Tat Tvam Asi? The Book of Job’s Divine Foreshadowing

By Richie Cooley

The book of Job contains a lot of wonderful Messianic prophecies in kernel form. This booklet surveys these passages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: May 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463785065

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Tat Tvam Asi?

The Book of Job’s Divine Foreshadowing

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2020)

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Table of Contents

I. The Importance of Job

II. The Early Discourse of Job

III. Another Look at Uddalaka

Citations

Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes that are common to my writings…

Bible Versions…

*Old Testament Scripture is normally taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*New Testament Scripture is normally taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT3). Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry. Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary Zeolla.

*For the sake of harmonizing the format, slight changes are sometimes made to the NASB and ALT3 verses.

*The ALT3 distinguishes between singular and plural second-person pronouns by means of an asterisk (*).

Writing Style…

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*The terms LORD, GOD, and Hashem are all ways to describe the personal name of God, also rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

I. The Importance of Job

A. The Eastern Love of Natural Revelation

As the bees, my son, make honey by collecting the juices [or, nectars, and so throughout] of distant trees, and reduce the juice into one form, and as these juices have no discrimination, so that they might say, I am the juice of this tree or that, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures [i.e., a tiger, lion, wolf, gnat, etc.], when they have become merged in the True…know not that they are merged in the True [or, once they have entered into being, do not know that they have entered into being]…Now that which is that subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it… -- Chandogya Upanishad; book 6; 9:1-4

Here, in a rather convoluted way, the inner beings of creatures are compared to honey. Just as honey comes about through the combination of many different ingredients—ultimately forming one—even so there is purportedly a single essence. The individual manifestations of the atman (i.e., the universal soul, more or less) may be easily misunderstood, similar to several drops of honey being