Hebrews 7:2 · World English Bible
to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,
Abraham is the struggling self climbing toward God, and the tenth part he yields is the portion the lower man renders up to the higher order within him. The king he pays is named twice by root: King of righteousness, the right hemisphere of the brain where the higher order rules, and King of Salem, the salt and the electron, the electromagnetic peace that settles when that higher faculty governs.
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Abraham is the struggling self climbing toward God, and the tenth part he yields is the portion the lower man renders up to the higher order within him. The king he pays is named twice by root: King of righteousness, the right hemisphere of the brain where the higher order rules, and King of Salem, the salt and the electron, the electromagnetic peace that settles when that higher faculty governs. The names open into the body, one giving the ruling side of the mind, the other giving the charged stillness it brings.
So the striving self hands a measured share of all it has to the higher king seated in the right side of the head, and the reward is the electric calm the name Salem carries. The exchange is not tribute to a priest but the lower nature yielding to the ruling mind and receiving its peace.
Abraham: the struggling self rising toward God, the lower man on his climb King: the higher self, the ruling faculty seated within Righteousness: the right hemisphere of the brain, the higher order that governs Salem: salt and the electron, electromagnetism, the charged peace of the settled mind
Esoteric lens
What would you have to let go of to get the calm you keep saying you want?
The highest good is like water, which takes the low place and does not contend. From that yielding the whole field settles.
Better than conquering a thousand people in battle is the person who has governed themselves, because that rule brings a stillness no victory outside can.
Give up a part of what you are holding and you make room for something finer to move in. The hand that stays closed receives nothing.
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