Sleep
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Adjusters may detach during sleep, allowing for experiences beyond the first heaven of the mansion worlds. 48:6.23
Supreme and self-acting Adjusters sometimes effect spiritual transformations during sleep. 109:5.1 110:5.2-4
It was custom to speak of death as sleep, but Jesus clarified: “Lazarus is dead.” 167:4.6
The ancients believed that souls left the body during sleep, with dreams being the experiences of the absent soul. (86:5.6,10)
Young Jesus' disturbed, revolting dreams greatly upset his sleep and left his heart torn. 125:2.4
Early ownership of sleeping space evolved into the tribal chiefs assigning homesites, eventually leading to ownership being conferred by a fire site and established title to the adjacent land. 69:9.11
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Heaven, heaven of heavens 48:6.23 — 1 Ki 8:27; 2 Ch 2:6; 2 Ch 6:18; Neh 9:6; Ps 148:4; Dt 10:14.
- Caught up in third heaven 48:6.23 — 2 Co 12:2.
- Jesus glad for witness 167:4.6 — Jn 11:12-15a.
- Wells & adjacent land 69:9.11 — Gn 21:25-30; Gn 26:19-22.