Exodus 27:20 · World English Bible
Exodus 27:20 Meaning You Shall Command the Children of Israel
You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
What does Exodus 27:20 mean?
The pure beaten olive oil is melatonin, the anointing light the pineal gland makes of itself, and the lamp it feeds is the inner light meant to burn without ceasing. Israel is Isis and Ra and El, spirit and mind and the God within unified, and these joined faculties are commanded to bring the oil, meaning the whole ordered self draws that essence up through the spine to the seat of light.
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The pure beaten olive oil is melatonin, the anointing light the pineal gland makes of itself, and the lamp it feeds is the inner light meant to burn without ceasing. Israel is Isis and Ra and El, spirit and mind and the God within unified, and these joined faculties are commanded to bring the oil, meaning the whole ordered self draws that essence up through the spine to the seat of light. The olive yields its oil where the kundalini reaches the pineal and the anointing begins.
The always-burning lamp is a light kept alive within a person, not on an altar of stone. When the inner faculties unite and raise this oil, the pineal is fed and the flame in the head does not go out.
Olive oil beaten: melatonin, the anointing essence the pineal gland presses out of itself and sends up the spine Lamp: the inner light in the head, kept burning without ceasing when the oil of the pineal feeds it Children of Israel: Isis, Ra, and El, the spirit, mind, and God within unified, the joined faculties that raise the oil
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Live Exodus 27:20 today
- Guard your own oil tonight. Put the phone down an hour before bed and let the room go dark, because the light inside you is fed by the dark you actually allow.
- Ask someone you live with for one quiet hour you keep together, screens off, lamps low. The flame is easier to keep when two people stop blowing on it.
- When you are running on fumes mid afternoon, do not reach for one more scroll. Close your eyes for two minutes, breathe low and slow, and let something come back up instead of pouring more in.
What am I burning through that was meant to be burning in me?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Inner Alchemy
The practitioner gathers the scattered energies of the body and raises them, and the light in the upper chamber is kept burning by that steady supply.
Hinduism · Yoga
The coiled energy at the base is drawn upward through the spine to the center above the brows, and what rises there is described as light rather than heat.
Sufism · Al-Ghazali
The heart is a lamp, and it burns clear only when the oil is pure. Keep the vessel clean and the light tends itself.
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