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Over the past few decades it has become popular for New Age writers and spiritual people to make reference to the ‘Silver Cord and Golden Bowl,’ spoken of in the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes (the same book which gave us the beautiful words of “To Everything There is a Season.”) When read in the whole context of Chapter 12, clearly the writer, the great wise King Solomon, was referring to what happens when the spirit is separated at death. The Bible, of course, was translated from Hebrew to Greek, to Vulgate Latin and later to Old English. As translated from the original Hebrew in The Complete Tanakh:
“Before the silver cord snaps, and the golden fountain is shattered, and the pitcher breaks at the fountain, and the wheel falls shattered into the pit.[1]”
[ עַד אֲשֶׁר לֹא יֵרָתֵק (כתיב יֵרָחֵק) חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף וְתָרֻץ גֻּלַּת הַזָּהָב וְתִשָּׁבֶר כַּד עַל הַמַּבּוּעַ וְנָרֹץ הַגַּלְגַּל אֶל הַבּוֹר ]
The first English translators saw this ‘fountain’ as the source of life and an energetic field which they called the Golden Bowl.
While there is a lack of consensus among Biblical commentators and translators of newer English versions, such as the ‘New International Version,’ spiritually minded New Ageists generally agree that it is a sphere corresponding with the aura. In other words, we live inside a sphere. As I have pointed out elsewhere, we have two parts to our unseen nature, often called the spirit and the soul, or which I prefer to describe by their ancient Egyptian names, Ka and Ba. The Ka is an etheric double of our physical body, while the Ba is the divine component and source of our Vital Life Force, or Soul. I see it as our Golden Sphere.
Many Christian paintings show saints as having a golden halo around their heads. This most likely comes from the same intuitive concept – that we have a ‘Golden Sphere.’
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LEFT: https://previews.123rf.com/images/dipressionist/dipressionist1012/dipressionist101200097/8476555
RIGHT: http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/5764640741fa4c0aa566bae13738e53b/
FOOTNOTE:
[1] http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16473
“Before the silver cord snaps, and the golden fountain is shattered, and the pitcher breaks at the fountain, and the wheel falls shattered into the pit.[1]”
[ עַד אֲשֶׁר לֹא יֵרָתֵק (כתיב יֵרָחֵק) חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף וְתָרֻץ גֻּלַּת הַזָּהָב וְתִשָּׁבֶר כַּד עַל הַמַּבּוּעַ וְנָרֹץ הַגַּלְגַּל אֶל הַבּוֹר ]
The first English translators saw this ‘fountain’ as the source of life and an energetic field which they called the Golden Bowl.
While there is a lack of consensus among Biblical commentators and translators of newer English versions, such as the ‘New International Version,’ spiritually minded New Ageists generally agree that it is a sphere corresponding with the aura. In other words, we live inside a sphere. As I have pointed out elsewhere, we have two parts to our unseen nature, often called the spirit and the soul, or which I prefer to describe by their ancient Egyptian names, Ka and Ba. The Ka is an etheric double of our physical body, while the Ba is the divine component and source of our Vital Life Force, or Soul. I see it as our Golden Sphere.
Many Christian paintings show saints as having a golden halo around their heads. This most likely comes from the same intuitive concept – that we have a ‘Golden Sphere.’
To read the entire article, CLICK HERE
Credit for Images Above:
LEFT: https://previews.123rf.com/images/dipressionist/dipressionist1012/dipressionist101200097/8476555
RIGHT: http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/5764640741fa4c0aa566bae13738e53b/
FOOTNOTE:
[1] http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16473
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