Covenants

Making more than just a promise

A few weeks ago I learned what "covenant" really meant, and let it sink in. It is pretty intense. Let me explain.

In ancient times, it appears, "covenants" were made among people which were stronger than "promises" or "vows" or "contracts" or deep "pacts". How could you trust another group and their leader to keep their agreement?

I forget where I read this, or if I just visualized this, but covenants like in the land of which is today Israel, were done with animal sacrifices. The animal, just killed, would be *cut* and *burned* (or as you might call it, simply "cooked" into a meal). They would share this with the person they were making the covenant with.

But think about it, mutilating flesh, and burning flesh. The people making the covenant was basically declaring in their soul, and to the other person, that if they break their covenant, that *they will be like the animal, with their body sliced, bled, and cooked, slowly, in pain and agony*. This would be their punishment essentially, in mind, body, and spirit. Imagining that in great detail, you NEVER EVER want that to happen. You would rather die trying to fulfill your promise/covenant than be subject to that kind of torment.

So the story goes, Abraham and God (the Universe Itself), made such a pact. God promised Abraham a bright future if he followed Gods rules. And they made a *covenant*, a deep commitment to the cause. Like they did in the olden days.

This is basically a soul-guiding, soul-binding contract.

Abraham is the father of the Jewish people basically. So they inherit the burden of the covenant. Or put another way, they are bound to fulfill their end of the bargain, doing all that they can to fulfill their mission and live by the rules of God (as they understood them).

It's pretty intense.

I, for one, would be afraid to go deep in my mind and make such a soul-binding "covenant" with the "voice in my head" so to speak. To fulfill some agreement I have with the greater Mind. That would be scary, I would fear falling short of it in all kinds of ways. It's crazy that someone in the ancient past actually had the balls to agree to such a thing.