Let us speak more of this witness, this witnessing, in order to understand the keys that Peter holds which is how we begin to build our inner church.
In Isaiah it is written
For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
The molten images that are wind and confusion are our egotistical desires. This is the false idolatry that occurred when Moses went up the mountain and all the Israelites at the bottom of the mountain created a golden idol from their earrings and other jewelry.
This represents taking those spiritual principles, those golden attributes that we have within ourselves to create molten images – false idols. People think false idols are some external thing, a statue you worship. But the false idols spoken about here are the molten images that we have created within ourselves. The ideas, those molten images, we think we are so good, that we are such wonderful people, that we are such a martyr.
Those molten images that we cower from, we’re afraid. We have fear and anxiety, hatred and pride, lust. These are our molten images that we are subservient to, because we gave up our spiritual principles. In the end, we can get no counsel from them. In the end, we get nothing but dust back from them. We feel naked and miserable in life. We have no answers, we don’t know where to turn to, because the molten images are nothing more than wind and confusion. This is a description of our mind at the moment.
Continuing, Isaiah: 42 states in distinction to the previous verse:
Behold my servant [עבד obd], whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed [קנה qaneh] shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Here we have the word servant which sounds very similar to the word witness. Witness was “OD,” עד (Ayin Daleth). Servant is Ain Beth Daleth עבד, “ OBD”. So, servant and witness are very similar, “OD” and “OBD”. “OD” is witness, “OBD” is servant.
So the servant shall not break a bruised reed, nor the smoking flax shall he quench.
A reed – you’ll find in all the scriptures and all the religions – is a Staff of the Wise Men, Staff of the Patriarch, Staff of Moses. This staff represents the power of divinity. That power rides, it seats itself within us when we do the spiritual work, it seats within us up and down the spinal column.
It is obvious that all of the primary energies and critical functions of our human body, our physical body, go up and down the spinal column. It should be no surprise that the primary conduit which give us that active connection to our inner divinity also goes up and down the spinal column. The symbol of this is the staff or the reed which you find in many places of the Bible.
A bruised reed indicates a spinal column which has no spiritual connection, because the works that bring that spiritual connection have been lost or they have not been accomplished. This servant shall not break that bruised reed. In other words, it will heal that bruised reed. When we have that active energy flowing – this is like having gasoline in a car engine, now that engine can work. If you have a cell phone or a mobile device that has no energy in it, no battery, it cannot run. We must understand that physically we may be alive and physically fit or healthy, but spiritually, what gives us spiritual life are particular types of behaviors based primarily on those ethical conduct that was mentioned in the beginning of the lecture. That is why it is so important to have these ethical behaviors because it forms the basis for the energy in our body to connect with our soul and our spirit, the Inner Light.
Finally, third quote from Isaiah: 43
You are my witness [עד od], saith Iod Hei Vav Hei, and my servant [עבד obd] whom I have chosen: that ye may know [da’ath] and believe me, that these are the faces of your Binah: before me “El” [God in Chesed] was not formed, neither shall he [Chesed] become after me [Binah].
I, even I, am Iod Hei Vav Hei; and AIN as part of me is one savior.
The witness is “OD” , the servant is “OBD”. These two are explained in different ways in the Bible. Peter is often depicted holding two keys and many times as one gold key and one silver key. These two keys, we can say, are the symbol of the witness and the servant.