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Exodus 12:3 · World English Bible

Exodus 12:3 Meaning Speak to All the Congregation of Israel

Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

What does Exodus 12:3 mean?

Every person is given one body to work with and one still point within it to be consumed. The lamb is the pineal gland, and the true passover is the solar fire of the lower centers rising to meet it and set it alight.

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Every person is given one body to work with and one still point within it to be consumed. The lamb is the pineal gland, and the true passover is the solar fire of the lower centers rising to meet it and set it alight. Each man takes his own lamb for his own house because the work cannot be borrowed; the house is the individual body, and the offering waits inside each one alone.

The day is appointed, not chosen at random, marking the fixed hour when a person turns the inner flame upward toward the gland that crowns the head.

The lamb: the pineal gland, the quiet inner light consumed by the rising solar fire of awakening. The house: the individual body, the single dwelling where each person's own offering is kept and made. 10: the number of ordinal completeness and divine order, marking the fixed, appointed point of choosing.

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Live Exodus 12:3 today

  1. Do your quiet minute today in your own home, your own chair, nothing streaming, no voice guiding you. Just you and the room you actually live in.
  2. Stop outsourcing an inner question to other people's opinions. Instead of asking the group chat what you should feel, sit with it yourself for a while first.
  3. Under pressure the reflex is to copy whoever seems to have it together. Give yourself ten seconds to ask what you actually see here, and then move from that.

What work in you have you been hoping someone else would do?

The same truth in other traditions

Buddhism · Dhammapada

No one else can walk your path for you. Teachers point, and you take the step inside your own body.

Zen

Each person must sit on their own cushion. Borrowed practice feeds no one, and no one gets enlightened by watching.

Hinduism · Upanishads

The still light sought everywhere is already in the cave of the heart. You go inward to your own house to find it, not outward to someone else's.

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