The reason Neville gives for the one detail of the fourth experience that sounds like decoration - that the light seen when the temple is split is liquid. A seal cannot be taken by wax or clay that has set; the wax or the clay must be in a molten state to take the impress. So it takes that liquid golden light to take the impress of what God imagined himself to be when he began to create you in his image - he held you in his mind’s eye and not a thing diverted him, and you had to be brought into the golden liquid state to receive it. At 2239 the same mechanism is stated the other way round and carried further: only if you are in the state of molten gold can you take the imprint of God, and then the gold becomes serpentine and moves up the shaft of what was formerly split, and there you take the impress upon the face of God - pressing into the skull, which is Zion, with a violence he says you have never known, and yet with no loss of identity, wearing the form of God forever. In this lecture the glowing is located by Ezekiel 1:27 and 8:2: the appearance of a man, and at what appeared to be the loins a glow of light rising and radiant light going down. A child of M755 (the splitting of the temple), which holds the experience; this holds the argument for why the metal must be molten.
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It would take that liquid golden light to take the impress of what God imagines himself to be
But he had to bring you into that golden liquid state to take the impress of himself
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It would take that liquid golden light to take the impress of what God imagines himself to be when he began to create you in his image. He held you in his mind’s eye and not a thing diverted him.
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read it in Ezekiel 1:27 and 8:2—here, I beheld it had the appearance of man; but at what appeared to be the loins, there was a glow of light that rose; and then, at what appeared to be the loins, going down, was light, just radiant light.
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Because only if you are in the state of molten gold can you take the impress of God. And so, we are taking the seal of God.
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