Exodus 29:1 Meaning This Is the Thing That You Shall

To make a person's faculties fit for inner service, the strong animal drives must be brought to the altar and offered. The bullock is the raw bodily power, the untamed generative and muscular force, and it is taken young because the vigor of the physical nature is surrendered at its fullest strength. Consecration begins by giving up, not suppressing, the very energies that would otherwise rule.

The 2 rams stand for the paired active forces of the will, the driving push of energy on both sides of the nature, and they must be without blemish because only unbroken, whole power is worthy to be lifted toward the higher. Preparing to minister within means taking the animal strength a person is made of and dedicating it upward, so that the priest, the awakened self that serves the divine, is formed out of the surrendered lower vigor.

Bullock: the raw untamed bodily power, the generative and muscular force offered at its full strength Rams: the paired active driving forces of the will, the push of energy on both sides of the nature Without blemish: the wholeness required of any power lifted toward the higher, unbroken and complete Priest: the awakened self within that serves the divine, formed out of surrendered lower vigor