“Awake,
awake, put on your strength, O Zion. Put the garments of your beauty,
O Jerusalem, the holy city. For enter no more into you again the
uncircumcised and the unclean.” (Isaiah 52:1)
There
is a necessary awakening through the highest levels of discernment
and understanding in our consciousness, which are the foundations of
the awareness of our permanent connection with God (represented
by Jerusalem and its Temple). This awakening requires obstinate
determination and relentless willfulness as the required
strength to return and regain such awareness.
In
this awakening we adorn our consciousness with the qualities, traits
and trends of the goodness out of Love's ways and attributes, for
these are our real beauty and intrinsic holiness. In this awakening
and awareness there is no place for anything different or opposite to
them, which are referred here as the uncircumcised and the unclean.
The verse above reiterates implicitly that the awakening of Jerusalem
is the renaissance of Israel as the advent of the Messianic Era. The
in gathering of the exiled Jews in the Land of Israel is the prelude
to this Divinely announced final stage in human consciousness.
“Shake
yourself from the dust. Arise, sit, O Jerusalem. The bands of your
neck have loosed themselves, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus
said the Lord: 'For nothing ye have been sold, and not by money are
ye redeemed'.” (52:2-3)
God
reminds us again that He has taken the burden of negative traits
and trends from our consciousness. Therefore now depends on us to
shake ourselves from the dust and dirt we do not need to bear
anymore. We have to arise from the dust and sit in the throne of
goodness as our true essential identity. We are not captives anymore,
for our Creator is saying so.
God's
Love is so good to us that He is telling us that our ransom does not
cost us the same amount for which we sold our goodness. God
speaks giving us His eternal loving kindness, even if
we are undeserving. We have sold our consciousness for the
nothingness and futility of ego's fantasies and illusions, and He
redeems it without asking us to pay. God does not pay us with the
same coin we sold our consciousness.
“For
thus said the Lord God: 'To Egypt My people went down at first to
sojourn there, and Asshur for nothing he has oppressed it. Now
therefore what do I here, says the Lord, seeing that My people is
taken away for nothing? They that rule over them do howl, said the
Lord, and My Name continually all the day is despised.” (52:4-5)
God
makes a difference between the subjugation in Egypt that He decreed,
and the oppression by Assyria that was unnecessary.
Indeed we were punished for our inclination to idolatry by being
conquered and ruled by other nations, but the case of Assyria was
exceptional. This nation not only oppressed Israel, but continuously
desecrated God's Name.
Once
again we must remark that the events in Isaiah's times also
represent situations that are also reflections of what is happening
in our consciousness. Even if negative things happen to us
without apparent reasons, we still have to face them as the learning
process God wants us to experience in the material world. Besides, we
still live within the parameters of cause and effect.
Everything
we have done or created not only has outcomes and consequences in our
immediate surroundings, but also in the rest of God's Creation at
large. The so called “butterfly effect” looks pale compared to
the real effect of the mere fact of being living entities
created by an infinite and inconceivable God.
“Therefore
do My people know My Name, therefore in that day surely I am the One
who speaks, behold Me.” (52:6)
As
long as we recognize the ways and attributes of the Creator, what is
meant to be understood as “knowing” His Name, we are able to
realize that His will is the one that is being done, not ours. The
Messianic Era is the time and space in which God's will and our free
will are united together in consonance. That is “the day” when we
all will realize that He is the One who speaks, and none else. Ego's
agenda and all that is opposed to the goodness He wants us to guide
and direct all aspects of life, will disappear and we will be able to
see His will fully revealed in His Creation.
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