“The
burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud, and comes
unto Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence,
and the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.” (Isaiah 19:1)
The
Prophet continues referring to the burden of the nations as negative
traits and trends in consciousness. Egypt represents the most abject
tendencies in passions and instincts triggered by ego's fantasies and
illusions. Hence Egypt is the worst of slavery from which our
ancestors needed God's direct deliverance. As we have mentioned often
in the commentaries of our blog, Egypt was the most depraved nation
in ancient times and we were slaves amid that corrupted environment.
Through the Prophet, the Creator promises to remove such burden from
our consciousness.
“And
I will spur Egypt against Egypt; and they shall fight every one
against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against
city, and kingdom against kingdom.” (19:2)
God's
ways and means to remove negative traits as idols we create out of
ego's lust, greed and coveting are particularly peculiar. Again we
assimilate that wickedness destroys the wicked as the result of the
confrontation between the cause of evil and the effect of evil. Thus
we understand Egypt against Egypt, brother against brother, etc. This
is a complex metaphor that sounds more like a paradox. We basically
fight against ourselves.
Our envy fights our greed, and our coveting
fights our lust. These suppose to be part of the same team! How come are
they fighting each other? Let's take a closer look at this. Again,
the warning echoes in our consciousness: the wicked is killed by his
wickedness. In this scenario there is no free will, for there is
nothing positive in what we think, feel or experience. The Creator
wants to us to learn the lessons from living the negative trends in
consciousness out of ego's fantasies and illusions.
“And
the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make
void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to
the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.”
(19:3)
It
is quite evident that we can't get rid of our obsessions,
attachments, and bad habits, simply because we are addicted to them.
The Prophet speaks of God emptying the vessel of what we have filled
with traits that keep us captive under lower passions and instincts.
Though in that process our addictions again fight back looking for
more fantasies and illusions as idols, whisperers, ghosts and
spirits. In the following verses (19:4-16) the Prophet speaks
metaphorically about the destruction of the negative traits Egypt
represents.
“And
the land of Judah shall become a terror onto Egypt, whensoever one
makes mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the
purpose of the Lord of hosts, which He purposes against it [Egypt].”
(19:17)
It
takes our higher consciousness to fight our battles against lower
thoughts, emotions, feelings, passions and instincts. That is the land
of Judah as the terror onto Egypt. In the context of our Final
Redemption, terror means the reverence Judah will inspire onto Egypt
to become a cooperative trait instead of a destructive one. Our
higher consciousness will perceive, think, feel, speak and do in
harmonic consonance with the ways and attributes of God's purpose for
His Final Redemption.
“In
that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land
of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it
shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the
land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the
oppressors, and He will send them a savior, and a defender, who will
deliver them.” (19:19-20)
An
altar implies offerings. In this sense the altar is the means by
which we connect with God. Egypt will make offerings to Him, meaning
that what once was the trigger of a negative action will become the
motivation of a positive deed. All aspects, levels and dimensions in
consciousness with the potential to express wickedness or goodness
will be harmonically united toward being and doing goodness as the
common denominator in the Final Redemption. In sum, our lives will
become altars by which we elevate the goodness in us to the goodness
of our Creator.
The
Messianic Consciousness -- as the means to deliver God's Plan for the
Final Redemption -- is the savior and defender, by which we transform
all negative traits and trends in consciousness into positive
qualities and expressions of life.
“And
the Lord shall make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall
know the Lord in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and
offering, and shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and shall perform it.
And the Lord will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall
return unto the Lord, and He will be entreated of them, and will heal
them.” (19:21-22)
The
Prophet tells us that God is our only Redeemer, for He is our
Creator. All dimensions of consciousness, including “the burden of
Egypt”, will know Him when we begin to embrace His ways and
attributes as our Essence and true identity. In this redeeming
awareness we will fulfill His will. He will ease and loosen our
negative addictions and attachments in a process we will experience
as beating and healing at the same time. In our connection with God's
Love through His ways, He will heal us from our own inventions out of
ego's fantasies and illusions.
“In
that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and
the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. In that day shall
Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the
midst of the earth.” (19:23-24)
One
of the qualities of the Messianic Consciousness is its ability to
integrate all facets and dimensions of life, as well as all traits
and trends in consciousness, into a harmonic functional unity with
the common purpose of fulfilling God's will through Love's ways and
attributes. Thus we realize that Love is what unites, integrates and
harmonizes all. In this realization we all become blessings in the
midst of the earth. Here Israel represents Love's ways and attributes
as God's Love inheritance to human consciousness. Thus we understand
that God's inheritance for the world are Love's ways and attributes
as the material blessings of His Love.
“For
that the Lord of hosts has blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My
people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My
inheritance'.” (19:25)
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