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What Does Mother Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
What does mother mean in the Bible?
Mother: the source of tender belonging the mind is restored to, the loving relationship that receives the awakened self rather than leaving it apart.
Christian Psychology lens · Luke 7:15
Where mother appears in the Bible
Matthew 12:48
But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
1 Chronicles 2:26
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam.
1 Kings 1:11
Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
Mother through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 4:3
Christian Psychology
Before it learned to be afraid, the mind knew itself as wholly loved, tender and cherished and lacking nothing. This is not a memory of childhood but the memory of what a mind is beneath the ego's later story of guilt and separation. What was beloved in the sight of love is still beloved, for that seeing never changed; only the frightened self forgot it.
The teaching that heals is always this reminder, that the mind was innocent from the start and remains the treasured creation of love even now.
- Father: the loving Source the mind comes from, the origin that gives strength and belonging
- Mother: the tenderness that first held the mind, love's own gaze that saw it as cherished and complete
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Esoteric · Matthew 12:48
Esoteric
The blood tie is the lowest bond a person is asked to see past. Mother and brethren stand for the biological identity, the self defined by family, name, and flesh, and the question loosens their claim on the awakened one. Kinship of the body is not kinship of the spirit, and here the 2 are pulled apart.
The real family is answered by what a person does rather than what a person is born into. The true mother and brethren are the inner faculties that carry out the higher will, and to ask the question at all is to stop taking the flesh-bond as final.
- Mother and brethren: the blood ties and biological identity, the lower personal self defined by family, name, and flesh
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What mother means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisEve, 'mother of all living': Adam names her Eve (life-giver). She becomes the archetypal Great Mother, the source of all human life.Genesis 3:16-20
- EsotericRebekah (the mother of the twins): your spirit, the inner voice that speaks to you.Genesis 25:19-28
- EsotericRachel (Joseph's mother): the right side of your brain, your spiritual sideGenesis 30:22-24
- EsotericRachel (Joseph's mother): your physical and feeling side, pictured as the earthGenesis 30:22-24
- EsotericRebekah (the mother who warns Jacob): the spirit speaking inside you.Genesis 27:30-46
- PsychoanalysisLeaving father and mother: A man leaves his parents to join his wife. Jung saw leaving the parental world, psychologically as well as physically, as a necessary step toward individuation.Genesis 2:4-25
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