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    The Story of Lot, his wife and two daughters (GEN. 19тн Chapter)

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    This passage provides a symbolic interpretation of the biblical story of Lot, his wife, and two daughters from Genesis 19. It suggests that: 1) The story symbolizes Lot's spiritual journey and efforts at higher consciousness, with his wife representing desires for worldly matters and his daughters representing two unsuccessful spiritual efforts. 2) After leaving the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which represented misused creative energy, Lot dwelt in a cave and surrendered fully to God. 3) There, his previous unsuccessful spiritual efforts were rewarded by God bearing fruit in the form of his daughters each giving birth, representing the completion of their own spiritual growth.

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    This passage provides a symbolic interpretation of the biblical story of Lot, his wife, and two daughters from Genesis 19. It suggests that: 1) The story symbolizes Lot's spiritual journey and efforts at higher consciousness, with his wife representing desires for worldly matters and his daughters representing two unsuccessful spiritual efforts. 2) After leaving the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which represented misused creative energy, Lot dwelt in a cave and surrendered fully to God. 3) There, his previous unsuccessful spiritual efforts were rewarded by God bearing fruit in the form of his daughters each giving birth, representing the completion of their own spiritual growth.

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    This passage provides a symbolic interpretation of the biblical story of Lot, his wife, and two daughters from Genesis 19. It suggests that: 1) The story symbolizes Lot's spiritual journey and efforts at higher consciousness, with his wife representing desires for worldly matters and his daughters representing two unsuccessful spiritual efforts. 2) After leaving the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which represented misused creative energy, Lot dwelt in a cave and surrendered fully to God. 3) There, his previous unsuccessful spiritual efforts were rewarded by God bearing fruit in the form of his daughters each giving birth, representing the completion of their own spiritual growth.

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    The Story of Lot, his wife and two daughters (GEN. 19тн Chapter)

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    This passage provides a symbolic interpretation of the biblical story of Lot, his wife, and two daughters from Genesis 19. It suggests that: 1) The story symbolizes Lot's spiritual journey and efforts at higher consciousness, with his wife representing desires for worldly matters and his daughters representing two unsuccessful spiritual efforts. 2) After leaving the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which represented misused creative energy, Lot dwelt in a cave and surrendered fully to God. 3) There, his previous unsuccessful spiritual efforts were rewarded by God bearing fruit in the form of his daughters each giving birth, representing the completion of their own spiritual growth.

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    The Story of Lot, his wife and two daughters (GEN.

    19тн Chapter)

    This symbolic story of Lot is the most touchy subject of all, due to the way the

    symbolism is expressed. And because of that, it has been a thorn in many minds.

    Why should it be in the Bible at all? Again, it is because of that unknown, hidden

    import in a gross symbolic form that made it survive. Like the 'Song of Solomon' and

    other similar exotic Oriental expressions of symbolism which were current in those

    days, probably the deeper, hidden meaning behind the personae was sensed and

    thus these narratives were allowed to remain in the text.

    The story of Brahma and his own daughter, variously named Vach or Saraswati, and

    mentioned in the Satapatha Brahmana, has a similar history and Inner

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    Mystic meaning. Brahma creates speech (Vach), then expresses himself through

    speech or Saraswati.

    In the Bible the story starts out with a righteous man called Lot, who lived in the

    wicked city of Sodom. Here also the original evil is portrayed as two cities or centers

    which misused the creative energy, and only the fire from above could purify them.

    Lot, in his simple devotion, lived untouched in those centers or cities. But when the

    two angels of the Lord entered, the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah, and

    Jehovah's intention to destroy the cities by fire, were made known to Lot.

    Lot was willing to surrender his two virgin daughters to the mob in order to save the

    two strangers who were the angels of God. His two daughters represent two

    unsuccessful spiritual efforts of long duration. But, in order to keep the Grace of the

    Spirit of Jehovah which had come into his house, he was willing to give up any

    claims of reward for his efforts. His devotion to Jehovah made his sacrifice easy. But

    the sacrifice was not needed (similar is the occasion in I Sam. 15:22 and in Gen. 22:

    1-12). The Spirit of Jehovah saved him by drawing him into the house and upward,

    into greater and higher Spiritual Realization. He and his wife and two daughters were

    ushered out of those two centers while these chakras of consciousness were being

    destroyed and purified by fire. His negative aspect of desire for a home in matter,

    symbolized by his wife, looked back and froze or crystallized into a pillar of salt, the

    essence of the Sea of Generation and earthiness.

    After Lot left the plains and the little city of Zoar, he dwelt in a cave in the mountains

    with his two daughters.

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    The mountains signify a higher state of consciousness, and the cave refers to a

    center of consciousness within. Here, his sacrifice and all his efforts in Spiritual

    Growth were rewarded by Jehovah. Having surrendered all to Jehovah, He made his

    progress bear fruit now. All the years of Lot's Spiritual Efforts are represented by his

    two daughters as unsuccessful spiritual endeavor. The wine which intoxicated him

    was this very devotion which he thought was unfruitful, and he had reconciled

    himself to the uselessness of his efforts at concentration and devotion. In all humility,

    he continued his efforts without being conscious of his inner success, and was lifted

    up in real absorption, like Noah. His seemingly unsuccessful efforts now bore fruit,

    symbolized by the birth of a son to each daughter. And each became a nation or a

    completion of growth of their own kind.

    Such is the symbolism of old, which is like a nut with a hard shell that breaks many a

    tooth.

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