Exodus 4:9 · World English Bible
It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.
The river is the flowing current of life-force in a person, and the dry land is the hardened, unresponsive outer nature that will not receive the inner voice. Pouring the living water onto that dry ground turns it to blood, which is the sign that pure animating energy, once it leaves its channel and meets stubborn matter, congeals into the heaviness of the mere flesh.
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The river is the flowing current of life-force in a person, and the dry land is the hardened, unresponsive outer nature that will not receive the inner voice. Pouring the living water onto that dry ground turns it to blood, which is the sign that pure animating energy, once it leaves its channel and meets stubborn matter, congeals into the heaviness of the mere flesh. Water is spirit in motion; blood is spirit brought down and thickened into the bodily life.
This is the third sign given when the 2 before it are refused, a descent that shows what becomes of the higher current when a person will not believe it. The living stream does not vanish; poured onto dryness it hardens, and the vital flow that could have nourished becomes the dense red weight of embodiment.
River: the flowing current of life-force moving through a person Water: spirit in its living motion, the pure animating energy in its channel Dry land: the hardened, unresponsive outer nature that will not receive the inner voice Blood: spirit brought down and thickened, the vital current congealed into the heaviness of the flesh
Esoteric lens
Where have you gone hard, so that what should feed you only weighs on you?
Water is the softest thing and yet it wears down what is hard and rigid. Nothing can take its place, and nothing hard outlasts it.
The teaching is poured out the same for everyone, and what each person receives depends on the ground. A closed mind turns living words into dead weight.
The same light that opens one heart hardens another. Nothing changed in the light.
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