The Garden of Eden story in Genesis is a representational myth dealing with a prehistoric time period in which Goddess the Mother, not God the Father, was the one creator. Serpents were among her primary symbols. They represented the twists and turns of wisdom, the ability to digest big mouthfuls of information, and shedding the skin of an old life in favor of a new one.

Snake-on-a-stick, that is a serpent crawling up a tree or pole, represented the mundane ascending to the sublime, the kundalini energy rising through the chakras, and animate life fastened snugly to the tree of life which unified the realms of earth and heaven.

The serpent slithering upon its belly signified progress as slow and indirect.

Eve did not just represent women. She served as stand-in for the female divinity, which made woman head of the household. Her main jobs, besides supervising man, were constructing the hut, birthing and educating children with regard to survival skills and tribal myths, bringing home veggies for food and herbs for medicine, acting as a healer, and intuiting messages from the deities.

Only after the "fall" (that is, men's liberation) did she pass on a number of her jobs--and human rights--to her sons. It was at this point where gender roles reversed themselves that Goddess became God and the role of Eve deteriorated to become a symbol of marginalized peoples of any race or gender.

Goddess worship and its attendant matriarchal system was still popular even at the time of the apostle Paul. Paul came from Tarsus in Cilicia, an area where for thousands of years, an obese Mother Goddess and her obnoxiously loud, sexually aggressive prophetesses had reigned supreme. That fact undoubtedly exacerbated his femophobic opinion of women particularly those inclined to compete with his agenda.

Adding to his fears was the fact that early Christians, like the rest of the ancient world, did not require the auditory etiquette in religious settings that we are used to in churches today. Thus, anyone who felt they had just channeled a message from God immediately shared it at a high volume and with great enthusiasm.

Usually it was a woman, since traditions set by the primeval Mother Goddess dictated that women, not men, were the teachers of religion. Ignorance or suppression of that fact has resulted in an overwhelmingly male-biased misrepresentation of the New Testament.

For instance, Paul's directions for church etiquette contain the command, "If they (women) wish to inquire about something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for women to speak in the church" (1 Cor 14:35, NIV). Christians wrongly suppose Paul was saying that women were the students and men the teachers, when as we have seen, it was exactly the other way around.

Some translations say, "If they wish to learn anything," however, the word learn can sometimes mean teach. This is true of certain English dialects, for example, and of French, where the words for learn and teach are identical. I suggest that such was the case in the original text of this verse, and translators chose learn according to their preconceived notions.

The confusion is easily allayed when we learn that in Jewish and early Christian cultures, the accepted educational method required a teacher to pose questions instead of lecturing. The idea was to subtly guide the students to discover the answer for themselves. This technique increased students' problem-solving abilities and encouraged their mental participation.

Thus, Paul was saying that if a woman wished to teach the congregation, she should enlighten her husband at home by quizzing him until he found the answers she already knew, and she should then allow him to convey what he had learned to the entire church.

By making this rule, Paul may have hoped to silence the voice of gnosticism, which was largely feminist, as well as that of any former pagan who still followed the old ways.

As we enter the age of Aquarius with its characteristic gender fluidity, we may yet see the "battle of the sexes" replaced by the spirit of true love and welcoming respect for all orientations and gender identities.

In the allegorical Garden of Eden story, the totality of deity is expressed in the plural. So, the text speaks in terms of "the gods," which in turn it subdivides into the CEO deity (God) and the CEO's assistant, the serpent god of wisdom. Neither one is portrayed as good or evil; they are both a little of each, as we see in the story. It is similar to the Greek myth where Prometheus stole fire (light, energy, technology) from the gods and gave it to humanity, for which the chief god punished him.

Here, it was not about fire but food. The Goddess told humans in dreams and by intuition which foods were safe and which were not, which is why the story says God(dess) told them they could eat of any "tree" (in other words, any plant) in the garden except for one. Evidently the "fruit" of this particular plant was poisonous, a fact they learned in dreams and/or by trial and error.

