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Numbers 9:15-22 read psychologically: the tabernacle, elongated, skin-covered and moving through the desert, is man's body; the cloud upon it is the garment of consciousness, seen in meditation as pulsing golden rings, which ascends as one nears sleep. Assume the desired state as the cloud ascends; where it descends, life strikes the tabernacle and reassembles one's environment there.
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Numbers 9:15-16 | And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night
Numbers 9:22 | Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed
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The cloud is simply the garment of your consciousness
where your consciousness is placed, there you will be in the flesh also
life strikes the tabernacle, strikes my environment and reassembles my environment
It had to be an elongated, movable place of worship, and it had to be covered with skin