Exodus 2:3 · World English Bible
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
Moses, whose name means drawn out of water, is the higher self in its infancy, the spark of awakening that cannot stay hidden in the flesh forever. The ark of bulrushes is the body itself, the fragile vessel of reeds sealed with slime and pitch, made just watertight enough to carry the divine seed through the currents of ordinary life.
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Moses, whose name means drawn out of water, is the higher self in its infancy, the spark of awakening that cannot stay hidden in the flesh forever. The ark of bulrushes is the body itself, the fragile vessel of reeds sealed with slime and pitch, made just watertight enough to carry the divine seed through the currents of ordinary life. The child set inside is the inner spirit riding within its earthen craft.
The river is the flow of the emotions and the stream of time, and the reedy brink where the ark is laid is the border between the subconscious depths and the waking world, the exact edge where the hidden self waits to be found and drawn up.
Moses: the higher self as newborn spark, the one drawn out of the waters of the flesh Ark of bulrushes: the physical body, the frail sealed vessel of reeds bearing the divine seed through life Slime and pitch: the coarse material of matter that makes the body hold together and float River: the flowing emotions and the current of time in which the spirit is set adrift Flags by the river's brink: the reedy border between the subconscious and the waking mind
Esoteric lens
If your body is only the boat and not the voyage, how have you been treating it?
The body is spoken of as a chariot carrying a rider who is not the chariot. The vehicle is rough and temporary, and still it carries something that is not.
This body is a fragile vessel, made of coarse stuff and bound to come apart. Treat it as what carries you, not as what you are.
Epictetus called the body a small amount of clay lent for a while. You take care of the loan, and you do not mistake it for yourself.
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