What Does Sodom Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses

When a part of the mind takes up residence inside the ego's stronghold, it becomes captive to the very fear it chose to live among. The thought that settled in the place of guilt is carried off, for whatever the mind makes its home lays a claim upon it. To dwell in the city of separation is already to be half taken.

The ego does not seize the mind all at once. It waits until a wandering thought moves in, then binds it along with all it valued. What looks like an outside army is only the outcome of a choice already made within, and the captivity began with the decision to dwell where fear rules.

• Lot: the wandering part of the mind that chose to live within the ego's world and so fell under its power.
• Sodom: the mind's stronghold of guilt and separation, the place that captures whatever consents to live in it.
• Goods: the treasures the mind stores up inside fear, lost the moment fear is made its dwelling.

The 2 messengers arriving at evening are the higher energies entering consciousness at the darkening hour, when the light of clear awareness is failing inside a person. Sodom is the region of the lower body ruled by appetite and heat, and the gate is the opening where the higher meets the lower. The one seated there still holds a foothold of reason, and by rising and bowing he turns the lower nature toward what descends from above.

The face lowered to the ground shows the flesh yielding, the heavy nature humbled before the finer force that has come down into it.

• 2 angels: the higher energies entering consciousness in pairs, arriving as the inner light dims
• Sodom: the lower body governed by appetite and burning desire
• Gate: the threshold in a person where the higher nature meets the lower and passes through
• Evening: the darkening hour of awareness, when clear seeing weakens inside

LORD "the self-existent one", the name built on the Hebrew verb "to be". Being itself is what hears a cry, which means the awareness under your life registers what your appetites are doing before you will admit it.

Sodom "burning". Desire turned into fire: it consumes its own fuel and asks for more of what it just destroyed.

Gomorrah "a ruined heap", from the root for piling up. What burning leaves behind is material without order, a life with plenty in it and no shape to the plenty.

• Teaching: Being itself hears burning, and after burning, a heap. Appetite left alone becomes a fire, and a fire always produces a pile: more gathered, less arranged. The cry is not a report filed by somebody; it is the sound the fire and the heap make on their own, and what simply is hears it without being told. Where a life has accumulated things with no order among them, a fire made the pile, and the fire is still the thing to deal with.