Jeremiah 2:8 · World English Bible
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.
The faculties meant to keep a person aligned with the higher self have all turned outward and lost the thread. The priest is the reasoning mind that should tend the inner flame but no longer asks where the divine current is; those who handle the law are the rules kept by rote with no living contact behind them.
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The faculties meant to keep a person aligned with the higher self have all turned outward and lost the thread. The priest is the reasoning mind that should tend the inner flame but no longer asks where the divine current is; those who handle the law are the rules kept by rote with no living contact behind them. When the guiding powers of consciousness face the outer world instead of the light within, they serve a lesser master.
Baal is the outward, material force, worship of the visible and the animal appetites. The picture is a mind whose every leader has abandoned its center and chased things that give nothing back, following the low nature instead of the high.
Priests: the reasoning mind, meant to tend the inner flame and keep contact with the higher self Baal: the outward material force, the pull of the visible world and the animal appetites
Esoteric lens
Where am I running on rules I have stopped feeling the reason for?
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. People memorize the finger and feel well informed while never once looking up.
A practice done perfectly by rote, with no heart turned toward its source, is a beautiful body with no breath in it. The habit survives, the life leaves.
The one who recites the words and never contacts what they point to stays tangled in words. Right action comes from the living source, not from quoting the rule.
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