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DYBWAD BROCHMANN THE ART OF READING
THE BIBLE Chapter 9 An informative fable – The
Fable of Jotham There is a very important and comprehensive story in the Old Testament
called The Fable of Jotham in Judges 9: 8 – 15. What do scientists, language
researchers, and Bible students say about it? It reminds me of H. C. Andersen’s adventures, and, according to how I
read The Bible, a very inspiring and well-designed story. We will now render the
story as an excellent allegory: “The trees went forth on a
time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign
thou over us. 9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave
my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted
over the trees? 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou,
and reign over us. 11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I
forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the
trees? 12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign
over us. 13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine,
which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? 14
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you,
then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of
the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon”. (Copied from the Bible.com
Website). Someone could ridicule this
and say: “See there, one more adventure for children”. If the theologians
mean that the trees really held an election to chose a king, they can decide
that by themselves. One thing is certain – we
humans are “trees” who hold elections to decide who will govern and rule us. Please
see the story about the man, blind from birth, who was made seeing by Christ
– John 9: 1-32). (There were many references to trees in The Bible, and that
is why this author, who is a gardener and botanist, was inspired to use such allegories in an earlier
book, Christ in Society). In Jotham’s fable
we see that the oldest trees, that bear noble fruit, will no longer be king.
They will not rule over others, for they know it is sinful. Read a companion
piece in Judges 8: 22 – 27: “Then the men of Israel
said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's
son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. 23
And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son
rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you. 24 And Gideon said
unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man
the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were
Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, We will willingly give them.
And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his
prey. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested
was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and
collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the
chains that were about their camels' necks. 27 And Gideon made an
ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went
thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to
his house”. What do we learn from this?
Gideon demonstrates consciously and unconsciously both the correct and
incorrect inspiration (sudden impulse) at the same time. He is awake and
conscious enough to know that God will direct the Jewish theocracy. He sees that it is a sin to “rule”, because society is
a living, automatic unit, which wants the spirit of God to be in control. But when it comes to gold,
he isn’t quite certain. Temptation is there, tempting him, and gold was his snare. “The bramble bush”, the
simplest weed among the trees in the garden, was willing to rule. “Have you
thought this through? Are you serious about wanting a king to rule over you?
If you are, then I will rule over you”, said the bramble bush. Remember that
scratches from the bramble bush often draw blood. This is the role of the
king in the history of the world. When the people wanted a
Danish prince to be the king in Norway in 1905, the king answered us, saying:
“ Has it been decided that the Norwegian people want a king?” The people
answered with: 270,000 who said yes, and 70,000 who said no. That was our
“alliance” with the “Great Power” England. It was a good time for many ship
owners and for everyone who had a ship in the sea. However, it cost a lot in
the long run. In spite of everything, we
wanted a king. Every king usually wants to do a good job. “Everything for
Norway”, said our king. “Everything for Germany”, said Hitler. The Bible taught us something else. When Paul was standing
before King Agrippa, which we will later discuss more in depth, he
“reconciles” the “state” and imperial rule with Christ on the cross. The
educated Paul must have known about Jotham’s fable, but maybe he didn’t
understand more than our own educated theologians understand, when they still
try to “reconcile” the state’s heathenism with the decrees from Christ. Paul
has probably never heard Jesus speak, for example in Matthew 20: 25: “But
Jesus called them unto him, and said: “Ye know that the princes of the
Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise
authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be
great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among
you, let him be your servant”. (Copied from the Bible.com Website). Maybe Paul didn’t hear
Christ when He spoke more precisely in John 14:30, when He said: “the prince
of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me”. This clearly and indisputably shows that the Savior sees the
hedonistic way of life happens by
itself in a transition until Adam wakes up and realizes the regal that is
inside of us, instead of playing
with kings and royal dignities outside
of us. It’s as if Jesus sees Paul and his mission as a part in the creative
development. Paul is also able to see “the Heir” (mankind) as a child that
needs a guardian until the father decides it is no longer necessary. (Please
see Galatians 4). If mankind is going to move ahead, we need to learn to read
The Bible. Then we can understand that we are in the middle of creation and
