Exodus 19:9 · World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
The thick cloud is the veil of the flesh and the ordinary mind, the density through which the higher self must speak before the lower faculties can bear it. Voice comes wrapped in cloud because raw awareness would overwhelm the senses; it is stepped down into something the crowd of ordinary thoughts can hear and trust.
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The thick cloud is the veil of the flesh and the ordinary mind, the density through which the higher self must speak before the lower faculties can bear it. Voice comes wrapped in cloud because raw awareness would overwhelm the senses; it is stepped down into something the crowd of ordinary thoughts can hear and trust.
Moses is the drawn-out reasoning mind carried up the mountain of raised consciousness, standing between the people below and the light above. The exchange of words in both directions is the inner traffic between a person's scattered faculties and the single center that governs them, each learning to believe the other.
Cloud: the density of flesh and ordinary mind through which higher awareness is dimmed enough to be borne Moses: the reasoning faculty drawn up out of the lower nature to meet the center Mountain: the raised state of consciousness where a person contacts what is above the daily mind
Esoteric lens
What have you been refusing to hear because it did not arrive in the form you wanted?
The deepest reality cannot be looked at directly, it is dim and formless, and what we meet is only its edge. We are shown as much as we can hold.
The real is hidden behind a golden lid, veiled so that the eye can bear it. What covers it is also what lets us approach.
The mystics say the divine is hidden by seventy thousand veils, not to keep us out but because unveiled light would simply burn away the one looking.
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