Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.
Substance: everything the mind had stored up in separation, the entire illusion of lack that is given back when the error is brought to light.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 6:31
The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
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The mind that has chosen love is fed from within, kept whole by a source the ego cannot reach or interrupt. What sustains it is not anything gathered from the world but the quiet certainty of its own innocence, and that certainty does not run dry, because it was never dependent on getting.
What the fearful mind stockpiles, meanwhile, slips away in its hands, since guilt can build nothing that lasts. A mind that lives by attack and defense is always hungry, forever accumulating and forever emptied, while the mind at peace is quietly full and asks for nothing more.
The higher aspiration and the clinging lower mind have both grown so heavy with acquisition that a single inner ground can no longer hold them side by side, and a separation becomes inevitable. Abram is the ascending self and Lot the veiling lower nature; their swollen substance is the accumulated experience and possession each has gathered, and abundance itself forces the parting that scarcity never did. The field of a person cannot carry 2 masters once each has grown great in its own direction.
The land is the whole body-consciousness, finite and unable to feed 2 expanding claims at once, so the paths that traveled as one must at last divide.
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