comply with God’s calling, and don’t act like the “state” Church, and
categorically deny the possibility of becoming perfect. We will never get
better before we start practicing The Bible’s teachings about society, and
understand the testimony in The Bible about our own nature during its
awakening and growth. Our “guardian” and our
guides need to soon admit that we have rights and privileges as written in
the Old and New Testaments. They need to stop slandering us, and trying to
explain away our ability to become complete (with all its inherent
possibilities). If you closely study the
Book of Samuel, especially beginning with Samuel: 1:8, you can see how the
entire Old Testament continuously
discusses the questions of kings and forms of assembly. Then, you might
begin to understand why all the state’s pastors (the clergy of the Norwegian
Lutheran Church) want to completely remove any study of The Old Testament
from the schools. Satan isn’t so dumb that he doesn’t understand that it can
be very dangerous for common people to read The Bible correctly. Also, it is
not by chance that the authorities in Moscow and Berlin want The Bible
completely removed as Jewish propaganda and “material that tends to be
dangerous to the state”. (When I published The
Papers the Devil Left Behind, I was waiting that eventually the book
would be confiscated. However, since I was a member of the Parliament, people
wanted to avoid doing that, because it would be a good “advertisement” for
the book. They “consulted”, and decided to sabotage, overlook, keep quiet,
and, at the worst, laugh at the book. Maybe the book can still be “burned” or
forbidden?) The Savior, Himself, was
correctly understood as “dangerous to society”, since then, as now, they
confuse the term “society” with the system and “the state”. Society consists
of living flesh, blood, and spirit. “The state” is only an institution, and
the systems are only learned and authorized agreements and bad habits. Society remains if the systems fall. Caiaphas
told the Jews: “Ye know nothing at all.
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation perish not”. (John 11:50). The
teachings of Christ were, are, and always will be a spiritual opponent of
that spirit that speaks and thinks contemptuously about people in order to
create a foundation for hedonistic “state” government and tyranny. The more
strife between people, the more opinions and artificial oppositions invented
with the help of mammon, the more passionately the rich and the poor believe
in the necessity, excellence, and appropriateness of “the state”. Caiaphas
has forever lost his power over the people when most of them have learned to
think positively about each other. Let us read in abundance
the words of Jesus in John 12:31: “Now
is the judgment of this world (system): now shall the prince of this world be
cast out”. This is spoken very clearly. Think if the worker’s movement in
Germany and other places had understood in their struggle against capitalism
that “centralization in the state” and “capitalism” are one and the same,
i.e. Children born out of the same lies
about life, meaning the lies about people and The Savior and about society’s
holy life”. Instead, all of the poor from the playhouse of private
capitalism ran right into the arms of the deafening hell of “state”
capitalism. Leo Tolstoy is
aware of the adventure about the bramble bush and clearly shows us in his
inspiring writings that the princes and “statesmen” are usually defective and
more inferior characters and persons than other people. I also felt strongly
how I was working my way downwards when I was a representative to Parliament,
and I thanked God when I got to leave. Are you asking why? I’ll
answer you and tell you the truth: It’s the people who nourish “the state”
and do everything “the state” does, while the people believe the opposite
that “the state” rules and is the “benefactor” of the people. In order to get
10 øre from the state, you have to go an indirect way and in an invisible
manner pay 10 or 20 crowns, i.e., at least 100 times as much. Anybody who
sees this and sees how the people are being swindled, either has to lie or
delude themselves, consciously or unconsciously, to keep the game going.
Therefore, politics and “state” government are a “snare” for all the trees
that allow themselves to be elected. “The state” is a doubter’s automatic and
self-created swaddling clothes (a cloth tightly wrapped to restrict
movement). The nature of “the state” is
to systematic silence the teachings of Jesus about human nature. Who and what create “the
state”? It is none other than a hedonistic religious attitude the mentality
of which can be simply analyzed. The psychological condition of the
hedonistic state consists of the following unconscious thoughts and
instincts: 1. The teachings of the
Church about the evilness of man. 2. The denial of God being in
us, and the possibility of practicing a theocracy (a society governed by the
laws of God). 3. The lack of knowledge
that the holy living society (which people believe only can exist on the
other side of death) has existed already for a long time on earth as a living
form of existence. 4. The anxiety for freedom
and the unwillingness to wake up and think. 5. The need of the slave mentality to say one of two
things to their fellow human beings: rule over me, or, because they don’t
want to work, the need to rule over others. 6. The fear, distrust,
infidelity, and misunderstanding people can have for each other. 7. Centripetal operations,
or the up to now unconscious and uncontrolled need to gather in the center. 8. Because of religious and
social grounds, people are longing for unity and wholeness, but when reality
and real experiences are lacking, this want is aroused and satisfied by “a
picture” or “a symbol” (that in a dream state is experienced as being
reality). 9. Envy of others and
desire after his belongings. 10. The need for order,
justice and protection (because people don’t see that “the state” is the
originator of all lack of order, injustice, and all the dangerous violent
actions). - The picture of “Staten”.
