Defense of Symbolism and imagery

By Gman4326

Imagine yourself living in the desert and in the middle of the camp is the tabernacle a reminder of Yahweh is center of life and revelation. The walls of the Tabernacle made out of different fabrics and skins. The fabrics are dyed in certain colors (exodus 36:8, 14) and during your prayer time asking Elohim for revelation and how to use any such interpretation. Over time this meaningful understanding came to be known as Hebrew literature. "The most significant characteristic of Hebrew literature is that the greater part of it is directly or indirectly the outgrowth of the Bible. There is a marked continuity in the development of the later from the earlier literary forms, all of them going back to the first source—the Bible". (Jewish encyclopedia 1906)

Update: 12/25/2014

Now please consider this you are living in the ¹Romanum Mundum and the most ²vulgata is ³κοινή Greek and not ⁴יהודית. The convert is reading the Septuagint Greek form of the Old Testament. Christianity grew out of the Jewish monotheistic system. But many converts knew the Greco-Roman symbolism and other literary forms and over time Christian literature was born. But this system did not adopt Greek mythology but would use what they had learned from the scriptures about GOD and in three Persons; transmitted that in every aspect of life as it written in Deuteronomy 11.

Under the old covenant the invisible and visible church was an Israelite (Exodus 19:6) under this covenantal period it is anyone either partakes of the Lord Supper (1 Peter 2:9, 10) or under the wings of the thought form that makes up the body of believers.

This defense by no stretch of the imagination means all roads lead to the Tiber. The boot people initially forbade the development of anthology and literature because its origins were pagan. Until this period of time where tolerance flows the succession argument could not be made. Either an individual believed that all roads lead to Geneva or Rome. The Vatican of the 16^th century with its emphasis on sola ecclesia has sought to destroy the sola scriptura as the only true font given above. It is for the defense of Sacralism that Rome has done this. There are only two languages that make up the bible and four languages that make up Christianity. They are Hebrew, Koine Greek (bible) Latin and what is most commonly spoken by the believer locally.        

Succession of Symbolism it begins with what the Old Testament church:

 

In Hebrew literature from; the Jamnia school use the vineyard as metaphor as a place of learning. Source: authorama.com/chapters-on-jewish-literature-2.html

In Hebrew literature from antiquity the vine is the symbol for the messiah. Source: digitalcommons.unl.edu

2. Israel Isaiah 5:7, Hosea 9:10

3. Grapevine: blessed Deuteronomy 8:8

4. Abundance of wine: prosperity Genesis 49:11-12

5. Wine symbolizes well being: 1 Kings 5:5; Zechariah 3:10

6. Overflowing vats: divine blessing

7. Laying waste of vines: national disaster Hosea 2:14; Joel 1:7

8. The budding of vine blossom: end of winter Song of Songs 2:13

9. Ripened grape: fulfillment of a man's life Joel 2:22

10. Fermented grape: a gift given to royalty 1 Samuel 16:20

Stone (symbolism)

1.            Strength of Character (Peter) Matthew 4:18-20

2.            Blocking an individual’s path (large stones) Matthew 21:21; Mark 11:23

3.            Hard Truth to hear (hail)

4.            City on a hill (faith) Matthew 5:14

Five smooth stones can also represent strength of character. 1 Samuel 17:40

Hailstorm: Exodus 9:18; Isaiah 28:2; Revelation 11:19
Source: ehow.com/info_8031590_meaning-stones-bible.html

In my research on liberal arts it has led me to looking up in Latin early forms of tropes here is one.

Who do you seek was first performed in 890 anno

“Quem quaeritis servi Christi?

Servi Christique angeli:

Iesus Nazarenus [Corpus christi caleum servi].

Angeli:

Non est hic; surrexit, sicut predixerat:

Ite, nuntiate quia surrexit a mortuis”.

John Bunyan wrote two lengthy Allegories one called Pilgrims Progress and the other Holy War.

Here is a sample: Wiki-source part one section one

The Pilgrim’s Progress

“The Author Apology for his book   

FROM THIS WORLD TO That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a DREAM Wherein is Discovered, The manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey.

I have used similitudes, Hosea 12:10

 When at the first I took my Pen in hand,

Thus for to write; I did not understand

That I at all should make a little Book

In such a mode; Nay, I had undertook

To make another, which, when almost done,

Before I was aware, I this begun.

And thus it was: I writing of the Way

And Race of Saints in this our Gospel-Day,

Fell suddenly into an Allegory

About their Journey, and the way to Glory,

In more than twenty things, which I set down;

This done, I twenty more had in my Crown,

And they again began to multiply,

Like sparks that from the coals of Fire do flie.

Nay then, thought I, if that you breed so fast,

I’ll put you by your selves, lest you at last

Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out

The Book that I already am about.

Well, so I did; but yet I did not think

To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink

In such a mode; I only thought to make

I knew not what: nor did I undertake

Thereby to please my Neighbour; no, not I,

I did it mine own self to gratifie.

Neither did I but vacant seasons spend

In this my Scribble; Nor did I intend

But to divert my self in doing this,

From worser thoughts, which make me do amiss.

