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Genesis 1:30 · World English Bible

Genesis 1:30 Meaning To Every Animal of the Earth

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

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What does Genesis 1:30 mean?

Every level of a person is fed from the same living growth of consciousness. The beast is the mind acting out and out of control, the fowl is thought lifting into the air of the head, the creeping thing is the low crawling impulse, and each of these is given the green herb, the fresh astral growth of awareness, as its food.

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Every level of a person is fed from the same living growth of consciousness. The beast is the mind acting out and out of control, the fowl is thought lifting into the air of the head, the creeping thing is the low crawling impulse, and each of these is given the green herb, the fresh astral growth of awareness, as its food. Nothing in a person is left to devour another; all of it draws life from the same rising green.

The mind, which is the earth, holds every one of these creatures, and when they all eat from one growing source the inner ground is at peace with itself.

Earth: the mind, the ground in which every state of a person takes root Beast: you when you act out, driven and out of control Fowl of the air: thought that lifts and circles in the high space of the head Green herb: the fresh astral growth of consciousness that feeds every level of a person

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Live Genesis 1:30 today

  1. When a mood arrives you do not like, boredom at your desk, a low ache on the commute, give it a minute of plain attention instead of distraction. It usually wanted feeding, not banishing.
  2. At dinner or in the group chat, let the part of you that wants to win an argument sit at the table without taking over. Nothing in you needs to be starved for the conversation to go well.
  3. When stress spikes and you feel the urge to snap, pause and let both the urge and the calmer part be there at once. They are not enemies, and holding them together is what settles you.

Which part of me have I been trying to starve out instead of feed?

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