– Look at the inspired
drawing of “the State” and try to
understand that society is the little living “baby”, of flesh and blood, that
is being sucked dry by a great Moloch. 11. The need for a taboo
against carrying out all the crimes that are forbidden to private persons. All of these instincts,
ideas, and longings together create the heathen state’s mentality, his
devotion, desire to offer and joy of giving in such a way that he gladly ends
up poor all his life and accepts anything as long as “the state’s” impersonal
use is large enough and impressive enough. “Dying” for the political “state”
is experienced by the heathen as being the same as dying for the people and
nation. But if “the state” “died”, because the real faith took over, then
there would be no Moloch to die for. (Like some other gods and demons found
in The Bible, Moloch appears as part of medieval demonology, as a Prince of
Hell). When the rulers in the
world finally understand the meaning of God’s words, and it is no longer
possible for any pastors to reconcile God and Satan, then there will be a
great uproar on the earth where everything will revolve around The Bible.
Everything made of flesh will have The Bible removed. Everything made of
spirit will want to keep The Bible, and this group will be victorious and
“inherit the kingdom”, that is testamented to the children of faith and
spirit. The priesthoods’ role will be played out, and the Savior of the World
will reappear in spirit and truth. The Groom is coming to His bride. ------------------------------------ What did we really learn
from “Jotham’s fable”, from reading about Gideon who didn’t want to be king,
etc.? We have learned from The Bible to recognize one of the strongest mental
instincts, “mental appetites”, that
work in every person’s mind.
All throughout the Old Testament, we see how this instinct works in an
uncontrolled, fairly fumbling, and unconscious way. Jesus Christ is already
acquainted with the mental peculiarities in human nature. Now, for the first time in history, there
is someone, namely the Savior, who tries
to help people gain self-cntroll
over the “centripetal drive” or need to find “the great center point outside of himself”. Centripetal drive means the
drive that seeks to be in the middle or center. It is an inspiration both for
good and evil. As we know, centrifugal drive is the need to over throw,
spread, ruin, and is about the opposite of centripetal drive, which is the
need to gather in the middle. This drive can sometimes be
so strong, and have such an effect, that it appears more obtrusive than the
most persistent suiter with his woman, and stronger than even the most
fanatically covetous and profit-hungry on the stock exchange. In history,
centripetal drive has at times been so misused, that there is almost no limit
to the human tragedies it has caused. I would like to share a
little episode here: At the beginning of the Second World War I met some
German officers and propaganda people who had heard I had been a member of
Parliament. (The German word for member of Parliament is “Abgeordneter”,
which means that since you are elected,
step to the side). This word reminds me of “Abort” which means the place
where you should step aside so you can relieve yourself. The “abgeordneter”
of the mind of the people can be seen in connection with the need of the masses to be able to be relieved, namely the centripetal drive. That
means that in thinking about the members of Parliament or statesmen, the
unsuspecting masses see “the great man” or “the great center point” go right
before their very eyes. The German gentlemen asked
me: “What do people in Norway think about “a Great Scandinavia”? I answered
that they would have to ask other Norwegians, since I was born not liking
anything “big” like that. My feeling was that we small countries were a lot
happier than the “big-powers”, and that the Germans’ most advanced
civilization and when the people were happiest was when they consisted of
many small societies – Sachsen, Baden, Bayern, etc. That means that I saw the
politics of Preussen and Bismarck as being the colossal misfortune of the
German people, and that Berlin was the dangerous and “big” center point. In spite of the fact that I
was neither a Jew nor a Jewish follower, I shared the same view of Preussen’s
politics as Henrich Heine, who said
that he dreamed during the night about a big eagle (a Preussen eagle) that
“ate his lever”. That is why I would look at a Great Scandinavia as a
misfortune, but it is quite likely that people in Oslo and Bergen would
gladly be played for suckers. If the Germans had listened to the prophet
Heinrich Heine, instead of exiling him, Germany never would have ended up in
this war. Finally I said that the world was big enough and rich enough to
