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PROVERBS 3:5
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean
not unto thine own understanding."
In biblical symbolism, this verse describes the movement of
consciousness from the lower mind to the higher centre, from the
personality’s reasoning to the causal‑body’s intuitive knowing.
“Trust in the Lord…”
“The Lord” is the indwelling Spirit, the atma‑buddhi within the
causal‑body — the true centre of guidance, the source of
Reality‑Truth.
To “trust” is to turn the qualities upward, allowing the higher Self
to direct the evolution of the soul.
This trust is not emotional dependence but alignment: the qualities
resting in the Life above them.
“…with all thine heart”
The “heart” is our causal‑body, the seat of the higher affections
and the love‑principle.
To trust “with all the heart” means:
- to centre consciousness in the higher nature
- to let the love‑principle draw the qualities toward unity
- to allow intuition to supersede the divided notions of the lower
mind
It is the soul’s act of placing its whole being in the higher Self.
“Lean not unto thine own understanding”
“Understanding” here is the lower mental nature, the reasoning
faculty bound to physical, duality, and the pairs of opposites.
It is indispensable on its own plane, but it cannot perceive the
real.
To “lean” on it is to remain confined to the conditioned.
The verse teaches the recurring principle that the lower cannot
guide the higher, that the personality cannot lead the soul into
spiritual consciousness.
The Esoteric Message.....
The soul must rise from the separate knowledge of the lower carnal
mind to the intuitive unity of the higher Christ Self. Only by
trusting the Spirit within does the personality transcend its
limitations and enter the Life of Reality (Kingdom of God).
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