Enter wisdom. They have experienced health and illness, and from that point on, must take responsibility for knowing either good or evil. Sin did not enter the world when they ate that plant, only awareness of sin, and the responsibility to avoid it.

People cooked the new food. They ate it and didn't die. Success! They had overcome the downside of ignorance. Then they started thinking that perhaps they would be warmer and more comfy if they wore clothes. And with each new innovation, they faced a new challenge--the task of choosing only the Good. They could not simply choose good from evil, for that would require them to know (to carry in their mind) evil, thereby rendering them impure.

Their challenge was to find a way to choose the good without knowing evil. To know nothing but the good, thereby consciously and actively being (as Jesus put it) "as clever as serpents and as innocent as doves." Of course, the only way to do so is by spiritual faith, in other words, by the knowledge that the universe is not existential but subsists instead of theory. In Jesus' model, evil had no place in our universe, the kingdom of heaven. There was simply no room for it. Thus, transcendental truth had rendered nonexistent all that would have been foreign to our purity, happiness, and perfection.

A positive attitude based on spiritual ideals is of the utmost importance. Instead, from the time of the first humans, our species has focused on how bad things were. The statement that they hid from God was a metaphorical way of saying that they lost their focus and became estranged from their divine identity. In the same negative vein, they then decided it must be because the deity was jealous of human attempts at self-improvement. In reality, human wisdom was actually an expression of the divine and therefore not in competition with it.

What is in reality carried in the mind of humanity is not the knowledge of good and evil, but of good and nothing but the good. Our conquest of sin and its deadly consequences depends on how well we live up to that fact.

Just a few thoughts on how science and religion can make their marriage work because they really do belong together.

We know from personal revelation, religious prophets, and scientists that time is an artificial construct and that past, present, and future are all one. Thus, there is no coming into being, for we are eternal in the One.

Life, our cosmos, God, ourselves, nature... are all One in truth and love. The sacred name I AM,  is more than just a deity. It is like a single-cell organism composed of innumerable sub-cells. It is theoretical, not existential--an eternal, organic hologram not bound by any framework of time or existence. Within this living organism, life flows in a series of changing scenes like a giant holographic video.

Miracles happen when the video calls for special effects. Each frame or scene of life edits itself according to the script embedded within it, creating spin offs ordinarily perceptible only from a higher dimension. The formation of these spin offs can be compared to the manner in which fractals form, as patterns containing the blueprint for their own design within themselves. The blueprint itself is pure theory, thus, all creation is theory as well. Every atom in our body is made of theory. Every bit of food we eat or air we breathe is made of theory. Our measurable universe is only the outer part the cell. It writes and acts out its own script according to the direction of the ideals self-generated by pure theory.

Pure theory is the common denominator linking spirit, matter, and energy. It is timeless, metaphysical, and metaspiritual (beyond spirit). It/She/He is God and we are part of it whenever we are one with its ideals and its peace. Whenever we are not, we are quite literally not ourselves. Translated into Christian terms, when we are good and at peace, we are part of the body of Christ. When in a state of sin, or even the innocent victim of it, the one in torment is not the body of Christ but of Satan.

Good and evil are not a duality of nature. They are not equivalent to light and darkness. Darkness is just the absence of light, not the presence of some dirty or displeasing color. Thus, good and the absence of good form the most basic duality. Since evil is neither good nor the absence of good, it has no legitimate function, no place in the One, and no place in reality. It is a cosmic lie.

The One negates and eradicates every malignancy within a dark void of oblivion consisting of its own absence. This is the safe, friendly darkness reported by many near-death experiencers, and is only perceptible on a higher spiritual plane. From the point of view of the malignancy, it is a spiritually enhanced hell on earth--perceived retroactively after death.

This security process works like the way a mammal's body surrounds, dismantles, and deletes invaders who are alien to the body and have no legitimate business within it. The malignancy disappears into the abyss, swallowed up by the tangible darkness. Again, the disappearance is only perceptible to our senses from a higher plane.