feed a large predatory nation like the English. However, if all the “large”
nations in the world should follow England’s example, the earth would be too
little for so many predators. The Germans looked at each
other, but said nothing to me. The next day I heard , after I had left, that
they had realized there was much wisdom in what I had said. Privately,
people, even the Germans, are wise, but when they all come together they
allow themselves to get caught up in the popular mistake. In Deuteronomy 7:7, it
says: “The Lord did not love you, nor choose you, because you were larger in
number than any other people; but because you were the fewest of all people”. The reader can see where I
received the wisdom that I quoted to the Germans. It is also because the
Norwegian nation is small, and because I was very serious about democracy,
and I thought that Norway could give the world a good example. Everything
that is correct and important begins small and grows big, starting from below and then growing upward. It is only in scientific
utopias that you can begin on the top and let things grow downward. That’s
why God’s kingdom resembles a mustard
seed and not a Prussian civil society. During many years of
looking at numerous psychological studies, I had been speculating over the
curious and insurmountable centralistic tendencies in my fatherland. At a
very young age I had “politically” joined with the those who embraced the
so-called “de-centralized” theory,
that I meant must be correct, since I experienced the “craziness” of my time in needing centrals, monopolies, and state
machines. Then I found out that the prophets in The Bible continually wrote
and spoke about this theme, and also very seriously warned people, especially
in Samuel 1:8, and in the temptation of Jesus on the temple mount. It was
then that I first realized how rich and powerful The Bible was, as opposed to
how poor and empty the Norwegian Lutheran Church was. From that time on, The
Bible became my dearest reading, and I found out later that there is no
author or “seer”, whom I have met in philosophy, studies of society, the religions,
moral teachings, etc., that could measure up to the thinkers and authors in
The Bible. It became more and more difficult for me to understand how people
could turn the book about their own life and life in society into religion. I
was finally able to get a serious explanation of this by reading Freud, although I had already
collected some of the common psychological explanations and orientations “by
myself” with help from the word of God. “The Bible has nothing to do with
concerns about society”, people screamed at me. “Don’t mix religion and
politics together”, others screamed. “It’s not possible to talk about the
gold bars in the Bank of Norway and the Child in Bethlehem at the same time,”
others said. “He is a false prophet, be careful of him,” screamed the
pastors. “He is a demagogue who is dangerous to society”, all the editors
said, especially those who called themselves radical, freethinking, and
liberal, preservers and protectors of society. The reader will therefore
understand why I began to read The Bible, and how I began to understand the
art of comprehending the Mental Savior of the World. Now, in the middle of my
fatherland, I was experiencing something like what the Savior Himself had
once experienced. People even wanted to have
me on the temple mount. They began to look at me as having even more desire
than the most passionate man in love who is coveting a woman. I often had to be alone for the same reason. The more I spoke and wrote about the new Light I
had found, the more people expected me to “go to Oslo and be in charge”. I
was supposed to go there and be at the center of things. When I declined,
because I whole-heartedly share Gideon’s views concerning governing and
ruling, then people got mad at me, mocked me and ridiculed me. In Judges 8: 1 – 3, it says
very clearly that the people demanded that Gideon should “rule”, but he
answered: “What have I done now in
comparison to you?” In verse 3 he repeats what he said: “What was I able
to do in comparison to you?” That’s why he says in verse 23: “The Lord shall rule over you”. The Bible also speaks quite
clearly about the centripetal drives of the masses. Once I was at a public
“ministerial meeting” in Bergen and compared the study of society in The
Bible to the centers and the hedonistic Norwegian Lutheran Church. Pastor
Frommesen simply stood up and asked: “Who will govern society if ‘the state’
isn’t going to govern?” “God, of course,” I said, and I had to keep myself
from adding: “Are you a teacher for the people, and a pastor for their souls,
and you don’t know this?” How the Savior took care of
“the temptation on the temple mount” we will see at the end of this chapter.
