Exodus 25:10 · World English Bible
Exodus 25:10 Meaning They Shall Make an Ark of Acacia
They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
What does Exodus 25:10 mean?
The container built in the wilderness of the body is the middle chamber of the head, the right hemisphere of the brain, the hidden vault where the divine power is meant to sit. What religion carries on poles as a golden box is really a structure in your own skull, waiting to be activated.
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The container built in the wilderness of the body is the middle chamber of the head, the right hemisphere of the brain, the hidden vault where the divine power is meant to sit. What religion carries on poles as a golden box is really a structure in your own skull, waiting to be activated. It comes alive by an electrical arc, the same word hidden inside ark, the angle of inner light the old texts called an angel. The sacred thing was never in a far tabernacle. As the current rises from below and reaches this chamber, the presence everyone searches for outside is found seated in the brain that held it all along.
Egypt built the same box, and every temple mystery placed the holy power not in a tent of cloth but in the head of the one who sought it.
Ark: the middle chamber of the brain, the right hemisphere, the inner vault built to hold the divine power Shittim wood: the bone framework of the head, the housing raised up to carry the current within
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Live Exodus 25:10 today
- Sit still with your eyes closed and let your attention rest just behind your forehead for a few breaths. Nothing dramatic has to happen; you are just visiting a room you own.
- Next time a friend is spiraling and asking you what to do, slow down and ask what they already know. Help them find the answer they are carrying instead of handing them yours.
- When you are stuck in traffic or a long line and start reaching for the phone out of habit, stop your hand. Stay inside your own head for one minute and see that it is not an empty room.
What have I been looking for out in the world that is already sitting somewhere inside me?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Upanishads
The teaching points to a small hidden space within, no bigger than a thumb, where the highest presence is seated. The search outward is the long way back to something very near.
Zen
There is the old line about riding an ox while looking for the ox. The thing that is doing the searching is the thing being searched for.
Sufism · Rumi
The cure you have been hunting in the world is carried inside you the whole time. You are the medicine and the one asking for it.
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