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Old Testament as Adumbration
The Old Testament provides a preliminary, incomplete, and symbolic foreshadowing of the spiritual truths and experiences that are later made manifest and…
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The Mystery Called Christ
The entire Old Testament is an adumbration – that is, a foreshadowing in a not-altogether conclusive or immediately evident way. It’s a sketchy representation, omitting details – omitting all the little things that you could add into it and put into it and see the picture. It’s a very, very sketchy picture.
The Old Testament provides a preliminary, incomplete, and symbolic foreshadowing of the spiritual truths and experiences that are later made manifest and fully understood through personal mystical experience.
Who Is The Son Of Man
And then they went back into the ancient scriptures and saw confirmation of the experience. They found it there; but finding it there, it was adumbrated. The whole Old Testament is an adumbration. It is a foreshadow in a not-altogether conclusive or immediately evident way, but there it is, foreshadowing the story of standing on the Mount of Olives, and then a bolt of lightning splits it in two form east to west, and one side moved northward, the other side moved southward.
The Old Testament serves as an 'adumbration' or foreshadowing of spiritual experiences, presenting truths in a veiled or not immediately evident manner that are later confirmed and understood through personal mystical experience.