Christ was completely aware of His almighty powers. It would have been very
easy for Him to gather the people together and be their king. This is what
the people expected of Him, wished and demanded of Him. He could have
gathered an army and easily occupied country after country and become the
ruler of the world, as many other “sons of man” had coveted and tried to
accomplish, without being successful. A little anecdote: As a
young speaker I was once invited to “the Liberal Youth Club” in Sunnmøre,
Norway. Among other things, a yearly meeting had been arranged, and the
famous “Mørejarl”, Oddmund Vik,
(similar to calling that man the earl of that area in Norway) was to be the
guest speaker, followed by a discussion. Vik had been in charge of supplies
during the war and understood “public provisions”, as it was called. He
explained in detail his work as an administrator, he expropriated the Vaksdal
Mill, he had many boats loaded with grain for Norway, etc. There was no end
to how wonderful everything was. During the discussion
period I was so malicious that I asked Vik and the audience about the Gideon
question. “Do Vik and the audience mean that it is ‘the state’ and the
administration that provide for the people, or is it instead the ten
thousands and hundred thousands of working people who both provide and pay
for both ‘the state’ and the administrations? Isn’t it an insane and vain
thought that a “statesman” could give us all the bread, butter, and 1000
other things in the right time, and take over the responsibility of each
individual for his neighbor? Isn’t every public provision really just an
expropriation that is labeled provision? In other words, is it really in the
best interests of the morals of society and its development that the
administration takes over the duty of each individual for his neighbor? Isn’t
Vik’s way of thinking only vain and foolish?” This is repeated from
memory, and now I ask the reader: “Who had inspired me to this question - the
word of God or of the Devil?” If you say that I have understood and read The
Bible correctly, then you have also said that the pastors adulterate The
Bible, and that Odmund Vik was therefore completely forgiven. The secretary for the Youth
Club, someone named Dyrdal, who had invited such a ‘liberal” speaker, was not
popular after this. It wasn’t in the spirit of the left or of the slaves, but
it was in the spirit of Jesus Christ, because He said: “whoever elevates
himself, shall be brought down” and vice versa. -------------------------------------- There is an enormous
contradiction in the hedonistic teachings of society. On one side people
proclaim the peoples’ wickedness,
inadequacy, untrustworthiness, vain tendencies, dishonesty, ambitiousness,
covetousness, etc., but in the next minute all this is cultivated and the
heavens are opened for all of our vices because we elevate ourselves and
each other by putting on an act to the masses that we “govern them”, and that
we see that the people get food, as well as other things. The Savior didn’t fall on
the temple mount. He didn’t live up to the peoples’ big expectations. He
didn’t answer to the authorized “rough draft” as far as how the promised
great Messiah should look. He was in opposition to the hedonistic centralism. He wanted people to come together in another way than the usual way organizers did it He didn’t want
to seduce, but to guide and direct the fourth dimension of life – the
automatic instincts inside of each of us. “How
often don’t I want to gather you like a mother hen gathers her chicks under
her wings”? The hen gathers and leads “public provisions” thereby appealing
to the instincts in each of us and takes these instincts in use, and trusts
and “believes” in them. As regards “the state”, we are suspicious of each
other and try to convince each other that “the state” works and takes care of
us, we who are evil. But if you, who are evil,
(which means that you have evil thoughts about yourself), understand that you
should give your children good gifts (that means that you’re not so evil that
you don’t practice doing something good), how much more won’t God, Who is
good, give you everything you need, if you dare to believe in God in
yourself? Christ disappoints Judas
and the Jews, because He will not be the big center point outside of us, but instead the true
center point and connection inside of us. His Kingdom is not a kingdom that
is ruled outside with mechanical
means, organizations, laws, police, etc., but it is a Kingdom that is ruled
from the inside (dynamic), just like when the chick comes to its mother “on
its own”. (Compare this with John 10). The Savior is not properly
understood in John 18:36: “My kingdom is not of this world”. This can be
misinterpreted to mean that The Savior has no interest in social, judicial,
and economic systems and agreements here on earth. But what does The Savior
really say in John 18? The following are verses 33 – 37: “Then Pilate entered into
the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the
King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or
did others tell it thee of me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation
and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? Jesus
answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but
now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a
king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I
born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness
unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice”. (Copied
from the Bible.com Website). You would need very
uncontrolled feelings and fantasies to misinterpret and misunderstand such
clear language. To begin with, “my Kingdom” in the basic text is “my system”.
