Phillip, how beautiful! Where is this located... who sculpted it? Thanks so much.
AND ADDING SOME OTHER STUFF FROM A BIBLE CHAPTER THAT MOST INTRUIGUES ME
ECCLESISATES 7...
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
27 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum, 28 which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 Behold, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
WELL NOW I THINK VERSE 11 CAN BE USED TO SHED LIGHT ON
WHAT SOME MIGHT BE TROUBLED BY NAMELY
28B One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 Behold, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.
AND COMMENTING ON THAT VERSE FROM A COMMENTARY BY FAUSSETT
28. Rather, referring to his past experience, "Which my soul sought further, but I found not."
one man--that is, worthy of the name, "man," "upright"; not more than one in a thousand of my courtiers ( Job 33:23 Psa 12:1 ). Jesus Christ alone of men fully realizes the perfect ideal of "man." "Chiefest among ten thousand" ( Sgs 5:10 ). No perfect "woman has ever existed, not even the Virgin Mary. Solomon, in the word "thousand," alludes to his three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines. Among these it was not likely that he should find the fidelity which one true wife pays to one husband. Connected with Ecc 7:26 , not an unqualified condemnation of the sex, as Pro 12:4 31:10 , &c., prove.
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TO GO A STEP FURTHER THO WITH THE SYMBOL OF THE SUN
AND NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN BUT THEN
SOMETHING NEW CONCERNING THE SUN AS BEING SUGGESTED IN VERSE 11 NAMELY
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
UNDER THE SUN I TAKE PROBABLY SYMBOLIC OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
OR THE TOTAL ENERGY COMING OUT OF THE HABITS ONE HAS DEVELOPED BY
HOW ONE HAS MADE CONSCIOUS CHOICES...
WHERE THE SUN REPRESENTS THE MORE ACTIVE CONSCIOUS MIND
AND IS SYMBOLIZED OFTEN SCRIPTURALLY OR METAPHYSICALLY
BY MAN BUT REPRESENTS THE CONSCIOUS MIND IN BOTH SEXES
BUT TENDS TO BE A STRONGER FACTOR IN MEN...
IN THIS REGARDS I THINK THAT
THE FINDING OF ONE GOOD MAN IN A THOUSAND BUT ANY WOMEN...
IS THAT FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ONE MIGHT BRING THEIR CONSCIOUS MIND
TO A PROPER FOCUS AND APPLICATION ON ONE POINT
BUT IF ONE IS NOT FULLY CONVICTED OF THEIR OLD SIN NATURE
AND REPENT AND RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT THEN
SOON THE WEIGHT OF THE UNPURGED SUBCONSCIOUS SOON
WILL CORRUPT THE FOCUS OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND IN APPLICATION
TO MOST OTHER SITUATIONS AND POINTS AS THEY OCCUR IN LIFE...
WOMAN HERE IS AS SYMBOLIC OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND IN BOTH SEXES
AND REPRESENTS THE POWER IN FALLEN HUMANS OF BEING CORRUPTED
BY PAST ACTIONS ..INCLUDING PAST LIFES AND ACTIONS EVEN BEFORE
SOME WERE INCARNATED IN A HUMAN BODY
NOW HOW THIS MIGHT APPLY TO NARCISSISM...
THE WOMAN AS SUBCONSCIOUS IN BOTH SEXES BUT
WITH WOMEN TENDING TO HAVE BETTER ACCESSS
AND THUS ENABLING OFTEN A MORE INTUITIVE NATURE BUT
LACKING OFTEN A GOOD DISCIPLINE OF MIND THAT CAN MAKE
THE USE OF THE INTUITIVE FACULTIES DECEPTIVE AND DANGEROUS
AND TENDING TO SERVE TO NURTURE THE OLD FALLEN NATURE
OF SELF GLORY AND SELF JUSTIFICATION ...
WITH MAN AS THE CONSCIOUS MIND AND MORE DIRECT MIND
AND MORE EFFECTIVE IN DISCIPLINES IN BOTH SEXES
BUT TENDING TO BE MORE DEVELOPED IN MEN...
TENDS TO MAKE THEIR ISSUES MORE IN THE LINE OF
DIRECT AGGRESSION....
BUT WHEN A MAN LEARNS THE ASPECTS OF FEMININE NARCISSISM
THE DAMAGE RENDERED CAN TEND TO BE MORE DESTRUCTIVE PERHAPS...
AH NOW IT MIGHT BECOME SEEM TO BE MORE EVIDENT
WHERE I DID NOT MORE FULLY ELABORATE ON SOME ASPECTS
THO ACTUALLY I THINK ENUF INDICATIONS AND REFERENCES
WERE PROBABLY GIVEN
