Habakkuk 1:15 Meaning He Takes Up All of Them

The sea and its fish are the deep of a person and the living movements of soul that swim in it, and the hook and net are the mechanisms of the lower nature that haul those living things up out of their element to consume them. A consciousness ruled by appetite treats every stirring of life within as prey, catching each fine impulse with a baited point, dragging whole shoals of feeling into its keeping, and calling the harvest gladness. The rejoicing is the false delight of the acquiring self, which mistakes capture for fulfillment. What is happening in a person is the plunder of the inner waters by the part of the self that only takes, until the deep is emptied and the taker still counts it joy.

The net that gathers indiscriminately is the grasping habit that makes no distinction, sweeping the higher and lower together into one haul.

The fish: the living movements of soul and feeling that swim in the deep waters of a person The angle and the net: the hooking, sweeping mechanisms of appetite that haul the inner life out of its element to be consumed The drag: the grasping habit that gathers every stirring at once, making no distinction between what should be kept and what released