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Exodus 25:22 · World English Bible

Exodus 25:22 Meaning There I Will Meet with You

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

What does Exodus 25:22 mean?

The meeting place is described with great precision. Above the seat of mercy, between the two figures, over the hidden testimony.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

Exodus 25:22 through 2 lenses

The same verse, read by 2 traditions.

EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

The meeting place is described with great precision. Above the seat of mercy, between the two figures, over the hidden testimony. It is a still, empty space held between opposites, and it is there that the voice is heard. This is no accident of architecture. Guidance comes to you in the gap between the pairs of your thinking, in the quiet that opens when the mind is not taking sides.

You will not hear it in the clamor of your preferences. You hear it in the space between, where you are simply present. Enter that stillness and the deeper knowing meets you, and from it comes what you are truly to do.

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ESOTERIC

Esoteric

The meeting place is fixed at one exact point in the body: from above the mercy seat, from between the 2 guardians, the divine speaks. The mercy seat is the covering upon the innermost chamber, the seat of the higher consciousness set at the crown, and the voice comes from just above it because contact with spirit happens at the topmost point of a person, over the sanctuary and not out in the flesh. The ark of the testimony is that inner chamber itself, the hidden vessel in the head that holds the buried law of one's own being.

The 2 cherubims are the twin forces, the pair of currents that face each other across the seat, and the divine communes from the space between them, the still center point where opposing energies balance. The whole picture locates where a person actually hears the deeper self: not anywhere outward, but at the single high place inside, above the covered chamber, in the gap held open between the 2 guardians.

Mercy seat: the covering upon the inner chamber, the seat of higher consciousness at the crown of a person Cherubims: the twin currents or forces facing each other across the seat, whose balance opens the meeting point Ark of the testimony: the hidden inner vessel in the head that holds the buried law of one's own being

Ego v. Being lens

Live Exodus 25:22 today

  1. Today, when you catch yourself replaying an argument and building your case, drop the case for a minute. Hold both sides without picking one and see what shows up in the gap.
  2. In a disagreement with someone close, try saying: I don't know yet. Let the conversation sit in the middle instead of racing to who is right.
  3. Before replying to the email that pushed your buttons, step away from the screen and stand somewhere quiet for two minutes. Answer from there, not from the heat.

What would I hear if I stopped defending my side of this long enough to listen?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 2

Beautiful and ugly, hard and easy, long and short. Each one makes the other, and the one who sees this stops taking sides and acts without strain.

Buddhism

The middle way is not a compromise between two extremes. It is stepping out of the argument entirely, into a clarity neither side could reach.

Zen · Sengcan

The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. The moment like and dislike appear, everything is divided and clarity is lost.

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