Exodus 7:10 · World English Bible
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
The rod cast down becoming a serpent is the spine's own power released along its channel, the coiled energy at the base of the body rising into visible form. Aaron's staff is the backbone, and when it is laid before the ruling ego it turns into the serpent that has always slept there, the creative fire the ancients drew as a snake.
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The rod cast down becoming a serpent is the spine's own power released along its channel, the coiled energy at the base of the body rising into visible form. Aaron's staff is the backbone, and when it is laid before the ruling ego it turns into the serpent that has always slept there, the creative fire the ancients drew as a snake. Pharaoh is the hardened lower mind on its throne, confronted in its own chamber by the force it thought it governed.
The backbone holds a coiled power that the higher command brings forward. Laid down before the ruling self, that power shows its living form, and the ego watches the serpent it never controlled.
The rod: the human spine, the straight staff of the backbone that carries the body's rising power. The serpent: the coiled energy at the base of the spine, the creative fire the old teachings drew as a snake. Pharaoh: the hardened ego enthroned in the lower mind, ruling the body it believes it owns. Aaron: the faculty that speaks and acts for the higher will, casting the spine's power into open view.
Esoteric lens
What in you keeps working whether or not you are holding the reins?
The old teachings describe a coiled power sleeping at the base of the spine, which rises through the backbone when it is finally let loose. It was never owned by the thinking self; it only waited to be released.
The cook's blade lasts nineteen years because he stops cutting and lets it pass through the openings already there. The power was in the giving way, never in the grip.
A student asked for the master's staff and the master handed it over. The power was never in the holding; it showed itself the moment the hand opened.
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