VERIFICATION OF THE PATTERN IN BIBLICAL HISTORY
By Dr. Henry C. Kinley (1895-1976)
He gave this lecture to a class Sunday, December 14, 1958, at 1347 North Cahuenga Blvd, in Hollywood, CA. ***Note; Although the True Names were revealed to-Dr Kinley in a vision in 1931 he used Lord, God, and Jesus Christ until he published Elohim, The Archetype Original Pattern 0f the Universe in 1961. Throughout his lecture Dr Kinley refers to 3-fold illustrations to help the audience follow certain points. We have inserted charts in this article as a visual aid. Minor editorial changes also have been made for clarity and to preserve the flow of thought.
In previous lessons we have studied the verification of the Great Threefold Archetypal Pattern of the Universe as it is applied in the Godhead (See "The Philosophical Measuring Rod," p. 16 in the November/December 1992 "PLIM REPORT") That is, (1) the Father, (2) the Word, and (3) the Holy Ghost (I John 5:7). We have seen how the Three-fold Pattern was ever present and always in operation according to Universal Spirit Law throughout, out nature and science (see "Can You Prove the Existence of God, " cover story on the July/August 1993 "PLIM REPORT" and "The Revelation of the Divine Pattern of the Universe, " cover story on the September/October 1993 "PLIM REPORT;" Exo. 25:8-9, 40, Heb. 8:5). We also learned how man was made in the image and likeness of God and also was created completely according to the Three-fold Pattern's structure (Gen. 1:26; 2:7, 1 Cor. 6:19-20; see "Veri/1cation (~f the Pattern in Man, " cover story on the January/February 1994 "PLIM REPORT"). In this lesson we study the verification of the Threefold Pattern and the operation of Universal Spirit Law in biblical history.
Which events in the Bible can be compared with the Pattern?
Out of the multitude of possible historical events related in the Bible, we have arbitrarily selected a small representative group of major incidents and events beginning with Adam, the first man, and going through biblical history to the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to the scriptures. As you will readily understand in fitting the Three-fold Pattern to any particular event, we may find an Upward Pattern from concrete or physical through the intermediate or incorporeal stage rising to completion in the Spiritual or abstract part. [NOTE: This can be compared with the growth of a seed in the ground (Court Round About) breaking through the soil as a plant (Holy Place) and finally bursting from the bud state into fruition or maturity (Most Holy Place)]. On the other hand, it is equally possible for a particular event to travel in reverse. That is, an event can start in the abstract state - as in the Creation of Heaven and Earth and transcend down through the intermediate stage to the physical or concrete stage. [NOTE: This can be compared to H20 is the gaseous state (Abstract State) condensing to water (Intermediate State) and finally freezing into ice (Concrete State)].
Were Adam and Eve created in perfection?
The first event in biblical history that we shall analyze to see how the Three-fold Pattern fits is the Adamic Transgression - the Fall of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. This is a downward operation of Spirit Law by the Pattern. After God created Eve from the rib of His first Son, Adam, they were placed in the garden with an innocent or abstract state of consciousness, sharing in the eternal love of spiritual existence, (i.e. they were in an ideal, as opposed to a practical state, a state apart from the concrete, not tainted with sin, ignorant of evil, free from guilt). Here were two souls united in a state of mortal perfection, dwelling in the Garden of Eden under the beneficent (i.e. good and kind) warmth of God's love and affection, knowing no evil, knowing no fear. Thus Adam and Eve were in the abstract or exalted innocent state.
How was their excellence destroyed by transgression?
Then the time came for Adam and Eve to disobey God's instructions. As you know, Eve was tempted by the serpent to partake of the fruit of tree of knowledge of good and evil. Following Eve's act of disobedience, Adam joined in her transgression. This represents the fall from the Garden of Eden or the Adamic Transgression. This fits into the intermediate or incorporeal part of the Three-fold Pattern, since their choice represents the Soul or intermediate area of the Pattern.
When and where did condemnation originate?
