Exodus 33:22 · World English Bible
Exodus 33:22 Meaning It Will Happen
It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
What does Exodus 33:22 mean?
The rock is the skull, the quiet chamber where the whole drama unfolds, and the cleft in it means a boring in, a piercing that penetrates to the hidden place within you. To be set in that cleft is to be planted inside your own imagination and held there in the dark while the creative act completes.
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The rock is the skull, the quiet chamber where the whole drama unfolds, and the cleft in it means a boring in, a piercing that penetrates to the hidden place within you. To be set in that cleft is to be planted inside your own imagination and held there in the dark while the creative act completes. The covering hand names that act itself, a superimposition, the leaving of an imprint on what waits to be born.
Glory passing by is the fulfillment moving through, and no one looks straight at it in the making; it works while the eyes are shielded. So the new self forms unseen, and only afterward is the change perceived. What you accept in the secret place ripens there and then walks out into view as an accomplished fact.
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Live Exodus 33:22 today
- Close your eyes somewhere quiet for three minutes, maybe the car before you go in, and let one scene of your life already turned out well play behind your eyelids. Then open them and say nothing about it.
- Keep one good thing you are hoping for off social media and out of the group chat for now. Not secrecy for its own sake, just letting something finish forming before it is handled.
- In the middle of a hard day, step away from the screen for two minutes and shut your eyes. Let the dark be a place where something is being made rather than a place where nothing is happening.
What are you digging up to inspect that would grow better if you left it covered?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 41
The great vessel takes long to finish. What is becoming large stays unfinished and unimpressive for a long while.
Zen
Sit, and the work happens where you cannot watch it. The one who keeps checking the roots pulls up the plant.
Judaism · Kabbalah
The hidden light works behind a covering. Were it uncovered too soon, the vessel could not hold it.
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