Exodus 16:15 · World English Bible
When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
Manna is the fine spiritual substance that appears in the body of its own accord once the lower cravings of Egypt are left behind, and the striving faculties do not recognize it at first because it has no shape the senses can name. The very word means what is it, and that bewilderment is exact: the higher food descends silently along the inner channel and the mind cannot classify what it has never made for itself.
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Manna is the fine spiritual substance that appears in the body of its own accord once the lower cravings of Egypt are left behind, and the striving faculties do not recognize it at first because it has no shape the senses can name. The very word means what is it, and that bewilderment is exact: the higher food descends silently along the inner channel and the mind cannot classify what it has never made for itself. It is not gathered from the world but given, formed within during the night of quiet like dew that has become bread.
Moses is the drawn-out higher self who tells the faculties what they are tasting: the nourishment of spirit, the energy that keeps consciousness alive while it crosses the empty stretch between bondage and the promised inner land.
Manna: the fine spiritual substance that forms in the body on its own, the nourishment of the higher life Bread: the sustaining energy given from within to feed consciousness on its passage Children of Israel: the striving faculties of a person in transit, no longer enslaved yet not yet home Moses: the drawn-out higher self that interprets and leads the inner powers through the wilderness
Esoteric lens
What are you still trying to name instead of simply receiving?
The way that can be named is not the lasting way. What is most real slips past the words we reach for.
A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The mind wants the label, and the label is never the thing itself.
The Sufis call direct knowing a tasting. You can describe honey all day, but only the tongue settles it.
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