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Joshua 2 and 6 read psychologically: Rahab (the spirit of the father: one's capacity to feel) has two professions. As spy she travels unseen into a state in imagination; as harlot she grants what is asked without questioning the asker's right. She enters the heart of the city, stays in the upper room (a high mood) while the walls fall, and alone is saved.
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Now you employ the services of a harlot and a spy, and her name is Rahab
Your capacity to feel is the great spirit of the father, and that capacity is Rahab in this story
The profession of a spy is this: to travel secretly, to travel so quietly that you may not be detected
Rahab’s next profession was that of a harlot, which is to grant unto men what they ask of her without asking man’s right to ask
we must keep a high mood if we would walk with the highest