Reality Crafting- symbol of legos
Hosea 12:10 (KJV)
"I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets."
I chose to quote the King James Version here because the terms used are interesting given my experience. In Hebrew "have multiplied" remains the same and "used similitudes" is "I have given symbols." I go this far in depth because "multiply" is different than "many" (NIV) in the sense that multiplication is different than addition. So I can picture here that visions multiply and fill a field rather than increasing in number in a plane. Then the words "symbol" and "similitude" have me picturing a kind threading process, where this field of visions is given a new form.
I speak a lot of reality crafting, but this verse seems to directly indicate that this is done through visions and providing witness or testimony of these visions. The visions given have a real form, but in conveying them, their collective form changes into new shapes. I imagine this comparing to legos- each lego is solid and explicitly shaped, but they can be combined into various things, based on the user's imagination. It seems that when this is done, ideally in good faith (perhaps only done by prophets, but I would say there is some looseness here because in the last days dreams and visions and prophecy, end up poured out to all (Acts 2:17-18)), these structures are real as well, in the same way that each lego is real, as long as they were held together. Additionally, if considering the idea of reality by agreement, the structures could then be agreed upon by another, and gain reality with them as well. The structures can be agreed upon by God, by Jesus, and then they would also have the stability of the legos themselves.
So, using my impressionistic memory, it seems I gathered the idea of reality crafting from reading the Bible before I realized that I had done this. Now considering the lego analogy, the multiplication process in part could be seen as providing a whole array of legos, a large number of varying shapes and sizes. But consider that humans do not have a say if the legos are real, there is no agreement, but it is done by authority. This fits in this analogy, but I can also see the kind of inverse perspective where a large block of legos is provided as a single vision, and the structure of the block can be reformed, but each individual lego cannot be destroyed (each element of the vision must be used, but they can be rearranged). So if a lego is provided by authority, it would be similar to a lego structure made by a human in solitude. Would you as the creator of said lego structure consider it to be real if there was no one to agree with it, no one who even could, since you have already made it real by your own hand and will? Does it have meaning in this state, except in your own mind? I have personally spent many hours creating legos that no one ever saw, and I enjoyed it, but I outgrew it. It was useful for turning my imagination into reality, but without showing anyone else, much has faded now and I cannot have someone picture a specific creation as much as describe (if I still can) how it looked in general. Their reality, even in my own mind, has faded over time. Perhaps with perfect memory this would not be the case, but there is nearly always a difference between describing a structure and showing it, even with perfect memory/communication.
So, I would say the legos are less important to God, despite being real and immutable (on a level depending on which analogy- the lego or block of legos- you are using), than the structures we create with them. This is like a father marveling at what their child has created with the legos they themselves have purchased, but being uninterested in the legos directly themselves, or even personally wanting to make something out of them. It seems "reality crafting", as I call it, is not only permissable but is encouraged! It is the threading of visions, the symbols or similitudes spoken of here, that gives them greater meaning in the eyes of God.
I feel like this is partially a recap, but partially a hardening of the structure of reality crafting in my mind, and a reassurance in my purpose as well.
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