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Originally Posted by hcap
The story of Amalek is of an inner struggle. In fact battles and war appear in many religious texts from the Bhagavad Gita to genesis as a metaphor for inner grwth and the spiritual pitifuls
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Exodus preceding Amalek is also a metaphor as well. There is NO archeological evidence that it happened as recorded in the bible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Archaeology
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A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape and travels through the wilderness
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Once again the story was constructed by Jewish sages and patriarchs to provide a metaphorical insight into the struggle within oneself, with the lower aspects of our human nature
https://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/exodu...ionship-to-god
The interpretation of the Bible and its stories is a time-honored tradition in Judaism, one that dates back over two millennia. Since the fall of the second temple in 70 C.E., such interpretation has gone by the name of
midrash.
An inner psychological understanding is what counts. Not the foolish literal mis-interpretation ascribing god, moses and Pharaoh human attributes like children do when pretending and watching Saturday morning cartoonish lauhgable melodramas
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THE MIDRASH....
... It broadens our understanding of Judaism by linking it with the mystical quest at the heart of all the worlds’ great religious traditions, both Eastern and Western. It simultaneously deepens our relationship to Judaism by making Exodus personally relevant. As the Passover Haggadah makes abundantly clear, the story of Moses and Pharaoh applies to all of us, now, in the present tense. We’re enjoined to celebrate as if God had led us personally from bondage in Egypt. This is not mere metaphor, nor is it hyperbole. Viewed through the lens of this incisive new midrash, Exodus leaps into blazing color as a model for the spiritual journey itself—a roadmap for our own passage out of bondage and into freedom.
...We start with the understanding that Exodus is far more than just a simple story about winning freedom. It is an allegorical portrait of the human mind. Its two central characters—Pharaoh and Moses—are not just historical figures, not just characters in a biblical drama. They are archetypes that portray opposing aspects of the human mind in its relationship to Spirit.
Pharaoh represents the part of the mind that sees itself as separate from God and Spirit: the limited ego-mind. Moses represents the part of the mind that is and has always been in full, direct connection with God and Spirit—what I call the Moses-mind. Both are present within us. The plagues brought on by Pharaoh’s stubborn resistance to freeing the Hebrews are our plagues. They afflict us whenever we bow to the Pharaoh-like ego—when we identify with it and accept its goals as our own. Likewise, the miracles performed by Moses are our miracles. They arrive the moment we make the decision, consciously or unconsciously, to be free from ego and follow instead the guidance of Spirit that comes to us through the Moses-mind.
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