![]() Here Miss Feiring departs from the traditional pattern for she sets as fourth spirit, the love of creation, stars, sun as fifth spirit, the joy or power as sixth, the expression of creation in mammals and men and as seventh, the peace of religion. Then the life of Creation: earth and plants, the third spirit. Next, the knowing of creations and heavens. Before reality is there is Undifferentiated Spirit, the old mystical Ungrund, or Groundless. The scheme of the seven spirits is combination of metaphysics, psychology, cosmology and epistemology. So when a new work on this old mystical theme appears, a work of sincere poetical vision which surely reminds us of those writers, we should pay it serious attention, as here we are dealing more with vision than with the vagaries of individual thought we may be transgressing into the realm of psychic archetypes and anything which we can say may be welcome. Likewise seventeenth-century alchemy was full of references to them, especially in their elucidations of the seven stages in the alchemical process, and they also appear in the work of Swedenborg, William Blake and the poetry of Robert Browning. Also they were shared by Irenaeus, some of the Gnostics, Joachim of Flora, Dante, Paracelsus, finding their fullest exposition in Jacob Boehme's Mysterium Magnum where they may have come from the Jewish Cabbala. They were, of course, part of Saint John's Revelation. $3.50) The seven spirits before the throne of God have been a recurring theme in mystical vision. ![]() STACK State University College of New York at Brockport God and the Seven Spirits. One would hope that more translations of Abbagnano's works will be forthcoming. Langiulli has presented a clear translation of representative essays by Abbagnano which serves to whet one's appetite for some of his more substantial philosophical studies. It surely indicates that Abbagnano is somewhat sanguine concerning the marriage of existentialism to social pragmatics. It also corresponds to the “seven spirits” of Revelation 1:4, 3:1, 4:5, and 5:6.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS 379 concerned, signifies the surrender of the critical standpoint of philosophy to ideology. The sevenfold nature of the Spirit in Isaiah 11:2 is therefore synonymous with the measureless fullness in John 3:34. Yeshua, however, was given the Spirit “without measure.” In Scripture, the number seven signifies perfection, completeness, or fullness. No one ever has all of the gifts because God has ordained that the members of the Church be mutually dependent. ![]() Because each believer only has a measure of the Spirit, each one has different gifts and ministries (I Cor. ![]() The New Testament teaches that all who believe in Yeshua as Messiah are given a measure of the Holy Spirit. When looking for the fulfillment of this prophecy in the life of Yeshua, we find that in John 3:34, John the Baptist describes Yeshua as having the fullness of the Spirit: For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God for He gives the Spirit without measure. The “Spirit of the Lord” is mentioned once, followed by three more references to “the Spirit of,” each one followed by two attributes. The description used here is representative of a Jewish menorah or seven-branched lampstand. In verse 2, we are told that this Messiah will have the sevenfold fullness of the Holy Spirit. The emphasis in verse 1 is on Messiah’s lowly origin. The references to the “seven spirits” of God in the book of Revelation have an Old Testament background, namely, Isaiah 11:1-2. I was wondering if you could enlighten me? I am having trouble understanding the “seven spirits” or the “sevenfold spirit” of Revelation. What are the “seven spirits” of Revelation?
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