Nov. 1st, 2024: “Core Tenants” of Biblical Theology

“The [intelligible] Voice is Jacob’s voice, but the [sensitive] Hands are the hands of Esau.”

—Gen. 27:22

—Metaphysical Typology—

By “Biblical Theology” I designate a systematically-metaphysical, esoteric, and microscopic, reading of our scriptures. It is constructed upon a “moulding” of the Bible’s typological dynamics into a distinguishedly philosophical dynamic—the “system” of classical metaphysics, and its division through various, different modalities of the universal “mind”.

Like the Bible, which is constructed of types and anti-types, similarly, in metaphysics, the intellect proceeds between passion and action. The Greeks referred to a “hylic” intellect, developing into an “active” intellect. These two components or modalities in the proceeding of the divine idea correspond to the typological syzygies of the Bible—notably: Serpent & Man; Jacob & Esau; Shame & Boldness; Thought & Action; Raiment & Body; House & Field; etc., all of which typify passion & action; implication & explication.

So for example, when it is written (Gen. 25:27) that “Esau was [...] a Man of the Field”, and “Jacob was [...] dwelling in Tents”, we should understand Jacob as a state of inhibition or passion, concealment within the fold of the “tent”, the curtains of mystery; and contrarily understand Esau as typifying an exteriorization or expression, a setting-forth of the divine idea “...unto the Field” (Song 7:11).
So we can relate to the typology of Jacob & Esau as representing the principles of Intelligibility & Sensibility. Accordingly, the Onkelos Targum (which is, evidently, a supremely inspired OT version) ascribes to Jacob a “Wisdom”, or a “wise type” of craftiness, in a manner which hints for us at the relation of deceit to the unreality of intelligibility.

—Numerical Typology—

From the perspective of “Sacred Geometry” and Biblical numerology, we should interpret Odd Numbers as signifying the unity and singularity of the idea in its implicated state, and contrarily understand Even Numbers as typifying the multi-dimensional elaboration of this idea. For example: the numbers 1, 3, 5 and 7 signify unity and intensity; all the while numbers such as 4 and 6 typify the multi-dimensional extension of Spirit’s “universal” body, as in the case of the fourfold Camp of Israel (cf. Num. 2) or the six-fold שושנה, Shoshannah, “Lily” (Song 2:1), whose etymology derives from שש, Sheish, i.e. “Six”, and represents the developed, extended state of the divine flower.