8/9/2019 The Silver Cord 6.10
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The Silver Cord:
Dust Returns To The Earth And Your Spirit Returns To God.
Ecclesiastes 12:6-7: 6(Remember your Creator earnestly now)
before the
silver cord (of life) is snappedapart (separating the astral,
spiritual,holographic body from the physical body,and you die), or
the golden bowl
(of life which is suspended by the silver cord) is broken, or
the pitcher(usedto draw life from the well) is broken (and can no
longer perform itsfunction) at the fountain (of life), or the wheel
(or pulley used to lift life
from the well and move it throughout your body is) broken at the
cistern (or
reservoir causing the whole circulatory system of the body to
ceaserunning);7Then shall the dust (out of which God made man's
body) return to
the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave
it.
The silver cord has been described as being smooth, very long,
very bright,like an elastic cable made of light, about an inch
wide, sparkling like a tinsel
on a Christmas tree, and attached to one of several possible
locations on the physical body. During the dying
process, as the spirit body leaves the physical body and moves
farther away it, the silver cord becomesthinner as it is stretched
to its limit and becomes severed. When this occurs, the spirit body
is released from
being attached to the physical body. At this point, it becomes
impossible for the spirit body to ever return to
the physical body. For this reason, we can define "irreversible
death" as that point when the silver cordbecomes stretched to its
limit and severed. This is the so-called "point of no return." This
boundary point
may also be accompanied by the appearance of a particular
landmark representing a boundary such as a river,
a wall, a fence, or a canyon. Once this barrier is crossed, the
near-death experience becomes an irreversible
death experience.
"Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the
physical is the birth in the spiritual."
"The golden bowl suspended by the silver cord was a symbol of
life; the snapping of the cord and thebreaking of the bowl, a
symbol of death. The pitcher ... the broken pulley: another pair of
metaphors for life
and its ending."
Verse 6 appears to use two metaphors to speak of death. The
first is of a silver chord and a golden bowl
most likely the bowl was used as an oil light, suspended by a
chord. Dying is compared to the breaking ofthis chord and the
crashing of the bowl down to the ground, whereupon it shatters and
its light is
extinguished. Secondly, death is compared to a pitcher used to
draw water at a well. Death is like the
breaking of this pitcher and the pulley which was used to let it
down. No more water can be drawn; death has
conquered.
It is interesting that both of these images, the symbols of
water and light, are used elsewhere in the scripturesas metaphors
for life. The consequence of this termination of life is the
decaying process by which the dustreturns to the earth. The spirit,
in a reversal of Genesis 2, "returns unto God who gave it." This is
what death
is all about: the shattering of mans earthly hopes, and the
cessation of everything on earth that he was and
stood for. For those who believe, the story isn't over yetindeed
it is just beginning.
It is the breath of life from God (the Holy Spirit) that became
man's spirit.
The God given spirit is the well orstronghold of life within man
or the power pack that keeps him alive.
As the physical body ages and breaks down it is no longer able
to contain the spirit or life force and it dies.Upon death as
described in Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, the spirit (the life force only)
returns to God.
