What Does Ram Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

A mind that lifts up its eyes has agreed for a moment to see with a Teacher other than the one it has always trusted, and what it beholds is not the increase of a flock but the truth that vision is given, never wrestled from the world by cleverness. The marked and mottled creatures are the fruit already prepared in a mind that only had to look and receive.

The increase a mind believes it schemed for was placed there before it ever calculated, and its only work was to open the eyes and accept. What seems to require striving is answered the instant the mind is willing to be shown.

• Eyes: the mind's power to perceive, which sees whatever teacher it has chosen and receives rather than makes what it looks upon.
• Rams and cattle: the seeming increase of the world, the outcome a mind takes for its own doing when it was quietly given all along.

The completion of a vow of inner separation is enacted in the body itself. The priest is the discriminating faculty that handles what is holy, placing strength and pure substance into a person's own hands. The ram's shoulder is the seat of will and bearing power, cooked and made ready, while the unleavened cake and wafer are unmixed, unpuffed spirit, nourishment with no fermenting ego swelling it. The shaven hair is the letting go of the outward mark of the vow once its inner work is done.

Strength and unleavened bread laid on the hands mean the disciplined self now carries its own consecrated power, the growth of separation gathered back into the person who lived it.

• Ram: the force of will and bearing strength in the body, the pushing power set apart and made ready
• Unleavened cake: pure spirit substance with no swelling of ego, nourishment kept from the ferment of pride
• Hair: the outward growth and mark of a vow, the visible sign of separation released once its inner work is finished