First Daily Installment of Metaphysical Bible Meditations

Greetings, dear readers! I hope your summers have all been relaxing and rejuvenating. I apologize for my long unintended sabbatical: between wrapping up writing, publishing, and promoting my latest book, Take Away The Stone, finishing an ongoing editorial collaboration with paranormal writer/investigator Joe Cetrone on his first novel entitled Mystic Winds, and some personal R and R , blogging unfortunately fell by the wayside. 

But fear not! Now that things are settling down as we prepare to move into September I'll be back to writing with a new daily series, Metaphysical Bible Meditations, of which this will be the maiden post. The content will be drawn from my own daily Bible readings, viewed and interpreted through a metaphysical lens to glean the underlying psycho-spiritual truths of Scripture, from both the Old and New Testaments. Today the focus will be on passages from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 9, verse 57 through to chapter 10, verse 20, and will continue in order from there for all future installments. Feel to follow along with your own Bible, whether it be print or in e-book/online format. While all quotes from the readings will be from the King James Version (the translation which I personally prefer), you by all means may stick to any and all translations of your choosing. Let's get started.

"And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."

The Son of Man (here referring to an attitude of conscious spiritual discernment, rather than the personality of the man Jesus) has no place to rest his head since, being able to grow and evolve in spiritual awareness and understanding, he continues to unfold in consciousness and expression, unlike the limited, narrow animalistic frames of mind (represented here by foxes and birds) who remain in their "dens" of mechanistic, instinctual thinking and acting.

"And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

When read symbolically (rather than literally) the Gospel writer, in powerful language, is telling us here that if we are to progress spiritually we must be willing to abandon our old conditioned beliefs and concepts of life (personified in the form of the father), letting them die out and be buried with all manner of false creeds, dogmas, superstitions, and prejudices imparted to us by the world at large. 

Once we have made the conscious, sincere decision to abandon those outmoded ways of thinking and believing ("those which are at home at my house"), we are not to look back, lest we relapse into our accustomed habits and views by putting our hands to the plough of dualistic thinking and feeling, to once more sow the same seeds of strife, contention, frustration, lack, etc.  Doing so only serves to keep us shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven (our new desired state of mind, being, and expression).

"After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come."

The sending out of the 70 disciples represents the cleansing and renewing spiritually (7 being the numerical symbol of perfect expression and function) of the entire human system: physical, mental, and emotional. These disciples (beliefs and energies) are to take up residence in the various homes and towns (centers of entrenched thoughts and their attendant objective manifestations such as sickness, depression, anxiety, poverty, etc.) They are sent out in twos (representing thought and emotion), the two necessary agents needed to bring about the needed renewal of both mental involution and physical evolution. 

"But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, 

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."

The unrepentant cities and towns here listed represent the centers of fixed belief and their objective manifestations, which refuse to entertain the new ideas and feelings and are therefore "cursed" by their stubborn refusal.

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."

The disciples, out poured from the Divine archetypes of wholeness, love, perfection, etc., place the devils of doubt, fear, anger, ignorance, and prejudice under their dominion, leading to Satan's (the un-illumined state of consciousness) mighty "fall from heaven" (enlightened and cleansed consciousness). Nothing can hurt these pure ideas and energies, which have their source in God (Infinite Intelligence), which knows no opposition, strife, or resistance. 

That's it for today, my friends! Tomorrow we'll pick up from Luke chapter 10, verse 21.