Thread by @LeilandTanner

My initial thoughts on the new unforgettable @Ch_JesusChrist symbol as a faithful Elder in the testimony of Jesus Christ and in sustaining his prophet on the Earth today @NelsonRussellM
This is not exhaustive. These are just some thoughts that increase my faith.
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I will start by stating that symbols are eternal. They are the language of the divine.

Symbols are powerful REMEMBERING and thought control tools. This is why Temples and prophecy are full of symbols. Even the child or the unlearned will still understand great wisdom in symbol

"This symbol should feel familiar to many, as we have long identified the restored gospel with the living, resurrected Christ."
- Pres. Nelson

Familiar.. symbols echo from the eternal truths they foundationally represent, things you shouted for joy about in the pre-existence

This is also why marketing and entertainment = full of symbols.

I seek understanding of the original meaning of all symbols and I seek on the premise that all original meaning will revolve around Jesus Christ and the Plan of Salvation

This is ONE reason why for me Conference was unforgettable, because symbols are eternal and now everytime I see this symbol I will remember this historic conference and this Passover week of solemn assembly and fasting and praying for the power of Christ to manifest in the World.

Ok. Let's move on to the symbol itself.

I want to briefly cover 5 parts:

1) The Cornerstone
2) The Inscription
3) The Arch
4) The Heaven Man
5) The combined symbolic body

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1) The Cornerstone:

At the base or foundation of the symbol sits a 4 sided box symbolic of a cornerstone.

The cornerstone is the first stone installed to a foundation and orients or aligns the edifice [temple/body] with the cosmos - the planets, the stars, the heavenly...

The reference directly linked in President Nelson's talk is Ephesians 2:20.

Christ is the cornerstone that we must accept for our own temple.

But this idea goes for any body - in the case of this scripture - the body of the church.

Jesus bears the heaviest load - the Atonement

Christ is referred to as the cornerstone repeatedly throughout scripture.

If we pattern our own lives with the TEMPLATE of Christ's example - if we make him our cornerstone and orient ourselves to Heaven based on our faith in Him - we shall not fall.

See verse 44 below

As Peter [AKA Cephas - also given the name of stone, or seeing stone, to be the rock and foundation of Christ's Church-body by foreordination and delegation] said:

"The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made head of the corner" [Christ = Chief Cornerstone]

Again - this is not meant to be exhaustive - find your own connections and rabbit holes related to these symbolic elements and feel the power of the spirit teach you. Share them here, I would appreciate them.

Here's a great article from Ensign Jan 2016
churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2…

The history of the symbolism of the Cornerstone is vast, deep and beautiful.

In Masonic building and in temple building traditions of the Church alike there are serious and solemn traditions and rites involved with the laying of a cornerstone.

You should study them.

Some interesting things to me:

Most cornerstone rituals involve the pouring of grain [bread], wine [blood] and oil [spirit] on the stone.

The stone recieves 3 taps with the masonic mallet once placed.

The cornerstone is "tried" meaning measured by the Square, Level and Plumb

I've explored some of these ideas according to my passion for symbols already in other threads - and maybe in some future ones I'll go into more depth.

Here is my basic thread on the Plumbline

https://twitter.com/LeilandTanner/status/1227434656519184384?s=19

Here is my thread on the Heart as the Cornerstone and Seeing Stone [future White Stone] of the mortal body.

This has everything to do with this topic as we are referred to as stones/gems and pillars in His House. Coheirs with Christ, the Chief Cornerstone

https://twitter.com/LeilandTanner/status/1219417916484943873?s=19

If you want a more esoteric and Gentile view of the Cornerstone in Masonic and mystery tradition I recommend these videos and any others you can find.
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


This idea is ancient. Divine.

We've briefly addressed the Cornerstone of:
- the Church Body
- the Temple Body (Edifice)
- the Individual Body [Christ and the Heart]

You could explore the Family Body and others.

Later, [5] we'll touch on Christ as the cornerstone of Heavenly Bodies, Planets and their unity.

2) The Inscription:

Words are important. Words compel.
One of the names of the Lord is the Word, or the Verb.

The thought is created within, the word or name or [spell]ing gives description to the outside

*I wonder if time capsules might symbolize the thought inside the stone.

Names are important.
Nothing is random but all is order.
Our Father is a God of order and power.

Names are titles and are given with covenants/ordinances and stack on your soul like literal merit badges. I think of this as, "Name Doctrine".

Which name do we covenant to take upon us?

How many names do you receive on your ascension to Celestial Glory? Spirit name? Pre-existence titles? Birth name? Member? Deacon? Teacher? Priest? Elder? Husband? Father? High Priest? Adam? Patriarch? Jesus Christ? Heavenly Father?...

Names and titles evoke action, or at the least - imply potential action & power.

Name giving used to be very ritualistic, sacred and symbolic to ancient Israel and further back the timeline to Adam through the Patriarchs.

In modern Israel...?
churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

In more esoteric paradigms, like through a lens of symbolic and ritual magic - symbolic inscription and the invocation of sacred phrases or titular names is a fundamental framework.

Prayer is after this pattern.
Pray in the NAME of Jesus invoking the Father through Spirit

I want to go into more detail about the similarities between ritual high magics and the Priesthood - but I won't. It is enough now to say that they all function according to eternal laws, one is Authorized [Restored Priesthood], others are not, or are unto lesser glories

How many times can you remember God inscribing on stone, or sand with BINDING POWER in all scripture?

10 commandments?
Mene mene tekel upharsin?
Adulterous woman?
Revelation 2:17?
..so much more

What are supposed to inscribe in our fleshy hearts as we break them and repent?

