2 Kings 2:1 Meaning When Yahweh Was About to Take Elijah

The rising of consciousness out of its lower stage is pictured as one power leaving and another staying to carry it forward. Elijah, whose name holds the root for the higher God-self, is drawn upward, and the whirlwind is the spiraling turn of energy along the spine that lifts awareness out of the ordinary head. What is inside a person does not vanish when it rises; it passes into the next capacity, here called Elisha, the receiving self that will hold the same power at a lower turn. The 2 walk together from Gilgal, the circle, the rolling-away of the old covering, the place where a cycle completes before the ascent begins.

This is the moment in a life when the seeking mind hands its charge to the mind that stays and does the work. One part of a person completes its climb and is taken up; another part remains, quietly inheriting what the first has become.