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Bible Review: Day 7 Of Creation

It is also written, “He who works for six days will have food on the seventh.”
This means that if you’ve worked on your desires through the six degrees, six millennia, you will receive all that’s been prepared for you by the Creator.
This is the Upper, Divine Light of abundance and delight.

Now let us sum up the seven days of Creation.
What should be the result of the correct inner work?
The soul will ascend from the egoistic level to one of bestowal.
This is achieved by seven consecutive corrections, called the “seven days of the week.”
Seven is the Creator’s number.
The system that governs our world comprises seven parts.
For this reason, our world is divided by seven and seventy: seventy nations of the world, seven days a week, seven colors of the spectrum, seven notes of the musical scale, man’s soul divides into seventy parts, man’s life is calculated by cycles of seventy years, and in the seventh millennium, man receives the reward he has merited.

Again, we are living in the 5785s.
What is in store for us during the remaining 215 plus years before the seventh millennium sets in?
Are we to just sit there and let them pass?
No.
We can intervene in this process, which was set off from above to last 6,000 years, and rush it.
This intervention has already begun.
All the bible Interpretation Saints specified the same year, 1995, as the year when the process of the world’s conscious correction would begin.
It is referenced in many texts penned by bible interpretation Saints of the past.

Indeed, since 1995 more and more people the world over are abandoning religion and embarking on the path of correction.
However, selected individuals were allowed to undergo this process separately, attaining the Upper World and coming to sense the Upper, perfect reality before others.

Moreover, the very path of correction, when navigated consciously and willingly, feels like an extraordinary adventure.

This is our objective in studying the structure and functionality of this system of the universe, to know precisely where and how we can intervene in the process, change something, and achieve immediate correction.
In fact, one cannot directly influence his root, the source from which he stems, because he exists at a lower degree and derives from it.

However, by correcting himself and equalizing his qualities to his root, a person changes the way he perceives what comes from above: instead of never-ending blows, problems, sufferings and everyday hardships, he begins to experience bliss, respite, perfection, and undivided attainment.

We were made by the Creator with the sole purpose of
mastering the Upper World and assuming control over our destiny (fate).

Noteworthy:
It is spiritual infants that remain at the degree of destiny!

This concludes the Seven Days of Creation. Next, we will explore the Bible Interpretation Study on the Garden of Eden, including the spiritual meanings of the serpent, the apple, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, etc.

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DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
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Bible Review: Day 7 of Creation

The Screen (Intention of love and bestowal) is the force of resistance against egoistic desires.
If you acquire this force, you are in perfect shape, headed straight for the Creator.
Here I must add that you cannot build the screen (Intention to bestow) by yourself.
Rather, it must be obtained by persistently demanding it of the Creator, which is the Upper Degree.
The Upper Degree in the spiritual world is the degree directly above your current degree - This degree is the Creator for you.
This is how you attain one of the Creator’s names (which we talked about earlier).
At each subsequent degree, you will know the Creator better, meaning you will be revealing more and more of His names until you reach the complete revelation of the Maker.
So, when do you acquire a screen (Intention of love and bestowal)?
When the Upper Degree feels that you’re prepared to do anything to get it.
The plea must come from the bottom of the heart: “Give me
strength to bestow like You… Help me correct myself, I beg You.”
If your plea is sincere, you will receive the screen.
That is, you must “correct” the egoistic desire with the intention to bestow.

Every day, it is as if you place your “I” in the Creator’s “clinic” and ask for the cure—the screen that will enable you to open your eyes and see the true picture of reality.
In this clinic, you are given additional egoistic desires with which you must begin to work and feel, to check your attitude toward them, realize how powerful they are, and only then to ask for the screen - the force that can protect you from falling from this degree.
The goal is clear—to correct your ego, which is supplied to you in portions as you ascend upward and mature.

Thus, you gradually move from degree to degree.
Once you’ve dealt with one portion of egoism, you are given an
opportunity to ascend, to draw closer to the next batch of egoistic desires.
And then you begin to work with them,
correcting your intention from egoistic to altruistic, so you can say, “I receive and in so doing I am giving You delight.”
Every degree contains its own work, its own screen, a new name of the Creator.

The Six Days of Creation correspond to the Sephirot in the following manner:
Hesed is the first day, Gevura is the second, Tifferet is the third, Netzah is the fourth, Hod is the fifth, and Yesod is the sixth.
These six successive corrections, called “the six days of creation,” are also the six millennia of Creation, or the six degrees of delving into oneself. Throughout this period, humankind labors arduously to correct its egoism.
Incidentally, we’re living in the 5785s, the tail end of the sixth millennium.
Now you might ask, “What about the final, Seventh Degree (Sabbath)?”

Sabbath; The seventh and final degree is called “the complete,
independent creature,” which wants to receive & perceives itself as a receiver.
It is the final phase of every degree.
It is also our root.
This degree cannot correct itself, for it is a concentration
of egoism, its foundation.
Only after it experiences the preceding six corrections "(6 days of creation)" does it acquire the ability to “absorb” them within and adopt their qualities.
Therefore, the objective of the “7th Day” is to take all that was created and accumulated during the preceding six days of creation and produce a finished, independent creature.

This seventh degree is called “the Sabbath.”
It is a special day because in this state, the souls are filled with the Upper Light.
The only condition is to not interfere with this process,
symbolically represented by the laws of the Sabbath.
You put down the oars and go with the flow toward the Light.
You submit to these laws and thereby keep your ego in the “off”
position.

To Be Continued...

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!Bible Review: Day 7 of Creation

Genesis 2:1-3
“And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because in it He rested from all His work which God has created to do.”

All of man’s work, the reason for his existence, amounts to acquiring the qualities of the Creator, which are the qualities of bestowal.
Man corrects himself through these qualities, and in the process of the correction he ascends along the spiritual ladder toward infinity and perfection, growing closer and closer to the Creator.

What were we doing over the course of the previous six days, the six degrees of correction?
We were looking at our egoistic desires through the prism of the quality of bestowal.
At every degree we compared ourselves to the Creator and saw that we still had a lot of work to do.
In so doing, we seemingly delved into our “I.”

At every degree we compared ourselves to the Creator and saw that we still had a lot of work to do.
In so doing, we seemingly delved into our “I.”
During the six “days” we progressed from the “easy” desires (from the standpoint of correction) to the more “difficult” ones.
In the language of spiritual actions, these six degrees of advancement are called Sephirot (in Hebrew), from the word Sappir (sapphire), which means “illumination.”

Every degree has its own illumination.
The Six Days of Creation correspond to the Sephirot in the following manner: Hesed is the first day, Gevura is the second, Tifferet is the third, Netzah is the fourth, Hod is the fifth, and Yesod is the sixth.
These six successive corrections, called “the six days of creation,” are also the six millennia of Creation, or the six degrees of delving into oneself.
Throughout this period, humankind labors arduously to correct its egoism.
Incidentally, we’re living in the 5785s, the tail end of the sixth millennium.

A bible interpretation Saint is someone who is connected to the spiritual world, who feels this connection very clearly.
By working with the “easier” egoistic desires, he places himself on the degree of Hesed (Quality of Mercy). His objective is to build himself similar to the Creator.
He thinks of only one thing:
“What can I do to make our communication pleasurable for Him, how do I change my egoistic desire into a desire to bestow?
On this degree He is so pure and bestowing.
I want to be like Him, and I know that He wants this, too.
I cannot achieve this directly because in His Light I am exposed as a true egoist.
I understand that this is my nature, so can I circumvent it?”
Following these thoughts, a person seemingly tells the Creator: “You were the One who created me this way, to receive pleasure, so what can I do to receive yet bestow at the same time?
For in this lies the true, eternal pleasure for
which You have created me, and not for the fleeting egoistic one.

What can I do to delight You (Creator), like a son who wishes his father to be happy?”
The answer lies in the question itself: To receive so as to give joy.
How?
By changing the intention.
Instead of the typical self-serving egoistic intention, I need to form an intention whereby my actions delight the Creator.
This is possible only if, at a particular degree (Hesed, for instance), you “see” Him.
That is, you clearly feel the magnificence of the quality of bestowal, and the utter baseness and barrenness of the ego.
If the Creator heeds your pleas and grants you this
revelation, you will be able to change your intention.
You will desire to be in bestowal, realizing that there is no greater joy for the Creator than this.
If that happens, it means that you have built a “screen” i.e attaining intention to bestow.

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BIBLE REVIEW: Day Six Of Creation

Responsibility For The World:
“…and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.”
By correcting your egoistic desires (the still, vegetative and animate), you also correct the entire universe.
Remember this statement for now.
Soon we will clarify it, and you will see that your work determines everything that happens around you.
Man bears tremendous responsibility over what happens in the world.
Because he doesn’t yet understand it—living a life driven by beastly desires—he is hardly to blame.
When this realization comes, however, the real work for which he was created will begin.
“So what’s the deal?” you may ask, “If I start on the path of correction (first of all, there are no ifs—everyone will have to start on this path sooner or later), I will automatically correct everything in my environment.”
This is true.
All the problems we see in Nature simply mirror what’s happening within us. The impending ecological catastrophe, pandemic, contamination of rivers and seas, extinction of species, and extreme weather events are all reflections of us, the egoistic essence that has enslaved us.

The whole world is within us, waiting for us to realize that we are responsible for everything that happens in it, and complete our correction.

For instance, let’s assume there is a rock, and let’s call it “the Creator.”
This rock comprises a certain percentage of slate, a certain percentage of lime, a certain percentage of gold, and some other minerals.
If the rock were shattered, what would be the percentage of the composing elements in each piece?
It would be the exact same percentage as in the complete rock.
Because each piece is part of the whole, its composition is identical to the entire piece.
This is why geologists need only break off a piece of a rock to learn its contents. Every one of us is a shard from this “rock,” the Creator.
We are all comprised of the same qualities of love and bestowal that exist in Him, except we have broken off from Him.
What was the cause of this rupture?
Egoism—a quality that’s completely opposite to the Creator.

How do we return to the Creator?
The moment we understand that we are opposite from Him, and wish to return to the Creator, we will immediately embark on the path back to Him.
The main objective on the spiritual path is to build the desire for it.
However, we must experience this desire thoroughly, to the very end, until it hurts, until we scream with pain!
Desire is the basis for all things in the world, and determines absolutely everything.
Your objective is to adhere to the Creator.
If you have the desire to do so, you’ll begin to escape the slavery of egoistic self-love and you’ll immediately feel changes in your environment.
There will no longer be a need to hold conferences on ecology, or “Green Peace” rallies, worry about endangered species, and so on.
Humankind will understand that the buck stops with us.
We must rise above the ego and begin the journey to the Creator.
This is the message of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

The moment we rise above our egos, everything will change.
We will finally understand another universal truth: The Creator created us in His image and likeness, and we have never left this state.
What does “in His image and likeness” mean? It means that the Creator (the quality of bestowal) created the world, which operates under the law of bestowal.
Having been made in the Creator’s image and likeness, we live in this world and the world exists in everyone's desire.
But it only exists in us to the extent that we observe the law of that world, the law of bestowal.
We existed and continue to exist in the “Garden of Eden.”
We didn’t see or feel any of this because our egos were getting in the way, cutting us off from the true picture while painting a false, egoistic one.
Man sees the world through his inner qualities.
If we are corrupt, the world appears to us as such.
If we are pure, so the world appears to us.
We’ve been living a lie, but now we wish to grasp the Truth.
If this thought is alive and kicking within us, then off we go to escape the prison of our egos!

Conclusion of 1-6 Days Of Creation.
Next Study is Day 7 Of Creation.

