Deuteronomy 28:40 · World English Bible
Deuteronomy 28:40 Meaning You Will Have Olive Trees Throughout All
You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
What does Deuteronomy 28:40 mean?
To possess olive trees yet stay unanointed is to carry the source of inner illumination in the body and never draw it up into consciousness. The olive is the tree that yields the sacred oil, and that oil is the fine spiritual essence, the anointing substance secreted within that lights the awakened mind.
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To possess olive trees yet stay unanointed is to carry the source of inner illumination in the body and never draw it up into consciousness. The olive is the tree that yields the sacred oil, and that oil is the fine spiritual essence, the anointing substance secreted within that lights the awakened mind.
When the olive casts its fruit before it ripens, the essence is spilled and wasted, lost to appetite and outward living before it can be raised and used. The illuminating power stands present through the whole territory of the body, yet the person remains dark, holding the tree of light but never receiving its oil.
Olive trees: the inner source of illumination set throughout the body, the tree that yields the sacred essence Oil: the fine spiritual essence within, the anointing substance that lights and awakens the consciousness Fruit: the ripened inner essence which, cast down too soon, is spilled and wasted before it can be raised
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Live Deuteronomy 28:40 today
- You already have something good in your life that you keep not using: the book on the shelf, the quiet first ten minutes of morning, the instrument in the closet. Today pick one and actually use it for a few minutes instead of saving it.
- With someone you love, stop collecting the moment and have it. Put the phone face down at dinner and let the one good story get told without anyone reaching to record or post it.
- When the day gets loud and you feel yourself spending everything you have on the noise, stop for one slow breath before you answer the next message. That pause is you keeping some of yourself instead of pouring it all out.
What good thing do I own that I never let myself use?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A man can stand in a river and die of thirst. The teaching is not about finding water but about bending down to drink what is already running past your feet.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The story is told of a treasure buried under the floor of a house while the family that lives there begs in the street. What you need is not far away, it is under you, unclaimed.
Sufism · Rumi
Rumi writes of the one who goes from door to door asking for bread while a loaf is tucked in his own clothing. The search itself keeps him from looking where it is.
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