What Does Covenant Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

What love shares with a mind cannot be kept small. The covenant is the bond between the mind and its Source, and its nature is to increase, for everything true extends itself the moment it is accepted. This multiplying is not the ego's kind of gain, which adds by taking from another. It is the natural spreading of a gift that grows by being given, losing nothing as it goes.

When a mind joins with love, it does not merely receive. It becomes a place through which love keeps extending, and that endless giving is what it means to be multiplied.

• Covenant: the unbroken bond between the mind and its Source, the shared truth that increases by being extended

The ark is the spinal column with the sacred power resting between the 2 cherubim, the pair of forces that guard the seat of the spine at the base. To carry the ark into battle is to drag the inner holy thing out into the noise of the senses, moving the center of power downward toward conflict instead of keeping it still. The 2 sons who attend it, Hophni and Phinehas, are the lower appetites that have taken charge of the sacred current and misuse it.

When the appetites handle the holy energy, the power passes into hands that cannot hold it, and what is meant to sit hidden between the guarding forces is spent in the outer struggle.

• Ark of the covenant: the spinal column carrying the sacred life-force sealed inside a person
• Cherubims: the 2 guarding forces that flank the seat of power at the base of the spine
• Shiloh: the resting place where the holy center stays still and unmoved
• Hophni and Phinehas: the lower appetites that seize control of the sacred current and squander it