Exodus 16:13 Meaning In the Evening

2 feedings come at 2 hours of the inner day. At evening, when the outer light fades and the body settles, the quails rise up and cover the camp, the lower nourishment that meets flesh and appetite in the darker phase. But morning brings the finer food: the dew that lies round the host is the inner light awakening, the subtle substance that settles on the whole gathered self when consciousness turns toward dawn. The camp is the body, the host is the assembled faculties, and both are fed, the flesh at dusk and the spirit at first light.

The morning dew is the quiet descent of inner illumination on a person who has grown still, a fine nourishment that arrives not by grasping but by settling, the way dew forms only on what has gone quiet and cool.

Quails: the lower nourishment that rises at evening to feed the flesh and appetite of the body Dew: the subtle inner substance of light that settles at dawn to feed the awakened self Morning: the awakening of the inner light within a person as consciousness turns toward dawn Camp: the body, the encampment where the faculties are gathered and fed