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What Does Myrrh Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
What does myrrh mean in the Bible?
Myrrh: the willing acceptance of what the body must someday release, surrendered without fear
Christian Psychology lens · Matthew 2:11
Where myrrh appears in the Bible
Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
Exodus 30:23
“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
Genesis 37:25
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Myrrh through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 7:17
Christian Psychology
Now the appeal reaches the senses, for temptation does not stop at what the eye can see but perfumes the very air so the mind is surrounded, its judgment softened before it can think. Myrrh, aloes, cinnamon: sweetness upon sweetness, the ego's way of making separation feel like something the whole self longs toward. Fragrance persuades where argument cannot.
This is lack made lovely to breathe. A mind wrapped in so pleasant a cloud can still ask what it is being drawn into, for the sweetness in the air changes nothing about the bed beneath it, which remains a place that gives no rest.
- Bed: the resting place of the ego's choice, separation dressed and scented to seem like the thing the mind most wants
- Myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon: the sweetness temptation adds to soften judgment, fragrance laid over emptiness to persuade where reason cannot
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Esoteric · Song of Solomon 3:6
Esoteric
The one rising out of the wilderness is the awakened self ascending from the barren stretch of ordinary living, and it climbs like columns of smoke because the refined energy of the body moves upward as vapor when it is set alight within. The wilderness is the empty ground a person crosses before the inner marriage, and out of that emptiness the transformed life rises straight and fragrant. Myrrh and frankincense are the 2 currents burned on the inner altar, the bitter and the sweet, the substance of dying to the lower self and the substance of prayer that ascends.
All the powders of the merchant are the many finer essences the seeking self has gathered along the way. What comes up out of the desert is a consciousness distilled by its own trial, offering itself as sweet smoke toward the light above.
- Wilderness: the barren stretch of ordinary living a person crosses before the inner union
- Pillars of smoke: the refined energy of the body rising upward when it is kindled within
- Myrrh: the bitter current on the inner altar, the substance of dying to the lower self
- Frankincense: the sweet ascending current, the prayer and aspiration that rise toward the light
- Powders of the merchant: the many finer essences the seeking self gathers along its passage
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