Thus I set Pen to Paper with delight,

And quickly had my thoughts in black and white.

For having now my Method by the end;

Still as I pull'd, it came; and so I penn'd

It down, until it came at last to be

For length and breadth the bigness which you see.

Well, when I had thus put mine ends together,

I shew'd them others, that I might see whether

They would condemn them, or them justifie:

And some said, let them live; some, let them die:

Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so:

Some said, It might do good; others said, No.

Now was I in a straigt, and did not see

Which was the best thing to be done by me:

At last I thought, Since you are thus divided,

I print it will, and so the case decided.

For, thought I; Some I see would have it done,

Though others in that Channel do not run;

To prove then who advised for the best,

Thus I thought fit to put it to the test.

I further thought, if now I did deny

Those that would have it thus, to gratifie,

I did not know, but hinder them I might,

Of that which would to them be great delight.

For those that were not for its coming forth;

I said to them, Offend you I am loth;

Yet since your Brethren pleased with it be,

Forbear to judge, till you do further see.

If that thou wilt not read, let it alone;

Some love the meat, some love to pick the bone:

Yea, that I might them better palliate,

I did too with them thus Expostulate.

May I not write in such a stile as this?

In such a method too, and yet not miss

Mine end, thy good? why may it not be done?

Dark Clouds bring Waters, when the bright bring none;

Yea, dark or bright, if they their silver drops

Cause to descend, the Earth, by yielding Crops,

Gives praise to both, and carpeth not at either,

But treasures up the Fruit they yield together:

Yea, so commixes both, that in her Fruit

None can distinguish this from that, they suit

Her well, when hungry: but if she be full,

She spues out both, and makes their blessing null.

You see the ways the Fisher-man doth take

To catch the Fish; what Engins doth he make?

Behold! how he ingageth all his Wits;

Also his Snares, Lines, Angles, Hooks and Nets:

Yet Fish there be, that neither Hook nor Line,

Nor Snare, nor Net, nor Engin can make thine;

They must be grop'd for, and be tickled too,

Or they will not be catcht, what e'er you do.

How doth the Fowler seek to catch his Game,

By divers means, all which one cannot name?

His Gun, his Nets, his Lime-twigs, light and bell:

He creeps, he goes, he stands; yea, who can tell

Of all his postures? Yet there's none of these

Will make him master of what Fowls he please.

Yea, he must Pipe, and Whistle, to catch this;

Yet if he does so, that Bird he will miss.

If that a Pearl may in a Toads-head dwell,

And may be found too in an Oister-shell;

If things that promise nothing, do contain

What better is then Gold; who will disdain,

(That have an inkling of it,) there to look,

That they may find it? Now my little Book,

(Tho void of all those paintings that may make

It with this or the other man to take,)

Is not without those things that do excel,

What do in brave, but empty notions dwell.

Well, yet I am not fully satisfied,

That this your Book will stand, when soundly try'd.

Why, what's the matter? It is dark. What tho?

But it is feigned, What of that I trow?

Some men by feigning words as dark as mine,

Make truth to spangle, and its rays to shine.

But they want solidness. Speak man thy mind:

They drown'd the weak; Metaphors make us blind.

Solidity, indeed becomes the Pen

Of him that writeth things Divine to men:

But must I needs want solidness, because

By Metaphors I speak; was not Gods Laws,

His Gospel-laws in older time held forth

By Types, Shadows and Metaphors? Yet loth

Will any sober man be to find fault

With them, lest he be found for to assault

The highest Wisdom. No, he rather stoops,

And seeks to find out what by pins and loops,

By Calves, and Sheep; by Heifers, and by Rams;

By Birds and Herbs, and by the blood of Lambs;

God speaketh to him: And happy is he

That finds the light, and grace that in them be.

Be not too forward therefore to conclude,

That I want solidness; that I am rude:

All things solid in shew, not solid be;

All things in parables despise not we,

Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive;

And things that good are, of our souls bereave.

My dark and cloudy words they do but hold

The Truth, as Cabinets inclose the Gold.

The prophets used much by Metaphors

To set forth Truth; Yea, who so considers

Christ, his Apostles too, shall plainly see,

That Truths to this day in such Mantles be.

Am I afraid to say that holy Writ,

Which for its Stile, and Phrase, puts down all Wit,

Is every where so full of all these things,

(Dark Figures, Allegories,) yet there springs

From that same Book that lustre, and those rayes

Of light, that turns our darkest nights to days.

Come, let my Carper, to his Life now look,

And find There darker Lines, than in my Book

He findeth any. Yea, and let him know,

That in his best things there are worse lines too.

May we but stand before impartial men,

To his poor One, I durst adventure Ten,

That they will take my meaning in these lines

Far better then his lies in Silver Shrines.

Come, Truth, although in Swadling-clouts, I find

Informs the Judgement, rectifies the Mind,

Pleases the Understanding, makes the Will

Submit; the Memory too it doth fill

With what doth our Imagination please;

Likewise, it tends our troubles to appease.

