Song of Solomon 3:6 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 3:6 Meaning Who Is This Who Comes Up From
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
What does Song of Solomon 3:6 mean?
The one rising out of the wilderness is the awakened self ascending from the barren stretch of ordinary living, and it climbs like columns of smoke because the refined energy of the body moves upward as vapor when it is set alight within. The wilderness is the empty ground a person crosses before the inner marriage, and out of that emptiness the transformed life rises straight and fragrant.
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The one rising out of the wilderness is the awakened self ascending from the barren stretch of ordinary living, and it climbs like columns of smoke because the refined energy of the body moves upward as vapor when it is set alight within. The wilderness is the empty ground a person crosses before the inner marriage, and out of that emptiness the transformed life rises straight and fragrant. Myrrh and frankincense are the 2 currents burned on the inner altar, the bitter and the sweet, the substance of dying to the lower self and the substance of prayer that ascends.
All the powders of the merchant are the many finer essences the seeking self has gathered along the way. What comes up out of the desert is a consciousness distilled by its own trial, offering itself as sweet smoke toward the light above.
Wilderness: the barren stretch of ordinary living a person crosses before the inner union Pillars of smoke: the refined energy of the body rising upward when it is kindled within Myrrh: the bitter current on the inner altar, the substance of dying to the lower self Frankincense: the sweet ascending current, the prayer and aspiration that rise toward the light Powders of the merchant: the many finer essences the seeking self gathers along its passage
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Live Song of Solomon 3:6 today
- Think of the dullest stretch of your day, the commute, the dishes, the waiting. Walk through it once without reaching for your phone and let it simply be the crossing it is.
- Tell one person something you learned from a hard season, not the hardship itself, just the one thing you carried out of it.
- When something stings today, a short email, a correction in front of others, stay with the sting for one slow breath before you answer. The bitter part is doing something in you.
What has come out of my hardest year that I would not trade back?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Upanishads
The fire of discipline turns the ordinary fuel of a life into light, and what rises from it is not the same as what was laid on the altar.
Sufism · Rumi
The chickpea boiling in the pot begs to be taken out, but the cook says the boiling is the point. It is being prepared for a table it cannot yet imagine.
Buddhism
The lotus does not grow in clean water. It rises out of the mud, and the mud is what feeds it.
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