Holy Scripture[s]

 Holy Scriptures[s]

As you may know I practice Rolf Structural Integration. Balancing the body with the Gravitational Field of the Earth. 

A cardinal point in that approach to health and well is living in line of Gravity. When the body is balanced along its center vertical axis you can then enlist the power of Gravity itself. For healing. For doing your best. For just feeling GREAT!

Anyhow ... Holy Scripture. What's the connection?

In that image of an ancient Sefer Torah what do we see? Those vertical rollers around which the scroll is wrapped. The rollers ["Atzei Chaim"] are straight. So too the parchment onto which the words of the Jewish Good Book are written has to be straight along its horizontal length. That is, in order to roll up properly.

If that's not a life lesson in itself. Well, when you consider living in alignment with respect to the dictates of Gravity.

If you need it spelled out: By anatomical design we see quite clearly the human body design calls for vertical balance, symmetry side to side, with everything level front to back. In such balance you are able to live aligned with the simple ineluctable action of Gravity. That simple. 

Books with bound pages were created by the Romans, sometime in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries CE. I had hoped to make the case that the Christian Bible, theQur'an, the Rigveda were set down as scrolls. Apparently not. I haven't done exhaustive research, but that's what I've been able to glean. The Torah ... on scrolls for sure. 

It's not a deal breaker. The point about the alignment of the scroll architecture can be made for books too. All the pages of a book have to match up. Square up. The spine, if it's a bound book, has to be straight. Otherwise the pages won't open and each fall flat onto one another.

So, what's the point. Just that there are clues everywhere about unwritten laws which have to be observed. Some laws are universal. Gravity, that's one, for sure.

As children we learn preverbally about Gravity just in the process of playing at stacking blocks. I used to be nuts for the Yo-Yo. The magic of that one is that it comes back up! 

Now what? Look around. Creation is a metaphor. Full of rich insights and meaning.