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Exodus 26:33 · World English Bible

Exodus 26:33 Meaning You Shall Hang Up the Veil Under

You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

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What does Exodus 26:33 mean?

The whole tabernacle is the human body, and the veil hung within it is the fine partition inside a person that separates ordinary waking awareness from the deepest center of being. The holy place is the conscious mind where a person lives and works, and the most holy behind the veil is the innermost sanctuary of pure consciousness.

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The whole tabernacle is the human body, and the veil hung within it is the fine partition inside a person that separates ordinary waking awareness from the deepest center of being. The holy place is the conscious mind where a person lives and works, and the most holy behind the veil is the innermost sanctuary of pure consciousness.

The ark of testimony carried into that hidden room is the divine spark set at the very core, guarded and set apart. In plain words, there is a screen inside every person dividing their everyday mind from a still, secret depth where the highest life is kept.

Veil: the inner partition dividing everyday awareness from the deepest center of a person Ark of the testimony: the divine spark carried into the innermost room and kept at the core of being Holy place: the outer chamber of conscious, working mind where a person ordinarily lives Most holy: the hidden inner sanctuary of pure consciousness behind the dividing screen

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Live Exodus 26:33 today

  1. Standing in a grocery line or waiting for a page to load, instead of reaching for the phone, go in for thirty seconds. Something in you is already quiet and is not waiting on the line to move.
  2. In a conversation today, keep one small part of yourself still while you listen. You will hear the other person better from there than from the part of you preparing a reply.
  3. When a message or a meeting lands hard, pause before responding and find the place in you that the message cannot reach. Answer from there, and the answer will be shorter and kinder.

Do I know the way into my own quiet room, or do I only hear about it secondhand?

The same truth in other traditions

Hinduism · Chandogya Upanishad

In the city of the body there is a small chamber, and in that chamber a space no bigger than a seed, and everything is kept there.

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

You can retreat into yourself at any hour. No place is quieter than your own soul, and you are always permitted in.

Buddhism

Under all the weather of thought there is awareness itself, untouched by what passes across it.

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