If the offender is an entity rather than a circumstance, the entity may not know it has been erased from existence. It certainly does not feel as if it is nonexistent, for the deletion process does not hinder any alleged sensory or cognitive capabilities, it only negates them. This is similar to the Catholic description of a state of mortal sin. Only by being 100% true to the Oneness, whose most basic manifestation is true love, do we transcend this state of negation and claim our reality and wholeness, allowing us to experience the universe as a magical place of unlimited, peaceful beauty.

Jesus was gay. Even the Bible tells us how he readily accepted women's work, nursing Peter's mother-in-law back to health and cooking for the household until she could again resume her duties. It tells us how he sat at a well--where guys went to pick up veiled ladies--and chatted with a strange woman about religion, even going so far as to invite her male roommate to join them. But the Bible does not stop there.

Gnostic spies within the ranks of the budding Christian religion wrote the real story of Jesus' life and sayings into the Bible, encoded in simple metaphorical language. The authors of the books of Mark and John were two of those spies. Gnostic students of Jesus were his adepts, his most advanced pupils, to whom he imparted the secret wisdom of transcendence. Even before his arrest, his disciples had split into two factions, gnostics and administrative assistants. Peter was one of the latter.

This commentary on Mark 14 (NASB) is my attempt to translate the metaphors for the modern reader:

Death Plot and Anointing
 1Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

 2for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."

 3While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman [Mary Magdalene] with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head. [John 12:3 says she anointed his feet and the house was filled with the odor of perfume. The word feet was Hebrew slang for genitals. That is, Mary anointed him from head to toe. One presumes she did not do this in the dining room. The guests were aware of what was going on even before Jesus returned to the table because the fragrance filled the entire house.

[Though spa-type anointings such as this included the genitals, that need not imply sexual activity. Male nudity was far more acceptable in their culture than it is in ours. Also, The Secret Gospels of Mark, in conjunction with the canonical gospels, make it abundantly clear that Jesus was deeply in love with and sexually involved with Mary M's brother Lazarus.* This made Mary the unofficial sister-in-law of Jesus, in addition to her role as his coiffeuse and best friend. It is perfectly plausible that she would consider Jesus, the lover of her brother, a dear, gay friend.

There was no scandal except in the minds of the religious establishment. Touching the opposite sex in public even for what we would consider innocent purposes was to them highly unacceptable... unless the male in question were dead and thus free from the wiles of what lawmakers considered the predatory female sex.]

 4But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?

 5"For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii [around $24,000**], and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her. [Only the wealthiest of families could afford to pour a half-liter of extremely rare perfume on a dinner guest.]

 6But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me. [She did not do this to prepare him for burial but to show love and respect. Bastet the Egyptian cat goddess, for example, anointed the living, whereas the people of Yahweh reserved such beauty treatments only for the dead. This was in direct opposition to the spirit of Jesus' teachings. "God is God of the living, not of the dead," he had once said, "for all are alive to Him," that is, The All lives in God.]

 7"For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

 8"She has done what she could; [unlike most women, who do according to your custom of anointing only a dead body,] she has anointed My body before burial." [In other words, while he was still living. It is much more thoughtful to offer a fragrant spa treatment to someone who is still alive.]

 9"Truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

 10Then Judas Iscariot [that is, Peter], who was one of the twelve [this clause would not be necessary if the name were not an euphemism for "backstabber"], went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

 11They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

[Peter could not bear the thought of equality of the sexes, and here was Jesus subjecting himself to a beauty treatment from this fabulously wealthy aristocratic woman who possessed the worldly power which Peter so desired. As if that were not enough, Jesus was predicting everlasting fame for her besides!

[Peter thus decided not only to betray Jesus, but to make Mary Magdalene out to be the traitor. Beauticians were already maligned by the Jewish establishment, whose slang term for prostitute was magdala (hairdresser). Mary, a multimillionaire's daughter, hardly needed the extra income but would naturally be drawn to arts having to do with beauty and fashion.