For submission to the Satanic forces, represented by the Serpent, Adam and Eve were swiftly punished and God pronounced the punishment which was to befall them. Unto Eve, God said, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Thou shall bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee (Gen. 3:16). " Here we can plainly see an end to Eden, that wondrous place of superior elevation for Adam and Eve; and the beginning of condemnation. Unto Adam, God said, "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground, for out of it was thou taken: For dust thou art and unto dust shall thou return (Gen. 3:19). " Here we have the concrete or physical representation of the Three-fold Pattern where Adam was driven out of the Garden of Eden and Eve followed him out into the hard, cruel, physical world to labor, to suffer, and to experience death.
How did Noah escape the flood that destroyed the wicked?
Thus, we see our ever-present three-fold Pattern as the Adamic Transgression transcended from the abstract through the intermediate to the concrete part. As Adam and Eve had children and then many descendants, the world of people increased very rapidly, until there came a time when Adam and Eve must have been dismayed at the ever increasing sin and wickedness practiced by the people of the world.
As time went on, man ceased to believe in God and sin became rampant upon the face of the earth (Gen. 6:5). Within this chaos of people, one man (Noah) stood out with strong and firm faith (Gen. 6:8-9). This era of evil, violence, and lack of faith depicts the concrete or physical part of our Threefold Pattern in the era of Noah and the Flood.
The intermediate state is represented by Noah's firm conviction and strong faith in God. In the intermediate or incorporeal state God talked to Noah and instructed him to build an Ark (Gen. 6:14-17). God told Noah that when he brought an end to the flesh of the earth with a great flood of waters wherein everything on the earth would die (Gen. 6:13), Noah, his wife, his three sons, and three daughters-in-law would remain alive. God also instructed Noah to take two of every living thing with him on the Ark, to keep them alive for the new world that would result.
In a subsequent lesson we will discuss the fashion in which God instructed Noah to make the Ark, which also was according to the Three-fold Pattern (Gen. 6:16). To complete the Pattern of Noah and the Flood, the abstract state is represented by the Ark sailing safely on the top of the Deluge (Gen. 7:17). It is guided and protected by an overshadowing cloud of Spirit as the flood destroys everything in the world except this little wooden Ark, made to withstand the violence of the winds and the floods according to the fashion God told Noah to perform.
How did man's vanity inspire him to build the Tower of Babel?
The next biblically historical event that we will analyze and consider is the event of the construction of the Tower of Babel. This time our Three-fold Pattern begins at the concrete level. Once again the people of the earth had reached a state of idol worship, lust for power, and material gain. Their vanity escalated to the point of believing that they could build a structure with their various skills and crafts that would pierce the sky, reach up to the heavens, and prove that they were equal to all Gods (Gen. 11:4).
And so the construction of the Tower of Babel began. The Babylonians went to work with great speed. The tower began to rise into the sky until suddenly one day, without warning, all work came to a halt. [NOTE: "And Yahweh (the LORD) came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men boarded. And Yahweh (the LORD) said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (Gen 11:5-7)"]. Not a worker moved, not a sound was uttered. Here we have the intermediate stage of our Pattern, wherein something occurred that was not within the realm of the concrete, but rather of the incorporeal or Soul area of man.
Then, when men began to shout, holler, and issue orders, each man among them spoke a different tongue and no one could understand the language of any of his fellow workers. This confounding of speech, that represents the abstract state or Spirit part of our Threefold Pattern, was the first time in biblical history where man was unable to communicate with man. It manifests God's will destroying that which was born of Satanic Forces (Gen. 11:8-9).
How did Abraham's faith in yahweh cause his seed to be blessed?
Following biblical history in chronological order, the next example we shall analyze is that of the Patriarch, Abraham. Abraham was a man who believed in God by Faith and by Faith alone
(Gen. 15:6). So we start this Upward manifestation of the Three-fold Pattern in the concrete representation of the man Abraham.
As a reward for his deep, abiding love of God and faith in the eternal power of God, Abraham was given a dearly beloved Son (Isaac) at the age of one hundred (Gen. 17:17; 21:1-3, 5). This represents the intermediate stage of our Pattern, wherein the incorporeal or Soul State is represented by God providing His faithful follower, Abraham with the richly deserved reward of a Son.