(Cosmos means system or order, just as cosmetic means something to beautify).
So, Jesus says: My system isn’t like your hedonistic “state” system, Pilate,
because if it had been I would have mobilized soldiers to fight with you, so
that I wouldn’t be transferred to you as a prisoner. But since my system
isn’t like that, I am here as your prisoner. This is The Bible’s true meaning and the Savior’s absolute doctrine. If you want it even
clearer, understand the following: “Are thou a king then?”
asks Pilate. “Thou sayest that I am a
king. To this end was I born”. For my kingdom is the kingdom of truth and
reality, where the holy spirit of truth guides and reigns within the person. I was born and came to this
world to testify to the true system of how to orient our lives. And everyone who is honest and will have nothing
other than the truth, he hears My voice and understands what I’m saying. Pilate answers in a
characteristic way, for the entire daydreaming world: “What is truth?” It is
true that the world doesn’t know the truth. The world is indifferent just like Pilate. The world doesn’t know the
truth, because the word of God is falsified. Christ doesn’t deny the
centripetal drive, but He guides and directs us by pointing inside of us to a
higher level of consciousness – to a higher and deeper understanding of life.
Don’t fear for yourself and others – ye of little faith. It is pleasant for
God to give you the Kingdom. Deep inside is the complete, good, just,
peaceful and joyful society we all are longing for. Therefore it has to
happen sooner or later – attention only has to be re-directed, so that the
centripetal drive in our nature doesn’t get “off track”, just as when we want to have “a great man” outside of
us. The authorities in
Jerusalem make good use of the fact that the people are “disappointed” over
Christ not wanting to be a king and sit on the temple mount. The same kind of
trickery is used over and over again in history against all those who witness
for Jesus, and don’t want organization and violence. The teaching about the
evil person is so deeply ingrained in our society that we always seem to
choose Barabbas, in spite of the fact that we know that he robs, steals, and
kills. No one believes in a
society “that can function by itself”. Our mentality first has to go into the
melting pot. That’s why we enjoy being like children with pictures and
symbols, because we dare not face the consequences of getting in touch with
our own divine internal self. Mental research gives us
the key to the “abyss” where our misguided centripetal instinct has driven
us. (Look at the Germans who are the most current discouraging example). It
is clear in mental research that we humans, in all of our building of
symbols, “project outwardly” our own inner self. The child is living as a
doll, but when the child tells the doll to eat, read, go to school, and dirty
herself, she just transfers her own internal life into symbols. “And now, behold, the king
walks before you”, says Samuel in 1 Samuel 12:2. “Make us gods, which can go
before us,” say the Jews in Exodus 32:1. “Give me a horse that I can
drive”, says the little 6-year-old boy to his father. And he receives a
wooden horse that can “run away” right in front of him. “The Leader saves
us”, say the Germans. Is it difficult to read The Bible when you know that? Maybe after this the reader
will, also like the author, find out that there is much to learn from
“Jotham’s fable”. Also look at my earlier writings about centripetal drive in
human nature. Where do the centripetal drive and the unconscious and up to
now uncontrolled feelings of self come
from, that people project outwardly to earls, kings, and public leaders? I assume that the drawing
of the genealogical table of how “you” came to be, also gives you the key to
your own self-esteem? On this drawing, “you” are in the center. And it is not by chance, because the illustration
shows how you (and each one of your siblings) are always a product, or the
“essence” of the love life of untold forefathers. The highest power in life
has been over the family and in the family since time immemorial, therefore
you are the “holy and precious” that is born to this world. If you want to
draw this like a great big family tree,
you will see that you are a fruit on the tree. But this is, of course, the
holy tree of life, that God has “organized” inside out, and from down below to up above. It began with the simple
and grew upward to the complex. This is the tree the Savior talks about that
is like the mustard seed. It is the opposite
to the state’s organization tree that begins up on the top and grows
down, which is the opposite of all the laws of life, and in opposition to
everything proven in biology. |