What Does Levi Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

Love passes by the very place where the mind sits counting what it thinks it is owed and owes, and it sees not the occupation but the one who can be free of it. To be found there and simply called is to learn that no history of exchange, no ledger of debts, disqualifies a mind from release. The call asks nothing but willingness, and it comes to the one the world would judge least worthy, precisely because worth was never the question.

And the response is instant. The mind rises from its reckoning and leaves it behind, for once love is heard as one's true direction, the whole apparatus of measuring guilt and payment loses its claim, and following becomes the most natural thing in the world.

• Levi: the part of the mind occupied with debt and reckoning, sitting among its accounts until love calls it to rise
• Receipt of custom: the place where the mind tallies what is owed and owed to it, the whole ledger of guilt and payment it leaves behind when called

A higher, priestly energy inside a person, the part already trained to obey spiritual direction, joins with the emotions before anything can be born in you. The man of Levi is that consecrated force; the daughter he takes is a desire risen out of the same emotional nature. When the disciplined energy weds the willing feeling, and both belong to the one inner priesthood rather than to the world's noise, the ground is prepared.

Out of that union comes the inner child who will later lead you up out of the craziness of earth-bound living. Nothing awakens in a person until the trained energy and the ripe emotion come together in the same house.

• Levi: the priestly force in you, the higher energy that has learned to follow spiritual direction
• House: yourself, the whole inner dwelling where these powers meet
• Wife: the emotions, taken up and married to the higher energy
• Daughter: a desire born of the emotions, ready to be joined to the priestly force