Covenant theology is school knowledge

Covenant theology appeared in the same general school point-of-convergence that is the Elizabethan Renaissance. Theologians can't historically pin-point exactly where covenant theology got started except to say that it began to appear in the writings of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva and quickly made it's appearance in England. Interestingly, the uncle of the Earl of Oxford, Arthur Golding, who famously translated Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated Calvin into English. Yet he specifically translated a work that in Calvin's complete works is hardly central: he translated Calvin's Sermons on Deuteronomy. It turns out that it is in this work that Calvin most discourses on covenant doctrine. This Arthur Golding translation was then published by the first publisher of Shakespeare's works, John Harison.

You could say it was a small world back then, but covenant theology is school knowledge, and it was being shepherded into the world at that time in the way that higher knowledge is shepherded into the world via inspiration. There is no one author or location to point to, it just appears.

Covenant theology is in the category of the language of cosmoses. It is still not understood by theologians (and it is regarded with suspicion to this day), yet it is the central, foundational teaching of the most orthodox, hardcore, pure doctrine which is known as Reformed Theology or Calvinism.

When you know school knowledge (and you get to where you desire the language of cosmoses) you can see it.

This is the language you need to learn once you've learned the Work ideas, practices, and goals (and practiced the Work). Once you have been in the Man #4 level to a basic degree of real development so that you desire to know the language of cosmoses. And just as the Work requires the development of Magnetic Center, Covenant Theology - or the interest in it and ability to see and understand it - requires regeneration.

There's no shortcut though. You have to know the Bible (via complete readings) and you have to know the basics of Calvinist theology (which is just apostolic, biblical doctrine uncompromised and unnegotiated to the demands of vanity, worldly pride, and self-will). You have to be God-centered rather than man-centered. Once you learn the basics of Calvinist (or Reformed) theology then you have to use any source you can find to begin to learn and see Covenant Theology. You'll already have much of it from just learning the Calvinist Doctrines of Grace (TULIP) and five solas. Yet covenant theology requires time and effort to begin to 'see' in its completeness beyond that. It involves the complete Plan of God. The Holy Spirit doesn't allow anyone to see it and get understanding of it in a promiscuous way. There it lies, though...

When you begin to see it it comprehends all and everything and is epic vision. It's the Word of God itself, though opened up... (And there is praxis, practical doing, involved. The Work is connected. It is the cosmology of the Work itself. The language of cosmoses. The Plan of God and your place - and development - in it. The Kingdom of God.)

ps- I know covenant theology is all very advanced and something that requires real interest in theology to begin with, yet I'm talking about what lies above the Man #4 level in terms of language. Without Work understanding you won't see it all, of course, which is why mainstream theologians don't see anything in it that would have been seen by the school types in Shakespeare's day. It is also protected from the mainstream, in that sense, the way higher knowledge is protected. This is also about the Word of God. If you ever get off the straight and narrow of the Word of God you cease to be serious. I'm talking to anyone who is capable of seeing and doing and understanding the Work to begin with. If you ever once began to see the biblical connection and biblical foundation of the Work then don't fall away from that. You won't be serious if you do. Subtract or winnow-out all the worldly and General Law elements of it all (that is necessary), but don't fall away from the real thing itself...