... And a certain man from Bethlehem-Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab; him and his wife, and their two sons.
---Ruth 1:1 of the Holy Bible
The Hebrew name Moab means from father, which spiritually means from God. But in the Jewish mythology of the Holy Bible, Moab --- just like any other country "outside" of the holy city of Jerusalem, which is the mythical homeland of the Israelites or the Jewish people (who biblically symbolize human beings in general) --- symbolizes the materialistic and non-spiritual state of mind that we wind up in when we leave our homeland of Oneness or Union with God or Spirit, which is the true nature or reality of our existence, as the Hebrew name Jerusalem means home of peace and completeness. Therefore, this spiritual story is telling us that because of our physical incarnation, which begins as a spiritual famine, a "family from Bethlehem-Judah", which means an "Israelite family", and thus symbolically the many living organisms that collectively make up a human being or an "Israelite", we are now "sojourning" or living temporarily in "Moab", meaning materialism. However, this part of the story also symbolically expresses to us the spiritual secret that materialism, which is godlessness, is not absolutely "bad" or "evil" because it's merely a state of mind that ultimately comes from God as a natural part of Man's spiritual evolution; because remember, the name Moab means from God.
And the name of the man was Elimelech...
---Ruth 1:2 of the Holy Bible
Elimelech means my God is King, and this is symbolic of the fact that before each human being leaves from his or her "home in Jerusalem" and goes to "sojourn in Moab" by being born as a human being, we are all completely conscious of the truth that God is the One True Self of all existence, and that God is therefore the one true king and ruler of the Universe, which is God's own Self. This so-called man named Elimelech is therefore symbolic of God before God becomes relatively-incarnated as every human being through the opposite and natural creative processes of involution and evolution, which are the effects of the universal laws of vibration, polarity, gender, and rhythm.
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