Further NOTES;


NOTES on the Libretto;

A) the body and the soul
    1) in regard to The Grand Man
          a) "I Am Alpha & Omega, the Beginning & the End, the First & The Last, Who is & Who was, & Who is to come".
          b) this is the foundation of the first scene, a representation of The Grand Man as understood and presented by New Church doctrine
          c) the Grand Man exists in the Infinite Eternity, above the Celestial, yet encompasses the Finite of the three-fold essence represented by the Celestial, the Spiritual and the Natural, in its ultimate Dualistic Sense, encompassing Heaven & hell, both outside of and within Space and Time, while those aspects of Creation correspond to and reflect the Grand Man yet being and remaining Finite.
       d) The Infinite is conjoined  to Eternity as one
       e) while the Finite
 represents, defines and encompasses Space & Time as one.  Space corresponding to the Infinite and Time corresponding to Eternity in the Finite

Further NOTES;

    B) the introduction of evil
          1) Self-Love, which is separated from the Ultimate Divine Love
          2) Lucifer (which means Morning Star) introduced Self-Love into The Grand Man and gathered 200 other Angels for his cause in an attempt to make himself equal to God. As a result, he (and those angels) were cast out. He became known as Satan (which means adversary) and the Angels became Demons in service to Satan
        3) this Hell was created
        4) Watchers were assigned to guard humanity against Satan, but they were corrupted, being seduced by the beauty of human woman, and bound themselves to humanity by unholy sexual unions (which occurred gradually) that resulted in birthing hybrids, who bore inherited evil that was a combination of celestial and natural degree propensities to violate divine law, which compounded itself in severity over ensuing generations
    5) these hybrid beings were giants, endowed with greater physicality of strength and size, due to their celestial lineage, which power gave birth to a greater degree of earthly passion in all matters, and physical power over lesser beings, leading to more severe perversion of natural truth & goodness, by overwhelming love of self, turning their actions into an ultimate expression evil.

 6) these giant hybrids, who succumbed to both heritary evil and the influence of Satan, intentionally, without understanding, perpetrated to pervert Creation in the Natural Degree, both as a result of vindictiveness and lust brought about by the Love of Self and they became victims of a master plan of Satan to polute the heritary of the lineage of Christ, who was ordained to defeat Satan's power over mankind in the natural degree. Thus, Satan strove to interfere with God's plan for the salvation of mankind from the propensities that were inherited in the Natural Degree, a degree which was to be the highest that Satan could reach as a result of his fall from Grace, yet a degree which he had no control over beyond the Will of man. This creating freedom of choice for mankind.

7) the consequence of evil being introduced into the natural degree introduced Giant Hybrid beings that were both human and other beasts (ie; Dragons, Leviathan, Dinosaurs, ravenous beasts, creatures that do harm, etc) allegedly by union between the giants and beasts of the earth.

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