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GENESIS 1:29
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Inner Meaning
Genesis 1:29 describes the moment when the Divine
Mind assigns food to the newly awakened human consciousness. In
DOASAM’s symbolic grammar, “food” never refers to physical
nourishment. It signifies the subtle impressions, ideas, and
energetic qualities that sustain the inner being.
This verse marks the transition from the formation of the inner
cosmos to the education of the soul. The Higher Self now reveals
what the lower nature is permitted to “eat”—that is, what it may
take into itself as formative substance.
The verse therefore depicts the regulation of consciousness: the
Higher grants the Lower access only to those impressions that
promote growth, clarity, and ascent.
Symbolic Breakdown
“Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed…”
- Herb symbolizes thought-forms arising in the
mental plane.
- Seed represents the germ of potential, the
archetypal idea within each thought.
- The Higher Self grants the lower mind access to thoughts that
contain seeds of evolution—ideas capable of reproducing higher
states within the soul.
“…which is upon the face of all the earth…”
- Earth is the lower quaternary: body, emotions,
lower mind, and vitality.
- The “face of the earth” is the surface
consciousness, the waking personality.
- The verse indicates that the lower nature is surrounded by
countless impressions, but only those containing “seed”—archetypal
potency—are fit for consumption.
“…and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed…”
- Tree symbolizes the axis of
consciousness, the vertical link between planes.
- Fruit is the manifest result of a process of
inner growth.
- A “tree yielding seed” is any higher faculty
whose expressions carry spiritual potency.
- The Higher Self grants access to the fruits of higher
faculties—intuition, discrimination, aspiration—because they
reproduce themselves within the soul.
“…to you it shall be for meat.”
- Meat (food) is that which the soul assimilates.
- The verse declares that the human being is to be nourished only by
impressions that carry spiritual seed.
- Lower, unseeded impressions—sensuality, fear, vanity, reactive
emotion—are not food; they cannot sustain the inner life.
Esoteric Interpretation
Genesis 1:29 marks the moment when the Divine
establishes the law of inner diet. Just as the physical body thrives
only on certain substances, the soul thrives only on impressions
that contain seed, meaning:
- archetypal truth
- higher meaning
- spiritual potential
- evolutionary force
The Higher Self instructs the lower:
“Feed only on what can reproduce the divine within you.”
This is the law of selective assimilation.
The soul becomes what it consumes.
The verse therefore teaches:
- Guard the gates of perception.
- Do not ingest impressions that degrade consciousness.
- Seek only those that carry the seed of the higher.
- Let every thought, emotion, and perception be evaluated by its
capacity to reproduce spiritual life.
This is the beginning of spiritual nutrition—the discipline of
feeding the soul only what elevates it.
Comparative Religion & Psychology Perspective
Carl Jung
Jung would describe this as the psyche learning to differentiate
between nourishing archetypal material and the “junk food” of the
unconscious—shadow projections, compulsions, and unintegrated
complexes.
Judaism
Rabbinic tradition often interprets this verse as the original
Edenic diet—pure, peaceful, and nonviolent. DOASAM reframes this as
the soul’s original state: nourished only by pure impressions before
the fall into reactive consciousness.
Christianity
Early Christian mystics saw “seed-bearing plants” as symbols of
virtues that reproduce themselves. The verse becomes an instruction
to cultivate inner fruits of the Spirit.
Hinduism
The verse parallels the sattvic diet of the mind: impressions that
are pure, luminous, and conducive to clarity. “Seed” corresponds to
bija, the subtle essence that generates spiritual growth.
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