[The reason patriarchal tradition equated the two distinct professions of beautician and prostitute was that beauticians like Mary Magdalene offered spa treatments to men as well as women. These treatments included applying perfumed oils to the entire body and styling the beard and hair--including the pubic hair--in ringlets.

[In Acts 1, Mary Magdalene is absent from the gathering at which Peter the traitor attempts to divert suspicion from himself. He decries the Judas and persuades the male disciples to choose a replacement. Mary's conspicuous absence strongly suggests that his faction of the group sees her as the Judas.

[The Gospel of Mary Magdalene tells us that Peter and Andrew resent her presence among the disciples, so much so that they try to persuade Jesus to exclude her, and when this fails, Peter threatens her. When Peter and John begin preaching the pagan doctrine of a sacrificed and resurrected Lord instead of Jesus' pro-feminine, secret teachings, they refuse to believe Mary's assertion that Jesus had not died since she had just seen him alive and well.

[Thomas, too, whose highly esoteric Gospel of Thomas is a supreme example of gnostic literature, refused to believe Jesus dead unless he saw the alleged nail prints. Peter's group thus branded him The Doubter.

[His only doubts took the form of fleeting fears that Jesus, who had not been seen or heard from since his arrest, might indeed be dead. When Thomas did see the real Jesus--as opposed to the strange, Jesusoid sightings reported by Peter's group--his doubts were relieved. There were no nail prints or wounds, only facial bruises from the beatings.

[Jesus did not reprimand him but reassured him, saying that Thomas was blessed to have believed in life as the way to life, as opposed to Peter's doctrine of torture and death as the way. He then added that those who remained optimistic in the face of negativity were more blessed still.]
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[THIS SECTION IS A FAST FORWARD CLIP--ABOVE, IN 14:1, THE PASSOVER WAS TWO DAYS AWAY, HERE IT IS ONE DAY AWAY]

The Last Passover
 12On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?"

 13And He sent two of His disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him; [Either an actual man or a pictorial image on a sign, advertising a gay bordello***]

 14and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?"'

 15"And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there."

 16The disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

 17When it was evening He came with the twelve.

FOOTNOTES

*According to Clementine Secret Mark and Carpocratian Secret Mark, Jesus initiated a rich young man he had raised from the tomb. The boy "looked upon him and loved him," just as Jesus had done earlier, cf. the story of the rich young man rejected by Jesus for not wishing to give his goods to the poor.

It is highly likely that the young man was Lazarus (Ellasar or Eliezar in Jesus' language), the brother of Mary Magdalene and Martha of Bethany, and that this fabulously wealthy household belonged to Joseph of Arimathea. Coming from Arimathea--and no one seems to know where that was--would certainly not prevent him from relocating to Bethany.

This Joseph of Arimathea was said to be a multimillionaire shipping magnate, a high ranking member of the Sanhedrin, a friend of Pontius Pilate, and a secret follower of Jesus. It is likely that he bailed Jesus out of prison by bribing Pilate, who just happened to take an early retirement the following year.

The gospels tell us this Joseph took Jesus down from the cross, which--given the Aramaic tendency to speak in symbols, and given the fact that gnostic spies within the clergy (like Mark) used such imagery as a code to tell the true story--very likely means that Joseph of Arimathea saved Jesus from being crucified. His motivation was not just that he was Jesus' follower. He was also the father of Lazarus (Jesus' beloved) and of Mary Magdalene, Jesus' hairdresser and best friend.

J of A's brand new tomb, in which no man had yet been placed, was gnostic spy code for burying Jesus (that is, hiding Jesus from the world at large) by setting him up in a fancy, brand new home in a place no one would think to look. That place was Gaul (southern France). J of A's fleet of ships regularly docked at ports along the French Riviera.

In the Bible, Jesus tells Mary Magdalene to "go tell my brothers, I go ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see me." Notice the similarity between Galilee and Gaul in the vowel-free Hebrew language of the original texts: GLL and GL. Again, a coded way of telling fellow gnostics--friends of the feminine--that Jesus would go on ahead and meet his loved ones in France.

