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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I use a love filter and a dose of common sense, and draw on   
   what we have learned in the last few thousand years.   
      
   Or I     sigh "for    goodness sakes".   
      
   Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible Volumes 1 and 2 are also   
   useful.   In Volume 1 he says that the seraphim are the   
   personification of the lightning and the cherubim are the   
   personification of the storm (high winds), which jives with   
   my experience of clear sky lightning at or just before onsets   
   of three of my waning crescent highs and highly variable   
   weather associated with one of them.   
      
   The seraphim are also associated by Asimov with a brass serpent.   
      
   Thus I interpret the Naga Water Serpent associated with   
   the Buddha as blue clear sky lightning and/or clear   
   sky lightning over water (the Buddha taking shelter   
   from the rain I take to mean clear sky), both of   
   which were true for the onset of my fifth waning   
   crescent high in late August, 1994.   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;   
   This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;   
   Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)