Genesis 24:64 Meaning Rebekah Lifted Up Her Eyes

The lifting of the eyes is the raising of inner sight, the moment perception turns upward from the ground of ordinary seeing toward what has been prepared to meet it. Rebekah, whose name opens toward a binding and a captivating hold, is the receptive soul-force drawn across the long distance of the crossed-over life to join with Isaac, whose name means laughter, the joy that rises when spirit and soul at last recognize each other. She does not stay mounted. To light off the camel is to step down from the beast that carried her, the animal nature that bears a person through the desert stretches of growth but must be dismounted the instant the higher meeting arrives.

The descent from the animal is the whole turning. Once the soul beholds its joy, it no longer rides on instinct and appetite, but sets its own feet on the ground and comes to the union on foot, awake and under its own recognition.

Rebekah: the receptive soul-force within, drawn by a captivating pull toward its union with the spirit Isaac: laughter, the joy of consciousness that rises when soul and spirit recognize one another Camel: the animal nature that carries a person across the dry stretches of the journey but must be stepped down from at the higher meeting Eyes: the inner sight of a person, which is lifted upward when true perception awakens