Feast: Understanding.
Feast: Understanding.
The understanding of the laws of God is a feast; therefore, on each such occasion, we come closer to God.
Genesis 1:14
According to the text, the lights in the firmament of Heaven are signs that define feasts, days, and years. The defined days thus simply mean feast days, which repeat annually.
The firmament of Heaven can be interpreted clearly and in only one way according to the previous texts: Heaven is the world of laws, that is, God's laws, according to which the material world appears, while the firmament is the present, where these laws appear in our experiences. Day means a creation cycle in the first chapter, but after the definition of time and the sequence of experiences, according to the meaning of “the firmament of Heaven,” it means the experience appearing in the present, where the laws of Heaven appear.
A feast is thus a notable day on which we have understood something from the laws of God.
The feast is very significant in the Bible; as we move forward on the path of knowing, the same feasts return again and again, continuously, which in the previous texts provided an exact explanation of something. This is necessary because as we proceed on the path of knowing, we do not come to know the laws created by God directly.
We create definitions during our experiences, but these definitions are not identical with God's laws; rather, our definitions exist at the level at which, on the basis of our previous experiences, we are capable of understanding what is currently appearing in the present. Since with the appearance of the conscious I we not only come to know the world, but our will also appears, our will is not identical with God's will, that is, with the experiences appearing in reality; rather, our own will appears on the basis of our preliminary definitions, and it often does not correspond at all to what subsequently appears in our experiences.
The feast days therefore always return in our experiences as warnings and reminders, so that we remember that our definitions are not perfect, and if what happens is not what we wanted, then the error is not in the appearing reality, but in the way we interpret the world. Our definitions are not yet precise, the process of knowing is still underway, and the feast days also warn us not to question or change the laws we have previously understood simply because what happens is not what we want.
Our will is capable of violating and changing any law, and the feast days warn us precisely about this.
It is not our task in the world to change reality, to bring about our will, but to understand reality, to understand the laws that determine the existence of the world.
The recurring feasts and feast days therefore always draw attention to repetition, so that we do not undervalue our previous results and do not forget the laws we have come to know, because the laws build upon one another, and if we reject the laws we have previously come to know in order to bring about our will, then we deprive ourselves of the possibility of further knowing.
There is a defined sequence in which the laws can be known; therefore, rejecting the laws we have already come to know prevents us from understanding new laws, because the knowledge to which we could connect the new knowledge ceases to exist.