To Be Continued...

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BIBLE REVIEW: Day Six of Creation

An animate desire implies movement and searching for subsistence.
At this stage you may connect with others like you, and band into a pack because together it will be easier to acquire food.
You are concerned with breeding and raising your progeny.
And then, suddenly, inside of you emerges the most complex and exalted desire that comprises all the others, called the “Man within us.”
The word “man” in Hebrew is “Adam.”
“Adam” derives from the word Domeh—similar, alike.
Similar to whom?
To the Creator.
Similar in what way?
Similar to His qualities.
The Creator’s qualities are pure bestowal, absolute and unconditional love. That is precisely what Adam, who perceives the Creator, aspires to and must ultimately become (We will continue repeating this until these qualities become familiar to us, then understandable, and finally, felt through and through).
This is what you must become.
Only then will you find yourself in Paradise, meaning you’ll resemble Paradise and its Master.
Further on we will delve deeper into this captivating topic, exploring where Paradise exists within you, and where Adam exists within this Paradise.

It follows that only one who aspires to be like the Creator, and to be born spiritually, can be called Adam (“man,” similar to the Creator).
This is the person referenced throughout the book of Bible.
Only those who aspire to this state will learn to read the bible correctly.
The others will look at the narrative and see all kinds of morals and tips for making life comfortable and successful.
Adam is the desire that has emerged within you, the reason why you’re continuing to read this text.
All the preceding desires no longer satisfy you.
Your couch potato days are over; you are no longer drawn to wealth, and you are no longer willing to work tirelessly to acquire veneration or fame.
What does it all mean?
A certain point named “Adam” or “the point in the heart” has awakened within you.
This point is one with the Creator and wants to be like Him because He is its root.
This is the meaning of the phrase, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness” (Genesis 1:26).
In the original Hebrew, it is written "Be Tzelem."

Tzelem (image of the Upper One) is the part of the Creator (the Upper Degree), which descends into man’s soul and imports into it the Creator’s qualities.
In other words, it is the apparatus of the Upper Governance, in charge of all the souls, their paths and order of correction.
This managing apparatus is directly connected to man’s point in the heart, the Adam in you.

As was already mentioned, the heart represents all of our earthly egoistic desires, while the point in the heart represents the desires aimed at attaining the spiritual world.
This point has nothing to do with the biological heart pumping blood.
It is given to us by the Creator and is present in all of us, only it takes time to awaken.
Why is it only a point?
Because the spiritual desires are not yet developed in you.
They are like a baby taking its first steps.
This is why they are considered a “point.”
The “Adam” in you takes his first steps.
He is directly connected to the “parents” (the Creator), and cannot survive without this connection.

The Adam in you wants to grow up to be just like his parents.
Through this point, the Creator connects to us and begins to build His image in us, connecting us to His managing apparatus.
What is the purpose of this apparatus?
It will provide you with the information about the program of Creation, the path you must traverse.
Without perceiving the spiritual worlds, you cannot know what to do, what your next step should be, or what is required of you.
This is why you keep making mistakes and suffer for it.
You are like a blind kitten in a vast world.

In order for you to acquire the qualities necessary to advance, the Upper Degree must teach you exactly what you need to do and how to do it.
For this reason it issues this auxiliary device called Tzelem.
This device is implanted in the soul, where it activates all the necessary corrections.
This is why it is written that man (Adam) is made in the Creator’s image.
Man becomes the predominant creature, the crown jewel of Creation.

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DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Six of Creation

Genesis 1:24-25
“And God said: ‘Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.’ And it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

The Creator created only one desire—to enjoy.
However, this desire is so all-encompassing that bringing us all to the end goal right away is impossible.
After all, we’re talking about infinite bliss, which is precisely the goal of man’s creation.
So instead, it is done in phases because the desire to enjoy within us divides into myriad smaller desires.
By correcting them one at a time, progressing from “easy” to “difficult,” we will achieve infinite bliss, the absolute and everlasting fulfillment prepared for us by the Creator.
For those in whom the point in the heart (the striving for spiritual pleasure) has awakened, working with one’s desires becomes a fascinating journey into the Upper World.

Genesis proceeds to describe how we overcome the correction phase of “easy” desires, whereupon we must correct the “difficult” ones, which were “brought forth from the earth.”
“Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind.”
As you already know, the “human being” within you is being vigorously prepared for birth.
In this process, ever newer desires constantly emerge, but for now they aren’t used for your personal enjoyment.
“…and God saw that it was good.”

The word “good” means that the desires are truly pure.
But who can make use of these desires?
Only man.
So comes his turn, whereby a “human” is born within you.
“And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’ And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”
In other words, inside of you, a “human” is born to rule over all other desires: “And let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
All these desires were created exclusively for man.

The “human” inside you is destined to walk a difficult path before he realizes that "ruling over them" doesn’t mean using them for his egoistic benefit, for it only harms him and the world.
Quite the contrary, these desires must be used exclusively to others’ delight, because with respect to the desires of others, all of us are always free, able to clearly separate ourselves from each other.
We will talk more about this later.
But for now it is essential to understand that when you begin to feel other souls around you, you begin to feel like the Creator toward them.
Herein lies your opportunity to be free, that is, to be like the Creator.
Together we will certainly come to this, and will understand what to do so as to delight the Bestowal.

Let us return to the situation depicted in Genesis.
Before “the birth of a human within you,” you were filled only with the inanimate, vegetative, and animate desires.
What does this mean?
An inanimate desire is when you want only one thing—to be still and not think of anything, like a rock by the wayside, totally passive, with only a single thought: “Leave me alone.”
Think back to all the times you were in such a state!

A vegetative desire is when you react to external stimuli, but are not yet able to move from your place, as if tied to the ground (by egoism).
You reach for the sun like a flower, that is, you now have an impulse to move, ascend, and descend, like a flower that opens during the day and wilts at night. You begin to ask yourself questions like, “Why do I suffer?”
You aspire for the Light, wishing to be “watered.”
You are concerned only with your own growth, you consume, you are no longer a rock—and that is progress.

To Be Continued...

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DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Five of Creation

Genesis 1:20-23
“And God said: ‘Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.’ And God created the great seamonsters, and every living creature that creeps, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.’ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.”

The Bible depicts each day of Creation as “erection of halls” within man, the so-called “celestial chambers” (in Hebrew (Heichalot—hollow spaces of desires)).
As the soul’s egoistic qualities become corrected, these hollow spaces gradually fill up with the Upper Light.
This is what every person subconsciously aspires to - A gradual filling of the hollow spaces brings all souls to a state of complete correction and perfection.
In “The Language of the Branches,” the Creator’s forces are described with words from our language.
In the book, Genesis, for instance, they are called fish, fowl and so on: “…and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air.”
As you read these lines, you should clearly visualize all the actions that you must carry out for your own correction.

Let’s look at the word “fish” ("Dag" in Hebrew), which stems from the word Daaga (concern).
If you see this word in the text, know that it doesn’t allude to fish swimming in water (remember, also, that water denotes the Light of mercy).
What should you be concerned with?
Only with growing closer to the Creator.
There should be no other concern for you.
These desires to enter the spiritual world are precisely what Genesis speaks of.
However, for the moment, we must keep in mind that all desires are within us.
In their uncorrected form, they appear as objects in our world, but in their corrected form they are the Creator’s forces, governed by His Light.

Thus, the Fifth Day alludes to the desires to be corrected first and foremost. This is because they are “easier,” that is, easier to correct: “…and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.”
The “fowl” touches the “ground” (your egoistic nature), rather than “grow” from it, but it is also subject to correction, resting on its egoistic nature: “…and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
Such is your path as well, dear reader—to separate within you egoistic desires, to which you can attach an altruistic intention, and thus try to correct them.
To do that, first try to simply think about it.
Think and read books on the internality of Bible.

But let us return to the book, Genesis.
Here we see that the time has come to correct the more “difficult” desires, which pertain to the “earth.”
They are as though begotten by it, brought forth from the earth.
New expanses are formed (Heichalot—chambers).
And as these more difficult egoistic desires are corrected, these hollow spaces fill up with Light.
Then, the Sixth Day arrives.

To Be Continued...

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DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

armchairscholar:
Hey Dr. Bankole, thanks for sharing such a thought-provoking take on Day Four of Creation! Your perspective really brings out the spiritual depth of the text, showing how it’s not just about the physical world but about what’s happening inside us. I love how you connect the “inner man” to overcoming challenges and growing through life’s ups and downs. It’s a great reminder that God’s plan for us is about becoming more like Him, not just getting everything we want right away.

Your point about the lights in the heavens guiding our altruistic desires hit home for me. It makes me think about how God uses both the light and dark moments in our lives to shape us. And I really appreciated your explanation of “days,” “months,” and “years” as spiritual states rather than literal time— it’s a fresh way to see our journey with God as an ongoing climb toward Him.

This makes me want to reflect more on my own spiritual state and trust God’s guidance like a child with a loving father, as you said. Excited to read your thoughts on Day Five! Thanks for sparking this kind of reflection.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful words! I'm grateful the message resonated with you. Day 5 to 7 will be posted too.
Excited to continue the journey with you. Here are the links from part 1 - 10:

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BIBLE REVIEW: Day Four of Creation

I repeat, we’re always talking about what happens within,
and there we have “man” and “woman,” as well.
This notion refers to the “inner man” (In Hebrew, Gever, from the word Hitgabrut—to overcome).
What would happen if you gave your child everything it
wanted?
It would not develop, but would grow up spoiled, capricious, selfish, and lacking empathy.
Would you be happy with such a child?
This is why one must go through all that is destined for one.
Every soul has a unique path to the Goal.
Also, if the Creator had placed you in a good state right
away, He would crush you with His Light.
You’d be deprived of any free choice, having become a slave to that state. Who could refuse absolute happiness?!
But the Creator doesn’t want a slave of the Light. He wants a friend, an equal, which you can become only if you go through all the states and choose the Creator of your own volition.

Your task is to feel the immortal soul behind the mortal
bodies, whereupon all your questions will fade away
instantly; then, you will see the goodness emanating from
the Creator and His individual attitude toward every soul.
He is with us always; we need only trust His guidance, like
a child heeding the advice of a loving father.
The child knows that it can rely on the father in every way, and trusts itself to his care.
There is a reason why the lights that separate the day
from the night, i.e., my states, are in the heavens.
“…and let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.”
Heaven refers to your quality of bestowal, the Creator’s quality. Because the lights in the firmament of heaven (altruistic desires) “give light upon the earth” (egoistic desires); egoistic desires are subject to the “heaven,” the altruistic quality in us.
“And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.”

It follows that only the “lights in the firmament of
heavens” affect the change of our states, separating them:
“…and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.”
Let us repeat once more: this Biblical text describes the
structure of the universe in which Adam will reside. Adam is the human in you.
The firmament, earth, and lights all refer to the altruistic and egoistic qualities within which he (the human in you) will exist.

The Creator will push the human toward attainment
of the spiritual world.
To this end you need to identify
yourself with your inner qualities, with the “human” in you.
If you succeed you will pass through all the states that lie
ahead together with Him.
The “nights” and the “days,” the
“evenings” and the “mornings” are spiritual states designed to bring you to Infinity, to life in the Upper World.
“…and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.”
Whenever speaking about time, we must refrain from imagining corporeal calendar days, months and years, for there is no time in the spiritual world.

How could time possibly exist in infinity?!

