Song of Solomon 5:4 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 5:4 Meaning My Beloved Thrust His Hand in Through
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
What does Song of Solomon 5:4 mean?
The hole of the door is the narrow opening at the pineal, the gate where light enters the head, and the beloved reaching his hand through it is the spirit descending into the body from above. When that current passes the threshold, the whole of the lower body answers, the deep parts stirred as the fornix is roused and the inner fire begins to rise to meet what has come down.
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The hole of the door is the narrow opening at the pineal, the gate where light enters the head, and the beloved reaching his hand through it is the spirit descending into the body from above. When that current passes the threshold, the whole of the lower body answers, the deep parts stirred as the fornix is roused and the inner fire begins to rise to meet what has come down.
This is the meeting of the 2, the light coming in at the crown and the energy answering from below, the phoenix in the body lifting toward the one that touched it. The stirring in the depths is not longing for a person outside but the lower centers moving upward the moment the higher current opens the gate.
Hand: the spirit descending, the higher current reaching down into the body Hole of the door: the narrow aperture at the pineal, the gate where the light enters the head
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Live Song of Solomon 5:4 today
- Leave one small gap in your day today with nothing scheduled in it, five minutes with the phone in another room. Let whatever wants to arrive have somewhere to land.
- When someone says something that moves you today, let it land instead of brushing it off. Say thank you and let it stay.
- In a hard moment, stop bracing for one breath. Something good can get in only through the part of you that is not armored.
Where in my day have I left a door open, and where am I latched shut?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
Rumi wrote that the longing in you is itself the answer being sent, that the call and the reply come from the same place. The reach down and the rise up meet at the same small opening.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The sages placed a hidden cave in the heart and said the self dwells there, found by the one who turns attention inward. A narrow place can hold the whole of what you are looking for.
Zen
Zen says the knock and the opening are one motion, that the teacher appears when the student is ready. Something enters only where a door has been left unlatched.
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