Jeremiah 2:2 Meaning Go and Proclaim in the Ears

The higher mind recalls a person to the early ardor of the soul, before the outer life had thickened and grown crowded. Jerusalem is the center of consciousness, the seat of vision within, and it is being reminded of a first devotion, the kindness of youth when the soul followed spirit through the empty places without hesitation. The wilderness and the unsown land are the state before habits and worldly cultivation set in, a bare inner ground where the whole attention was turned toward the higher and nothing else was yet planted. That first love was the soul married to spirit before the accumulations of the outer world came between them.

Spirit remembers when a person's attention was undivided and freshly given, and calls the consciousness back to that early, uncluttered devotion.

Jerusalem: the center of consciousness in a person, the seat of vision addressed and called to remember The wilderness: the bare inner state before habits and worldly cultivation set in, where attention was wholly turned toward spirit The land that was not sown: the unplanted ground of the soul before the accumulations of outer life took root

Love is alive in the wilderness and dies in the settled land. In the beginning there was no map and no guarantee of a harvest, and precisely because nothing was secured, everything was felt. Then came the fields, the temple, the arrangements, and the same relationship continued as habit with the fire gone out of it.

This is the story of every seeker who once trembled and now performs. Whatever hardens into routine has already ended; only the repetition goes on. The unsown land becomes available again the moment security is loosened, and insecurity is the very air in which love breathes.