The KJV Holy Bible

 

Deuteronomy Chapter Fourteen

 

1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

14 And every raven after his kind,

15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

27 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Deuteronomy Chapter Fourteen: The Psychological Diet and the Energetic Filter 

"Chapter Fourteen outlines the strict Alchemical laws governing the Internal consumption of External Energy. For the Awakened Mind, which operates on the Absolute Principles of physical non-violence and Purity, these dietary mandates are Entirely Psychological. They dictate the exact types of Thought-Forms, Emotional currents, and Spiritual inputs the Conscious Mind is permitted to absorb into its architecture, ensuring the vessel is never contaminated by dense, parasitic frequencies."

 

 

Verses 1-2: The Children of the Logos and the Prohibition of Self-Mutilation - "Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. For thou art an holy people..." 

The Conscious Mind is Recognized as the Direct Offspring of the Superconscious Source. Because the physical vessel is a Sacred, Living Temple of the Christos Frequency, the Sovereign Will strictly forbids self-mutilation or destructive physical mourning. To "cut" oneself for the dead is to violently damage the Internal architecture in grief over a dissolved ego-state or a severed worldly attachment. Making "baldness between the eyes" signifies deliberately blinding the Third Eye—the seat of Spiritual Intuition—by indulging in the heavy, chaotic grief of the lower Astral plane.

 

 

Verses 3-21a: The Assimilation of Thought-Forms and Energetic Boundaries - "Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. These are the beasts which ye shall eat... every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud..." 

The ingestion of "clean" and "unclean" animals is the Supreme Hermetic allegory for processing Mental and Emotional Energy. A Pure Thought-Form (the clean beast) must possess two distinct qualities: it must "part the hoof" (representing a grounded, perfectly balanced earthly walk, capable of distinguishing right from left) and it must "chew the cud" (representing the Alchemical process of Deep Internal Reflection, where an idea is brought back up, meditated upon, and fully digested by the Higher Mind). Conversely, the "unclean" beasts, such as the swine, represent base, materialistic impulses. The Orthodox Intellect often produces Thoughts that are outwardly grounded (part the hoof) but entirely lack Deep Spiritual Reflection (do not chew the cud). Absorbing these instantly gratifying, unrefined energies poisons the Psychic Vessel. Similarly, the Mind must only absorb Emotional currents (water creatures) that possess "fins and scales"—meaning the Emotion must have a Directed, Conscious Will (fins) and a Protective Energetic Boundary (scales) to prevent it from overwhelming the Microcosm.

 

 

Verse 21b: The Mother's Milk and the Prohibition of Regression - "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." 

This brief but Profound Hermetic Law warns against a catastrophic Alchemical inversion. To boil a young goat in its mother's milk is to Violently Force a Newly Born Spiritual manifestation (the kid) back into the dense, foundational matrix (the milk) from which it emerged. It is the destruction of Spiritual Progression, warning the Awakened Mind never to suffocate a new, Elevated State of Consciousness with the outdated, nostalgic Emotional comforts of its past.

 

 

Verses 22-29: The Internal Tithe and Sustaining the Priesthood - "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year..." 

To maintain Perfect Internal circulation, a tenth of all generated Spiritual and Intellectual Vitality must be Consciously Directed back to the Central Altar of the Superconscious. This surplus Energy sustains the "Levite" (the Highest, Ungrounded Spiritual Faculties that hold the Connection to the Divine Light) and nourishes the "stranger, the fatherless, and the widow" (the fragmented, developing, or vulnerable aspects of the Psyche), Ensuring Total Internal Cohesion and Abundance.