You are already connected to an eternal, immortal soul, so what room is there for the notion of time?! Indeed, there is no time, but only changing states
on the ever upward path along the spiritual ladder.
“Day” embodies a changing state—ascent and descent in the span of one degree (“morning,” “day,” and “evening” are all “one day”) before crossing over to the next degree.
Month (Hodesh in Hebrew) is derives from the word Hidush (renewal)—a return to a former state on a higher level, renewed and more advanced, having already gone through thirty ascents and descents.
Each time you are given additional work with your
egoism, causing you to fall, overcome, and continue the
ascent along the spiritual ladder.
Year (Shanah in Hebrew) derives from the word Lishot (to repeat), which is like moving along a spiral that returns to the same state on a higher level.
Either way, the ascent is constant.
“Days,” “months,” and “years” are all in you.
You “live through” them (different states) by correcting newer and increasingly difficult egoistic desires.
Some require a “day” to be corrected, others a “month” or
a “year (Not calendar day, month or year).” Nonetheless, the direction remains invariably up.
And this brings us to Day five Of Creation.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Four of Creation

Genesis 1:14-19
“And God said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so. And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.”

Reminder: the human being (Adam) inside of you has not yet been born.
This excerpt speaks only of creating the environment for his birth and life.
What is an “environment”?
It is forces—the Creator’s forces that will influence the person.
They exist only to bring one to the goal of Creation—unification with the Creator and eternal
happiness.
So, which forces were revealed on Day Four? “And God
said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.’”

So, which forces were revealed on Day Four? “And God
said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.’”

The lights are to govern “night” and “day”—the states one undergoes on the path to the Creator.
I’ll bet you’ve already felt periods of constant ascents and descents these are the “day and night” in question.
“Day” refers to an ascent, when you are filled with
confidence that you are on the right path, flying on the anticipation of the doors into the spiritual world opening up before you any second now.
“Night” is a descent, when nothing brings joy and the spiritual world seems nonexistent or made up, and you ask yourself, “Why am I wasting my life on this nonsense?”
These questions are thrown at you by your ego.
The ego finds the perfect moment to attack because it knows that if you endure, and break into the spiritual dimension, you will escape its rule. Naturally, the ego doesn’t want this, so these common questions abound, “Whom do you work for?”
“Can you even see Him?”
“Where is your reason?”
“Look around, people are leading peaceful and pleasant lives, while you’re struggling toward an unrealizable goal!”
Need I go on?

There is only one thing to suggest: when “night” falls, make sure you are surrounded by people like you, who are seeking the path into the spiritual world.
Friends who have the same goal as you will bear the brunt of the ego’s blow, and you will realize that alone, you are helpless, but together, you will endure.
Another useful advice is to go to disconnect from all the pestering questions, block them out, and not look back.
Hey, it’s dark out, anyway.
It’s as if you cancel, nullify yourself, waiting it out as you gather your strength.
You think no thoughts, make no actions or movements, and rightfully so.
You give yourself wholly to study.
You know that morning is right around the corner. “Morning” signifies a new ascent, a way out of the state of descent.
You may ask, “Why does the Creator send us these ascents and descents?
Couldn’t He have gifted us with all the goodness, as He plans on doing ultimately anyway, foregoing all the suffering and doubts?”
Well, He sends us these states because without them there would be no advancement, as progress is possible only via a continual change of states.
Only by overcoming is a true person born, a real “inner man.”

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Three of Creation

Genesis 1:9-13
And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good. And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

The waters gathered together under the heaven and the dry land appeared.
Part of the primordial Earth appears out of the waters.
After the water corrects the earth, it becomes suitable for life to emerge, because the earth now contains both the properties of water, and the properties of Earth.
The water itself is as devastating for life as dry land.
Remember how Noah sent a dove from the ark to find dry ground. Precisely the right combination of altruistic and egoistic properties of “heaven” and “earth” inside of man's soul forms the basis for correction and the application of the properties of Creator inside of a human being.

We already said that after the correction of “water” (Light of Mercy), the “earth” (your desire to receive) becomes fit to bear fruit, as the qualities of water and earth have joined together proportionately; abundant water is just as destructive for life as is dry earth - Case in point, Noah and the flood.
Man’s correction is built precisely on the ideal combination of altruistic and egoistic qualities within his soul, the “heavens” and the “earth,” the Creator and the creature.
This correction is called moving along the “middle line.”
Remember this definition!
Your innate egoistic nature is called “earth,” or the left line.
The quality of the Creator, “water,” absolute bestowal is the right line.
The middle line is what you must create on your own, by combining the right and the left lines.
That is, you must combine the “water” with the “earth” in a complementary way, which would allow the two qualities to “bear fruit.”
In other words, one has to take as much “water (Right Line)” as it is needed to combine it with the “earth (Left line)” so that these two lines complement each other and produce life (Middle line).

One must combine the “water (Right Line)” with the “earth (Left line)” in a complementary way, which would allow the two qualities to “yield fruit (Middle line).”
You ought to ask for rain and not a storm, since you are not yet capable of bestowing like the Creator.
However, you are ready to gradually advance, starting with correcting your smaller egoistic desires, as it is written: “And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind.”
Subsequently, rougher desires emerge, as in “and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind,” followed by even rougher desires … until your eyes fully open to the wonderful world that the Creator has prepared for you.
You ought to “ask for rain” so that these two qualities (“water” and “earth”) combine to ultimately grow the “Tree of Life”— a spiritual person who perceives the whole universe, existing eternally and blissfully in all the worlds.
Eternally, because by identifying yourself with an eternal soul instead of a transient body, you begin to equate your being with your soul, relegating the body to its true role—an ephemeral shell that simply accompanies it.
This transition to identifying yourself with the soul, rather than the body, is strictly internal, taking place as you gradually acquire the quality of bestowal through working correctly with the study of the Internality of Bible.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Two of Creation

Let’s reiterate. “Earth”—the egoistic quality—is our nature.
We already know that “tilling” it must be done carefully.
We also know that “water” (Light of Mercy) is our main helper.
It corrects the ego, saturates the earth, and facilitates the conditions for new life to be born. “Life” refers to the quality of bestowal; that is, the correct use of egoism—for the benefit of yourself and others.

You may ask, “What is “corrected egoism”?
It is a state where you feel bliss from bestowing pleasure upon the people around you, and not from using them for your own pleasure.
This bliss can only be felt in such a state, which is characteristic of the spiritual world.

What do you see in our world?
Your eyes detect all kinds of objects, plants, and bodies. How do you relate to them?
You love them if they bring you pleasant sensations, and you hate them if they don’t bring you any pleasure.
In other words, your attitude toward them is completely egoistic.

What happens when you correct your egoism, or even when you merely begin the process of its step-by-step correction?
You suddenly begin to notice things you hadn’t noticed before.
Through this imaginary world, you begin to see the real world, one that has always existed around you, a world that is full of Light, Love, and mutual bestowal, the Creator’s world, the so-called “world to come.”
You have never seen it because you were full of darkness and hatred.
It was concealed from you by your own ego.
Your world and “the world to come” have nothing in common whatsoever, as they exist by different laws.
Many people carry the false notion that “the world to come” is a place they go to after death.
Not so!
“To come” means it is your next spiritual state, which you must attain not after death, but in your lifetime, here and now.
The moment you put yourself in congruence with “the world to come,” you acquire the ability to see it.
It is as if you exit yourself, leave your egoistic body, and open yourself up to a new world, a world with only one law—the Law of Bestowal.
And you aspire toward that world because the lives of its inhabitants are founded on mutual love.

Thus, instead of perceiving only our world with its bodies and objects, you begin to perceive the force that governs it, to the extent that you grow more similar to this force.
By aspiring to bestow, you realize that this force is the absolute good.
This force is the Creator.
This is how you come to perceive the pure, genuine Light, just as it stems from the Creator.
It is as if you come out to meet the Light before it enters and fills you. This, the Creator’s Light, is not yet weakened by your egoistic filters.
It is still pure, and you are given the opportunity to feel it.
The very fact that you are capable of detecting it is happiness in its own right.
This is called, “to hear the Creator’s call.”
Afterward, when the Light passes through your system of filters, all that remains is a tiny glimmer, so weak that even an uncorrected person can endure it.
It is the same Light that you had felt as your point in the heart.
It is what Bible call “a tiny candle.”
This Light trickles into our world through the thick wall of egoism that screens it.
It enters here with the sole purpose of maintaining life in our world.
This Light “hides” within all the objects of our world, dressed in all kinds of garments.

All those times you found yourself enjoying good food, new things, fame and money, it was this very Light that drew you toward it!
That was the true source of your enjoyment!
You may ask: would anything exist in reality if not for this Light?
Our world would not exist.
There wouldn’t be anyone with the desire to live because there wouldn’t be any desires.
However, the very fact that you have a desire (and a great one at that) to attain the depth of what is happening to you speaks of one thing and one thing only (no offense intended): that you are a big egoist, much bigger than everybody else.
Hence, it is written: “He, who aspire higher than others in spirituality has greater egoistical desires.”
Whereas others are satisfied with this world, you demand nothing less than the spiritual one!
You will not rest until you reveal it, and that is a very good thing because it is precisely what the Creator wants from you.
And this brings us to Day Three Of Creation—an explanation of your new desires.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Two of Creation

It is written in Genesis 1:10: “And God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.’”
As soon as your consciousness fills with Light, of thoughts of the Creator and the Upper World, you begin to feel that you are comprised of qualities entirely opposite to the Light.

Your qualities are egoistic, i.e., “earthly,” hence the phrase, “Let the dry land appear.”
You begin to think about what can be done to make life appear, for the first sprouts of bestowal to emerge. (This is described in the Book of Genesis as the emergence of living and non-living organisms).
You no longer want to exist as before. You simply cannot allow it.
There is a point that has come alive in your heart, a point
that is in direct contact with the Creator, and it won’t let you rest.

The “heart” symbolizes all the egoistic desires of this world, while the “point in the heart” is the Creator’s sprout.
It can also be likened to a lifeline that the Creator lowers into our world, so we can grab it and rise to Him.

So how does spiritual life begin on earth? Or, to use the language of spipiritual actions, how do I use my egoistic desires
(earth) to grow the first sprouts of bestowal within me?
How do I break through my egoism and move toward the Creator?
This is done with the help of a special Light that He sends us.

Two types of Light emanate from the Creator:

1. “The Light of Life” and

2. “The Light of Mercy.”

This is precisely how the creature perceives them.
By using the quality of the Light of Mercy, which is called “water,” you acquire the ability to bestow.
What does this mean in terms of your corporeal life, and how do you achieve it?
You must “cleanse” yourself by reading the books of the Internality of Bible
composed by those who have already attained the spiritual worlds, writing to us from their heights.
In so doing, you draw the emanation of the Upper Light that these books contain.
Herein lies your spiritual work.
The very process of reading is already helpful, but if you approach it with the desire to change, to be like the Light, to cleanse yourself of the ego, the Light influences you to a much greater degree.

It is precisely this influence of the Light that separates the works of Bible from all the other texts in our world.
That is when “life appears on the earth,” meaning you begin to clearly sense the first, tender sprouts of spiritual desires. These desires haven’t yet taken a complete hold of you.
Rather, your state is like that of a baby who hasn’t yet
learned to walk, but can already use his feet to kick.
Better yet, you are like those first blossoms—unable to move, but which are drawn toward the sun.
When night falls, you wither, for night can be likened to
states of descent, which are inevitable and mean only one thing: that you are advancing. (Indeed, obstacles are sent
only to those who are advancing. Obstacles are necessary for strengthening one’s resolve in order to wage an “inner battle” and come to a genuine prayer: “I know that morning will come, and I ask for the strength to endure, to overcome all the descents.
I know that at present I am undergoing a cleansing of my desires, which are resisting, demanding that this process be stopped, appealing to my reason and logic.
But I don’t want to hear them.
Instead, I ask You for the strength to endure…”)
And then morning invariably comes—a state of ascent, confidence in knowing that you’ve acted correctly in choosing the spiritual path—and like a flower, you open to the Light.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

Bible Review: Day Two of Creation

Remember the following concepts, for you will need them from here on: “Heaven” means the quality of bestowal.
When acquired, the creature becomes filled with the Light of Mercy—the pleasure of being similar to the Creator.

