1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

doctors of divinity, professors and writers, haveperfected thy seemingly beautiful philosophy.Ezekiel 27:5.They have made all thy ship boards of firtrees of Senir; they have taken cedars fromLebanon to make masts for thee.— They havemade as thy fundamental supporters (boards)believers in everlasting human life (firs,evergreen trees), in high stations in society.(Mount Senir, or Hermon, "pointed rock" was inBenjamin, one of the Hebrew tribes, and type ofthe Great Company). They have taken as thesupport (masts) of thy seeming righteousness(linen sails) earth's greatest men and the rulers,believers in inherent immortality (cedars),picturing them as from the loftiest, purestsources. (Lebanon, a great mountain range,means "white, snowy.").FM494Ezekiel 27:6.Of the oaks or Basnan have they made thineoars; the company of the Ashurites have madethy benches of ivory, brought out of the islesof Chittim.— The prominent tares, leaders(oaks), whom other tares fellow and worship,and who are fruitful in producing more tares(Bashan means fruitful), are the mechanism(oars) for making thee move and progress amongthe people. The company of free-thinkers(Ashurite means freemen) have made thy white(supposedly righteous) seats (ivory signifiesdreams—of immediate spirit life when they die)to be the seats (seats of the mighty), of therowers who work the oars.Ezekiel 27:7.Fine linen with broidered work from Egyptwas that which thou spreadest forth to be thysail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishahwas that which covered thee.— Thy ensigns,banners, sails, over thee, to be driven by thewinds of error, are false righteousness (linen),with innumerable works of self-righteousness(broidered work), and of worldliness (Egypt);