Genesis 49:9 Meaning Judah Is a Lion’s Cub

Judah is the solar power in a person, the tribe whose camp and sign carry the meditation into the right side of the brain. The young lion becomes the old lion because the raw force at the base has finished its climb: energy that once fed on the lower nature has risen through the spine and settled in the head, where the sun burns in the abdomen and lifts to ignite the light-organ behind the eyes. "From the prey thou art gone up" is that ascent, the current leaving what it once consumed and mounting to its seat.

Once it couches there, nothing rouses it, because the work is finished and the power rests in its own mastery. This is the strength inside a body that has raised its own life-force and no longer struggles for it.

Judah: the solar force in the body, the lion-power seated in the sun-center of the abdomen Lion's whelp: that same energy young and unrisen at the base of the spine, still feeding on the lower nature Old lion: the risen power come to rest in the head, mastered and no longer struggling Prey: the lower nature and its appetites that the rising force feeds on and then leaves behind

The lion is the animal force in every person: the instinct that hunts and feeds. In the picture it has eaten its fill and lain down, not tamed or beaten, but resting because it is satisfied.

A man who has made peace with his fierce nature grows calm the same way. Once he no longer needs to prove his strength, it stops straining and sinks into the deeper mind. That is why no one wakes the resting lion. The power has not died. It sleeps in him, and only something worth rising for will call it back to its feet.