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207 From his waist down the appearance was of fire, and from the waist up the appearance was of a brightness, like the sheen of electrum. The wording here reveals the Prophet's own uncertainty regarding the nature of the vision—a reality or a nonreality. He calls what he sees an "apparition," the being that he sees is only a likeness of a man. Is whoever had appeared clad in fire and brilliance, or is he made of fire and brilliance, a make-believe image? Whatever it was, it was able to per- form physically: And he put forth the shape of a hand, and seized me by a lock on my head. And the spirit carried me between the earth and the heaven, and brought me to Jerusalem— in Elohim visions— to the door of the inner gate that faces north. The narrative then described what Ezekiel had seen in Jeru- salem (including the women mourning Dumuzi). And when the prophetic instructions were completed, and the Divine Chariot "lifted off from the city and rested upon the mount that is to the east of the city," The spirit carried me and brought me to Chaldea, to the place of exile. [It was] in a Vision of the Spirit of Elohim. And then the vision that I had seen was lifted off me. The biblical text stresses more than once that the airborne journey was in a Divine Vision, a "Vision of the Spirit of Elohim." Yet there clearly is a description of a physical visit to Jerusalem, discussions with its residents, and even the "putting of a mark on the foreheads" of the righteous ones who were to be spared the predicted carnage and final de- struction of the city. (Chapter 33 records the arrival of a refugee from Jerusalem in the twelfth year of the first exile, Visions from the Twilight Zone