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What Does Honey Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
What does honey mean in the Bible?
Honey: the pleasures and goods of the world, sweet in themselves but turned into idols when the mind grasps them to fill an emptiness that is not real.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 25:16
Where honey appears in the Bible
Exodus 16:31
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
1 Kings 14:3
Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”
1 Samuel 14:25
All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.
Honey through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 24:13
Christian Psychology
There is a sweetness the mind is invited to take in fully, and it is nothing the ego can counterfeit, for the ego's pleasures must be stolen and hidden while this one is simply given. The invitation is to receive what is genuinely good without suspicion, to let a gift be a gift.
A mind still guarded by fear treats every sweetness as a trap or a debt. But love asks the mind to taste and trust, because what comes from love was never taken from anyone, and to receive it freely is already to begin to heal.
- Honey: the goodness love offers freely, taken from no one, meant to be received without the fear that turns every gift into a debt
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Esoteric · Exodus 16:31
Esoteric
The bread that falls from above is galactose, the brain sugar the pineal gland secretes when the inner life is quieted and fed. It is small and white like a seed because it forms in fine measure deep in the head, and its sweetness is the taste of that substance flooding the mind rather than any food of the marketplace. Spirit joined to mind, working within, produces its own nourishment.
The sweetness compared to honey is love and wisdom becoming real inside a person, the milk and honey that scripture keeps locating in the brain. This is why it could not be named at first: what forms in the head under meditation is felt before the mind has words for it.
- Manna: galactose, the brain sugar the pineal gland secretes when the inner life is stilled
- Israel: Isis the spirit, Ra the mind, and El the god within, united in one person
- Honey: love and wisdom made sweet and real inside the mind
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