1 Corinthians 11:6 · World English Bible
For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.
The woman is the human spirit, and the whole argument about covering belongs to Greek custom of that time, not to any command from the higher mind. What reads as a rule for the body was a social manner dressed up as divine order, and mistaking one for the other is the error the writers hide inside such passages.
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The woman is the human spirit, and the whole argument about covering belongs to Greek custom of that time, not to any command from the higher mind. What reads as a rule for the body was a social manner dressed up as divine order, and mistaking one for the other is the error the writers hide inside such passages. The spirit needs no cloth arranged on a head; covering and shearing are cultural weights laid onto something that lives underneath appearances.
Underneath the custom sits the real matter: the spirit within a person is not honored or shamed by outward observance. The dressing belongs to the world; the spirit answers to the inner light, and the 2 were never one authority.
The woman: the human spirit, the living inward part that outer custom cannot honor or shame
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Which rule am I following as if it came from somewhere deeper than it does?
When the deep thing is lost, manners and rules rush in to take its place, and ceremony becomes the thin shell left where something living used to be.
The finger pointing at the moon is useful and it is not the moon. Mistaking the custom for the thing it points to leaves a person staring at a hand.
What other people arrange around you, clothing, titles, the look of things, is not yours and does not touch what is. Your own judgment and inward bearing are the only parts of you that honor or shame can reach.
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