCES of scripture. Below i placed a link and a page about the "DALET". Yes,
it is founded on HEBREW MYSTICISM. But some may find it interesting.
So between now and Monday morning i will be busy so
i will leave the internet till then. Twice a week is enough
to clear out my mailbox without undue headaches.
selah
bob
http://www.inner.org/HEBLETER/dalet.htm
DALET
Selflessness
The dalet. the poor man, receives
charity from the rich man, the gimel. The word dalet
means "door." The door stands in the opening of the house, the beit.
In the Zohar, dalet is read as "that
has nothing [d'leit] of her own." This expresses
the property of the lowest of the Divine Emanations, the sefirah of malchut, "kingdom,"
which has no light other than that which it receives from the higher sefirot.
In man's service of G-d, the dalet characterizes "shiflut,"
"lowliness," the consciousness of possessing nothing of one's own. Together
with the awareness of one's own power of free choice, one must be aware that He
gives you the power to achieve success, and not to think, G-d forbid, that one's
accomplishments are "my power and the strength of my hand." Any achievement
in this world, particularly the performance of a mitzvah, the fulfillment of G-d's
will, depends upon Divine aid. This is especially true in one's struggle with
his evil inclination, whether it be manifest as external passion, stubborn resistance
to accepting the yoke of Heaven, or laziness, apathy, and the like. As our Sages
teach: "If not for G-d's help he [man] would not
have been able to overcome it [the evil inclination]." The Talmud describes
a situation where one man is carrying a heavy
object and another man appears to be helping him by placing his hands under the
object, when in truth the first man is carrying all the weight. The second man
is referred to as "a merely apparent helper." So are we, explains the
Ba'al Shem Tov, in relation
to G-d. Ultimately, all one's strength comes from Above. Free choice is no more
than the expression of one's will to participate, as it were, in the Divine act.
One merely places one's hands under the weight carried exclusively by G-d.
"For to You, G-d, is kindness, for You pay man in
accordance with his deed." The Ba'al Shem Tov observes: Just payment in accordance with one's deed is
not an act of kindness (chesed), but rather one of judgment
(din)! He answers: "in accordance with one's deed," can be read "as
though the deed is his." Thus G-d's ultimate kindness
is His enclothing the "undeserved" reward
in the guise of deservedness, so as not to shame the receiver. The Name of G-d
in this verse is Adnut, the letters of which also spell
in Hebrew dina, "judgment," implying the Divine
guise of judgment, through which G-d's kindness (chesed)
is most fully expressed. The Zohar reads chesed as chas d'leit, "having compassion
[on] the dalet," i.e. he who possesses nothing
of his own. In regard to an arrogant person G-d says: "I and he cannot dwell
together." The door to G-d's house allows for the
humble of spirit to enter. The door itself, the dalet,
is the property of humility and lowliness, as explained above. The dalet is also the initial letter of the word dirah, "dwelling place," as in the phrase "[G-d's]
dwelling place below." Thus the full meaning of the dalet
is the door through which the humble enter into the realization of G-d's
dwelling place below.
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FORM
Two lines forming a right angle, with a corner point. A man bent over.
Three levels of bitul.
Worlds:
* The corner point: Consciousness of the ego.
* Bitul HaYeish.
* Every creature's unconscious awareness of its continuous
re-creation by G-d.
Souls:
* The vertical line: selflessness.
* Bitul Bimtziut; "Standing
crowded."
* Collective consciousness; willingness to sacrifice one's life
for one's people.
Divinity:
* The horizontal line: submergence of the soul in its Divine Source.
* Bitul Bimtziut Mamash; "Prostrating wide."
* Letters being surrounded by white parchment. Willingness to
sacrifice one's life for G-d.
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NAME
Door; poor man; lifting up - elevation. Worlds:
* Door--bitul, the entrance way to truth.
* The servant who refuses to go through the door of freedom.
Souls:
* True lowliness of the soul.
* The moon as a symbol of the soul.
Divinity:
* The elevation of the soul by G-d into Himself.
* "I will exalt you, G-d, for you have lifted me up." Not belonging.
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NUMBER
Four
Worlds:
* Four elements of the physical world: fire, air, water, and
earth.
* Solid, liquid, gas, combustion.
* Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen.
* The four physical forces: gravity, electromagnetic, strong,
weak.
* Man, animal, vegetable, and inanimate objects.
* Four seasons of the year; Four directions.
* The four worlds: Atzilut, Beriah,
Yetzirah, and Asiyah.
Souls:
* Four matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah.
* Jacob's four wives: Rachel, Leah, Bilhah, and Zilpah.
* The four sons and the four cups of wine of the Seder
* The four expressions (levels) of redemption.
* Four feet of the Divine Throne: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.
* Father, mother, son, daughter: the first commandment
of the
Torah: "be fruitful and multiply."
Divinity:
* Four letters of G-d's Name.
* Four components of the Torah text.
* Four basic levels of Torah interpretation.