“Heaven” means the Creator’s spark within you, a tiny grain of completely selfless bestowal and love that you discover within.
It is precisely this quality of “heaven” that prompts the feeling of unease, compelling you to search insistently for something that doesn’t exist in this world.

“Earth” is all of your egoistic desires. This entire world is built on them.
And between these two polar opposites—“the heaven and the earth”—is your soul.
Its state is unstable, as though hung on a string.

Subject to these two forces, in times of ascent the soul draws nearer to the heaven, to bestowal, to the Creator, and
you feel like you’re soaring as joy overcomes you.
In times of descent, the soul falls to the ground, to the desires of the body, to egoism, and you are imbued with worldly concerns,
calculations, fear for the future, and a total lack of faith.
It is similar to the way we maintain balance as we walk, our legs taking turns: first the right, then the left.
The correction process is the same.

You find your “golden mean,” that is, you utilize your innate egoistic desire by transforming it into an altruistic one, in order to climb up
the spiritual ladder to the Creator, ultimately acquiring His quality of bestowal.
It can further be said that correction constitutes the very understanding that the quality of bestowal exists, that it must be acquired, and that you must work with your egoism—“earth”—to achieve this goal. While previously you didn’t have this understanding, now you begin to live and draw closer to Infinity.
Your whole objective is to shorten the period of descent, to not allow it to last for months, weeks, or even hours, but a mere instant.
You must constantly cultivate the “heaven” within yourself.
We have plenty of “earth.” Being born egoists, our entire lives are filled with “earth.” However, we have only a tiny spark of “heaven,” and this spark must be kindled.
Think back to your “past” life, where you viewed the surrounding world through the prism of your egoism! Back then, any mention of the spiritual world seemed only to distract you from real and worthwhile endeavors.
“I’m working here,” you would say, “building a business, making a career, starting a family, and these people are bugging me with their stories of ‘heaven’!” That is, in your perception, the spiritual world was barely worth
considering.

Today, however, with your vocabulary enriched with new terminology, like “earth,” “heaven,” “egoism,” “bestowal,” “life,” “death,” and “the secret of Creation,” the spiritual world has gained significance and become a desired goal.
Today, it has truly become a world, and not just a point.

You continue to pursue a career, do business, build and maintain your home, but it doesn’t detract from your advancement along the spiritual path.
You want to live in both worlds, and you understand that this is possible.
People who attain the spiritual degree of love of neighbour differ from other people precisely in their ability to use the altruistic quality of “heaven” to correct the egoistic quality of “earth.”
In no way do they attempt to suppress or eradicate egoism.

The correction consists of seven states, called “seven days.” Naturally, the days in question have nothing to do with our earthly calendar.
This correction can occur in a matter of seconds, or stretch over a year, many years, a lifetime, or many lifetimes.
It depends only on you.

It is written in Genesis 1:10: “And God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.’”
As soon as your consciousness fills with Light, of thoughts of the Creator and the Upper World, you begin to feel that you are comprised of qualities entirely opposite to the Light.
Your qualities are egoistic, i.e., “earthly,” hence the phrase, “Let the dry land appear.”
You begin to think about what can be done to make life appear, for the first sprouts of bestowal to emerge. (This is described in the Book of Genesis as the emergence of living and non-living organisms).
You no longer want to exist as before. You simply cannot allow it.
There is a point that has come alive in your heart, a point that is in direct contact with the Creator, and it won’t let you rest.

The “heart” symbolizes all the egoistic desires of this world, while the “point in the heart” is the Creator’s sprout.
It can also be likened to a lifeline that the Creator lowers into our world, so we can grab it and rise to Him.

To Be Continued...

DR MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day Two of Creation

Genesis 1:6-8
“And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ And
God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a
second day.”

Don’t get caught thinking that everything was filled with water, for the passage speaks of something very different.
The word “water” in Genesis means the Light of Mercy.
And the created expanse called “heaven” alludes to the need to separate within is thoughts and desires, so as to see which of them are Light (meaning “heaven”), and which of them are dark.
The dark desires are called “earth,” but we’ll talk more about them later on.
This is the very first commandment you must perform.
Only afterwards can the soul be conceived. (Note that here, too, Earth is conceived on the basis of water, that is, on the Creator’s quality of mercy) as it is written in verse 10
“And God said, ‘Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land
appear.’ And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth.”

This separation of “heaven” and “Earth”— light thoughts from dark thoughts—is called the “recognition of evil.”
It is a state where you clearly realize that within you lies evil that must be corrected, or you will never reach the spiritual world.

Recognition of evil happens by studying the internality of the Bible written at high spiritual levels. These books of the Bible
contain a special luminescence that you invariably draw by trying to understand the meaning of the texts.
Shortly into the study, you begin to feel how opposite you are from this luminescence;
1. The luminescence represents selfless love and bestowal.
It helps you realize that you are an egoist, always striving to use everyone around for your own egoistic benefit.

2. The luminescence is peace and security, whereas you are consumed with fear and anxiety.

3. The luminescence is eternal, blissful life, whereas you are dragging along in a wretched existence full of suffering, at the end of which
comes death.

You want to merge with the Light. You make that your goal, you know that it’s possible, but how do you cleanse yourself and become similar to the Light?!
If you continue to apply to yourself all that these books study of the Bible speak of, if you try to realize that they are written for you and about you, it won’t be long before you feel the world around you beginning to change.

Recognition of evil is the beginning of the process of your purification of evil, your first steps toward the Light.
Yet, this path of correction of egoism is fraught with inevitable states of descent.
When those moments come, how do you endure and refrain from saying something like, “The goal is impossible; I am too weak and ought to stick to matters of this world; no use dreaming of eternal happiness; I am tired, exhausted.”

How do you endure these devastating states?

Well, there is a remedy, but for now you must listen to yourself, for your entire spiritual life depends on it.
Little by little you will learn to analyze which of your qualities pertains to the spiritual, and which to the animal; which bring you the sensation of life, and which the sensation of death.

Your recognition of evil will grow until it becomes absolute.
That will be the real breakthrough into the spiritual dimension, a
proof that you will be granted a remedy.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Day One Of Creation

Genesis 1:5
“And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”

Two states have formed within you:

1. Light—ascent,
bestowal, an altruistic quality,

2. Darkness—descent,
reception, an egoistic quality.

Separating, differentiating between them (1&2) is your first step toward correction.
This state is called “Day One of Creation.”

Every one of us consists of two contrasting qualities: darkness
and light, evening and morning.
These states represent our
spiritual ascents and descents. Ascents and descents have
nothing to do with how much money you gained or lost, but with how near or far you are from the Creator, and hence from His quality of bestowal.
Therefore, when the notions of “day-night” and “morning-
evening” are mentioned in Genesis, know that they refer to your changing spiritual states.
The goal in spiritual progress is to find ways to keep the descents short-lived, and swiftly shift to the next phase—one of ascent, of morning.

The secret of good and bad states can be defined by proximity to the Creator: when I am close to His quality of Love, I enjoy a state of ascent, and feel good.
The farther I am from this Law of love & bestowal, the more I suffer a state of descent, and feel bad.

Although we always look to attribute our despair or suffering to corporeal factors, like ill health, loss of money, a tiring work day, or a fight with one's spouse; these justifications are false.
The situation appears that way to us from our uncorrected state, when the root—the force that’s really pulling the strings—is concealed from us.

Thus, we find ourselve immersed in our “I,” (Our egoism), instead of trying with all our might to come out of it.
The truth is that no matter how hard we try, we are powerless to do it.
However, this fervent striving is what leads us to
the true prayer, found not in the mind but in the heart.
This is precisely the prayer the Creator wants from us, one that He answers instantly and without fail.

A “prayer” is a plea, a demand that is born in the heart.
It is “inscribed” in it, rather than utter with the organs of speech or read in a prayer book.
A prayer is one's desperate plea for help, for deliverance, an appeal to the Creator, beseeching Him not to abandon one to the bondage of egoism.

When does true prayer arises in the heart?

Only when a person come to realize that he cannot escape the ego’s deadly grip by himself.
Only then does a person turn to the Creator for help, imploring Him to grant one the necessary strength.
That is precisely the prayer that this study teaches us.
It tells us that all these states are necessary for the
development of our soul.
There cannot be morning without evening; we cannot feel an ascent if we haven’t experienced descent.
Hence, together they comprise the whole spiritual desire; together they are “evening and morning,” (descent and ascent) which unite into “one day."
“And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”
This is the one spiritual vessel, the only one capable of receiving the Light.

So let’s recap the “days of Creation” referenced at the very beginning of Genesis.
These passages explain precisely what you need to do with your soul on each of the “days.”
For instance, on the “first day” you need only feel that
the Light (quality of bestowal) exists, and that will already trigger the thoughts of what your inner “day and night,” “morning and evening” might be.
These initial sensations are only beginning to stir within you.
An environment is being formed for the soul to reside in, for the human that will arise within you.

To Be Continued...

DR. MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar).
internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Genesis 1:1–2:3

The Bible starts with the words "in the beginning" (Beresheet in Hebrew), which is the beginning of the process of the Creator's distancing from creation.
The word "Beresheet" originates from the words "Bar" – "outside".
That is, it recounts the exit from the Creator into a separate condition, between heaven and earth.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Heaven is quality of bestowal with its altruistic properties.
Earth is the quality of reception with its earthly, egoistic properties.
In between these two polar properties, which give the basis for the entire system of existence, hovers our soul.

The Bible starts with birth of creation, the Upper world and making of man.
It does not start with the end of creation.
The function of the Bible is to give people of this world the instruction on how to rise to the best most perfect state.
In its initial state, creation (the soul or Adam) is not corrected.
It must correct itself and to reach the state of "Final Correction". Imagine that you have a broken work tool which you need for work.
It follows that first you have to fix it, and use it only afterwards.
So the Bible instructs us how to fix this broken instrument: the soul we received from above.

During the correction, a person exists in between two worlds: upper and lower.
In the process of correction, the soul obtains the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience.
Most importantly, a person acquires new sensations and new, spiritual properties.
When a person corrects his soul completely, he acquires properties which allow him to exist in Upper world in its full entirety; in eternity, peace, and perfection.

Neither ecclesiastical sources, nor Bible describe this special state.
It is impossible to describe it, for there are no analogues to it in our language.
Only those who pass all the preliminary states of correction and reach the Final Correction attain this state.
Whatever lies beyond the Final Correction is not described anywhere.
This is exactly where the "The Secrets of the Bible" rest.
But these are only hints.
In reality, these states, spiritual realms cannot be described in words, because our words, letters, and terms are taken from our system of Correction and are effective only there. We are completely unaware of that which exists beyond our system of Correction, and it cannot be transposed into a human language and squeezed into our system of definitions and beliefs.

Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth...” refers to making of two properties: egoism and altruism.
The egoistic property of “earth" gets corrected with the help of altruistic property of “heaven.”
The correction process consists of seven states, called “seven days of creation.”
Naturally, this is a conditional name.
It has nothing to do with the seven calendar days on earth; it does not refer to either day and night or light and darkness on earth.
Rather, it refers to the spiritual states and spiritual sensations of a person who passes through these stages of correction.
It talks about the system in which one’s soul is corrected while existing at the degree called “earth”.

It is necessary to raise the soul from the degree of earth to the degree of heaven.
This means that the egoistical property of earth has to be transformed into altruistic property of heaven.
This can be achieved by the way of seven consecutive corrections called “seven days of the week”.
The Bible explains what we must do with our soul “each day (This bear no relation to calendar days).”

To Be Continued...

DR MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (Bible Interpretation Scholar)

internalityofbible@gmail.com

BIBLE REVIEW: Genesis 1:1–2:3

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

Genesis (Beresheet in Hebrew), the first chapter in the Bible starts with these words.
They evoke a certain picture.
We have heard various interpretations of these words. However, these simple interpretations leave a tremendous amount of questions; they lack logic and a scientific approach.

The Bible talks about only the spiritual world, the way it was created, and how later our world was created from it.
Moreover, the Bible does not just relate to what exists but also teaches a person to be able to see that world.

Gradual revelation of the Upper world is called the spiritual ascent of a person, or rungs of the spiritual elevation.
Several techniques are used in the Bible to describe the spiritual world. The Bible describes the Upper world using everyday language.
There is also the allegorical language and the language of laws. Now, we will try to translate the Bible language of branches into the language of spiritual actions.

The Bible describes the emergence of the Upper world, its structure and evolution and then it depicts the process of our creation.
But this is not a person of our world.
The Bible talks about the creation of the will to receive (called the Soul or Adam) with the goal to fill this creation-desire-soul with eternal and absolute delight. This desire to delight is the only creation.
Besides it there is only the Creator. Thus everything besides the Creator is nothing but various measures of the desire to delight.

The same thing happens in our world.
The only thing that separates all objects from one another is the different amount of the desire to delight, which determines all properties of each object.

The desire to delight consists of five levels.
The Creator wishes to completely fill creation with pleasure until creation senses perfection and eternity.
This is because the Creator Himself exists in this particular state, and wishes to bestow it to us.

The Creator is perfect and the only one.
Being perfect, He wishes to bestow perfection, His own condition to His creatures.
This is why the goal of creation is to reach the Creator's perfection, and to be able to receive that which the Creator wants to give.

Spirituality does not deal with the events in our world. It researches the events in the Upper world, from where all the powers descended into our world and generated and instigated all that happens here.
By learning the Internality of Bible, a person starts seeing the Upper world.
A person is able to attain the Creator and the way He created the spiritual world.
In the Bible, this act is called "The First day of Creation".

In His subsequent actions (so called subsequent days), the Creator made governing forces of the Upper world.
The last, sixth, act of the Creator (the sixth day of creation) was making of Adam.

Since Adam was the final act of the Creator, he is the purpose of entire creation.
Everything created prior to him was created for him.
What is Adam’s destiny?
Adam must attain similarity with the Creator, become completely equal to Him, and himself rule over the entire existence and his own destiny.
What's more, we are obliged to reach this highest and perfect state "on his own."
To reach it "on his own" means that first we have to reach the worst state (opposite the state of the Creator), and after rise from it on our own accord.

With the help of study of the Internality of Bible, a person sees both worlds - our world and the Upper world - as well as the interaction between them.
The information emanates from the Upper world and realizes into matter before our eyes. Our reaction to this (which descends from above in the form of information), rises back to the Upper world and determines in which way (good or bad) our future will descend and materialize.
Hence, the Creator (existing at the utmost level), created creation from the property opposite to Him. He filled it with the light, and later by emptying it of the light, lowered it down to the condition of "our world".

By ascending the rungs of the spiritual ladder, creation becomes worthy of receiving the delight that is many times bigger than it had before descending to this world.
Moreover, creation must have the strength and opportunity to act freely between two opposite forces, its own egoism and the Creator, and then to independently choose its path.

To place these conditions at creation's disposal, the Creator has to do the following:

1. Completely distance creation from Himself

2. Provide it with an opportunity to evolve and attain this Existence,

3. Provide it with an opportunity of free choice

The Creator gives us such conditions gradually.
Initially creation, sensing the Creator
led with the light) is not independent.
It is completely suppressed by the light and the light dictates to creation its own rules and transfers it its qualities.
In order to make creation independent from the Creator, He must distance Himself completely.
In other words, creation, freeing itself from the light, gains freedom of action.
The act of expulsion of light from the spiritual vessel is called the Restriction.

To Be Continued...

Dr. Melchisedec Bankole (Bible Interpretation Scholar)

Imagine being trapped—and not even knowing it.
You’re surrounded by people who care about you. You follow the rules. You believe you're doing the right thing.
But something feels… off. You’re afraid to question. You feel guilty for doubting. And the idea of leaving? Unthinkable.

You’re not behind bars. You’re not chained.
Yet something invisible holds you in place.

This isn’t just about cults or extreme ideologies. It’s about what happens when loyalty is weaponized, fear is spiritualized, and freedom is redefined as rebellion.

This is a story about Stockholm Syndrome—not in hostage situations, but in the places we’re told to trust the most.
And it starts with one simple question:
What if the thing that comforts you… is also the thing that controls you?

Why didn’t they just leave?
The question lingers, asked with judgment or disbelief.
But what if the better question is: What if they truly believed they couldn’t?

The Paradox of the Holy Prison

A smiling congregation, hands raised, hymns echoing through stained glass. But beneath the surface, a different song plays—one of fear, control, and invisible chains. This isn’t just another exposé on religious abuse. This is a psychological post-mortem—an autopsy of the why behind unwavering loyalty to leaders who manipulate in the name of God.

Let’s dive in, slowly, carefully—each step peeling back the veil.

What is Stockholm Syndrome?

Before we talk pulpits and pews, we need to talk hostages.

Stockholm Syndrome entered the public lexicon in 1973 when hostages in a Swedish bank robbery shocked the world. Rather than condemn their captors, they defended them. Even after rescue. The essential conditions were:

A perceived threat to survival,

Isolation from outsiders,

Small acts of kindness from captors,

And a belief that escape was impossible.

These psychological bonds formed under duress—bonds not of love, but of survival.

Now imagine that same psychological blueprint… in the religious church system.

The Religious Mirror—A Different Kind of Captivity

Religious trauma is an emerging field, and the religious church system—especially high-control, authoritarian ones—eerily replicate the four conditions of Stockholm Syndrome. But instead of guns, there’s scripture. Instead of vaults, pulpits. Instead of masks, robes.

Members don’t see themselves as victims. They are the faithful. And their captors? Not criminals—but shepherds.

Take for example:

The fear of hell, preached as divine consequence.

Isolation from “worldly” friends.

Occasional praise or blessings from leaders, reinforcing compliance.

A belief that leaving the religious church system means eternal damnation.

The structure is spiritual. The impact is psychological.

Mechanisms of Control (with Teeth)

Let’s break down the machinery:

a. Fear-Based Theology[/b]

Terms like “Christian Shotgun Wedding” have emerged to describe how religion is weaponized. Belong to the religious church system or burn forever? That’s not courtship—that’s coercion.

b. Isolation Tactics

Like in Jonestown, external influences are demonized. Members are taught that outside opinions—be they secular or even from other denominations—are spiritually dangerous.

c. Bounded Choice

Coined by cult expert Janja Lalich, this term refers to choices that aren’t really choices. You’re free to leave... but then you lose your family, your community, and possibly your salvation.

d. Divine Authority

Dissent isn’t rebellion against a man—it’s rebellion against God. And who wants to go to war with the divine?

Real-Life Horror Stories

These aren’t theoretical concepts. Let’s name names.

❖ Catholic Church

The most haunting and globally documented example of Stockholm Syndrome in religious contexts is the Catholic Church’s long-standing crisis of pedophilia and sexual abuse—targeting both male and female victims, often children, by clergy members. Survivors frequently describe years of silence enforced through fear of divine wrath, community ostracization, or spiritual guilt. Abusers, cloaked in religious authority, exploited trust and used small gestures of affection or "spiritual guidance" to confuse boundaries—conditions eerily aligned with classic Stockholm Syndrome. Many victims defended or protected their abusers for decades, unable to fully process the betrayal due to the religious church system’s status as a sacred institution and the immense psychological grip of divine loyalty.

❖ Jehovah’s Witnesses

Another striking example is the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a group often cited in discussions of high-control religious environments. Members are taught that leaving the organization equates to abandoning God, resulting in automatic shunning by family and friends—a powerful form of social isolation. Questioning doctrine is discouraged, and dissent is viewed as spiritual rebellion. Even minor acts of disobedience can lead to disfellowshipping, cutting members off from their entire support system. Former members report staying in the organization for years not out of belief, but from fear of losing their children, spouses, and community—hallmarks of bounded choice and coercive control that mirror the psychological captivity seen in Stockholm Syndrome.

❖ Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF)

Despite documented abuse, members defend Jane Whaley. Why? Fear of damnation. Shunning. Indoctrination.

“If we leave, we’re spiritually dead,” one ex-member said.

❖ Jonestown: Peoples Temple

Over 900 people died in 1978 in a mass suicide-murder. But they didn’t see it that way. They thought they were escaping a corrupt world.

❖ United Pentecostal Church

One survivor tells of enforced modesty rules, isolation, and defending abusive leadership. “I believed I was protecting God’s truth. That’s how deep it went.”

Psychology Under the Microscope

What do survivors exhibit?

Positive feelings toward abusers

Distrust of outsiders

Willingness to sacrifice finances, autonomy, and safety

Cult dynamics overlap with Stockholm’s core. Add divine consequences, and you’ve created a religion-based feedback loop of psychological captivity.

The Murky Middle

Here’s the controversial bit.

Stockholm Syndrome isn’t in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Some psychologists argue it’s a media label more than a scientific term. In a 1999 FBI study, only 8% of kidnapping victims exhibited it.

The Way Out—Healing From Holy Harm

🔹 Awareness

Recognizing the mechanisms—fear-based theology, divine guilt trips—is step one.

🔹 Support Systems

Psychological recovery is real. Jonestown survivors found healing through therapy, community, and naming what happened.

🔹 Critical Dialogue

Faith doesn’t have to mean blind loyalty. Churches that invite questioning are often those with nothing to hide.

Why It All Matters

What we believe shapes how we live. When belief systems are hijacked by authoritarian control, the damage is deep and psychological.

The deeper truth?

We are all vulnerable—to love, to fear, to manipulation. Especially when it wears a holy robe.

The Final Pew

So… why didn’t they leave?

Because they couldn’t see the door.

Not until someone showed them it was never locked.

BIBLE INTERPRETATION SCHOLAR

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I'm really glad it resonated with you. Sometimes just recognizing where we stand is the first real step toward positive change.

You’re halfway through your Lent fast, diligently avoiding meat. Then someone offers you a juicy roast — tender, savory, and unmistakably mammalian.

“It’s okay,” they insist. “It’s a fish.”

The animal? A capybara. Or maybe a beaver.

Absurd? Maybe. But history, especially when filtered through the lens of religion, survival, and colonial power, is rarely simple.

What if I told you that the world’s largest rodent was once — officially — declared a fish by the Catholic Church?

This isn’t a joke. It’s a centuries-old compromise where biology bowed to belief... and dinner was saved.

A Strange Question, A Stranger Answer

You’re at a dinner table in Caracas, Venezuela, just before Easter. Someone serves you a succulent dish of capybara. You pause, eyebrow raised. “Isn’t this… meat?”

