Numbers - Cycle One - 0101-0420 - BeMidbar

In BeMidbar, the first portion of Numbers, we have a human tally, the organization/hierarchy of tribes, the setting up of camp as well as the guarding of the tabernacle and of its objects. Flashing back to Exodus, God tells us how to create the tabernacle. During Leviticus we get used to the idea of it. Now, in Numbers, God says how to protect and expand it. There’s more. Humans aside (I know it’s hard), what we have is a blue-print of the web of light that protects and encases the divine, a code of consciousness.

First, we are given a date in time. God is speaking on the first day of the second month of the second year of the Exodus.

Next, God says there must be a census of men, the organization of tribes. We get an abundance of names and numbers, the tally. It feels like a Russian novel. Why take up space in Torah? True, if the goal of Torah is divine consciousness (and it is) we’re not going to get there by shouting hey you.

But let’s take this further. In using time, names and numbers we are giving man casings on top of casings. Now, take them away. What we have is a man (or a group of men) with pieces and parts shaped by these casings as if by molds. He is still in his skin but these pieces are more defined, their kinetic energy greater, his ability to connect strengthened. In short, names, numbers and a date are revealed in this portion not for practical reasons (these things change) but to show their importance on the blue print.

Once the tally is finished, God says that the Levites should be separate, exchanged with the first born of the Israelites, placed closest to the tabernacle to safeguard its trust. They are to prevent any divine anger directed against the Israelites. This is where we learn that energy can, will and does rush from the tabernacle to the sphere around it that this energy can both heal and hurt.

This exchange concerning the Levites is important. One family, instead of many, is chosen to protect the tabernacle. On a practical level, this could prevent tribal conflict. On every level, we see an easy interchange of vibrations of light, that they are, in fact, interwoven. Nothing is cut and dry, separated, distinct. The more we can weave exchanges and/or vibrations, the closer we are to truth and vision.

To continue, we now get the placement of tribes and tents. When moving or marching, they are to stay in formation. We get a picture from above, one that includes north south east and west, where we are on this earth, in this universe. It’s another casing. Directions are meaningless without latitude and longitude, a reliable map. We don’t know where they are, just that it’s important.

The more we read the more we see the hierarchy not only of men, but of containers of light, many dimensional, and, on a grander scale, encasing the tabernacle at the center. We have circles within circles, spheres within spheres, all of them equally important. As they strengthen, the pressure mounts on the tabernacle or on divine consciousness. It’s a pressure best released slowly. Our movement, our wanderings, can help with this slowness. But not always.

This is how Nabov and Abihu got zapped. They were there when the kinetic energy could no longer be restrained. They got caught in a tornado of flying shards.

Enter the Levites. They can hopefully prevent a similar loss. They are to wrap sacred objects (from the tabernacle) in blue cloth. If anyone else touches them he will die. There’s great detail in the assigning of these tasks. This is because we each have this blue print, these bits and pieces, these sacred objects within us, under the casing, under the molds. The blue cloth, like the blue print, is there to protect us from ourselves.

In BeMidbar, the print can be seen as nomadic necessity, a militaristic defense, as computer communications and/or as an intricate web that encases divine consciousness. All visions are correct. They express shards of light in expansion, in contraction, pushing, morphing, recreating themselves. May we always know that we are there for the release, that we can strengthen our casing enough to strengthen our God, that consciousness can be drawn to us like a magnet if we work on all levels, that attention to detail protects us, and that we are one. Let us begin to study the blueprint.