Correspondences

The Creator communicates with us through natural-world images as these are what we readily understand.  We have the choice to accept these images purely at the natural level or to use our creative skills to find deeper, richer messages from the Creator to us.  For some the tree is a pleasant, necessary, green part of our environment.  We need it to balance the air we breathe.  For others it represents something very good which becomes fruitful, producing seed and re-creating.  What does the air mean to you?  It is essential for life and cannot be seen….we can each come to our own conclusions and each correspondence will be valid if it looks at the natural qualities of the air.  This is the essence of correspondences and this course.

As an introduction you will be offered insights into resources and techniques to enhance your confidence and ability in preparing Biblically-based material for presentation to other people.

The practice session concerns "highs and lows".  You will be led through the writer’s experiences as he looks at Biblical uses of these images and explains use of research tools. At this point he assesses his current insights before describing his use of available concordances and indexes to apply his ideas to our lives and deeper states within us.  Finally he considers poetry, prose, pictures, posters and other relevant material to excite the imagination.

Within the eight sessions of the course you are encouraged to work with the themes of colour, the three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral) and two topics of your own choice.  You are then led into preparing and demonstrating your own insights in your own way.  This need not be a talk, but can be through music, poetry, art, flower arranging, a game or any way you wish to explore for yourself.

Many students feel enriched and renewed by this experience.  As a result of this course a walk can be more than a physical journey.  It can become a spiritual one as your mind suddenly explores new depths.

This is a quarter module, and earns a quarter point towards your level 1 studies when successfully completed.

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