Nicodemus, another rich and influential friend of Jesus, may have been the elder son within this famous Arimathean dynasty. The gospels mention him in the same breath with this Joseph, saying that Nicodemus provided 75 pounds of spices for Jesus' burial. Spices to us are little extras, but to ancient audiences, they were necessities with multiple uses. In other words, Nicodemus provided for all of Jesus' needs.

In the light of Mark's secret gospel account of the relationship between Jesus and J of A's son Lazarus (Eliezar), who Jesus no doubt called Eli, the words, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" take on a whole new meaning. "Eli, Eli, why have you abandoned me?" was not a cry uttered from the cross but the lament of a disappointed lover. Jesus was hurt that Eli had chosen the dissolute life of a rich playboy instead of the sanctified route of doing good with his money.

As the canonical gospels tell us, when Jesus required this spiritual commitment, the young man went away sad because he was very rich.

Again in code, we learn that he was so sad, in fact, that his sisters sent an urgent message to Jesus, saying, "The one you love is sick." They meant heartsick and pining for you. Jesus responded that this sickness was not serious, not realizing the depth of Eli's depression, and remained where he was. Meanwhile, Eli attempted suicide and either died or was in a death-like coma so convincing that his family put him in a sealed tomb.

When Jesus finally arrived, the two sisters kept saying, "If you had been here, our brother would not have died," meaning, If you had only come to see him he would not have suicided. "Jesus wept."

As they approached the place of burial, they heard cries for help coming from the tomb. Evidently, Eli had either awakened from his coma or revived from a near-death experience a more enlightened human, but one who to his great dismay, found himself abandoned in the darkness, bound hand and foot, and covered with a heavily starched sheet.

The secret gospel goes on to say that Jesus ran to the tomb, removed the stone, grasped Eli by the hand--that is, he treated him with propriety and kindness, not lust--and helped him up. Here the gospel says, "But (meaning, but this time) the young man looked at Jesus and loved him, and begged to be with him," in other words, Eli had seen the light and was now ready to use his money to do good in the world so that he could be with his lover.

Jesus of course accepted and proceeded to initiate Eli into the group. After six days of instruction, he told the boy to wear only a white, one-piece linen, and they met at night in the room where Jesus was a guest in the family home. He "stayed the night and Jesus taught him the mysteries of the kingdom of God, nude man with nude man." (see The Forbidden Gospel by Bruns and The Man Jesus Loved by Theodore Jennings, Jr.)

According to Clement of Alexandria, Jesus took his newly initiated boyfriend to Jericho. Jericho (meaning fragrant) was the Palm Springs of Palestine, probably attracting a similar mix of rich socialites, celebrities, and gay vacationers. Wikipedia states, "The city... functioned... as a winter resort for Jerusalem's aristocracy." (http://www.wikipedia/wiki/jericho)

Clementine Secret Mark makes a point of saying that the young man's "sister (probably Martha, not Mary Magdalene) was there, and his (Jesus') mother, and Salome, but Jesus did not receive them". In other words, the trio of wealthy women happened to be vacationing there too but Jesus and Eli avoided them, possibly because they had not yet come out as gay to the older generation, and/or because the three women moved with a less spiritual crowd.

Salome was the honorary grandmother of Jesus; she was the army camp follower who adopted Mary his mother when she was orphaned in the Galilean uprisings of 4 B.C.E. (see www.wikipedia.org/wiki/sepphoris) Gnostic gospels identify Salome as Mary's midwife who guaranteed her virginity, and add that she stayed with Mary and her children the rest of her life.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Logion 61, Salome asks Jesus how he can say he is of the One (God) when he climbed onto her couch (as a little child would have to do) and ate at her table. In other words, "How can you be from God when I was the one who changed your diapers?" Jesus answers, "I am from the balance", that is, there is give and take within God.

Then he makes his point more emphatically, saying to Salome, "I am your disciple!" This is HIS line not hers! He was saying he had learned a lot from her because she helped Mary raise him. Gnostic tradition says that Salome tested Jesus. It would seem she tried his patience as well as honed his convictions with her doubts and questions.

