When Moses met Jesus in the Flocks of Jethro and wrestled Esau to become Israel

I understood some time ago that Moses was a student of increase. His "teacher's" name was 'Jethro', which means the nature to jut over, excess, to excel. 'Moses' itself means a son born, a person who has spiritual consciousness and a conscience. He was drawn by God from the "bulrushes", the masses of people standing in the waters of consciousness but asleep and not moving anywhere, to people who, like him, had "crossed over" to spiritual awareness.

His "mother" was his desire for deeper spiritual understanding in the Deserts of Amenta (see Gerald Massey, a lot of contention, but well worth wading through). He knocked, the door was opened. Moses started to wake up, and was able to "water" -- share spiritual insights with -- the flock of Jethro. What made him Moses was having the deep well of spiritual truths to draw from.

I mentioned in an earlier post that the word "flocks" can represent teachings -- ideas which follow one another just like sheep. But God's flocks are people. It strikes me that "the flocks of Jethro" could be a congregation of ancient Christians who believed in the principle of increase flowing from the "hand" of YHWH -- that is, in Jesus. This belief is that humans are God-the-second-hand (symbolized by the second H or hey) of YHWH which receives increase from God-the-first-hand (H or hey) of YHWH. The first hand of God gives, the second hand of God receives. There is only one God involved, of course, but there is a dynamic flow of lovingkindness and benevolence within Its nature, and we are part of the flow.

"For he is our God; and we the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand" (Psalm 95:7).

It could be that Moses' involvement with a congregation of believers of this nature spurred him on deeper to the burning bush episode. He had certainly figured out that he was Jacob contending against Esau -- a budding but immature spiritual man trapped within the overwhelming fleshly man, for Moses and the other believers of abundance were "in Midian" -- which has to do with contention. It is a war to believe spiritual things in face of the "facts" to the contrary which overflow the world we are in (hence the story of Noah). But Moses did prevail Noahicly and, wrestling, . . . God won and Moses became Israel.

"I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands" (Genesis 32:10).

It is a biography, the autobiographical story of one man's spiritual journey and probably a composite of elements from the experiences of the congregation. Because it is the biography of a fellow human being, it holds hope for us, for Moses is an everyman. The stories are something to believe; not as a carnal, secular history of literal names, places and events, but as illustrations of the evolution of a soul toward realization that the second hand of God is as much God as the first. THAT is something to believe. Having no buffering intermediary between himself and God (he took the shoes off his "feet" deep in his core to experience God-in-himself directly), Moses realized, "I become what I create," that is, we are also the first hand.