Exodus 3:8 · World English Bible
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Awareness descends into the lower body to lift the captive life out of dense matter and carry it upward toward the higher centers, out of the grip of the flesh that holds it down. Egypt is the dark, bound state of a person sunk in the body's demands, and coming up out of it is the rising of consciousness through the spine toward its own broad, nourishing home.
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Awareness descends into the lower body to lift the captive life out of dense matter and carry it upward toward the higher centers, out of the grip of the flesh that holds it down. Egypt is the dark, bound state of a person sunk in the body's demands, and coming up out of it is the rising of consciousness through the spine toward its own broad, nourishing home.
The land of milk and honey is that higher region where the raised energy feeds itself on its own sweetness. The 6 nations already dwelling there are the entrenched habits and appetites that possess the promised ground first, the settled patterns awareness must dispossess before it can hold the place it climbs toward.
Egypt: the dark, bound state of a person sunk in the demands of the flesh Milk and honey: the sweet, self-feeding nourishment of the higher centers once the life is raised The 6 nations: the entrenched appetites and habits already holding the higher ground that awareness must displace
Esoteric lens
What has been living in the good part of my life rent free?
Craving is what keeps you bound, and the freedom offered is not a different place but a different relationship to wanting. The chains are made of habits, so the habits are where the work is.
No one is a slave who is free in their choices, and no one is free who is ruled by appetite. Freedom is an inside condition, not a change of address.
The old grooves of habit keep running even after you decide to change. They are displaced slowly, by steady practice, not by a single moment of resolve.
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