The Theatre of Baptism & the Physics of Faith — The Physics of Spirit — Chapter Six — Section 8
By Matthew Mossotti
Weaving the threads of water within the fabric of the physical assertions presented in the Scriptures, in the third Chapter of John’s Gospel, Jesus told a friendly Pharisee that “unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5).” This verse has been sometimes interpreted to signify that a person must be spiritually born of professed faith and then baptized under terrestrial waters. However, the symbol of baptism in terrestrial waters has a much more profound significance than has been traditionally imported. The Greek “βαπτίζω/baptizó” signifies the submergence under and the reemergence out from water, as in the washing of hands in a bowl. This work introduces the theorization that the ceremonial rite of baptism under and out from within terrestrial waters corresponds to the real physics of faith where the soul has been baptized under and out from within the cosmic waters of death. The ritual submergence under the terrestrial waters symbolizes the soul’s death with Christ and the emergence out from under the terrestrial waters theatrically reenacts the true physics of the soul’s resurrection with Him into the supernal physics architecture. Paul stated the matter as follows: “having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead (Colossians 2:12); and, “all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life (Romans 6:3–4).” The “newness of life” to which Paul refers is the same renaissance of the soul into the higher staging that Jesus described to the curious Nicodemus, where He first said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born above, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3).” Jesus then reiterated the matter to a rightly perplexed Nicodemus, “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born above’ (John 3:7).” The soul’s being “born above” signifies the literal physical emergence atop the waters of space-time where the soul’s spiritual substance becomes eternally infused with the pure logic of life within the Living Water. Hence, a born-above soul is born of water and spirit in the sense that the spiritual constitution of the soul physically undergoes a baptismal submergence within and an emergence out from the cosmic seawaters of space-time into the heavenly physics architecture where the Living Water brings life to the death-infused spiritual substance of the soul. As Jesus described the metamorphosis of the soul from a dead system to a living system, the physics of faith initiate a transference of the soul’s physical stationing: “whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment but has been transferred from death to life (John 5:24).” In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul connected the transference from death to life to a physical re-stationing within the supernal architecture, saying that God “has made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead… God has raised us up with Christ and He has situated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:5–6).”
In what is perhaps the most-widely confounding verse in the New Testament caused from an unfortunate and completely unnecessary mistranslation of the Greek, Paul also described the translation process of the soul in terms of baptism under and out from the sea of the dead. Writing to the church at Corinth on the primacy of resurrection and the futility of faith apart from the raising of the dead, Paul communicated the transference of the soul from the grips of the nether realm within the sea as a function of being raised into the heavenly physics architecture: “Otherwise, what will they do who are being baptized beyond the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then how are they baptized beyond the dead? (1 Corinthians 15:29).” The common translation of this verse reads, “baptized on behalf of the dead,” with the Greek preposition “ὑπέρ/huper” improperly exegeted as “on behalf,” rather than its most-literal meaning of “beyond, above, of higher or further station.” Properly translated “baptized beyond the dead,” this verse not only becomes disentangled from a bizarre notion that Christians were being baptized “on behalf” of the dead. Further, the reading “baptized beyond the dead” also defines the physics of faith in terms of an escape out from under the cosmic waters that teem with the account metadata of the dehydrating souls of the “world.” The ceremonial rite of baptism under and out of terrestrial waters serves as a symbolic celebration of the physics of faith, that true baptism which occurs when the soul dies to servicing itself underneath the cosmic ocean waters of space-time to emerge above within the heavenly physics architecture to gain access to the the fountain of life: “the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:14);” “With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation (Isaiah 12:3).” Peter described salvation through faith by grace in the resurrection power of Jesus as the true physical baptism of the soul which expressly fulfills the predictive symbol of Noah and his family surviving the terrestrial waters of the flood: “eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, the antitype, now saves us, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to Him (1 Peter 3:20–22).” Per the Scriptures, apart from a profession of Jesus as Lord and a true belief in the heart that God raised Him from the dead, the texts are quite firm that mere ceremonial rites of any kind have no salvation potency, including the baptism of the material body in terrestrial waters. Since the Scriptures are explicit that salvation comes through faith by grace alone, with respect to the effect of “baptismal saving,” Peter could not possibly have been referencing the ritual of baptism in this passage. In his qualification of a salvation baptism, Peter could have only been describing the physics of faith as a function of the soul emerging atop the waters of space-time, rescued from the undertow of the abyss and preserved from participation in the final judgement of deeds.
