Daniel In The Lions' Den - A Metaphysical Interpretation

 

“Whenever a desire arises in our consciousness, the beast (limitation) will come to remind or challenge us that we cannot accomplish, our peace is taken away until we cast out the beast, or fades away due to lack of attention. You can starve any negative state by refusing to give it your attention; it dies because you refuse to feed or nourish it. Your attention gives life to all things in your world. They fade away back into the nothingness from whence the came when you practice feasting on your good set out for you on the banquet table in the House of God within you. The Lamb or your consciousness of the Pres­ence of God is always the conqueror. Your faith in God will overcome all obstacles, set armies to flight, shut the mouths of lions, and do all manner of wonderful things.”
Joseph Murphy (amended by AG)

   When we are put to the test along any line, we declare the Divine deliverance and power at work. This sets into action thought forces that may be described as the "angels" who shut the lions' mouths. The angels that God (or Creator Source) sends are the messengers (divine thoughts) which have power to subdue all elemental forces and to make them harmless. We accomplish this when we declare the Divine Deliverance and Power at work.

   The lion represents the undisciplined, savage courage of the natural man. At a certain place in development, spiritual judgment is apparently given over by the personal will to the mercy of the animal forces in the subconsciousness. They also represent our undisciplined, negative thoughts that will pounce upon us and tear us to bits. Daniel, by thought, prayer, and meditation, opened up the powers of the subconsciousness that he might overcome these forces and then raise them to spiritual consciousness.

   “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it”
(Isaiah 55:11).

   Especially note that in almost every painting of the story, Daniel is seen facing away from the Lions and completely ignoring them and looking only away and up at what we could call God or Creator Source, and often bathed in a shaft of light — this is Source’s Focused Gaze returned. Both are focused intensely and only in this direction. “Therefore will I direct my prayer toward You, whom my outer eyes behold not, and I will look up. Early in the morning will I lift mine eyes up to You.” (Psalms 5:3) “Morning” means “faith” — a suggestion to begin affirming and strengthening faith as early as possible.

   The lions are often depicted as getting sleepy, some actually sleeping, others with their mouths closed; a few are even trying to snuggle up against Daniel as they (our previously undisciplined negative thoughts) are subdued and tranquillized by the energy being removed from any focus on them. An initially surreal but powerful tranquility begins to infuse the atmosphere of the inner and outer environments; from the sustained focus on God, human surreality arises and transforms into Divine Reality as the focus on the Divine continues, unwavering, and the Divine’s returned focus on Daniel also continues, drawing him upward into fearless consciousness.

   Kneeling was Daniel‘s first and immediate response to the earliest news of impending, terrestrial threat. Kneeling is also an important part of the blueprint or formula to connect with That which is above and beyond the terrestrial environment. Kneeling physically, mentally and emotionally is an initial act to align into the spiritual geography of That which is unalterable Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Omnipresence — a true act of surrender. It is the joining of outward and inner conscious acknowledgment of Source’s Divine Authority over one’s small and insignificant ego-mind. And then from there, as the burdensome weight of anxiety, doubt, worry and any and all other fears lift and continue to fade back into the nothingness from which they came, we become lighter. Thus unburdened and enlightened, we are able to mentally and emotionally stand up in, at first, surreal yet strengthening alignment, as our focus continues to remain fixed upon the Source of Light, (“with Whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning“ - James 1:17) which is one’s higher vibrating consciousness, the clarity of immutable Original Divine Awareness and the joining of it with our own inherent Divine Authority.

   Unparalleled stability results from the abiding presence of God, an experience which is a straight line from our mind to God’s Mind. “Be still and know that I am God.” Let go and let God, lighten up, surrender, relax, breathe in the acceptance, breathe out the relief; sigh, cry, smile, cry some more, laugh, say thank you, rejoice! 

Declare, “I know, and I know that I know.”