Genesis 41:40 · World English Bible
Genesis 41:40 Meaning You Shall Be Over My House
You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.
What does Genesis 41:40 mean?
Joseph raised over the whole land is the sun energy of the body climbing out of the solar plexus, the place of the sun beneath the ribs, to take command of the lower mind and everything living in it. This is the christ within stepping up to govern the appetites and busy thoughts that once ran the house on their own.
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Joseph raised over the whole land is the sun energy of the body climbing out of the solar plexus, the place of the sun beneath the ribs, to take command of the lower mind and everything living in it. This is the christ within stepping up to govern the appetites and busy thoughts that once ran the house on their own. Every faculty falls in line under that risen light, the thinking flesh ordered at last by the power that shines.
The ego is not destroyed, only seated below. Pharaoh keeps the throne, the crown of the head, the highest seat of consciousness, while the solar force rules everything beneath. The lower self still calls itself master, but the sun now decides.
Joseph: the christ or sun energy in the body, rising from the solar plexus to rule Egypt: the lower carnal mind and the world of appetite a person lives in Pharaoh: the ego, the sense of self that governs until the light takes over Throne: the crown of the head, the highest seat of consciousness
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Live Genesis 41:40 today
- Your appetites are not going anywhere today, so do not try to banish them. Just decide once, in the morning, who is making the calls, and let hunger and tiredness report to that.
- In a meeting where your irritation wants to speak first, let it stand up and then sit back down. It can be in the room without running the room.
- When the day gets loud and you feel scattered, put a hand on the middle of your body and take three slow breaths. Something steady lives below the noise and it can take charge again.
Who has actually been deciding in your life this week?
The same truth in other traditions
Bhagavad Gita 6
The mind is a friend to the one who has mastered it and an enemy to the one who has not. It is not removed, it is put under.
Buddhism · the Dhammapada on the elephant
The untrained mind runs like a rutting elephant, and the trained one follows the mahout's hook. The animal keeps its strength and finally takes direction.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Marcus writes of the ruling part of the self, the piece that stays sovereign while impressions, appetites and moods come and go beneath it.
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