The host smiles, almost mischievously. “Not during Lent,” they reply. “Capybara is a fish.”

You laugh. They don’t.

You check your phone later. The facts... stun you.

A Tale of Two Mammals

Capybaras and beavers. One roams the lush wetlands of South America, the other constructs intricate dams across North American rivers. Both are mammals — warm-blooded, fur-covered, live-birthing, and milk-nursing.

In biology, they are textbook examples of Rodentia, not Pisces. Fish, on the other hand, are aquatic vertebrates: they have gills, scales, and lay eggs. The gap between the categories is more than semantic — it’s fundamental.

Yet, somehow, both creatures have been officially declared “fish.” Not by a biologist. But by… the Catholic Church.

Lent, Loopholes, and a Hungry Faith

To understand the logic, you must step back into the liturgical rhythms of 17th-century Catholic Europe.

During Lent, the devout abstained from meat — more specifically, the flesh of warm-blooded, land-dwelling animals. The practice symbolized sacrifice, discipline, and alignment with Christ’s 40 days of fasting in the wilderness.

But there was a loophole: aquatic animals were exempt.

Fish, of course. But what exactly is a fish, when you're starving in the Canadian winter or navigating religious conversion in colonial Venezuela?

The Papal Declarations Begin

In 1784, the Vatican made a surprising ruling: the capybara, the world’s largest rodent, native to South America and thoroughly semi-aquatic, could be eaten during Lent.

Why? Because it lived in the water, swam expertly, and was commonly hunted from boats. That was enough.

Go back further — to 17th-century Canada — and you’ll find a similar ruling for the beaver. Jesuit missionaries and colonial settlers, struggling to observe Lent amidst brutal winters, sought guidance. Could they survive without their primary protein source? The Church considered the request — and answered with unexpected pragmatism.

Yes. The beaver was a fish. Spiritually speaking.

Muskrats, Turtles, and Gator Tales

This wasn’t an isolated oddity.

In Detroit, muskrats — yes, those musky, semi-aquatic rodents — are still eaten during Lent, a practice tracing back to French Catholic settlers.

In Louisiana, the tradition extended to alligators, especially among Cajun communities. Turtles in Florida? Same story. Each classification was less about taxonomy and more about local necessity.

As Jesuit missionary Father Paul Le Jeune once wrote:

“It would be a great hardship to deprive the people of what nature and climate have made their primary food.”

Religion Meets Ecology

In Venezuela, capybara hunting became so widespread during Lent that the government had to step in. Environmental concerns rose; regulations followed. Today, the Venezuelan Religious Church System still permits capybara meat during Lent, but under controlled circumstances — a delicate dance of religion, ecology, and heritage.

In Canada, the beaver’s culinary role faded with modernity — but echoes of the practice remain in folk memory and historical archives.

What’s astonishing is not just that these classifications occurred, but how flexible and contextual they were. The Religious Church System, often portrayed as rigid, showed remarkable adaptability — prioritizing human need and cultural integration over zoological purism.

A Classification Beyond Biology

Let’s step back and ask: What is a fish?

To a scientist: gills, fins, cold blood.

To a priest in 1784 Venezuela: anything you catch in a boat that swims.

This moment — where religious doctrine bends to human need is a profound reflection on how categories can flex. Classification isn't always about biology. Sometimes, it’s about survival.

Modern Echoes in a Post-Fish World

Today, these rulings are mostly cultural relics. The Vatican doesn’t publicly reinforce beavers-as-fish anymore, and no modern Pope has clarified the reptilian status of the alligator.

Yet the legacy lingers.

In Detroit, Lenten muskrat dinners are still hosted by local parishes. In Venezuela, capybara remains a seasonal delicacy — and a curious testament to ecclesiastical compromise.

Even now, some dioceses in the U.S. quietly maintain dispensations — like St. Louis, where beaver may technically still pass as permissible Lenten fare, though it's rarely practiced.

Mammals in the Water, Humans in the Grey

So, no — capybaras and beavers are not fish. Not in the scientific sense.

But in the winding corridors of history, where religion, ecology, and culture intertwine, they once were. For those who lived by the land and water, who needed both spirit and sustenance, the line between mammal and fish blurred — not out of ignorance, but out of survival.

In that blurring, we glimpse a broader truth: human systems adapt, even sacred ones, when survival calls.

Noteworthy:

Capybaras and beavers are mammals — but for centuries, the Catholic Church considered them “fish” during Lent due to their aquatic habits. This pragmatic classification allowed indigenous peoples and settlers in harsh regions to adhere to fasting rules without risking starvation. While the practice is less formal today, it remains a curious, culturally rich exception in religious history.

BIBLE INTERPRETATION SCHOLAR

They say religion saves.
But what if the very thing meant to save you is what broke you?

You obeyed the rules. You sang the hymns. You silenced your questions. You were told you were chosen, blessed, protected—until you weren’t.

And when you finally stepped away—if you dared—you didn’t just lose a belief system.
You lost a language. A family. A version of yourself.

This isn’t doubt. This is damage.

It’s called Religious Trauma Syndrome—a hidden epidemic affecting those who’ve escaped high-control, authoritarian religious environments. Unseen by the public. Misunderstood by professionals. And deeply felt by those living it.

Could the religion that once defined you… be the reason you’re still unraveling?

It’s time to look closer. To listen deeper.
This is the story of what happens after the altar.

Beneath the Hymns

You hear it in the silence between the religious church system bells.
In the hush after an altar call.
In the trembling hand of someone who no longer prays.

They don't always have a name for it. But they know what it feels like.

At first glance, the notion of religion causing trauma may seem like an affront—counterintuitive, even offensive. Religion is comfort. Community. Purpose. But for many, particularly those who walked away from high-control, authoritarian belief systems, religion was also surveillance, shame, and psychological captivity.

This is the hidden world of Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS). And it is more common than you'd think.

What is Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS)?

Coined by psychologist Dr. Marlene Winell, RTS describes the cluster of symptoms that emerge when a person leaves—or is forced out of—a high-control religious environment.

Though not (yet) recognized in the DSM-5, therapists and survivors alike recognize it for what it is: a condition with real psychological consequences, akin to PTSD or Complex PTSD.

Imagine believing for decades that questioning your faith could condemn you to hell. Now imagine trying to think critically, trust your instincts, or make decisions in a world you were told was demonic.

It’s not just deconversion. It’s unlearning the very structure of your internal reality.

Inside the Storm: The Symptoms of RTS

Cognitive disorientation. Emotional paralysis. Social isolation. Cultural dyslexia.

These are not exaggerations. They are the daily experiences of RTS survivors.

Cognitive: Decision-making is agony. Doubt feels like sin. You default to black-and-white thinking because it’s what kept you “safe.”

Emotional: Depression and anxiety take root where certainty used to live. You grieve a community that may now see you as a traitor.

Social: Friends vanish. Families fracture. You fumble to understand dating culture, or how to talk without religious jargon.

Cultural: You're a stranger in a secular world. You may not know what "Game of Thrones" is. You miss cultural references at work. You feel... alien.

One woman described it as “being reborn with the mind of a child, but the expectations of an adult.”

Where Does It Begin? The Roots of RTS

Let’s be clear: not all religion is traumatic. But RTS typically grows in fertile soil—places where:

Obedience is prized above understanding.

Fear of eternal punishment is the motivator.

Individuality is sacrificed for “truth.”

Think strict evangelical churches, fundamentalist sects, or cult-like groups.

One ex-member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses recounted how “even birthdays were taboo. Every action had an eternal consequence. There was no room for humanity—only religion.”

The trauma isn’t just in leaving. It’s in realizing your whole framework for making sense of the world was designed to control you.

How Widespread Is It? (More Than You Think)

There are no exact numbers—how do you measure invisible wounds?

But some therapists estimate up to one-third of U.S. adults may experience symptoms of RTS, particularly those exiting high-control groups.

And as therapy becomes more accessible and stigma fades, more people are beginning to connect their emotional struggles not to chemical imbalances—but to spiritual abuse.

A Reddit thread on RTS drew over 50,000 responses in one weekend. That’s not a fluke. That’s a phenomenon.

Personal Stories: Haunted by Heaven, Saved by Truth

Let me tell you about James.

Raised in a Pentecostal household, James was taught that questioning authority meant questioning God. When he abandoned religion at 19, he was cast out—both spiritually and literally.

“They told me I chose hell. I remember shaking in bed, trying not to sleep, because I thought dying in that moment would send me to eternal fire.”

He spent two years in a fog. Lost friends. Lost family. But in time, he found a therapist familiar with RTS, joined an online support group, and started rebuilding.

Now? He teaches high school. Still flinches at the sound of a pastor’s cadence. But he smiles more. He is studying bible interpretation. He no longer fears his thoughts.

He is not alone.

Others delve into Buddhist meditation. Some into psychedelic therapy. Some into atheism, others into progressive faiths.

The Path to Recovery: Practical Steps

Healing is possible. It’s messy, non-linear, and deeply personal—but it's possible.

Start with:

Therapy: Specifically, someone trained in religious trauma. (See: Journey Free, The Religious Trauma Institute)

Community: Bible interpretation study groups for deconstructing religion.

Education: Read books like Leaving the Fold (Winell) or The God Delusion (Dawkins).

Self-compassion: Reparent your inner child. Learn to forgive yourself for believing.

Reframing your past isn’t betrayal—it’s reclamation.

Society’s Blind Spot: Why RTS Is Still Overlooked

Why isn't this mainstream?

Because society still sees religion as inherently good. Harm from it is often dismissed as misunderstanding or personal weakness.

“But religion gives people hope,” they say.

Yes—but cults give people purpose too. That doesn’t mean they aren’t destructive.

Mental health practitioners are only now beginning to recognize religious trauma as distinct. We need better research. Better training. Better empathy.

The Other Side: What Healing Looks Like

Here’s the part no one tells you:

Eventually, the nightmares fade.
The shame quiets.
The fog lifts.

You laugh again. You love without guilt. You trust your body. You choose your values.

Some even rediscover truth in bible spirituality. Others embrace secularism with joy.

You don’t have to believe the old lies to find new meaning.

A Word of Grace: On Sensitivity and Truth

Not all faiths are harmful. Not all leaders are abusers. But if you’ve been wounded by your religion, your pain is valid. Your story matters.

Talking about RTS means holding space for those whom religion betrayed.

Are you going through RTS, share your story in the comment.


BIBLE INTERPRETATION SCHOLAR

By the time you're reading this, you've already faced something unprovable.

Maybe it was in the hospital room, standing beside a loved one whose breath slowed like a clock winding down.

Or during that long walk home after losing a job, staring up at the sky with a question you couldn't quite phrase.

What now?
Why me?
What is this all for?

We don’t talk about it much. But behind the screens, beneath the noise, most of us eventually wrestle with questions that don’t have answers—at least not the kind that come in equations or peer-reviewed studies.

This is not a hit piece. It’s not an apology either.

It’s an inquiry—slow, careful, and human.

The First Fracture: Limits of Proof

In 1931, an Austrian logician named Kurt Gödel quietly cracked open the foundations of certainty.

His incompleteness theorems didn't make the headlines. No riots, no parades. Just math eating itself.

Gödel proved that even in the most rigorous systems of logic—systems so clean they could prove the laws of numbers—there are statements that are true... but unprovable.

Let that sink in.

In the realm where truth should reign supreme, there are doors that simply don’t open—not because we lack the key, but because the lock doesn’t respond to keys at all.

“There will always be truths beyond the reach of logic.”
– Gödel, in so many words

This was the first crack.

