Song of Solomon 6:7 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 6:7 Meaning Your Temples Are Like a Piece
Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
What does Song of Solomon 6:7 mean?
The human head is the true temple of God, and the temples of the face point to that seat of consciousness where the sacred work is done. Within the locks, hidden under the covering of the hair, they are compared to a piece of pomegranate because the head is full of seeds, packed with the creative ideas of the right hemisphere.
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The human head is the true temple of God, and the temples of the face point to that seat of consciousness where the sacred work is done. Within the locks, hidden under the covering of the hair, they are compared to a piece of pomegranate because the head is full of seeds, packed with the creative ideas of the right hemisphere.
The pomegranate splits to reveal chamber after chamber of red seeds, and the mind is like this, dense with latent thoughts and images the fruitful inner side can generate without end. What looks like a plain beauty of the face is really the crowded, creative interior of consciousness, the temple where God's ideas are stored.
Temples: the head, the seat of consciousness and the true temple of God. Pomegranate: the many seeds of the creative right hemisphere, ideas packed and waiting to open. Locks: the covering over the head, the outer veil that hides the sacred interior from casual view.
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Live Song of Solomon 6:7 today
- Keep a note on your phone for the small ideas you usually let slide past in the shower or on the walk home. Your head is fuller than you give it credit for, and most of it goes unwritten.
- Ask one person what they have been thinking about lately and then stay quiet long enough for the real answer. Most people are carrying far more inside than their small talk shows.
- When you catch yourself dismissing someone as boring or simple, in a meeting, a checkout line, at a family dinner, assume there are chambers in there you have not seen. Treat the quiet exterior as a cover, not a summary.
What is packed inside you, waiting to open, that you have never let anyone see?
The same truth in other traditions
Zhuangzi
The useless tree is the one left standing, and the empty room is the one you can live in. What looks plain on the outside is often where the whole capacity is.
Zen
Your ordinary mind, the one you carry to the market and the kitchen, is already the treasury. People step over it looking for something more impressive.
Upanishads
In the small space within the heart lies all of it, sky and earth and everything that was ever going to grow. The container looks tiny and holds the world.
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