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JEREMIAH 29:11

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."

In biblical symbolism, this verse is not a promise to an external nation but a revelation of the Higher Self speaking to the soul’s inner qualities during their exile in the lower nature.

The “Lord” is the Atman, the Divine Center.
The “you” is the soul in its divided, struggling condition, wandering in the Babylon of its own desires and confusions.

The verse expresses the unchanging intention of the Higher toward the lower: to lead every quality through discipline, conflict, and purification toward its destined realization.

“I know the thoughts that I think toward you”

The Higher Self holds the true pattern of the soul — the Archetypal Man — even when the lower nature has lost sight of it.

These “thoughts” are:
- the divine blueprint of the soul
- the spiritual intention behind every experience
- the inner guidance that persists even when obscured

The lower nature cannot perceive this pattern while in exile, but the Higher never ceases to contemplate it.

“Thoughts of peace, and not of evil”

“Peace” here is not emotional comfort but the stillness of the higher planes, the harmony of buddhi‑manas.

“Evil” is not moral wickedness but the disorder of the unpurified qualities, the turbulence of kama‑manas.

The Higher Self intends:
- not the perpetuation of conflict
- but the purification that leads to inner rest
- the restoration of the soul to its own divine order

Even the painful experiences of exile serve this purpose.

“To give you an expected end”

The “expected end” is the completion of the soul’s cycle:
- the return from exile
- the reintegration of scattered qualities
- the realization of the Archetypal Man
- the ascent into conscious union with the Higher

It is the soul’s predestined fulfillment, not imposed from without but arising from its own divine origin.

This “end” is the same consummation symbolized in:
- the return from Babylon
- the resurrection of the Christ within
- the gathering of the scattered sheep
- the re‑membering of the dismembered Self

The Esoteric Message.....
Jeremiah 29:11 reveals the Higher Self assuring the soul that every stage of exile, conflict, and purification is held within a divine intention aimed at its ultimate restoration. The “expected end” is the soul’s return to its own spiritual nature, the fulfillment of the Archetypal Man within.

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