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[[File:JEFraser 2ndDivMemorial.jpg|thumb|Second Division Memorial, Washington, D.C. This monument recalls [[Archangel Michael]]’s sword and the sword [[Excalibur]]—both symbols of the sword of Eden guarding the way of the [[Tree of Life]] for America and every nation.]] | <languages /> | ||
[[File:JEFraser 2ndDivMemorial.jpg|thumb|<translate>Second Division Memorial, Washington, D.C. This monument recalls [[Archangel Michael]]’s sword and the sword [[Excalibur]]—both symbols of the sword of Eden guarding the way of the [[Tree of Life]] for America and every nation.</translate>]] | |||
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The '''sword''' has a number of different meanings and symbolisms. | The '''sword''' has a number of different meanings and symbolisms. | ||
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<blockquote>[[Melchizedek]], king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God (El Elyon). And he blessed Abraham and said, “Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.” And Abraham gave him tithes of all.<ref>Gen. 14:18–20.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>[[Melchizedek]], king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the most high God (El Elyon). And he blessed Abraham and said, “Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.” And Abraham gave him tithes of all.<ref>Gen. 14:18–20.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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[[File:Boyskingarthur-wyeth-excalibur-lady-of-the-lake.jpg|thumb|alt=Arthur and Merlin in a boat, a hand reaching out of the water holding a sword|King Arthur receiving Excalibur, N. C. Wyeth]] | [[File:Boyskingarthur-wyeth-excalibur-lady-of-the-lake.jpg|thumb|alt=Arthur and Merlin in a boat, a hand reaching out of the water holding a sword|<translate>King Arthur receiving Excalibur, N. C. Wyeth</translate>]] | ||
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== Excalibur == | == Excalibur == | ||
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<blockquote>Understand that it is a rod of sacred fire fashioned by the Divine Mother out of your own sacred life-force. Therefore, the sword that is taken from the stone of Matter is a spiritual fire. Legend would have it that it is a magic sword. Beloved, the spiritual fire does dissolve on contact all unlike itself.<ref>Jesus, “The Foundation of Christendom That I Have Laid.”</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Understand that it is a rod of sacred fire fashioned by the Divine Mother out of your own sacred life-force. Therefore, the sword that is taken from the stone of Matter is a spiritual fire. Legend would have it that it is a magic sword. Beloved, the spiritual fire does dissolve on contact all unlike itself.<ref>Jesus, “The Foundation of Christendom That I Have Laid.”</ref></blockquote> | ||
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[[File:003.Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden.jpg|thumb|Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden, Gustave Doré]] | [[File:003.Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden.jpg|thumb|<translate>Adam and Eve Are Driven out of Eden, Gustave Doré</translate>]] | ||
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== The sword in the Bible == | == The sword in the Bible == | ||
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The “sharp sword” and the “fire out of the mouth” are both symbols of the science of the spoken Word. So by the raised Kundalini fire, God gives the Faithful and True and the two witnesses the authority to send forth the sacred fire. This is the sword of the Spirit that is the Word of God. | The “sharp sword” and the “fire out of the mouth” are both symbols of the science of the spoken Word. So by the raised Kundalini fire, God gives the Faithful and True and the two witnesses the authority to send forth the sacred fire. This is the sword of the Spirit that is the Word of God. | ||
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[[File:0001059 archangel-micael-tiffany-2233AX 600.jpeg|thumb|Archangel Michael]] | [[File:0001059 archangel-micael-tiffany-2233AX 600.jpeg|thumb|<translate>Archangel Michael</translate>]] | ||
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== Archangel Michael’s sword == | == Archangel Michael’s sword == | ||
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“Alas, alas, my son,” exclaims the wise Muphti, of Aleppo, to his son Ibrahim, who choked himself with the head of a huge fish. “When will you realize that your stomach is smaller than the ocean?” Or, as Mrs. Catherine Crowe remarks in her Nightside of Nature, when will our scientists admit that “their intellects are no measure of God’s almighty designs?” | “Alas, alas, my son,” exclaims the wise Muphti, of Aleppo, to his son Ibrahim, who choked himself with the head of a huge fish. “When will you realize that your stomach is smaller than the ocean?” Or, as Mrs. Catherine Crowe remarks in her Nightside of Nature, when will our scientists admit that “their intellects are no measure of God’s almighty designs?” | ||
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[[File:Peter Paul Rubens - Aeneas in the Underworld.jpg|thumb|''Aeneas in the Underworld'', Peter Paul Rubens]] | [[File:Peter Paul Rubens - Aeneas in the Underworld.jpg|thumb|<translate>''Aeneas in the Underworld'', Peter Paul Rubens</translate>]] | ||
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We will not ask which of the ancient writers mention facts of seemingly-supernatural nature; but rather which of them does not? In Homer, we find Ulysses evoking the spirit of his friend, the soothsayer Tiresias. Preparing for the ceremony of the “festival of blood,” Ulysses draws his sword, and thus frightens away the thousands of phantoms attracted by the blood of the sacrifice. The friend himself, so-long-expected Tiresias, dares not approach him so long as Ulysses holds the dreaded weapon in his hand. Aeneas prepares to descend to the kingdom of the shadows, and as soon as they approach its entrance, the Sybil who guides him utters her warning to the Trojan hero, and orders him to draw his sword and clear himself a passage through the dense crowd of flitting forms.... | We will not ask which of the ancient writers mention facts of seemingly-supernatural nature; but rather which of them does not? In Homer, we find Ulysses evoking the spirit of his friend, the soothsayer Tiresias. Preparing for the ceremony of the “festival of blood,” Ulysses draws his sword, and thus frightens away the thousands of phantoms attracted by the blood of the sacrifice. The friend himself, so-long-expected Tiresias, dares not approach him so long as Ulysses holds the dreaded weapon in his hand. Aeneas prepares to descend to the kingdom of the shadows, and as soon as they approach its entrance, the Sybil who guides him utters her warning to the Trojan hero, and orders him to draw his sword and clear himself a passage through the dense crowd of flitting forms.... | ||
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, May 5, 1991, “On the Use of Archangel Michael’s Sword of Blue Flame.” | Elizabeth Clare Prophet, May 5, 1991, “On the Use of Archangel Michael’s Sword of Blue Flame.” | ||
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