Living Book

I hate hearing about dreams. Usually they're presented as prophecy though. Not this. I finally had a dream that wasn't stupid and empty and like I was pranking myself. I dreamed I was in a bookstore in the afterlife, and I found a silver-colored book that was alive. When I woke up I imagined the language in the book had to come into focus with meaning based on my level of being I brought to it. I wondered what kind of book would be like that in this world. Of course the Bible. (The Homeric epics too, but preeminently the Bible.)

Alarms are sounded by the seminary crowd. Allegory! Eisegesis! Two-tiered Christianity! Gnosticism!!

It's possible to stay on the King's Highway (the straight and narrow, the old paths) and see deeper into the living language of the Bible.

You have to know how to increase your level of being though. (That's about *being awake* and *loving your enemy* to degrees unknown in the worldly world. Read Fourth Way by Ouspensky for a sophisticated language on the ideas, practices, and goals of such a thing. Or read a typical seminary-educated pastor and stay in the nursery. Sounds mean, but truth is truth, sometimes hard.)

Always have to add that the book the Fourth Way is not Scripture and thus is not pure wheat from a pure Christian point-of-view. It isn't written using biblical or Christian theological language and intentionally and self-consciously avoids mixing languages (because that does damage to both languages). Though the Fourth Way is esoteric Christianity nevertheless. Esoteric meaning practical. It does not present the Gospel (salvation), yet it does give deep insight on the law (not obviously though). Basically it is the subject of progressive sanctification. Thus it needs the foundation of regeneration. Without that it is just a very advanced self-help book of sorts. Giving you ability to be the most awake person in hell. It's also not for everybody because its practices put you starkly on the spiritual battlefield, and if you're not ready look out. Also, you need to acquire the actual book. E-book versions are corrupt in various ways and usually missing critical diagrams.