Blood/Water <-> Wine <-> Water/Blood
Considering the apparent contradiction of:
John 6:53-57
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
Leviticus 17:10-12
“‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.”
The only way I can see both of these being true is if realm crafting is involved, hinted at by Jesus' miracles, specifically water to wine, echoed by wine to blood at communion.
This involves a physical change and a conceptual change, and it would make sense that both would be ultimately required, because we are working with a realm more complex than commonly observed, a realm where word becomes flesh. I am picturing two standing at the polar extremes, such that blood in one corner is water in the other, and vice versa. This would explain why Leviticus uses phrases such as "set my face against" and specifies Israelites and foreigners residing along with them, even though it could be broadly assumed that this/these would be the groups involved anyway, given who the law is for, and the law about treating foreigners residing in Israel no differently is already started elsewhere.
I am now considering, based on the dream I had recently, what if there is a behind the scenes complexity that is reconciled out in the process presented, specifically in the sense that there are multiple time/causality directions in this equation, rather than a linear path. I am picturing the layered ¤ image, with an 8th clockwise turn of the top so that it has 8 prongs. These could represent 8 dimensions of time coalescing into one area, or perhaps 8 realms coalescing into the same time. With this, it would be a much more simple matter, a light burden at most, perhaps even fun and easy, to do something like turning water into wine. I'm picturing Jesus at a kind of diner here being like "Order up, I guess." (Since his mom kinda pushed him to do this one early John 2:4-5 “Woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”) and then this starts going around the circle, with incremental chemical changes being made to the water, step by step, perhaps in pocket dimensions by a modern understanding, until the water had fully changed into wine in the jars. I feel like this sheds light on what feels like a degree of surprise highlighted for the reader (though it is certainly not presented as Jesus' surprise, that part is more imaginative on my part).
John 2:9-10
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
This also ties in with
Revelation 14:20
They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
I cannot picture this being something God would want to do so directly; frankly I imagine most of what is written in Revelation God would prefer to do differently, perhaps even refusing to see all ends that had not sufficiently scooched this equation presented, per
Ezekiel 22:30
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one."
I am now also getting the sense that this is why the Nazarite vow is important, as it would remove the Nazarite from the grape cycle entirely, and, to a degree, from the vinegar (and fermented drink) cycles as well, though perhaps also importantly, not entirely, depending on how many directions and smooth edges this joining of time is meant to have.
This is also linking in my mind to the dream I had with my soulmate in what I connected to "Baby Tower." I had pictured a chemical structure, and wanted to understand it better, and then I had a dream that felt like it was inside said structure. With this image in mind I am picturing a two ¤ separating vertically, forming something like a cube (no longer turned, in this version of the image, though I don't see why they couldn't be), which would put the ' in one or both circle centers and/or between them (which is actually where I pictured "the baby" in "baby tower" being, based on the chemical structure examined).
I am now imagining a game of telephone, except instead of static and miscommunications forming, a common language is formed and considered sacred. As such, with each step around the edge, not only is the incremental change implemented, but the parley is built further, and adjustments compensating for any misunderstandings are edited properly. The vintage is refined all the more, and by the time the result returns, it is better than imagined, the finest vintage.
I am also picturing a second ¤, though perhaps I am overcomplicating this part, being unsure of how the lines all connect. This one contains the steps of Word and Ink and Life and Spirit. Perhaps this is a story for another time though, it had been a long day.
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