Four Triumphs

MINNEAPOLIS: Minnesota Vikings quarterback number four Brett Favre threw four touchdowns in his fortieth year as a quarterback.

The number four is as predominant in the spirit world as it is in our world made of four elements in four directions sporting four different types of life: inanimate, growing, moving and speaking. These physical manifestations depicted in fours is related to the four spirit worlds that defuse and attenuate the Light of God until it can enter into our physical world.

Forty is also a significant number being there were forty days and nights of flood, forty years wandering in the Wilderness, forty years it takes to understand the words of your teacher. The letter Mem/40 looks like a block and is the only letter which is not spelled out using other letters, the source of the confine to infinity–forty forever.

Four is predominant in creation because God’s Name is written with four letters–YHVH; these four letters can be rearranged to read the three tenses indicating a presence beyond time and space. These same four letter when written vertically make the stick image of a human being.

Purple, the color of the Minnesota Vikings uniforms, is the combination of all color in the same way the YHVH is the source of all creation. Go Vikings!

Presidential Religion

A recent article in the New York Times showcases the president’s spiritual advisers—five Christian pastors. The lack of any Jewish, Muslim, Buddhists or other practitioners of the spiritual world is disturbing. Just as the president invites disparate perspectives into the debate of how to fix and run the physical aspects of our country one would think the president would also invite different ethereal ideas into his spiritual development.

The integration of ideas, particularly spiritual ideas, is fundamental to real change; the segregation of spiritual ideas is as dangerous as is the segregation of the races.

The Cabala describes beauty as being the mixture between many colors—one color, insists the Cabala, is not beautiful. The president has chosen five different hues of the same color to guide him to his soul.