Song of Solomon 1:4 · World English Bible
Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
The king is the higher self reigning in the head, and the chambers are the inner rooms of the brain where consciousness is drawn upward into its own depths. To be brought in is the pull of the awakened center gathering the lower nature toward it, the soul rising to meet the ruler within.
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ESOTERIC
The king is the higher self reigning in the head, and the chambers are the inner rooms of the brain where consciousness is drawn upward into its own depths. To be brought in is the pull of the awakened center gathering the lower nature toward it, the soul rising to meet the ruler within. Wine is the intoxication of the outer senses, the pleasure that flushes and fades; the remembered love runs deeper than any such flush because it is the steady joy of the spirit meeting itself.
This is the inward turning where the feeling nature is led up into the secret rooms of the head and finds a gladness the senses cannot supply. The upright are the currents that rise straight up the spine and love that ruling center naturally.
The king's chambers: the inner rooms of the brain where consciousness is drawn upward into its own depths Wine: the flush of the outer senses, the pleasure that heats the body and quickly fades
AWARENESS
Love has its own urgency and does not wait for the mind to arrange conditions. The king's inner rooms are no place to travel to; they open the moment the noise of thinking drops, and being drawn in feels like being taken because the ego has no hand in it.
Wine loosens the mind for an hour and hands it back heavier. This other intoxication dissolves the drinker, and there is no morning after. Whether others are right to love him stays a rumor until it is tasted; a thousand voices praising the wine have never made one mouth wet.
Esoteric lens
What kind of gladness in you does not need anything to be delivered?
The senses point outward and their pleasures come and go. Turn the attention around and inward, and you find a steadiness no sensation can match.
There is a wine that does not leave a hangover, and you drink it with the mouth of the heart. Once you have tasted it the other kind looks thin.
The joy that comes from a settled mind runs deeper than anything the senses can hand you, because nothing has to keep arriving to sustain it.
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