Exodus 12:35 · World English Bible
Exodus 12:35 Meaning The Children of Israel Did According
The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
What does Exodus 12:35 mean?
The taking of Egypt's treasure at the moment of departure is the rising inner powers carrying off the refined values won during their long labor in the body. Israel is the company of finer faculties leaving bondage, and Egypt is the material realm of the flesh they have served, and what they gather up is not plunder but the concentrated worth their captivity produced.
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The taking of Egypt's treasure at the moment of departure is the rising inner powers carrying off the refined values won during their long labor in the body. Israel is the company of finer faculties leaving bondage, and Egypt is the material realm of the flesh they have served, and what they gather up is not plunder but the concentrated worth their captivity produced. The silver is the purified mind, the metal of clear reflection, and the gold is the awakened spirit, the incorruptible substance, both drawn out of the very land that enslaved them.
What unfolds is the awareness departing the lower nature but bearing away its precious residue, the wisdom and value distilled from the ordeal of material life. Nothing of true worth is left behind in the flesh; the finer self carries the silver and gold of experience out of Egypt as it goes free.
Israel: the company of finer faculties rising out of bondage in the body Egyptians: the material realm of the flesh the inner powers have served Silver: the purified mind, the metal of clear reflection Gold: the awakened spirit, the incorruptible substance drawn out of material life Raiment: the garments of new expression the awareness puts on as it departs
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Live Exodus 12:35 today
- Think of the season of your life you most want to forget, and write down two things you can actually do now because of it. Keep the list where you will see it.
- Tell someone younger or newer one thing that bad job, bad year, or bad relationship taught you. Hand over the gold and leave the complaining out.
- When you are stuck in something you cannot leave yet, the commute, the job, the waiting, pick one thing in it worth taking with you and pay attention to that today. You will walk out eventually. Walk out carrying something.
What did my hardest years hand me that I have never bothered to unpack?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
The useless tree survives the axe and gives shade in the end. Even the long detour, the wasted-looking years, turn out to carry what you needed.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
What stands in the way becomes the way. The obstacle does not just block you; worked with, it hands you the material you leave with.
Buddhism
The lotus takes its substance from the mud. Clean water would not have grown it, and the mud is not something to be ashamed of.
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