This document is an in-depth analysis of Genesis Chapter 15 from the Bible, focusing on its spiritual and metaphysical interpretations. It explores the covenant between God and Abram, Abram’s covenant, visions, and the symbolic meanings of the sacrifices. The material delves into themes such as faith, divine promise, and spiritual awakening, emphasizing the deeper spiritual lessons of this chapter.

Reading 10-140 

Prayer – Channel 

Beloved, merciful Father, we seek Thy love, Thy guidance for ourselves, but also for others. We come before You trusting not in ourselves but in Thy divine love and mercy. And always in our hearts we keep this, Your law, “Others first, Father, others first.” 

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The essence of love is mercy. If you, then, would be as that which is the emerging thought of God, be then the essence. For love and mercy are bedfellows of that which is compassion, and all are in that which is the seeking and the finding. Seek not great bursts of knowledge, truth, and success. For know, that which would be the cement that holds your building, your temple, yourselves together is achieved through that which is the slow, steady progress in overcoming yourselves and finding that which is the light and the truth. Therefore, be merciful, be loving, be kind, and be patient. 

Q What was the change in Abram’s life that eventually gave him – that he earned the name of Abraham? 

S When the decision that had been made in the mind became dominant in the personality. For you have – you have the development of personalities in this which is the Scripture, or the Scriptures, where you have Abraham the personality that develops into the spiritual being; whereas, you will see in the text to come, there are those personalities that represent spiritually trying individuals that go wrong. Specifically, we will give at those times the reasons and the names as benefits the readings the most.

Genesis 15:1 

After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” 

S The intelligence, the knowledge, mercy, wisdom of God, was the shield given to Abraham and as Abraham became Abram thence God protected the path he was to follow, he had chosen to follow, and would be. For he became a path, you see, for others to follow – not christed, but well on his way. Because the individual was as an individual human, not having the power, the fortitude, even though the entity showed as much as possible in that life, to overcome the humanness, the entity was the intellect, was the wisdom of that time. Therefore, God, in His protection, knew the success of Abraham in his trying, was the shield, the buckler, of God’s might. 

Genesis 15:2-3 

And Abram said, “Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.” 

S Eliezer here represents the faithful friend that could be counted upon, the good friend that could be counted upon but a human friend, not uplifted though understanding the principles of the spiritual and the spiritual qualities, could not become bearer of the seed or the carrier of the seed because there was no spiritual line through him, but that line must go through Abram. The dilemma of Abram was this: Abram had the knowledge and knew the importance of his passing on that line, that light, and still being human, still having the frailty of the human mind, the doubting of himself – not of God, but of himself – called upon God, setting the example for you and all others to call upon God. Put thy life in God’s hands. 

Genesis 15:4-6 

And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, “This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.” And he brought him forth abroad, and said, “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:” and he said unto him, “So shall thy seed be.” And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 

S Here is faith in action. Here is the promise of God, the promise that you all must bear in mind, in the heart, that you are the seed, that you are the stars, that you are a greater number than the stars, that they only represent the light broken, whereas now you, through the power of the Christ, become the unbroken line, the unbroken light and therefore can go forth and do those things even as Abram and even as Peter and even as the Christ or Jesus as you see Him to be. You have the promise. You have the opportunity. You have here God’s fulfillment for Abram. 

Genesis 15:7-9 

And he said unto him, “I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.” And he said, }Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?” And he said unto him, “Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

S God has told Abram that Abram’s soul and intellect was conceived and developed, not here on this earth but in a place of light and power (even as we have given before in this reading) where he has been given the faith, has been given that which is the intellect, the spiritual qualities that he must exude within this earth. Then He has given to Abram to bring forth from himself those thoughts that are plebeian, pedestrian, those thoughts that are as the animal thoughts or the lower thoughts as given as the beasts, and then those thoughts which soar, those thoughts which are the imagination unbridled (here represented as birds or the fowls). 

Genesis 15:10-11 

And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 

S Simply put, Abraham put before him, or before God, all those feelings, emotions, impulses, that were of this earth, all of those thoughts, all of those dreams – put them as sacrifice before God to be replaced by the spiritual. And when the outside forces, thoughts, or criticisms came toward him, like as given here, fowl of the air or you might say vultures or buzzards, drove them off through prayer, through meditation as he was given to understand meditation and prayer to be at that time. 

Q Who did the heifer symbolize? 

S These are the lower reproductive feelings and tendencies within the human animal, often represented by the bull, too. 

Q And the she goat? 

S The she goat is that which leads self through the maze or the life within the human environ or the human feeling with its sure-footed ways. The goat represents, then, the fast-moving ability of mankind to adjust to the human side or the physical elements within this earth.

Q And the ram? 

S The ram is that which is the power or force or even, in this case, the warlike beast or feeling, not used properly. It is also that which is the leadership quality, though that must be in a sense alleviated or channeled correctly by sacrificing the personal feeling for power, authority, what have you, before God and allowing God then to become the controller or the controlling force that would become the leadership quality. 

Q When God is speaking to Abram is He speaking to him in a vision or in what manner? 

S In these chapters or in this chapter especially or in the chapters to come, you will see God speaking in every conceivable way to mankind. First, He was speaking directly here to Abram as we speak directly to you now. But you will see even later in this chapter that the direction does change for Abram. 

Q And what was the significance of the three years of age of the heifer, the she goat, and the ram? 

S This is representing, then, the physical, the mental, and the spiritual sides of all things; that here must be development of sorts to sacrifice or to come to the point of sacrifice because if you have developed only partially in any way you have not fully developed to sacrifice and give, then, not that which is a full sacrifice or a sacrifice that will have any meaning. 

Q And the turtledove and pigeon represented thoughts I think you said. Was there a difference between the turtledove and the pigeon? 

S The turtledove is that which is more the domestic or found wandering almost aimlessly, living off of that which comes its way, really unconcerned, showing little intelligence and the wandering and flightiness of a localized bird, whereas that which is the pigeon is that which soars. And fowls also has reference here to those homing thoughts that go forth and return to self from far and abroad. 

Genesis 15:12-14 

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, “Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their’s, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.”

S Here is a second way God has announced Himself or presented Himself (or the Word as the Word was at that time to Abram) through that which is the dream, giving strength and credence to dreams and their importance in later times. Here God is merely giving to Abram that which Abram and all others must understand – patience. For it is a long, long haul for those of this plane to partake, develop and understand where and whence you go, who you are, what you are, and the limitations that are set upon you within the carnal life or life at this plane. Yes, it is true, there are those who someday, or at some time, overcome in that split instant, seemingly to jump past all the rest of you. But remember this: what things seem to be are not always so as they are seen from the spiritual side. For selves will make progress at times that seem like the speed of light as compared to the turtle speed that you have assumed at this time. 

Genesis 15:15-16 

“And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.” 

S This is an illusion or alluding to that which is reincarnation, not only of the physical personalities or the souls within this life, but with the thought patterns both positive and negative that occur in this earth and they are there for the fact that without both there cannot be that which is advancement. For there must be opportunity to overcome. If the negative did not come in there would be no overcoming, no success, nothing. 

Genesis 15:17-21 

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” 

S An awakening through that which is the search within as symbolized by the light and the furnace which are the spiritual symbols, and the voice of God directing self to face those lower elements as seen through the words or the names of tribes merely representing those forces to be overcome within each individual rather than on the outside, using that which people of that time, or even of this time, can recognize as influences or importance to that which are the physical and the physical-mental being, then used for terms within self (more towards that which is the mental-spiritual being) as elements to be overcome, to be faced, to conquer.