Sound words I know Timothy is to use;

And old Wives Fables he is to refuse,

But yet grave Paul him no where doth forbid

The use of Parables; in which lay hid

That Gold, those Pearls, and precious stones that were

Worth digging for; and that with greatest care.

Let me add one word more, O Man of God!

Art thou offended? dost thou wish I had

Put forth my matter in another dress,

Or that I had in things been more express?

Three things let me propound, then I submit

To those that are my betters, (as is fit.)

1. I find not that I am denied the use

Of this my method, so I no abuse

Put on the Words, Things, Readers, or be rude

In handling Figure or Similitude,

In application; but, all that I may,

Seek the advance of Truth, this or that way:

Denyed did I say? Nay, I have leave,

(Example too, and that from them that have

God better pleased by their words or ways,

Then any Man that breatheth now adays,)

Thus to express my mind, thus to declare

Things unto thee that excellentest are.

2. I find that men (as high as Trees) will write

Dialogue-wise; yet no Man doth them slight

For writing so: Indeed if they abuse

Truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use

To that intent; but yet let Truth be free

To make her Salleys upon Thee, and Me,

Which way it pleases God. For who knows how,

Better then he that taught us first to Plow,

To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design?

And he makes base things usher in Divine.

3. I find that holy Writ in many places,

Hath semblance with this method, where the cases

Doth call for one thing to set forth another:

Use it I may then, and yet nothing smother

Truths golden beams; Nay, by this method may

Make it cast forth its rayes as light as day.

And now, before I do put up my Pen,

I’le shew the profit of my Book, and then

Commit both thee, and it unto that hand

That pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones stand.

This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes,

The man that seeks the everlasting Prize:

It shews you whence he comes, whither he goes,

What he leaves undone; also what he does:

It also shews you how he runs, and runs,

Till he unto the Gate of Glory comes.

It shews too, who sets out for life amain,

As if the lasting Crown they would attain:

Here also you may see the reason why

They lose their labour, and like fools do die.

This Book will make a Traveller of thee,

If by its Counsel thou wilt ruled be;

It will direct thee to the Holy Land,

If thou wilt its Directions understand:

Yea, it will make the sloathful, active be;

The Blind also, delightful things to see.

Art thou for something rare, and profitable?

Wouldest thou see a Truth within a Fable?

Art thou forgetful? wouldest thou remember

From New-Years-day to the last of December?

Then read my fancies, they will stick like Burs,

And may be to the Helpless, Comforters.

This Book is writ in such a Dialect,

As may the minds of listless men affect:

It seems a Novelty, and yet contains

Nothing but sound and honest Gospel-strains.

Wouldst thou divert thy self from Melancholly?

Would'st thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly?

Would'st thou read Riddles, and their Explanation?

Or else be drownded in thy Contemplation?

Dost thou love picking-meat? or would'st thou see

A man i' th Clouds, and hear him speak to thee?

Would'st thou be in a Dream, and yet not sleep?

Or would'st thou in a moment Laugh and Weep?

Wouldest thou lose thy self, and catch no harm?

And find thy self again without a charm?

Would'st read thy self, and read thou know'st not what

And yet know whether thou art blest or not,

By reading the same lines? O then come hither,

And lay my Book, thy Head and Heart together.

JOHN BUNYAN”

Holy war:  Allegory

“In the city there were three esteemed men, who, by admitting Diabolus to the city, lost their previous authority. The eyes of "Understanding", the mayor, are hidden from the light. "Conscience", the recorder, has become a madman, at times sinning, and at other times condemning the sin of the city. But worst of all is Lord Willbewill, whose desire has been completely changed from serving his true Lord, to serving Diabolus. With the fall of these three, for Mansoul to turn back to Shaddai of their own will, is impossible. Salvation can come only by the victory of Emmanuel.

The entire story is a masterpiece of Christian literature, describing vividly the process of the fall, conversion, fellowship with Emmanuel, and many more intricate doctrines”. Wikipedia

There was Morality plays was written in English at various times late 14^th to late 15^th centuries.

They were written in the allegorical format as well.

Names are The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, Everyman, The World and the Child, Interlude of Youth, The Disobedient Child, Liberality and Prodigality, Horestes, and The Play of the Weather.

We have so far have used Tropes and Allegory.

Endnotes:

1: Roman World

2: Common word in Latin

3: Common word in Hellenistic

4: Biblical Hebrew (Yәhudit) Wikipedia: Hebrew language

Original:
Who wrote the New Testament? These men were Jews with Luke being a convert. They knew what symbolism and imagery were. Christianity grew out of Jewish monotheistic system. But many converts knew the Greco-Roman symbolism and other literary forms and over time Christian literature was born. But this system did not adopt Greek mythology but would what they had learned from the scriptures about GOD in three Persons and transmitted that in every aspect of life as it written in Deuteronomy 11.
There is a Roman Catholic source on symbolism online called christiansymbols.net
Ḿy knowledge is limited and I know in order to restore our dominion on Liberal arts we need to not rely on a corrupt collegiate system bent on our destruction but got back to the original sources and go from there.