Originally posted by St Udio
might i be allowed to speculate...
the painting was likely inspired by the mystery of the Jesus 'Cup'
i would venture that Jesus practiced the magic of Scrying
he used the alabaster 'Cup' filled with a blessed water to see the future or current events from a distance
What absolute baloney!
St. Udio, dear fellow, can't you even see that you have found the real answer to the Cup---the Holy Graal--in the statement you have quoted
below?
Originally posted by St Udio
Jesus' Cup And Ours
www.alfredplacechurch.org.uk/Sermons/mark57.htm
'You don't know what you are asking,' Jesus said. 'Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?' 'We can,'
they answered....
The communion cup of churches is a blasphemous ceremony surrounded by superstition and lies.
The truth of the cup is not in "drinking wine that represents his blood or actually turns into blood when you drink it" but in following in his
footsteps in drinking from the Cup of Sorrows. This is the covenant and bond of those ones who are "called and chosen" from among men. They, with
their King, make up the Holy Graal.
As far as any "mystery" of the crystal ball..... another meaning I perceive is that when you follow your own conscience rather than the dictates of
men, your intuition becomes stronger and stronger. When that happens over a progressive period of years, then you can begin to "see" or perceive
things that are not obvious to anyone else. Perhaps things that are hidden. This comes from the spiritual connection and bond because of the path you
are following.