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What Does Flesh Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
What does flesh mean in the Bible?
The flesh: the body taken as the measure of truth, the surface the fearful mind reads guilt into, mistaking appearance for what a brother really is
Christian Psychology lens · John 8:15
Where flesh appears in the Bible
John 1:14
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Chronicles 11:1
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
Flesh through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 5:11
Christian Psychology
The mourning comes when a mind has staked everything on the body and watched the body fail, as bodies do. This is not a punishment for wrong living but the natural grief of having asked a thing of the flesh that only the mind could give. The ego points to the body's decay as proof that loss is real, when it is only proof that the wrong teacher was trusted.
The body was never where the self was. A mind that learns this before the last hour is spared the sorrow of learning it too late.
- Flesh and body: the ego's chosen home, mistaken for the self, whose fading it uses to make loss seem certain.
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Esoteric · John 1:14
Esoteric
The Word is the creative sound within, the vibration of thought by which everything is first made, and it is made flesh when that boundless power descends into the density of a body. Spirit does not stay above; it pours down the spine into the flesh and lives there, and the glory beheld is that light seen shining out through a human form.
The only begotten is the single awakened self born of the deep spirit, the one true child that the descent produces in a person.
- Word: the creative sound and vibration of thought by which all things are first formed.
- Flesh: the body, the dense material the boundless spirit enters and dwells in.
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What flesh means in each story
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- ManifestationCircumcision (the token in the flesh): the veil lifted off your creative power, your pure awareness of being.Genesis 17:9-27
- ManifestationForeskin (the flesh cut away): your belief that you are just a man, hiding God.Genesis 17:9-27
- ManifestationCircumcision (the token in the flesh): lightning splits you and you rise as living golden light.Genesis 17:9-27
- Psychoanalysis'One flesh': Man and woman become one again. In Jung's terms, opposites separated in consciousness seek reunion: the sacred marriage.Genesis 2:4-25
- EsotericBecoming one flesh (verse 24): opposite charges locking together, the bond that makes life.Genesis 2:4-25
- Psychoanalysis'All flesh died': Everything outside the vessel dies. Alchemy's mortificatio: the death of old forms before rebirth.Genesis 7:1-24
Commentaries on flesh
Swedenborg (1887) · flesh
FLESH, in a good sense, s. the good of the will-principle, and in an opp. sense, the evil proprium of man. A. E. 1082.
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