Exodus 3:(After Moses was called by God to do His Plan and liberated his people (with sincere heart) from the hands of the Egyptians (representing the power of the flesh), the story continue:
Then Moses said to God (at Horeb, the Mountain of God), "If I come to the people of Israel (in spirit) and say to them , 'The God of your fathers, has sent me to you,' and they ask me, "WHAT IS HIS NAME?' what shall I say to them?"(meaning that they were overwhelmed by many spirits that behaved as if they were the ones with power).
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"(The Creator). And He said, "Say this to the people of Israel (in spirit); 'The Lord, the God of your fathers (in a spiritual sense the ones responsible for their beings),
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you' : THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, and thus I AM TO BE REMEMBERED THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS."
"Go and gather the elders of Israel together (to unify His power), and say to them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying: I HAVE OBSERVED YOU (in your hearts) and what has been done to you (in spirit) in Egypt (Flesh power); and I PROMISE that I WILL BRING YOU UP out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land (good and broad) of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."Exodus 3: 13-17.
Given that Milk is as staple food for humans from the time of its childhood to its dead it is used in the Scriptures in the physical and spiritual senses. The main food source for milk is the cow.
Since ancient times it is associated with many stories of the Creation. It is a symbol of divinity and an emblem of growing in abundance and wealth, also during times of famine, milk is far more useful as a limitless resource than a dead beast that would provide meat for a limited period only. It made far more sense to keep cows alive for its milk rather that slaughter and eat it purely for its meat. So all parts of the cow were sacred and were ruled by specific gods and goddesses. Milk was the absolute nectar of life from which god and goddesses were maintained alive in a physical and spiritual way.
According to ancient beliefs, Milk was a symbolic way to understand the process of creation of the cosmic sea. The cosmic sea, symbolizing a sea of Milk, was churned. The curds were stirred and formed the Earth, the Universe, and the Stars. Three different levels in the cosmographic view.
To the Egyptians, Milk was a life product obtained from their goddess, Aher, considered to be the universal fertility power that formed the Sun itself, in their beliefs, everything existed because of her.
To make themselves a land for her in order to obtain power in the Earth, Egyptians women wore amulets of the goddess Hathor, with the head of a cow, in her guise as the creator of all the power abounded in the universe and manifested in the flesh.
The cow was considered a creature able to conduct the souls of the dead to the Underworld. The voyage included a journey through the Milky Way, the constellations of stars said to be the Milk splashed by the great goddess in the personification of a cow. She was considered a Mother, and the one in command of all the souls that freely accepted her and follow her as the only one in control of their souls.
There was a custom in which a cow was brought in a symbolic way to the room where a sick person was waiting for its final breath. The dying person was encouraged to grasp the tail of the cow as he breaded his last bread giving it back to the power that controlled him during the time when he was a spirit, and then during the time of his journey in the earth.
The cow was so revered and treated so gently with a great respect symbolizing the tenet of their faith. In our time, this power continue alive, attracting more and more souls to it, and making them slaves to it, forgetting the real purpose of our journey in this world, that is our spiritual place in the Land flowing with Milk and Honey.
Honey is a natural preservative and it is used in the spiritual world as a symbolic way of preserving our beliefs. As food for the human body it proved to have long lasting time of preservation that even the honey jars found in the tombs of the Egyptian Kings from several thousand years ago are perfectly edible even now.
Honey also is used as symbol of immortality and used in funerary rites.
The sweetness of honey is believed to confer gifts of spiritual learning nature. As well as being edible and fermentable, honey has healing and antiseptic qualities for the body and for the soul. A dollop of honey smeared onto a wound will soon draw out any impurities and speed the healing process.
Honey also is a symbol of life, because of the flowers from which it is made came from the process of pollination (place pollen on the stigma at a specific time and place to make it conceive). Also the color of honey is the color of the sun that give the physical life to the plants
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