By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com Watching ole Charlton Heston (damn, he’s good) play Moses in that movie, “The Ten Commandments.” A movie I’ve seen so many times since I was a kid. I’ve always liked it, only now it’s a blessing that I no longer feel even a hint of fear in watching it, unlike when I was a bible-pounding kid. I see it so differently now…
That line jumped out at me that the Pharaoh spoke. He was angry that “the slave’s god” was clearly kicking their god’s ass, lol ;) And to his priests or whatever, he angrily said something like, “You created the gods — to play upon the fear of the people.” Indeed, all “gods” are fabricated for this reason. That’s probably the best and most telling line of the movie.
Sitting here watching this, good-gawd, no wonder most people are so horrified of “God.” Another line that got me, Moses telling his former love that he couldn’t save her child (firstborn of the Pharaoh) because he was “nothing without God.” Again, no wonder with such things spoken in this type of movie — watching it over and over, year after year (more people watching it than reading the bible) — no wonder we are so self-loathing. No wonder our world looks the way it does, no wonder we endeavor to destroy it, ourselves. We believe we are nothing. So sad.
It’s all so misconstrued, twisted around into BS — “to play upon the fear of the people.” No, Moses is nothing without “God,” because Moses IS “God.” We all are, this is what Moses meant. This body is a shell, nothing — it is the “spirit” within that is real, is “God.” And it is us who have personified this thing called ”God” into a fiery-eyed one, separate from us — who supposedly loves us one minute, but is highly wrathed up about us the next.
The scene that really gets me in the gut is where they are eating the herbs and bread. Sitting there hearing (trying to ignore) the unnerving cries from a distance of the mothers and fathers watching their children die. One man in the house with Moses’ is singing! Yee-haw, rejoice — God’s green stuff is killing children! Good-gawd. And then the woman (mother of the Pharaoh, former mother of Moses) is pained by the cries and says, “They’re my people.” Another of Moses’ people leans over to her and says sweetly, “We’re all God’s people.” Uh. It’s okay, hon, God knows what he’s doing in killing those children. Geez.
When ya’ know it’s all symbolic, this movie is so much easier to watch — yet, at the same time, unnerving in the realization that so many of us believe this represents literal truth. Moses says that he cannot save the Pharaoh’s firstborn, that the Pharaoh brought it upon himself with HIS OWN WORDS. Not God’s words, but the Pharaoh’s own words. Meaning, we create our own reality. The Pharaoh wished this upon others, and since we are all God, he wished it upon himself… (”karma”)
All the children supposedly being killed by the green death-smoke — it wasn’t about death, it was about transformation. Again, symbolic. Interestingly, green is the color of the heart chakra, it’s about healing, it’s about love. We “die” to (become free of) our old selves when we heal our hearts, and we become something new (transformation, aka, “death”).
And the absurdity of this Pharaoh not letting the people go after Moses shows him some heady stuff from our “God” :) I mean, geez, he changed the water to frickin’ blood, even the container of water that the Pharaoh held. No water for seven days, then the three days of darkness, and that cool fiery hail ;) How stupid could the Pharaoh be to not give Moses whatever the hell he wanted, lol Not reality — it is all symbolic messages. The Pharaoh represents our fear, and how our fear has an irrational death-grip on us (”let my people go.”) And we allow our fear to have this hold on us — represented by Moses leaving each time.
It’s ALL about us, collectively, and individually. We are very much NOT “nothing,” we are God :) We are both Moses and the Pharaoh — it is fear, and only fear, that enslaves us. We need only to “worship” (love) and believe in the “God” that is within us, that is us. We need only to face the ”Pharaoh” (fear) within us and set ourselves free from it. Only then will we truly “know God” (love and trust our own hearts) and get to “heaven” (peace, and creating the blissful lives we desire).
*Yawn* It’s time to wake up, to snap out of the brainwashing, the fear, that has kept us as slaves. ”Fear not.” “There is NOTHING to fear, but fear itself.” (Pharaoh = Fear, Moses = Love, Freedom)
“Let my people go.”
Peace,
Dove
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March 23, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Interesting take on this movie. I’ve never actually seen it all the way through, or if I did it was long enough ago in my childhood that I don’t remember. I like your analogy of Pharoh=fear; Moses=love. That works. But then the most powerful messages are usually simple like that. :)
March 24, 2008 at 2:35 am
Yep they are, JS. I like what Einstein said — “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” :)
And this is a pretty good quote of his as well…
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“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.” (Albert Einstein, 1954)