What is Logic Proposition?

"Logic proposition" usually refers to a statement in formal logic that can be true or false, but not both. It's a building block in propositional logic, often used in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy.

The limitations identified by Gödel extend beyond pure mathematics. For example, in physics, researchers have discovered systems where certain properties depend on uncomputable numbers, making precise predictions impossible. A notable case involves a phase transition in a physical model that occurs at a value corresponding to the Chaitin constant (Ω), an uncomputable number.

This means that, even with complete knowledge of the system's rules, some outcomes remain inherently unpredictable.

Where Science Stops

Science is a marvel of human discipline. It got us the internet, vaccines, the Large Hadron Collider.

But science doesn’t know what to do with “why.”

Why is there something rather than nothing?
Why does consciousness feel like... anything?

The problem of induction, a philosophical thorn since David Hume, shows that scientific predictions are not absolute. They work—until they don’t. Gravity holds, until it maybe doesn't.

Science describes. But it cannot prescribe meaning.

This is not failure. It’s design. A telescope doesn’t fail because it can’t hear sound. It was never built for that.

The Mind’s Edge

Now imagine you're sitting in a quiet room.

You're thinking about thinking.

Where do your thoughts come from? Are they yours? Could they be otherwise?

Immanuel Kant argued that all our experiences are shaped by internal categories—space, time, causality. We don't see reality; we see our version of reality.

So maybe, just maybe, some truths are out there, but we'll never touch them—not with science, not with logic, not even with poetry.

What, then, fills the gap?

Enter: Religion

This is where religion steps in—not to compete with science, but to address its silence.

Not to measure atoms, but to measure meaning.

Christianity speaks of mysteries, Islam of divine will, Buddhism of transcending thought, Hinduism of cosmic unity.

In different languages and rituals, they speak to what Gödel and Kant imply: that something lies beyond.

When your child asks, "What happens when we die?"
You don’t reach for a microscope.

The Scientist Who Prays

Let’s pause.

Not all who turn to religion are uneducated, unscientific, or irrational.

Dr. Francis Collins, who led the Human Genome Project and served as Director of the NIH, is a devout Christian. He calls DNA "the language of God."

Or John Polkinghorne, a theoretical physicist turned Anglican priest. He described physics and theology as “intellectual cousins.”

There’s also Georges Lemaître, the mind behind the Big Bang theory—Catholic priest by robe, physicist by training.

For them, faith is not a crutch. It’s a compass where maps fail.

Case Study: When Science Fails to Soothe

A biologist studies the origin of life for 30 years.

Every answer breeds more questions.

Abiogenesis remains elusive. Consciousness unexplainable. Evolution compelling, but cold.

Then his wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The microscope doesn’t comfort. The journal articles don’t hold her hand.

He begins to pray—not because he knows, but because he hopes.

This is not surrender. It’s survival.

The Controversy

Of course, not everyone agrees.

Biologist Jerry Coyne says religion and science are incompatible. “Faith is belief without evidence,” he argues, “and science is all about evidence.”

But in a 2009 Pew study, 51% of scientists in the American Association for the Advancement of Science said they believe in a higher power.

Not everyone shouts it. But belief still lingers in the labs.

The war between science and religion? Maybe it’s more of a cold peace—with shared territory.

Why We Believe

Let’s not pretend religion is only about metaphysics.

It’s also about mourning. About ritual. About story.

We are storytelling creatures. When facts cannot satisfy, we turn to narrative. To myth. To mystery.

And maybe—just maybe—that leap of faith isn't irrational.

Maybe it's human.

Across the Religions

Each faith approaches the unprovable differently:

Christianity invites belief in the unseen.

Islam asks for submission to divine wisdom.

Buddhism suggests letting go of needing proof.

Hinduism offers a vast, cyclical view of time and spirit.

Yet all seek to answer the same cry: Why are we here?

The Final Turn

What if the urge to believe isn’t a defect?

What if it’s a response—to the beauty and terror of a world we can describe but not fully explain?

You may never prove that God exists.
But neither can you prove that love matters, that your life has purpose, or that death is not the end.

And still, you live as if these things are true.

The Space Between

Gödel whispered that not all truths are provable.
Kant said some realities lie beyond perception.
Science admits its blind spots.
And still, we wake up. We wonder. We believe.

Not because we’re weak. But because in the face of the unknowable, belief might be the most rational thing we have.

DR MELCHISEDEC BANKOLE (BIBLE INTERPRETATION SCHOLAR)

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Every spring, millions of people wake up to a strangely familiar scene—chocolate eggs tucked into plastic grass, a grinning bunny painted on the packaging, and children squealing in search of hidden treasures.

Behind this pastel-colored spectacle lies a story soaked in blood, buried in pagan graves, twisted by medieval fasting laws, and rewritten by Victorian marketers.

Why do we celebrate resurrection with candy?
Why does a rabbit, of all creatures, deliver eggs?

You think you know Easter?
You don’t. Not yet.

This isn’t just a holiday.
It’s a cultural riddle, centuries in the making—and the real story is hiding in plain sight.

Let’s crack it open.

Magdalene’s Red Egg & the Rise of Legends

Eastern Christianity gives us a layer. Legend has it that Mary Magdalene brought an egg to Emperor Tiberius to proclaim Christ's resurrection. The emperor scoffed. “A man cannot rise from the dead any more than this egg can turn red.” And then, the egg did.

A miracle? A metaphor? Either way, it stuck. Eggs became resurrection made tangible—fragile vessels of death and rebirth. The empty tomb, in shell form.

Enter the Bunny (And the German Immigrants Who Brought It to America)

Now, pivot. We shift scenes to 1682 Germany. A little-known medical professor named Georg Franck von Franckenau documents a curious tradition: the Osterhase—an Easter hare who lays eggs and hides them for children. Weird, right?

But this is where things take a sharp turn. German immigrants brought the hare to America in the 18th century. Their folktale took root in Pennsylvania, where children built nests for the hare to lay its colorful eggs. Slowly, the bunny hopped from folklore into mainstream tradition.

Still, why a hare? Why not a lamb, a dove, or something biblically grounded?

Digging Up the Hare’s Pagan Past

Long before Christianity, hares were sacred. In Neolithic Europe, they were buried with the dead. Iron Age Britons revered them. Julius Caesar even noted they were too holy to eat. Think about that—2,000 years ago, hares were already more than just mammals.

Their symbolism? Fertility. Rebirth. Spring. Sound familiar?

But don't jump to conclusions just yet.

Eostre, Grimm, and the Pagan Whisper Campaign

Here’s the name that keeps popping up in modern pop culture: Eostre, the supposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. You’ve probably heard that Easter gets its name from her. Maybe you’ve even been told she had a hare companion.

Let’s pump the brakes.

Eostre appears once—in the 8th-century writings of the monk Bede. No hares. No eggs. No rituals. Just a mention of a festival named after her. The bunny-Eostre link? That came later, in 1835, courtesy of Jacob Grimm (yes, that Grimm). He speculated about a spring goddess and hares, but he offered zero sources.

Historians today see this as romantic nationalism more than solid scholarship. A Germanic fairy tale.

From Pagan Symbolism to Victorian Chocolate

By the 19th century, both eggs and bunnies were fully domesticated by Western culture. Chocolate makers in France and Germany began crafting hollow eggs. Fry’s of the UK sold the first chocolate Easter egg in 1873. Meanwhile, the bunny morphed from a mysterious hare into a fluffy gift-giver.

Victorians added the final touches: satin-covered cardboard eggs filled with trinkets. Easter shifted from sacred feast to consumer ritual. The hunt was on—not just for eggs, but for market share.

A Shared Resurrection Story

Despite their different trajectories, both the egg and the bunny orbit the same themes:

Fertility

Renewal

Springtime Resurrection

Where the egg has no clearer Christian roots, the bunny hops a blurrier path through folklore, fertility rites, and fuzzy speculation.

They meet today in your backyard, in the colorful chaos of an Easter egg hunt.

What Are We Really Celebrating?

Is Easter about Christ rising? Is it about ancient fertility gods? Is it about spring, chocolate, or capitalism?

Every time a child cracks open a candy egg or chases a bunny across green grass, they’re participating in a ritual thousands of years in the making. Layered, contradictory, playful—and deeply human.

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BIBLE INTERPRETATION SCHOLAR

Let’s start with the name—Easter. It sounds innocent. Light. But it doesn’t appear in the Bible. Not once. So where did it come from?

Cue the Venerable Bede, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon monk and historian. According to him, Eostre was a goddess of spring and renewal worshipped by Germanic tribes. Her festival, held in April, celebrated the rebirth of nature. Bede suggested early Christians borrowed the name for their own spring celebration of resurrection. Case closed?

The Unsolved Mystery

We still don’t know who Eostre really was.
We still argue over how “Christian” Easter really is.
And every spring, people still gather—to remember, to feast, to play, to hope.

Because, in the end, it is humanity’s relentless habit of making meaning out of mystery.

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What if a single holiday could unlock the secret to transforming your life? What if the story of Passover, told for thousands of years, isn’t just about ancient history but about you—right here, right now? Let’s peel back the layers of this holiday, and uncover its deeper meaning. By the end, you’ll see Passover not as a distant ritual but as a roadmap for personal and collective liberation. Ready? Let’s dive in.

The Surface Story—History or Something More?

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, begins on the 15th of Nisan, marking the Jewish people’s exodus from slavery in Egypt. It’s a tale of plagues, miracles, and a dramatic escape through a parted sea. But here’s the first hint of something bigger: the wisdom of internality of bible (bible interpretation), insists that Passover’s true meaning isn’t historical. It’s spiritual. It’s about a journey we all take—not from a physical place, but from one state of being to another.

Imagine this: Egypt isn’t just a country on a map. It’s a symbol of something inside you. What could that be? Hold that thought—we’ll get there.

Egypt as the Ego—A State of Separation

Picture yourself in a world where everyone’s out for themselves. It’s a place of competition, mistrust, and isolation. Sound familiar? In internality of bible (bible interpretation) terms, this is Egypt—a state of mind ruled by the ego. The ego, personified as Pharaoh, thrives on division. It whispers, “Look out for number one. Forget the rest.”

Let’s ground this in a real-life example. Think about a workplace where colleagues undermine each other to climb the ladder. Sarah, a project manager, shares an idea in a meeting, only to have a coworker claim credit later. The team fractures, resentment festers, and productivity stalls. This is Egypt in action: a culture of ego where unity is impossible.

But what if there’s a way out? What if there’s a spark inside us that longs for something better? That’s where the story shifts—and where suspense begins to build.

The Spark of Moses—Desire for Connection

Enter Moses, not as a bearded prophet, but as a quality within us: the desire to connect, to love, to rise above the ego. In the Passover story, Moses rallies the Israelites—those who, in internality of bible (bible interpretation) , represent people with a yearning for spirituality (Israel from Yashar Kel, meaning “straight to God”). This isn’t about a specific religion; it’s about anyone who feels trapped by selfishness and craves unity.

Have you ever felt stuck, like you’re drowning in your own thoughts? Like you want to be kinder, more connected, but something holds you back? That’s the ego’s grip—Pharaoh’s rule. I’ve felt it too, wondering why it’s so hard to bridge the gap with others. But then, there’s a moment—a fleeting urge to reach out, to forgive, to understand. That’s Moses whispering.

What happens when Moses grows stronger? Will Pharaoh let go without a fight? Keep reading—the exodus is coming.

The Breaking Point—Darkness and Desperation

In the Passover narrative, the Israelites reach a breaking point. Enslaved, they cry out for freedom. internality of bible (bible interpretation) describes this as the moment we recognize the ego’s control and feel its weight. It’s the darkness of Egypt: the realization that our divisive desires lead nowhere.

