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The cross is real and actual. Not figurative.
The cross is as described, within the soul, and arising from the heart to the head.
I don't blame others for finding it hard to comprehend. I would not be able to comprehend it either if I had not seen it for myself many times, and from different angles too, and also come to understand its causes, function and purpose.
It defies spatial understanding as we know it. My other post on symbolism (on the visualising disks thread) also describes how shapes and numbers take on forms in some dimensions that are almost incomprehensible without seeing them for oneself, and even then they are difficult to grasp. I cannot expect others to fully comprehend such things if they have not seen them, but I might be able to describe some of the main details and provide a rough glimpse of what the structure is about.
The cross-arms of the soul are “lines of reach” and “potential reach” of heart and mind that lie dormant in all souls but are made active in Christianised souls.
These "lines of reach" and "potential reach" are the "energetic reaches" of heart and mind as existent within the individual between the extremes of right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsity.
All things are parts of spectrums, and naturally there is a spectrum between the completely dormant and the fully open cross. The average reach of left and right of the cross-arms varies from race to race and from nation to nation, is a collective average, and the width and degree of activation of the cross in an individual depends upon the extent of the individual's comprehension of truth, love and goodness, and their opposites.
One reach is to the left, the other to the right. Bear in mind that as high and low in a three dimensional sense are different to, but reflective of high and low in a spiritual sense, so too, left and right are different to, but reflective of left and right in a spiritual sense. (Through several dozen statements sprinkled through the book, the old and new testaments describe the nature of this left and right spiritual sense very well.)
The cross is caused to activate in the heart by Christ's introduction to the minds and hearts of men of the concept of divine love being possible to be exercised by man. And with conceiving that possibility comes also into the hearts and minds of men its opposite concept - the rejection of it and the pretence of it. These two concepts came into the world together, one with the other, for it is impossible to teach something good without also revealing something bad. John speaks of this twofold effect in 1 & 2 John.
Every soul has a vertical dimension to it, that is, an up and down reach.
The soul within man runs between the crown and base centre, passing through each of the other centres. Each centre is a segment of the soul's cord. The soul is both spherical and cordlike, as a staff is both round in cross section and long in length, but a staff is three dimensional and the soul is multidimensional, so the soul is spherical in cross section.
The cross is within the vertical structure of the soul, and cross it and stems from it too, arising from heart up to the head. The cross arms are in the heart and in the head, and even at the shoulders and throat, and yet they are all one cross-arm. That sounds illogical I know, but I can't explain it better than that just now, except to say that they are also like plates. I remind readers I am speaking of energetic structures but they do have form.
The cross replicates itself in the shape of the body with outstretched left and right arms, also in the features of the face, being the facial midline and the eyes, and reflects itself in the relationship between the ethmoid bone and the frontal face of the maxilla. Where is arises from the heart centre it replicates in the physical heart which can be seen in cross section where the walls of the heart's four chambers are cruciform.
Each of these physical structures has an energetic structure connecting it to the cross, and this can be observed by sliding the vision up and down scale of energetic frequencies when we are out of body or if we have developed second sight. Bear in mind that every structure in the soul with every flow and potential flow of energy and the interactions of those energies is replicated or reflected in the anatomy and physiology of the physical body, also in the mental and emotional bodies, each in accordance with the nature of their substance and their purpose and requirements. Each of these replications, reflections, imprints,... are living actual symbols of the greater item which is their cause.
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