Proverbs 1:6 Meaning To Understand a Proverb

What seems dark and hidden is only meaning the ego has veiled, for guilt makes everything obscure so that the mind will not look too closely and find nothing to fear. To understand the saying beneath the saying is to let love lift that veil, so the frightening surface gives way to the simple truth it was hiding, that the mind was only ever teaching itself.

Every dark saying grows plain the moment it is read with the gentler teacher, who shows that beneath the riddle there was never a threat, only a call to be at peace.

Scripture was set down in a double tongue, the plain sound sitting over a buried meaning, and the whole point of reading is to open the buried one. What sounds like old counsel and old history is code laid over the workings of the body and the states of a mind, and the wise are those who go under the surface rather than resting on it. Wisdom here is the act of decoding, not the storing of literal facts; the dark sayings stay dark to anyone who reads them as plain report, because their light is hidden on purpose and comes only to the one who digs.

The reader who takes every name and number as literal history keeps the shell and loses the kernel, and the treasure sits untouched under his hand.

Dark sayings: the layer of hidden anatomy and inner states folded beneath the plain words, meant to be uncovered rather than believed at surface