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Date: 2020-Feb-27, Thursday 21:07 (UTC)IDK the Book of Life in terms of Yom Kippur (since I'm at work can't read too much rn about it) but...
This got me thinking about the "Tree of Life" in the Garden and the angels guarding it with their swords of fire.
One thing I've interpreted that as is a metaphor for the march of time - you can never go back. Literally. In the sense of a young, naive, innocent child... Gaining knowledge (of sex/nudity/nakedness) e.g. puberty, and never being able to get back to that innocent age, thus stands the guardian of the forward flow of time.
But then, at least in the xian cosmology, the resurrection of a body, purified to be in Paradise again...
What if the purgatory is the swords guarding paradise. The "new world" promised in Revelation would be a return to the old/original - the eternal return to the roots where we are innocent and free of sin once again.
Passing through the fire to purge us so we are holy and sanctified to once again enter "The Temple of Eden" as it were?
IDK I'm probably sounding like some burnt out hippie. But I like toying with that idea...