Numbers 31:18 · World English Bible
Numbers 31:18 Meaning But All the Girls
But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
What does Numbers 31:18 mean?
Within the war of the higher nature against the lower, the female children stand for the untouched faculties of feeling and receptivity that the outer life has not yet claimed or corrupted. To keep them alive is to preserve the parts of a person that remain pure and unspent, the receptive powers not yet joined to the coarse drives of the body.
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Within the war of the higher nature against the lower, the female children stand for the untouched faculties of feeling and receptivity that the outer life has not yet claimed or corrupted. To keep them alive is to preserve the parts of a person that remain pure and unspent, the receptive powers not yet joined to the coarse drives of the body. These are the capacities still open to be raised.
What has not known a man is what the lower nature has not entered, the clean receptive ground kept for the inner work. In the conquest of the self, the crude forces are put down while the virgin faculties are held back and spared, because through them the higher life will still be conceived within the man.
Women children: the untouched receptive faculties of feeling in a person, the pure inner powers not yet claimed by the coarse drives of the body
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Live Numbers 31:18 today
- Keep one part of your day unclaimed. No podcast on the walk, no phone at breakfast, no screen in the first ten minutes awake. Leave that bit of yourself unspent and see what comes into it.
- With someone you love, hold back the response you always give. Instead of the quick joke or the ready advice, stay open and let them finish. The quiet part of you is the part that can actually receive them.
- When a group chat or an email thread pulls at you, do not hand it your whole attention. Answer what needs answering and keep the rest of your mind your own.
What part of you have you not yet handed over to the noise?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 28
Keep the softness of a child and the uncarved block within you. What has not yet been shaped and spent is what holds the most power, so guard it rather than putting it to use.
Zen
A beginner's mind is open and ready, while an expert's mind is already full. The value is in what has not been filled in yet.
Bhagavad Gita
The senses can be given over to craving or held back and turned inward. What is withheld from appetite becomes the ground where the higher self is known.
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