The Inner Ark of Exodus

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 2:3-4 is not a history of a child, but a revelation of consciousness. The ark of bulrushes is the vessel formed in imagination; slime and pitch are the mental substances of belief and feeling by which we bind our image to the law. The mother places the infant on the river's edge, a symbol of setting the seed upon the stream of life, trusting that the current will carry it to its rightful shore. The sister’s distant watch is your awareness observing the birth of a new state, not its fear. When I interpret this, I see Providence as the law of consciousness delivering through quiet secrecy: I hide the awareness of lack inside a vessel of acceptance, and the current of life does the work. Your task is to assume the end, to feel the reality of safety as already done, and to release it. The ark does not fight the river; it travels with it until it reaches the intended bank. Practice this as your daily revision: see the seed of your desired state set in motion and trusted to the invisible strong current of your being.