Exodus 12:29 · World English Bible
At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
The slaughter runs through the lower mind, the land in bondage that holds the light captive, and it takes the firstborn: the first strength of the flesh, the mind and nerves and emotions, the strongest of the low thoughts. In meditation the solar energy rises from the solar plexus to the pineal gland and cuts these burdensome thoughts down where they sit.
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The slaughter runs through the lower mind, the land in bondage that holds the light captive, and it takes the firstborn: the first strength of the flesh, the mind and nerves and emotions, the strongest of the low thoughts. In meditation the solar energy rises from the solar plexus to the pineal gland and cuts these burdensome thoughts down where they sit. The ruling ego on its throne loses its heir, and even the animal drives penned in the body lose their first increase.
Midnight is the lowest turn of the dark cycle, the point on the clock the old sky-readers marked as Virgo, the virgin place where the sun is born again. At that turn the ascending light empties the carnal mind of its firstborn thoughts and the ruler who lived by them is left with nothing to command.
Egypt: the lower, carnal mind, the seat of bondage that holds the inner light captive Firstborn: the first strength of the flesh, the mind and nerves and emotions, the strongest of the low thoughts Pharaoh: the ego, the ruler enthroned over the lower mind Midnight: the lowest point of the dark cycle, the Virgo turn where the inner sun is born again Cattle: the animal drives penned within the body
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What is the one thought that rules my day, and what would the day look like without it?
Returning is the movement of the way. Things run out to their far edge and then turn back, and the turn is where the new thing starts.
The mind is restless and hard to check. The wise straighten it the way a fletcher straightens an arrow, and a mind so tamed brings happiness.
Do not sleep through the last hours of the night. The breeze before dawn has secrets to tell you, and that hour is when the door stands open.
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