"Right!"My First Meeting with Rnma 33"Then start reading from here."And Moses took the bones of joseph with him; fo r he
had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying God will
surely visit yo u; and ye shall ca rry up my bones hence with
yo u.
And they took their journey from Succoth, and
encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a
cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire,
to give them light; to go by day and night. He took not
away the pillar of the cloud by day, not the pillar of fire by
night, from before the people.Rama said, "Doesn't it make sense that this pillar of
cloud by day and pillar of fire by night has to be some
kind of UFO?"
"Maybe if I hadn't seen those flying things hovering
over this mountain yesterday, I'd say you were cuckoo,
but after what I saw, I guess I could imagine Moses
talking to someone inside a UFO at Mount Sinai in
biblical times." I looked at her questioningly. "Yesterday
you didn't seem surprised at all. Do you know something
more about this than you've been telling me?"
"Yes, I know a great deal," she said without hesitation.
"Much more than you seem to know. Now, going back to
what I W?S saying, don't you think that these words, just
by matching mental images to the literal translation, can
mean something today? You can take any Bible of any
religion, any translation, any version and every single
one of them will tell you that Elijah went up to heaven in
a chariot of fire."
My cynicism forgotten, I said, "Wow! You are really
blowing my mind. I've always wondered what made you
hippies so interesting. What else can you tell me? What
you're saying makes a lot of sense to me. I guess you