--- a/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt	Wed Jun 16 21:23:53 2021 +0100
+++ b/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt	Thu Jun 17 09:40:15 2021 +0100
@@ -118,4 +118,112 @@
 not just us, not just God, but (a mystical union of) both...
 
 ---------TPA Video 2-----------
+Back to what is coming, that is heaven on earth, is understood as the
+transformation of humankind.  So, not so much heaven on earth as
+heaven _in_ earth, 'in earthy stuff'.  Ref. Phil. 2:5-8
+  
+  5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
 
+  6 who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God
+    something to be used to his own advantage;
+
+  7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a
+    servant, being made in human likeness.
+
+  8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by
+    becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!
+
+Ref. Genesis -- "made in the image of God" -- we can do this ourselves.
+
+Day of Atonement, in the Temple, in Jerusalem: the only day the High
+Priest goes in to the Holy of Holies.  Wearing this-day-only
+vestments, with imagery of Creation and the Garden.  In the
+forgiveness that follows, the whole of creation is restored to the
+purity of the Garden.
+
+The New Testament is usually approached (i.e. we 21st century folk
+were taught it) through and from the perspective of the later
+developments of the Christian Church.
+
+And of course that also has influenced how it is translated.
+
+As the community/communities of Early Christians grow and stabilise,
+external pressure on them grows, which in turn leads to a need to have
+an account of their origins that's coherent and reliable, which in
+turn leads to downplaying e.g. the early internal frictions, even as
+the New Testament is still being written...
+
+At first there's a lot of flexibility, stories, metaphors, adaptations
+of the Hebrew scriptures.
+
+But as the community gets more public, more confident, with more
+impact on the wider world, pressure from outside grows, which
+generates pressure within the community as to how they live in the
+world, what must be held on to and what can change to accommodate to
+outside pressure...  And so a structure of authority and reliable
+doctrine emerges
+
+*Quakers: three keys to unlock what was happening in earliest
+Christianity*
+
+ 1) The living word;
+    'This is the word of the Lord'
+    But in the NT, 'the word of the Lord' does _not_ mean Scripture.
+    As in the OT, it is something that comes to _people_, in the OT
+    the prophets, in the NT the new Christians themselves.
+    Ref. Hebrews, quoting Jeremiah 31:31-34, several times.  This is
+     the longest quote of the OT in the NT:  "The days are surely coming..."
+
+   31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a
+      new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
+
+   32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their
+      ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
+      land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their
+      husband, says the Lord.
+
+   33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
+      Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within
+      them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their
+      God, and they shall be my people.
+
+   34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other,
+      "Know the Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of
+      them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their
+      iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
+     [NRSV https://www.biblestudytools.com/nrs/]
+
+    Central to early Christian understanding (note reference to a "new
+     covenant", as in the blessing at the Last Supper).
+
+  Hebrews 4:7  O that today you would hear his voice, harden not your
+               hearts [TPA]
+
+  Hebrews 4:12 Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper
+               than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides
+               soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to
+               judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. [NRSV]
+
+  Hebrews 6:4 ... those who have once been enlightened, and have
+              tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy
+              Spirit, (5) and have tasted the goodness of the word of
+              God and the powers of the age to come,
+
+  Hebrews 12:22-25
+
+           22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of
+              the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
+              innumerable angels in festal gathering,
+
+           23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled
+              in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the
+              spirits of the righteous made perfect,
+
+	   24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to
+	      the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the
+	      blood of Abel.
+
+	   25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking [NRSV]
+  [paused at 23:30]
+
+  2) [