Back in the spring Jordan Peterson announced (around the time he joined Daily Wire) that he was getting together some of the smartest people he knows to go into deep discussion about Exodus in preparation for a new series of Biblical lectures, as a followup to his amazing series on Genesis. Apparently the Exodus Seminar has happened, and as far as I'm aware this is the first video to be offered in relation to it, aside from some mentions here and there in some of Peterson's videos.*
Excellent and crystal clear breakdown by Jonathan Pageau, explaining that Israel represents the Kingdom of God, or a proper relationship to it on the part of man anyway, and Egypt represents the Kingdom of Man, the 'worldly world'—the world of materialism and physical manifesation. Pharoah represents tyranny, and slavery represents a slavery of the soul, bondage to the material principles of wealth and power. When the Pharoah decreed the sacrifice of all the males born into Egypt (heralding the coming of Moses), it was a destruction of the masculine principle, an overall feminizing in hopes that if they de-masculinize the Hebrews nobody will be strong eough to kill the Pharoah and ascend to his throne. It's all very psychological. Water is a very feminine element, fluid and graceful and life-sustaining, but capable of becoming destructive in extremity, and the Nile sheltered little baby Moses, as did several women. His mother cast him into the Nile and he was discovered by a group of mostly women, with male servants who did the bidding of the feminine (if I remember right). Moses was like a little Noah in his Ark, riding the water to survive the massacre of all other Hebrew males of his generation.
Moses apparently represents the individual with the power to assert his will and the wisdom to do so properly and to judge wrong actions harshly and act against them.
As I've been discovering and saying throughout the religion-oriented parts of this blog, religion has always been psychology, and it refers to the inner world of the heart, mind and soul or however you want to describe it. It does so in powerful symbolic language. The mistake of todays materialists and fundamentalists is that they refuse to see it symbolically and insist on taking it all very literally.
I'm very much looking forward to more videos like this from Pageau and Peterson's other religious-minded friends, and then to Peterson's own lectures when they happen (apparently beginning in June). This is a truly historic happening to those who want to understand what religions are really all about, and are open-minded enough to break out of today's materialist or fundamentalist programming.
* My bad. How did I forget? Peterson did a video not long ago with Pageau's brother Matthieu about his book The Language of Creation. In fact my last blog entry was about that.
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