The heart is the cornerstone to the mortal body, the first organ to form. We are asked to inscribe the name of Jesus Christ and his commandments we are to follow on the cornerstone of our mortal temples.

The Church is a Body.
A Body is a Temple.
Upon the cornerstone of the symbol of the church is inscribed the Holy name of the Church as given by the center of it all Jesus Christ to Joseph Smith

There is power in a name. There us power in words.

I would like to prompt your recollection of the Temple and other places where Holy Names and phrases are inscribed and CONSECRATED.

Even upon the commemorative cornerstones

We move on.
3) The Arch

I have a lot of relevant and powerfully meaty symbolic directions I want to go here - but I will for now stick primarily to what the Prophet outlined during the unveiling of the symbol.

"The Arch reminds us of the resurrected Savior emerging from the tomb on the third day following His Crucifixion"
-President Nelson

The Arch symbolizes the ASCENSION of Heavenly/Spiritual Bodies to the Highest point. Celestial glory.

Two pillars - on either side are bound together to create a unified support structure and a gateway/passageway/portal.

This can be displayed in a single arch or more symbolically prevalent in 3 separate arches.

Again - we can unify many amazing doctrinal teachings in this symbol - but I will stay succinct and on point to keep my take here in this single thread relevant to the resurrection of Man.

Imagine husband and wife, male and female as the two pillars bound and supported by the cross or the Lord in their achievement of AT ONE-MENT in Celestial Glory and a continued pathway to Eternal Lives.

What a coincidence. March 2020?
churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2…

"And in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage];

And if he does not, he cannot obtain it"
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Please OPEN YOUR EYES when the Temples reopen and SEEK to find these symbols and which shapes and signs are used to create them or are portrayed with them.

A half circle Arch is made with a CIRCLE and a SQUARE.

The Circle represents perfection and the eternal - the spiritual, the flame the soul - FIRE.

The Square represents the mortal and carnal container - the box - the house - the Body.

The circle inside the square is symbolic of the unity of Spirit Body and Mortal Body.

The TEST of mortality is to give control of your physical body to the divine laws of the spiritual.

You must Circle the Square.

Your spirit must control the passions and desires and appetites of your physical coat - the square body. The Earth body. Your Will to the Father's

The dome is also a symbolic manifestation of this concept.

The Sphere or CIRCLE emerging and rising above the temporal, bound together but the spiritual and immortal rising above the boxed and enclosed.

The Latter-day Holy of Holies is constructed after this symbolic understanding.

The arch is so much more than you think or are willing to believe.

It is a shame that the rainbow or fire arch is abused in modern culture by those who wish to invert eternal laws.

4) The Heaven Man:

Now we address the center piece. The focal point. The Heaven Man.

Jesus the Resurrected Lord and Savior, the creator, the ALPHA and the OMEGA.

Acting as the central pillar to a 3 column symbol - Christ takes his rightful place as the Messiah - the cosmic redeemer.

The annointed one, given power and authority from the Father to bring to pass the Infinite Atonement of all living things.

I love my Jesus!

Traditionally - the Heaven Man across all cultures is depicted with his arms and hands STRETCHED UP toward the Father Above.

As depicted here in the apostate distortions of the True nature of the Messiah, the Son God.

All 7 continents teach this same archetype and HEAVENLY symbol that was SEEN in the ancient NORTHERN skies before the Flood and in new variations after the breakup of the original family of planets.

Planets are part of The Plan of Salvation. They are alive and they obey God.

This cosmic understanding is pivotal if you have any desire to fully understand the prophetic language of the prophets in scripture.

Nibley called this Cosmism and Joseph Smith taught this - the symbols are derived from Cosmic/Heavenly archetypes.

Cosmism is the TEMPORAL side to religion that is in modernity shunned because plain and precious truths were taken away by wickedness.

Back to the new symbol.

Its curious that Bertel Thorvaldsen created the statue around 1820.

It's also curious that originally the arms of Christ were to be upraised.

ldsliving.com/5-Things-You-N…

But I love also the symbolic gesture of his arms now welcoming and extended down to us - as He has overcome all through the Atonement and the Resurrection.

Now he will stand from his Celestial footing and "lay a measuring line" to his people - to bring them to Him and his level

His religion - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the stone cut forth without hands that will SMASH The idols and false interpretations of all the world.

As corruption among kingdoms boils over - no other 'Christian' body will survive the unveiling of truth.

Jesus Christ will. And so will his faithful Saints and their collective body.

Let's address the totality.

5) the combined symbolic unity:

All of these separate parts combine uniquely to create a powerfully divine symbol after an ancient pattern, with a Millennial twist [arms lowered and new name of Church].

We thank thee oh God for a Prophet! To guide us in these Latter-days!!

You can find this pattern all over when you have trained your mind and heart to understand their properties and manifestations.

Like this - apply what I've said and look for other symbolic markers on the Temple.

Or here

Or here

Or even here in the scriptures

I also find it incredibly moving that the name of President Nelson's talk revealing this symbol is:
"Opening the Heavens for Help"

So as this Passover week and Easter season reaches it's climax with our remembrance of Jesus Christ's atonement, resurrection and for his saving of the covenant people from bondage - let us rejoice in the further light and knowledge he is bestowing and pouring out upon us.

I know that Jesus LIVES.
I know that I was sent to Earth at this time to take a body so that I could help prepare the world for His Second Coming. I love him and I know he has restored His Church through living prophets today!

You must repent! We are opening the door!

/end

...btw - look into the symbolism of Easter - or Astarte.

Its cosmic.

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