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29- Garments of Death and Garments of Light

The Symbolic World

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The Crown of Thorns

The crown of thorns is exactly those horns, those pointy defenses that were the consequence of the fall in the Bible when Adam and Eve fall. These thorns as this defense against the outside, but this horn now this pointy bit, this thorn is transformed by Christ into a crown which manifests also his glory. That is both at the same time, this reaching out to the edge of death, this entering into death, but then changing death into glory. It's not that obvious to know how that is, but you can see mysteries of that in, in the Christian church.

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