The Most Misunderstood Symbol in Religion
Bread was never about food, it is about something much deeper...
What if the “daily bread” you pray for isn’t food at all — but the very power that makes your prayers come true?
Bread is one of the oldest religious symbols in human history.
In Christianity, it becomes central.
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
“I am the bread of life.”
”Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you…”
Bread appears again and again as sacred nourishment.
But bread is not merely physical food.
Bread is a symbol.
And like all true symbols, it points beyond itself, to something much deeper and more transformative.
First, let’s get back to basics.
What is it that you, I or anyone does from the time we wake, until the time we lay our head down to sleep?
Simple — we conceive an Idea — think that idea into thought patterns and thought images — and then take physical action to manifest our idea in our environment.
Idea → Thought → Action → Idea…
The basic formula holds true whether we are talking about picking up food from the grocery store or building a multimillion dollar business.
We are mental beings, our bodies are the instruments we use to express our Ideas and Thoughts in the material world, no matter what form that expression takes.
So where does bread fit into all this I bet you are wondering…
First, we must discard some old primitive concepts and replace them with new ones.
What is the Mind?
The Mind is NOT the brain.
Mind is the dimensionless, changeless QUALITIES of God’s eternal equilibrium:
LIGHT — LOVE — BEAUTY — TRUTH — KNOWLEDGE — IDEA — POWER
Mind/God is a unity. The qualities above all actually mean the same thing in essence, however, we must use different connotations so that we may express different concepts and different ideas. Knowledge IS power afterall…
An analogy to help exemplify what I mean would be that of a wheel. Each of those seemingly separate qualities could be likened to spokes on a wheel.
The all appear to be separate, but in fact all extend out of, and from, their SOURCE in the hub in the center of that wheel.
At the very, very center of that hub is a dimensionless point which everything is rotating around.
Two-dimensionally, that dimensionless point can be symbolized as a dot on a piece of paper, for example.
Three-dimensionally, that concept is expressed as a sphere.
In the day to day lives of the ancients, the smallest representation of a spheroid is of course — a seed.
This is where the symbol of bread comes in…
The SEED is a symbol for all of the qualities of that dimensionless point.
— one of which is DESIRE.
Desire is the energy-quality of Mind.
Desire can be divided into two categories: Mental (spiritual) and physical.
Every second of the day we are trying to fulfill some desire, be it physical, mental or both.
Desire -to make money - to express patience while standing in a long line - to build a strong body via exercise - or to pray to God to ask something of Him.
Desire is, in fact, the very foundation of prayer.
So what is bread?