The physical station of the human soul within the oceanic waters of space-time becomes translated though a logical shift in the calculus commands of its own inner motions, hence the immediate potency of saving faith to permit a soul to be “born above” and to be “born of water and spirit.” The ceremony of the baptismal rite in the terrestrial waters is therefore a figurative celebration of the literal and physical baptism of the soul which, through the logical commands which issue from faith, has already occurred. The true physical baptism of the soul is a proverbial death to self within and rebirth out from the cosmic ocean waters of space-time. The theatrical rite of somatic baptism under and out from terrestrial waters is a representative reenactment of the soul’s death and resurrection with Christ under and out from the dark cosmic waters of space-time. The saving baptism of Peter surely highlights the more physically profound meaning of the command which Jesus left His disciples in the Great Commission immediately prior to His ascension to: “make disciples of the nations and baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).” By “baptizing the nations,” Jesus intended “the physical baptism of the soul” in terms of the salvation via the physics of faith. As a first-hand witness of the ascension of Christ and as a direct recipient of the Great Commission to baptize, in this verse on the “baptism that now saves,” Peter intended to correlate the physics of salvation as the emergence of the soul from the baptismal waters of the sea of space-time. Conversely, per the Scriptures, the soul who is not born above will drown and sink below the waters of space-time into the abyss where it dwells with the spirits of the dead until the dead are raised to be judged according to their deeds to discover if their names have been written in the Book of Life or not (Revelation 20:11–15; John 5:25–29). Salvation, therefore, is the physical preservation of the soul from drowning in the waters of space-time, lending sublime physical significance to the David’s salvation lyrics on God’s rescuing him from the sinister forces within the abyss: “Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. He reached down from on high, He took hold of me; He drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me (Psalm 18:15–19; 2 Samuel 22:16–20).” Per Peter, this drawing out of the soul from many waters literally signified the salvation of the soul from the space-time sea which had representative terrestrial prefiguration in God’s the drowning of the world in the days of Noah. To distinctly correlate the physical station of the souls of the world within the sea of space-time, an angel elsewhere related to John that the “many waters” are “peoples, multitudes, nations and languages (Revelation 17:15),” atop whom sat the corrupt institutions which have overseen the control of material wealth throughout human history. These many waters are the sea which will one day “give up its dead (Revelation 20:13).”
For a soul to be rescued out from these waters is to get out of this world alive in an escape from pandemonium forces whose undertow pulls untold billions down into the abyss. As the Psalmists wrote: “My Lord, my God, I cried out to you for help and you healed me. O Lord, You have brought up my soul from hell; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit (Psalm 30:2–3).” For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of hell (Psalm 86:13).”Following the line of reasoning established thus far then, per the Scriptures, the station of the soul of a human who lives in the world who has not been born above and transferred from death to life remains within the cosmic sea of space-time waters. As per the physics of the Scriptures, when their body of material energy expires, the station of the human soul will either find themselves within the eternal realm of the living or in the realm of the dead, known as death and hades, a physical architecture which will be abolished after the dead are raised out from that nether infrastructure for the final judgement. As noted, the Hebrew noun for those human spirits who belong to the region of the dead, “רָפָא/rapha,” derives from the verb, “רָפָה/raphah,” which means to sink, such that a departed spirit in the realm of the dead literally means “sunken spirit.” Closely related to the Hebrew adjective “רָפֶה/rapheh,” in the noun “רָפָא/rapha,” the Scriptures associatively signify a comparative weakness in the physical expression of the shades’ somatic forms within the realm of the dead. The Scriptures also directly signify that the powerless persons who sank underneath the sea of space-time are greeted at their somatic death by other shades in hell with an acknowledgement of their physical impotency: “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us! (Isaiah 14:10).” In multiple entries, the physics of the Scriptures describe hell as a waterless architecture to affirm that the spiritual constitution of the dead have lost their connection to the waters while conversely, the Scriptures depict that those who have crossed over from death to life maintain unmitigated access to living waters above after their material bodies expire within the space-time architecture: “As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit (Zechariah 9:11).” As a corollary which will be implicatively explored in another Chapter, the logic borne by the physiochemical language of DNA contains the ideal instruction of the precise formal arrangement of every individual’s material body. This somatic instruction would, necessarily, be logically represented upon every electronically coded thread of spiritual fabric in the soul. As Paul articulated the matter of inextricable somatic clothing for every human soul, “if there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body (1 Corinthians 15:44).” The fresh water physics architecture of the supernal realm and the waterless physics architecture of the infernal realm are depicted by the Scriptures as projecting variant somatic realities. The waterless spiritual bodies of hell are impotent to materialize within the waters of space-time if not only as holographic apparitions, digitized wisps. The spiritually watered bodies from heaven penetrate the waters of space-time in plasmatic glory. This concept carries significant implications of bodily realization in heaven and hell which will be thoroughly handled in the Chapter after the next, but it is here sufficient to segue into the next section with the notion that the occupants of heaven and hell have somatic figures which are physically fit for display by their respective physics architectures.
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