Consider a modern parallel: social media. It promises connection but often breeds comparison and conflict. Take Jake, a college student who scrolls through X, seeing posts that make him feel inferior. He tries to keep up, posting curated versions of his life, but it only deepens his isolation. One night, exhausted, he thinks, “There’s got to be more than this.” That’s the cry of the Israelites—the moment we’re ready to escape Egypt.

But escape isn’t easy. The ego doesn’t surrender quietly. What’s it going to take?

The Exodus—Choosing Unity Over Hatred

The exodus from Egypt is about choosing a new reality. It’s not about physically leaving a place but about mentally and emotionally breaking free from the ego. In the story, the sea parts, and the Israelites cross to safety. In spiritual terms, this is the moment we commit to unity over division, love over hate.

Let’s bring this to life with another example. In a small community, neighbors are divided over a local election. Arguments erupt, friendships strain. But a group of residents, tired of the animosity, organizes a potluck. They don’t ignore their differences; instead, they share stories, listen, and find common ground. That potluck is their Red Sea moment—a step toward connection.

The Haggadah, the text read during the Passover Seder, calls this shift a move from “a relationship of separation” to one of “mutual guarantee.” It’s not easy. It requires swallowing pride, facing discomfort, and sometimes making concessions. But the reward? Freedom. True freedom, says internality of bible (bible interpretation) , is being together as one.

The Ongoing Journey—Passover Today

The exodus isn’t a one-time event. It’s a process we repeat whenever the ego creeps back in. Even if you live in modern Israel—or anywhere else—you might still be in “Egypt” internally. Our world, with its political divisions, economic rivalries, and personal grudges, mirrors Pharaoh’s playground.

Take our governments, for instance. Politicians bicker, prioritize power over progress, and deepen societal rifts. It’s Egypt all over again. But what if we, like the Israelites, chose unity? What if we supported leaders who embody Moses’ spirit—those who prioritize connection over conquest?

This is Passover’s call to action: to awaken Moses within us. To build communities, workplaces, and families where love and inclusion triumph. It’s hard work, no doubt. We’ll need to “bite the bullet, swallow a few frogs,” as the narrative humorously puts it. But the more we think this way, the more we’ll feel it. And that feeling—of being one big, extraordinary family—is what Passover celebrates.

Your Passover Moment

As we celebrate Passover on April 20, 2025, ask yourself: Where am I in this story? Am I stuck in Egypt, ruled by my ego? Or am I ready to cross the sea, to choose unity over division? The beauty of Passover is that it’s not just for Jews or for one day—it’s for anyone, anytime, who wants to transform their relationships and their world.

What’s one small step you can take today to escape your own Egypt? Whatever it is, take it. Because the journey from ego to unity starts with correcting the ego with the intention to bestow.

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Bible Interpretation Scholar

As bible interpretation scholar, I would like to elucidate the connections between the Tower of Babel and the destructions of the First and Second Temples through the lens of human egoism and societal unity.​

The Tower of Babel: Ancient Babylon experienced a surge in egoism that led to societal fragmentation. Abraham, perceiving this crisis, proposed a method of unity above egoistic divisions, gathering individuals and teaching them how to attain love and bestowal at the degree of the intention. This assembly later became known as "Israel," symbolizing a collective striving toward the Creator. ​

Context: The Tower of Babel marks the first major spiritual crisis after the Flood, where humanity’s growing egoism led to their attempt to build a tower "to the heavens," resulting in the confusion of languages and dispersal. In BIBLE INTERPRETATION’s view, this was a pivotal moment of egoistic disunity.
Abraham lived in ancient Babylon (Ur of the Chaldees). Observing the egoism and disunity of his society, he discovered the method of internality of bible—connection above egoism—and began teaching it to those who would listen.

Abraham’s spiritual work and teachings emerged in the context of the Tower of Babel event in ancient Babylon, specifically placing them during and after this pivotal moment. The Tower of Babel represents a surge in human egoism that occurred approximately 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon, where humanity, initially united, became divided due to growing self-interest. This egoistic development led to the "confusion of languages," symbolizing a loss of mutual understanding and connection.

Abraham lived in this Babylonian society—specifically in Ur of the Chaldees—during this time of crisis. While the people around him pursued egoistic goals, symbolized by their attempt to build a tower to reach the heavens, Abraham discovered a different path. He recognized the need to rise above this egoism and connect with the singular, altruistic force governing reality, the Creator. Abraham’s teachings, therefore, began to take shape as a response to the Tower of Babel event, offering a method to transcend the ego and restore unity among people. This method would later form the foundation of internality of bible (bible interpretation).

Abraham did teach during the unfolding of Tower of Babel event and in its aftermath. The event marked a turning point: as the Babylonians succumbed to their egoistic desires and dispersed, Abraham began to develop and share his approach, gathering followers who sought a higher purpose beyond material aspirations. This aligns with traditional biblical chronology as well, where Abraham’s story (Genesis 12) follows the Tower of Babel narrative (Genesis 11), though internality of bible (bible interpretation) emphasizes the spiritual rather than strictly historical sequence.
Thus, Abraham’s teachings emerged during and after the Tower of Babel event in ancient Babylon (Ur of the Chaldees), as a counterforce to the egoism that defined that era.

The First Temple: The unity achieved by Abraham's internality of bible (bible interpretation) group eventually culminated in the construction of the First Temple. However, over time, internal conflicts and a decline in spiritual cohesion led to its destruction. The loss of unity and the rise of egoistic desires among the people were central to this downfall. ​

The Second Temple: After the Babylonian exile, the construction of the Second Temple symbolized an attempt to restore the earlier unity. Yet, this period was also marked by internal strife and unfounded hatred among the people, which was the primary cause of the Second Temple's destruction. Such internal animosity starkly contrasted with the spiritual state represented by the Temple—a state of collective love and unity. ​

The Path to the Third Temple: Connecting these events to the future construction of the Third Temple, which is a spiritual state of global unity rather than a physical structure. The Tower of Babel represents humanity’s initial egoistic misstep, while the Temples’ destruction reflects the Jewish people’s failure to sustain their role as a "light unto the nations." The correction of these failures—overcoming egoism and uniting as one—will lead to the Third Temple, a spiritual state where humanity achieves the attainment of the intention of love and bestowal and harmony with the Creator’s altruistic force.

Noteworthy:

The Tower of Babel and the destructions of both Temples, these events were due to escalating egoism and the subsequent breakdown of societal unity. In each instance, the failure to rise above personal egos and foster mutual love and connection led to societal collapse and significant historical repercussions. ​Each event serves as a lesson and a step toward correction, culminating in the spiritual rebuilding of the Third Temple through unity above egoism.

In summary, this underscores a recurring theme: the elevation of egoism over unity precipitates societal and spiritual decline, as exemplified by the narratives of the Tower of Babel and the destructions of the First and Second Temples.

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This is a deeply spiritual and historical interpretation of how Judaism as it is known today emerged from the fall of the First and Second Temples and the concealment of the wisdom of internality of bible (bible interpretation).

Approximately 4,000 years ago, Abraham, residing in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), developed the internality of bible (bible interpretation). Abraham observed the increasing egoism among people and sought to understand the hidden part of the universe beyond our five senses. He gathered a group of followers and imparted this wisdom. ​
The group formed by Abraham eventually became the nation of Israel. Over time, as they descended from their spiritual level, they developed what is now known as Judaism. Subsequently, the religious church system and Islam emerged from Judaism. These religions originated as a consequence of the nation's shift from a spiritual to a corporeal level of existence. ​
The core value of the wisdom of internality of bible (bible interpretation) is love of others. By exemplifying unity and love, the wisdom of internality of bible (bible interpretation) can fulfill its role as "a light to the nations," positively influencing the world.
However, this love does not refer to actions at a corporeal level, but rather to the spiritual degree of intention. Salvation lies not in physical deeds alone, but in attaining God's quality of love within one's intention—aligning the inner desire with the Creator’s nature.

Prior to the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE) and the Second Temple (70 CE), internality of bible (bible interpretation) was openly practiced and integrated into Jewish life.
The emergence of Judaism from internality of bible (bible interpretation) is a consequence of the spiritual decline marked by the destructions of the First and Second Temples. These events symbolize a transition from an era of profound spiritual unity and direct engagement with the divine wisdom of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) to a period where external religious practices became predominant.​

1. The First Temple: Pinnacle of Spiritual Unity

The First Temple era represented the highest degree of cohesion among the people of Israel (refers to people seeking connection with the Creator), embodying the principle of "Love your neighbor as yourself." This unity facilitated a direct connection with the Creator, aligning with the teachings of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) . The physical Temple symbolized this internal spiritual structure, where individuals aimed to bestow and connect with the divine. ​

2. The Fall and the Shift to External Practices

The destruction of the First Temple, resulted from the rise of egoistic desires and internal conflicts, leading to a spiritual downfall. Despite efforts to restore unity during the Second Temple period, the persistence of baseless hatred among the people led to its eventual destruction. This decline marked a shift from the internal, spiritual practices of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) to more external forms of religious observance. ​

3. Emergence of Judaism as an External Framework

In the aftermath of these events, the profound spiritual teachings of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) were largely concealed, giving rise to Judaism as a set of external rituals and laws. This transformation was a protective measure, preserving the essence of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) wisdom within a more accessible framework until humanity was prepared to re-engage with its deeper spiritual aspects. ​

4. The Contemporary Call for Spiritual Reconnection

The current global challenges signal an opportune time for humanity to reconnect with the inner teachings of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) .
it is now time for humanity to return to the principles of unity and love that characterized the original spiritual practices of the internality of bible (bible interpretation) , this reconnection can address the root causes of modern crises. ​

The emergence of Judaism from the internality of bible (bible interpretation) is a historical process necessitated by spiritual decline, with the potential for renewal through a contemporary revival of internality of bible (bible interpretation) teachings.​

Here’s a breakdown:

Original State: internality of bible (bible interpretation) as the Root

The original spiritual method given to humanity—rooted in Abraham's teachings.

The ancient Hebrews (starting with Abraham and then Moses) practiced a spiritual method based on attaining unity with the divine through the principle:

internality of bible (bible interpretation) is based on “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

The nation of Israel was not defined by ethnicity, but by those who aspired to spiritual unity and shared this inner work.

Today’s crises—personal, social, and global—are signs that humanity is ready to return to the wisdom of internality of bible (bible interpretation).

The people of Israel (refers to anyone seeking return to the creator, regardless of geographical location, color or tribe) are those with a historic role to reattain and share the spiritual method of unity with all humanity.

Internality of bible (bible interpretation) is not a religion. It is a method of correcting the ego to return to our original state of unity.

Summary: The historical-spiritual transition

Abraham → Moses→ Inner unity, love, internality of bible (bible interpretation)→ Collective spiritual ascent→ Formation of Israel

First Temple→ Spiritual practice via internality of bible (bible interpretation)→ Unity with the Creator→ Divine presence

Second Temple→ Attempt to sustain unity→ Ego dominates→ hate→ Fall from spiritual state

Post-Temple → Judaism→ External rituals→exile→ internality of bible (bible interpretation) concealed→ Preservation through tradition

Modern Era→ Return to internality of bible (bible interpretation)→ Spiritual awakening→ Humanity's correction

Noteworthy

This historical account significantly predates the later fragmentation of the religious church system into over 40,000 denominations and doctrines, highlighting a time when spiritual unity and internal wisdom were central to humanity.

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