Moving to another country made me think about a lot of things I was raised on. In a continuation of the last post “ Religions and Identity”, I want to talk for a moment on stuff that we are learning as we grow up in a more traditional or religious environment.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk” is a commandment from the bible that the Jews follow. And the commandment, superficially and literally, is not to eat meat and milk together. And indeed, this is what happens to whoever feels it’s right. My relocation, that I wanted to do since I was young, was opening me to new cultures and different types of food. Of course when I was traveling around I was not limiting myself, but moving abroad is making me adapt and eat food that usually I would not eat, just like eating meat and milk together. As I said before, I am not religious or traditional (or even identify with any religion), but my habit was not eating them together. In general, the amount of meat that I was eating a week was very low.
In my first few weeks here I was thinking about this subject. Why this commandment was tightly followed by Judaism? Why did we take this commandment in a belief that it’s a law? That it’s something we must do, and if not we are not following God’s word?
I want to see it in a different way, in a metaphysical way:
"So here, you take all the commands, every one. Not only those that are in the ten, but the one I’ve just taken in the 23rd chapter of Exodus: “Do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.” So all day long we are boiling the kid in the mother’s milk. We’re taking what we do not want in our world and paying all attention to it… that is the milk…and we are feeding it and keeping it alive. I should sacrifice that kid, which is the symbol of sacrifice, and take my attention away from it, and put it on something entirely different."
– Neville Goddard, Partakers of the Divine Nature, 12.6.1968
I will take the commandment and break it into pieces, as Neville suggest in one of his lectures:
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk”
The kid symbolizes the wish that we want to realize. Something that we don’t have, but we want to obtain later on. In addition to that, the kid can symbolize who we want to BE , the identity we want to have.
The mother symbolizes our current consciousness where we got the wish, our new ambition, who we want to be.
The mother’s milk symbolizes the current circumstances in our external world. Everything that we can sense as a fact. What we still take as truth, as the reality. In addition to that, the mother’s milk symbolizes the thought or the belief that we are limited human creatures.
The boil of a kid in its mother’s milk symbolizes the thoughts of “how can it happen?” “what do I need to do to make it happen?” and involve everything that relates to the future or the past, and feeling separated from God.
The commandment is not talking about the 3D world literally of not eating meat with milk. The commandment is talking about our inner world and what we are going to do to get what we truly want, our new wish.
What the commandment really saying is that we cannot mix our wish, our want (the kid), with our thoughts, with the conditions that are visible in our 3D world (Mother’s milk).
Let’s say that our wish is to have a job after a very long period of time of unemployment. This is our kid. The current conditions, the mother’s milk, is that we don’t have a job, we don’t have an income, we don’t do anything that we do daily apart from search positions on the internet or going to interviews. If we take the current conditions, what we feel about the situation and the disappointment from each interview or a day that we search for a job that is not fruitful, we are boiling the kid in its mother’s milk.
We need to remember – everything starts from within us. Everything we are seeing in the 3D, is a reflection of what we feel inside. And so, it is important to be aware where our consciousness is – is it in the lack of job, the difficulty, the fact that we cannot find a job or the time that was wasted? Or is it actually in what there is (in the end result) and in faith that we are already in our new job with all of the criteria that we ever dreamed about?
The moment we want something and it comes from lack mindset, the mirror will show us again and again the lack. And so the opposite, the moment we look at the situation and see how it changes in the best way possible (even when we don’t have any evidence for it), the world will show us exactly that.
Of course it doesn’t mean that we are not going to doubt our manifestation or we won’t fear or sometimes we won’t believe it can happen. But the most important part is to put the focus on what we want, in the uncertainty and on the best thing that can happen. It is easier for us to believe in the lack, but it doesn’t have more weight than feeling faithful and secure that it is here already. We learned that bad things or a lack of one thing or another is happening more often because this is life. But it’s not true.
"Now up to a point you and I are free to decide and to act, up to a point. The action is all imaginal. I decide now what I want to be and I name it. You decide you want to be the biggest in your profession or to be this, that and the other and you name it. Having made the decision, you only act mentally. It’s an imaginal act: You create the scene which would imply the fulfillment of that state, and you act it. At that moment you’re over; you do not devise the means to fulfill it, you simply act. At that moment then consequences take over and consequences then create a new situation which now demands from you, well, a new decision. Because, this is now a new challenge demanding of you a new situation, a new decision, a new act. And all you do is act.
If you are honest with yourself, you will know after you have acted although you do play certain parts in the unfolding drama that you didn’t do a thing about devising the means. You meet this one automatically, this one by chance, this one so and so, and then it all adds up and what you acted upon comes to pass. The whole thing comes to pass."
– Neville Goddard, Partakers of the Divine Nature, 12.6.1968
So how do we feel that we already have what we want? That we are not lacking it?
The work is from the inside. We have to disconnect ourselves from the outside world and put our focus on what we want, not on what we don’t want. Whatever we focus on, whatever we put our awareness on, is what will grow.
Neville says simply that we are what we choose to be. And then our work is mentally – we are going within and we imagine. In imagination we are choosing a scene that will demonstrate our wish like it already fulfilled. Not only once, but again and again, until we will feel that it is here. Until we will believe in it with all of our heart although in the 3D there is no sign for it happening. Because the real work is to surrender to the unknown.
We don’t have to get into a meditative state for that. We can continue our day to day life and feel like we are already working, like we are already doing what we always dreamed of doing. And of course, we can think from the future – if I had my dream job, what would I have bought for myself? If I already had a job, what would I do every day?
The world will change in response to that, and we will choose our choices and do things in the physical world from a totally different awareness. From being a whole and not from lack. From faith and love and not from fear and lack of faith.
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