Genesis 14:16 · World English Bible
Genesis 14:16 Meaning He Brought Back All the Goods
He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
What does Genesis 14:16 mean?
Everything the raiding powers had carried off from the inner kingdom is recovered whole, nothing left in captivity. The goods are the spiritual substance and gathered faculties stripped from a person during the season of unawareness; Lot, the veiling lower mind, had been taken along with them, and the aspiring self reclaims even that clinging brother it had earlier let part from it.
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Everything the raiding powers had carried off from the inner kingdom is recovered whole, nothing left in captivity. The goods are the spiritual substance and gathered faculties stripped from a person during the season of unawareness; Lot, the veiling lower mind, had been taken along with them, and the aspiring self reclaims even that clinging brother it had earlier let part from it. Restoration returns the full inner population to its own ground.
The women are the receptive and soul-linked powers of the nature, and the people the whole company of lesser faculties, all brought home, so that the field of the man is made complete again after being scattered.
Goods: the spiritual substance and gathered faculties stripped from a person during the season of unawareness Lot: the veiling lower mind, taken captive and now reclaimed along with the rest Women: the receptive, soul-linked powers of the inner nature carried off and brought home The people: the whole company of lesser faculties restored to the kingdom within
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Live Genesis 14:16 today
- Think of one thing you used to love doing that quietly disappeared from your life. Give it twenty minutes today, not to be productive, just to have it back.
- Reach out to one person you let drift, a text, a call, no explanation needed. Some of what got carried off was a relationship, and bringing it home counts.
- When you catch yourself saying "I used to be the kind of person who...", stop the sentence and ask what it would take to be that again this week. Not all of it, just one piece.
What part of me went missing during a season I was not paying attention, and could I call it back?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
Nothing was ever truly lost. What seemed carried off was yours the whole time, waiting to be recognized again.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The self is not acquired, it is remembered. Waking up returns to you what unawareness only seemed to take.
Sufism · Rumi
What you are seeking has been seeking you. The scattered parts come home when you finally turn toward them.
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