As the years went by, Abraham came to love his son Isaac most dearly. Then came a day when Abraham was called upon to prove once again that he loved God and would obey His command at any cost or sacrifice (Gen. 22:1-3). God instructed Abraham to bring his beloved son Isaac to become a sacrifice to God. Though this grieved Abraham deeply since his love for Isaac was great, he, nevertheless responded to God's request and began the journey to the proper place (Mt. Moriah). As Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son, his hand was stayed by an angel of the Lord, who revealed to Abraham that he had passed the test of unquestioning Faith in God (Gen. 22:11-13). God then blessed Abraham and said, "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice (Gen. 22:18). " This ultimate Spiritual reconciliation and exaltation is the abstract part of our Pattern in the story of Abraham.
In a future lesson the significance of the Blessing of Abraham's Seed shall be shown, since through it is the hope of salvation for all the people of the world.
The wanderings of the Jews in the wilderness of Sinai represents the intermediate stage Of 011 Pattern, where they are on Holy Ground (Exo 15:1-5, 20-21). The abstract phase is represents by their eventual arrival in Canaan's Land (Joshua 3rd Chapter), which can be symbolized by Jerusalem on Earth being allegorical to Jerusalem above or God's Eternal Realm in heaven. The entire sequence of the Exodus will be fully and separated studied in a later lesson, as it has tremendous important in the entire comprehension of the Divine Pat tern of the Universe and becomes an excellent bas from which to create analysis, measurement, an judgment (Heb. 8:5; Rev. 11:2). Suffice me to say at the moment that this Exodus is a most significant one and a readily understandable personification or representation of the Pattern.
How does Israel's trek compare to the Pattern?
The First Vail in the case of the Exodus would be the Red Sea. The First Vail of the intangible Sanctuary divides the concrete or the Court Around About from the intermediate or the Holy Place, a the Red Sea divides Egypt from the Wilderness The Second Vail of Israel's migration would b represented by the River Jordan. The Second Vail separates the Holy Place or the Wilderness of Sinai from the Most Holy Place, as the Jordan divides the Wilderness from Canaan's Land. As you will recall from the lesson covering the Revelation (see "The Revelation of the Divine Pattern of the Universe," cover story on the September/October 1993 "PLIM REPORT'), the period Moses spent atop the Mount in Mt. Sinai was the most important event in biblical history - since it was there that God revealed to Moses, (while he was in the midst of the Phenomenal "Cloud"), the complete Pattern of the universe (Ex. 24th-30th Chapters).
How does the Messiah's birth compare to the Pattern?
To complete our study of this verification of the Three-fold Pattern in Biblical I history, we will take two more examples. One is the birth of Jesus and the last example will be the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Christ. Both of these events are upward patterns, beginning in the concrete part. The concrete counterpart is represented by the physical birth of Jesus by the Virgin Mary (Luke 2:5-7). The intermediate part is represented by the Holy Ghost which overshadowed Mary and in this incorporeal or ectoplasmic state, created the seed from which the physical child would be developed and born (Luke 1:26-35). This overshadowing Spirit or Holy Ghost, is symbolic of the rebirth of man - when man receives the word of God from the overshadowing Holy Ghost (Acts 2: 1 4). The abstract or Pure Spirit is represented in the breath of life. In this figure, of course, we have the ultimate representation of (1) the Father, (2) the Word, and (3) the Holy Ghost - all represented in the one great figure (I John 5:7).
How does the Messiah's death compare with an ascent in the pattern?
our final example is Yahshua the Messiah's crucifixion and His giving up the Holy Ghost or Spirit (John 19:30), which means the death, burial and resurrection of Christ also is an Upward Pattern. The concrete part is represented by the physical death of Jesus in the flesh on the cross of crucifixion. The intermediate stage is represented by the ascension of Christ three days after being placed in Joseph's tomb (John 21:11-15). This part is the soul or incorporeal aspect. The abstract or Pure Spirit form is shown by His ascension and timely appearance of the Incorporeal manifestation. (The Son of God, Retums as Spirit embodiment or God). The entire realm of the days of Christ in the flesh will be thoroughly discussed and studied. It will be shown how the coming of Christ and His fulfillment of the Law and the Prophecies was written in the beginning and foreshadowed throughout biblical history - and that CHRIST IN YOU is ETERNAL LIFE AND GLORY.
We have now come to the point in our lessons where it would be well for the student to pause and review and reflect upon the many significant true facts that have been presented. In the next lesson you will be shown how all of these historical and spiritual events are correlated and interconnected, repeated over and over again in the one Archetypal Pattern of the Universe.