In Exodus 35, Moses calls for experts among the Hebrews to come forth and build the Dwelling, the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant to hold the Ten Commandments, with a mercy seat or throne where invisible Yahweh would sit and receive His people.
Just think about that, that God will sit in a chair and receive human visitors. Wow, if our faith was strong enough, that God would reward us by sitting in a chair and indicate De’s willingness to receive us.
Here is what is written in The New American Bible: “The Artisans. Moses said to the Israelites, ‘See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and has filled him with a divine spirit of skill and understanding of every craft:”
My response: What fascinates me here is that this is the first and perhaps only Biblical account which I know of expressing how God provide a divine spirit of skill and understanding of every craft so that Bezalel, his artisan, could devise and construct finished products of unparalleled beauty, utility and an artistic highlighting of God presence, glory, and greatness.
Such an artistic, immensely skilled artisan would need to, of his own free will, agree to answer God’s calling to produce things of beauty as requested by God, and this artisan would be an individuators of high rank and ability.
Here is Biblical evidence that Yahweh, Individuator, Creator and Master Engineer, Artisan, Artist, and Craftsman, blesses and enters the heart, mind, and soul of the willing, participating individuator, the human willing to live, act, work and construct in God’s image and likeness. I find it exhilarating and inspiring.
If one wills to maverize and requests divine help and blessing from the Good Spirits to become a fellow indiviudator, then the creative spirit will flow through to incipient individuator as exemplified here in Exodus as Yahweh filled Bezalel with the divine spirit of skill and understanding.
New American Bible: “in the production of embroidery, in making things of gold, silver and bronze, in cutting and mounting special stones, in carving wood and every other craft.”
My response: It occurs to me too that Yahweh was not against human luxury, ornate products and works of beauty as vanity and materialism, but as a human, crafted display the glory of God and the cosmos, especially when crafted intentionally to glorify the Creator and De’s universe.
New American Bible: He has also given both him and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others. He has endowed them with skill to execute all types of work: engraving, embroidering, the making of variegated cloth of violet, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen thread, weaving, and all other arts and crafts.”
My response: God is most willing to assist us in growing as artists, thinkers, writers, poets, technicians, inventors, mechanics, and artisans of every description if we would but try on our own, while inviting the Good Spirits to enter us, inflame our imagination and creative juices, to stir in us the desire to create, build, construct.
Here are these same lines from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, in all manner of workmanship;”
My response: If the Divine Couple, Jesus or another good deity or the Good Spirits announce to the world, naming you specifically as anointed and selected, called to maverize in some singular, brilliant way, will you answer gladly the summons to duty, to bring beauty, cosmos and justice into the world, and will you allow the Good Spirits to enter you, filling you with their aura and energy, so all manners of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge of all manners of workmanship are made available to you?
Holy Bible: “And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work, And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
Them he hath filled with wisdom of the heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.”
My response: Invite God to fill your heart with the creative impulse, and the ability to actualize your potential and ambition.
Individuate and be proud of what you have wrought, but, not so proud as to fail to attribute to the good deities, your thanks and allegiance, that they are the source of your creative imagination, and you must create and make to glorify God, not compete with God, as humans foolishly did by building the tower of Babel.
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