“ [G‑d] said [to Abraham], “Please Take your son, your only one, the one you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Take him up there as an ascent-offering, on one of the mountains that I will designate to you.” Genesis 22:2
The primary aspect of this test was not the self-sacrifice it entailed but the challenge it posed to Abraham’s implicit faith in G‑d: G‑d had promised Abraham that Isaac would be the one to perpetuate his legacy; now G‑d was commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, in seeming contradiction to His very own word. Yet Abraham unquestioningly carried out G‑d’s command.
G‑d tests us in order to bring our hidden soul-powers to the fore. In fact, life in general is such a test. Before it descended into this world, the soul related to G‑d within the limits of reason; the soul never experienced a love for Him that transcends reason. But once the soul is encased in a physical body, which is by nature antagonistic to spirituality, it must summon its innermost strength to remain faithful to G‑d despite life’s daily trials and tribulations. With this newfound strength, the soul comes to understand and appreciate G‑d in a much more profound and intimate way than it ever could have before descending into this world. Sefer HaMa’amarim 5700, p. 37.”
Rabbi Gordon says the Jews bless the nations and Hashem loves them because they fear God. This story proves it. Isaac became the spiritual sacrifice and offering for the Jewish people on that day, an offering they “eat” daily forever and remember in daily prayer. His “ashes” bring them forgiveness.
So is Jesus to Christians. But God’s only begotten son completed the sacrifice physically and spiritually is God.
The two stories, Jesus and Isaac, bear pondering, my whole life. God guide my thoughts. Amen
Lee van Laer, inner Christianity Substack today, Becoming God:
“Well, of course, it sounds like a bit of heresy to say that we could become God. And yet, Meister Eckhart survived the Inquisition, at least his reputation did. He was dead by the time they settled the inquiries into his writings. But he didn’t get excommunicated, even though some few passages in his sermons were considered questionable.
Well then, we are called to love, and to become God in love. A mystery. and the only way that I can understand that for myself is to enter a much deeper sensation of my being.
There is a place at the root of being where grace flows in and because grace is born of love, a trickle of real, actual love flows in with it. Not a stream, or a river, or an ocean of love, but a trickle, because any more than that would be too much for us to bear in our tininess. We aren’t prepared to receive the fullness of God’s love. It is indeed too great for us, but, But this tiny trickle of love, which translates itself into goodness in being, can flow in at the root of the soul if I become very, very still, and I sense myself, and I wait.
For it’s possible for me to be so still that the noise I am making about myself and my life can go away for a moment. And the moment that they do, every particle of God’s love in me, and there are many already there, becomes more active in anticipation of a meeting with more of their brethren as they flow in. And so I have this possibility of becoming much more receptive to God’s love, which enters here at the root of being.
What that will result in, I do not say, nor do I know. I make no claims. I attempt no works of my own. I simply make an effort to open my heart to God’s love because it is so much greater than my own. And if I open my heart to that, I know that all else will eventually be right within me. For that is a power of transformation. It changes everything.
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Then I watched a Substack on Enoch 1, 2, 3. But I don’t quite think that’s right just because it makes a beautiful Video presentation reminds me of how susceptible to suggestion human beings are, as GIG warns. And it reminds me of King Konuzion inventing religion, BT , Third Flight chapter XX Plus GIG’s earlier warning, p103:
“CHAPTER XIII – Why in Man’s Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality
My dear and kind Grandfather, be so kind as to explain to me, if only in a general way, why those beings there are such that they take the ‘ephemeral’ for the Real.” To this question of his grandson, Beelzebub replied thus: “It was only during later periods that the three-brained beings of the planet Earth began to have this particularity in their psyche, and just this particularity arose in them only because their predominant part, which was formed in them as in all three-brained beings, gradually allowed other parts of their total presences to perceive every new impression without what is called ‘being-Partkdolg-duty’ but just merely as, in general, such impressions are perceived by the separate independent localizations existing under the name of being-centers present in the three-brained beings, or, as I should say in their language, they believe everything anybody says, and not solely that which they themselves have been able to recognize by their own sane deliberation. “In general, any new understanding is crystallized in the presence of these strange beings only if Smith speaks of somebody or something in a certain way; and then if Brown says the same, the hearer is quite convinced it is just so and couldn’t possibly be otherwise. Thanks merely to this particularity of their psyche and to the fact that the said writer was much spoken about in the said manner, most of the beings there at the present time are quite convinced that he is indeed a very great psychologist and has an incomparable knowledge of the psyche of the beings of his planet”
Felt like a eureka moment at web after reading a sentence from 253 BT. Explaining parktdolg duty as the way Ashiata’s initiates learned and passed on his teachings and acquired (merit) recognized and trusted by beings of all brain systems. (My dog?). The guys didn’t get what I was trying to say: experiential over intellectual. Not second hand books, read all the time. Follow the rules. “Aziz says it’s..,” felt like a slap in the face. (Trust your own experience—nothing new for me, but people distrust me. Fell asleep…
Intending to pray for S Jesus help and heal her. And me in my suffering for her.
Lee this morning, daily five Substack, the song of lord have mercy
…My role is very simple.
I arrive in the breathing and attend.
I arrive in the sensation and attend.
And through these two simple actions of attention,
I arrive in my life here, now,
and I attend.
I attend on the inward breath
as though I were a child breathing for the first time,
a miraculous experience
that I never could have anticipated
when I was in the womb of my sleep and my ignorance.
But now it is given to me freely, and I breathe.
I attend as I breathe out, releasing the miracle;
and as I grant the air in my body its freedom,
it leaves behind a certain quality of energy
that infuses every particle in the body
with the sacred substance of being,
so that the whole body is filled with a light that emits no light
For the light that it contains is the goodness of being,
which cannot be seen with the eyes
or touched with the fingers
and does not exist as a thought in the mind
but is rather a sacred feeling
that penetrates every particle in the body.
I step aside to allow it to penetrate more deeply.
And I see that the phrase,
Thy will be done
has to do with the way in which this goodness
penetrates every empty space in the cosmos.
Arriving in it out of nothingness at all times,
to make existence itself possible.
And I sense and feel the way in which this noble action underlies all of creation.
Penetrating every crevice.
Here is where I become a particle of being.
A particle of the planet.
Under the order of the sun and the stars.
all simply because I sense and I breathe here
already I am given life responsibility, perception
in order that I may help in this search.
The effort to concentrate love and goodness and being
more precisely here,
in this location for which I am responsible.
I am in relationship with what is needed here.
I have received the substance needed to undertake this work.
To go out into the world from this goodness
and to offer it forward as best I can.
Every particle alive,
every particle breathing,
every particle sensing,
every particle being.
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BLKSHP Scott: translations of hate are usually misunderstood in the Bible and should be interpreted as loved less most of the time. Esau and Jacob are the primary example but so are Leah and Rachel and other unloved women of the Bible. Esau and Jacob are Edom and Israel, noncovenant and covenant nations. The potter shaping the clay as the potter chooses. And (perhaps) so with individuals.
O Lord,
We pray to thee that thou may help us this day
To empty ourselves completely
So as to leave room for your heart and your soul,
Your presence and your grace.
And we give thanks for this existence we have been granted
And this life we live.
Though we suffer,
We know your love is here.
Amen.