 
**One denarius was equal to a day's pay, presumably for an average worker.


***The mid-eastern attitude was that real men did not carry water jars, women did. (Jennings, The Man Jesus Loved; and Lamsa, Gospel Light)

'A man carrying a water jar' also describes the icon for the sign of Aquarius the Water Bearer, aka Ganymede, who was cupbearer to the gods. In the Tarot, cups are connected with the goddess, as a reference to her concave sex organ; and in Etruscan, the name Ganymede is Catamite, from which we get the same word. Thus, it is highly likely that the icon for Aquarius, a sign known for its androgynous tendencies, also functioned as a discreet form of gaydar, a way of declaring a place gay-friendly.

We know from Matt 26:18 that Jesus directs his two scouts to "a certain man" who owned the establishment thus advertised by the water bearer. So Jesus must have known the proprietor well. John 18:2 says Judas (Peter) knew the place because Jesus had often "resorted there with his disciples".

Jesus did not expect a raid. He had fired Judas (Peter) at the supper in Bethany when Peter refused to let him "wash his feet," again, the feet are a euphemism for the genitals. Jesus knew only that Peter was denying him by being intolerant of the feminine.

There were at least three other disciples who had motives to side with Peter: his brother Andrew, whose speech denouncing Eli's sister Mary Magdalene the dear friend of Jesus in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, tells us that both brothers shared the same anti-feminine, homophobic mindset. We also learn from the Bible that John and his brother James had earned the resentment of the other disciples by aspiring to positions of power within the group.Both sets of brothers were no doubt frustrated when Jesus told them that anyone who wanted to be great had to be a servant, not a ruler.

The gospel was written like a screenplay, so the scenes are not always in chronological order. As we will see, Mark 14:18 cuts back to the anointing supper at Simon the leper's in Bethany, where the house is still filled with the fragrance of perfume and Peter has just decided to betray Jesus.

They eat, Jesus speaks, then verse 26 says they "sing a hymn" (this hymn is the dance in The Acts of John, both of which are metaphorical representations of the ritual gay sex act over which Jesus and Peter part company). The disciples then leave for the Mount of Olives, in other words, they leave Bethany and head WEST to the Mount of Olives, next stop Jerusalem.

The same Bethany supper scene which lasts from John 12:1 to John 13:35, abruptly cuts to John 18:1, which has them crossing the Kidron valley (from EAST to WEST) and arriving (in Jerusalem) at The Olive Press.

Thus, Gethsemane (The Olive Press) was not a literal garden, and could not have been located on the Mount of Olives. It was a gay club or bordello in Jerusalem. The designation of an urban club as a "garden" may well be a figure of speech similar to calling New York the big apple or Madison Square Garden "the garden". Perhaps there was a garden on the premises. More likely, the designation was simply a slang term similar to "cat house".

In the desert countries of the middle-east, vegetation was highly valued. Gardens were seen as a sensuous place of delights and refreshment (think of the nude couple in the garden of Eden in Genesis, or the lovers in the Song of Solomon); gardens were the groves where fertility rites of goddess worship were celebrated. What better euphemism for a bordello than the word garden?

The bible tells us this place was called The Olive Press. To an imaginative mind--or a largely illiterate society geared to interpreting visual images--names such as The Olive Press, The Honey Pot, or The Piston would sound highly suggestive. Most of us would draw as much of a mental blank on olive press as ancient people would on piston. But to the ancients, an olive press, with its grinding action, its oil coating the shaft of a phallic stone pillar, and the viscous fluid pouring from a spout, certainly must have created a powerful mental image of sexual intercourse.

This is not to say that Jesus was immoral. His spirituality, his compassion, his mystical teachings, and his humility make it more than evident that he was the epitome of morality. But his idea of morality differed greatly from that of organized religion, in his day as well as our own. To Jesus, holiness was not a matter of rules and regulations. It was simply the illuminating glow of truth and love, indistinguishably and indivisibly joined as one.

(All scriptures taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.  www.Lockman.org)

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