If the camp of Israel is to survive in our own times, it will require a combination of both religious and national ideas. In those times, they did fuse the spirit with the physical, and this is also why they were successful. They worked together. This is why the kohain gadol had the stones of all the tribes sewn into his breastplate, to take in their vibration and to upgrade the vibration. The purpose of the kohain gadol was to elevate the spiritual health of the entire nation, and that is, at one level, how to walk through the world, from a spiritual point of view. The walk is from the b’limah to the mah, from the nothing to the something. The camp of Israel represented both the b’li mah and the mah as they walked in consciousness, and expanded in consciousness through their journey. There is another level, which is more deeply about the spiritual, in the sense that the walking and the 42 stopping places were points of purification having to do with elevating the world to the level of atzilut. Through this, particularly with the death of everyone older than twenty, during those 40 years, Israel went through a nullification process. In our modern terms, we can call it dissolving our identity with the ego. The metaphor that is so powerful in this is watching the germination of any seed we plant. The tree’s branches, leaves, and fruits cannot be separated from the seed, although they are much larger, and before the new tree can be revealed, the seed itself must cease to be. This is the message of transformation: Our identity with the ego, our negative thought forms, must all be dissolved. Our mind must be fractured, and come again into service of consciousness, rather than service of the ego. And in that process of purification, that process of giving birth, we are able then to wake up. Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, MD Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment (Parsha Mase)
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:20:05 +0000
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