“Your two breasts
[are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck [is] like a tower of ivory.
Your eyes [are like the] pools in Cheshbon by the gate of the daughter of a
multitude. Your nose [is] like the tower of the Lebanon in front of the
Damascus. Your head upon you [is] like [mount] Carmel, and the hair of your
head [is] like purple. The king [is] bound in its locks. How beautiful you are,
and how pleasant, oh love in delights! Your stature [is] like a date tree, and
your breasts like clusters of grapes.” (7:4-8)
Again, God’s
description of Israel’s material features as qualities evokes the structure or
body of the Tabernacle and the Temple of Jerusalem. As we mentioned before,
these allegories suggest a fusion between Israel and the Temple as a one in the
spiritual bonding with God’s love.
“I said, ‘I will
go up in the date tree, to hold on its branches, and let your breasts be as
clusters of grapes, and the breath of your nose like [the scent of] apples. And
your palate be like the choicest wine, going to My beloved in righteousness,
causing the lips of the sleepers to speak’.” (7:9-10)
God reiterates
His promise for Israel's final redemption and the Messianic era. In the time He
considers proper, as the Jewish prophets have announced, God will reveal His
presence in Zion as Jerusalem and its Temple. The latter referred here as the
date tree in which He will be seen elevated.
“And the glory of
the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it; for the mouth of the
Lord has spoken! (…) together they shall sing, for they shall see eye to eye
the Lord returning to Zion.” (Isaiah 40:5, 53:8)
There God’s love
will bond with Israel’s love manifest with the highest traits and qualities as
her branches, clusters of grapes, the goodness of her deeds and actions as the
scent of her breath, and the delight of the rejoicing they cause in all the
hearts, as the best of wines.
All the goodness
of these traits, qualities, deeds and actions emanate as the flow of streams
coming only from the righteousness of love. In the righteousness of Israel’s
love the sleepers (the nations) will speak the ways and attributes of God’s
love.
As we have seen,
these verses allude to a new human consciousness that will be led only by the
goodness of love’s ways and attributes destined to prevail in the material
world, and directed by Israel as the inheritor of God’s final redemption for
all humankind.
“And
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove
the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36:26)
Here flesh
represents life and the heart as the goodness that drives it. Existence has
meaning because of goodness, for goodness gives meaning to existence. God’s
promised new consciousness led only by goodness heralds His complete and
eternal bonding with Israel, for it is the spiritual and material manifestation
of God’s love as His spirit, glory, majesty, power, triumph, splendor, regency
and greatness.
“(…) Says the
Lord, ‘My
spirit that is upon you, and My words that I have put in your mouth shall not
depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the
mouth of your offspring’s offspring’, says the Lord, ‘from here to eternity’.” (Isaiah 59:21)
We all are here
in this world to experience, learn, enjoy and manifest goodness as our essence
and identity. We already said that goodness is the essence of the soul as an
extension of God’s love, and we as souls are here to find ourselves in all
aspects, facets and dimensions of life and the material world. Thus we reveal
God’s blessings in all that is in us and our surroundings, for everything we
perceive through our senses also has the purpose to be and have goodness, a
grain of sand, a leave of grass, an ant or an elephant.
We have said that
the purpose of the soul is to find itself in all expressions of God’s material
creation, by seeing the hidden goodness of what we may perceive as opposite to
it. Thus we understand our prophets’ messages about the Messianic era.
“‘The wolf and the
lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust
will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy
mountain’, says the Lord.”
(Isaiah 65:25, 11:6)
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