The Woman With The Empty Vessels Pdf
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All truth to women is relative. It is men who seek Absolute Truth, or rather, have a better ability to get closer to the Truth. Women find truth through the consensus of the herd. If the herd believes 1+1=3, then it is right because the herd believes it is so. If tomorrow, the herd believes 1+1=1, then that will be right because the herd believes it is so. This is why you see women are so much more attuned to changing fashions and why it is often social proofing that decides for them who is a sexy and desirable man. What the herd believes is right is the 'truth' for women. It is men who insist that 1+1=2, I don't care how much you cows moo at me.
'... Women may have happy ideas, taste, and elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants. Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. When women hold the helm of government, the state is at once in jeopardy,because women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions. Women are educated--who knows how?'
This is very old and part of the human condition. In fact, the story of the Garden of Eden is very much about the Absolute Truth being over-ruled by the Relative Truth of Eve.There was only one rule in the Garden… DON’T EAT FROM THAT TREE! There was only one truth that Adam and Eve had to follow… and here is where it gets interesting, because Eve was deceived but she was not particularly lied to. In fact, the serpent’s assertions are perfectly valid, although very craftily worded:
Because it was good for food, pleasing to look at, and desirable for gaining wisdom… Eve rationalized to herself why the Relative Truth which she wished for ought to be able to over-ride the Absolute Truth that existed.
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Ahem… could placing the Relative Truth we create in our brains over the Absolute Truth that exists in reality be the “original sin?”
Also to note here in the Garden story is the difference between men and women, and something we also often speak of in the MRM: Adam, the mangina, simply went along with her.
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The course of a river and a woman’s mind both wander. Water is malleable, it turns here and there when rocks and mountains block its path. Women are like this. They are inconstant as water. Although they know what is right, when they run into the strong will of a man, they are checked and turn in bad directions. The right fades like a line drawn on the water. Women’s nature is unsteady: though they see what they should be, they soon become what they should not be. Buddhahood is founded on integrity. Therefore, women, who are easily swayed, cannot become Buddhas. Women have the “five obstacles” (inability to become anything great) and the “three followings” (follows first the father, then the husband, then the son). Thus in one sutra it is written: “Even should the eyes of all the buddhas of the three worlds fall to the earth, women cannot become Buddha.” Another text says: “Even if you can capture the clear wind, you can never capture the mind of a woman.” -- Buddha - from Selected Writings of Nichiren
You can also see how women’s “truth” never really exists by the way they relate to men sexually. Many men will notice this if they meet up with an ex-girlfriend after a few years of not seeing her. She is an entirely different person than who he remembered her as. It is as if the girl he once knew was completely false and no longer exists.
Women are “empty vessels” – they conform themselves to whatever man they are currently with and take on his truths, that is, until her rotating polyandry shifts her to her next man, then she takes on the new guy’s truths.
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'As a rule, the woman adapts herself to the man, his views become hers, hislikes and dislikes are shared by her, every word he says is an incentive toher, and the stronger his sexual influence on her the more this is so. Womandoes not perceive that this influence which man has on her causes her todeviate from the line of her own development; she does not look upon it as asort of unwarrantable intrusion; she does not try to shake off what is reallyan invasion of her private life; she is not ashamed of being receptive; on thecontrary, she is really pleased when she can be so, and prefers man to mouldher mentally. She rejoices in being dependent, and her expectations from manresolve themselves into the moment when she may be perfectly passive.' -- Otto Weininger, Sex and Character, Woman and Her Significance in the Universe
For example, I’ve known one woman for many years now. When I first met her, it was through snowmobiling. I was an avid snowmobiler and so was her boyfriend. She was
really into snowmobiling – just loved it… until after four years, she broke up with her boyfriend. She never went sledding again.
The next guy she was with though, was really into drag-racing. She ended up marrying that guy, and really got into drag-racing. In fact, she ended up becoming the President of the Drag Racing Association of the town she lived in… until she divorced the guy. Now she couldn’t care less about drag-racing.
The guy she is with now is a sheep farmer and breeds border collies on the side. Now she has a government job which monitors forage for sheep farmers, and she is a member of the Border Collie Breeding Association or something – they travel all around to dog shows etc. and she is really into it.
That woman is by nature intended to obey is shown by the fact that every woman who is placed in the unnatural position of absolute independence at once attaches herself to some kind of man, by whom she is controlled and governed; this is because she requires a master. If she, is young, the man is a lover; if she is old, a priest.- Schopenhauer, On Women
Now, does such a woman actually have a personality of her own? No. She finds her personality through her man. She has no “truth” of her own – it is always relative and is always subject to change.
This is one of the reasons women give men fitness tests/shit tests. They test him for the strength of his character, and if they find him suitable they will conform themselves around him. Thus, it is important for men to know themselves, take a position, and staunchly never budge.
XV. Maintain your state control
You are an oak tree. You will not be manipulated by crying, yelling, lying, head games, sexual withdrawal, jealousy ploys, pity plays, shit tests, hot/cold/hot/cold, disappearing acts, or guilt trips. She will rain and thunder all around you and you will shelter her until her storm passes. She will not drag you into her chaos or uproot you. When you have mastery over yourself, you will have mastery over her. — Roissy’s Sixteen Commandments of Poon
The problem comes in when we falsely believe that men and women are equal, and thus let women “lead us.” They can’t, for they are full of relative truth – their truth doesn’t exist, not for long anyway. It is why women resent men so much who don’t take the lead. It may satisfy a woman’s ego to have her husband grovel before her, but what she needs is for a man to be strong so she can conform herself around him. She needs his “truth” in order to find herself through him.
What’s going on in society is that as a culture we have been failing feminism’s shit tests and have become weak men.
A man should also never be afraid to lose a woman for once you are in that position, she is the leader and he is the follower. If as a culture we are failing feminism's cultural shit tests, the solution is to become Men Going Their Own Way. See ya toots!
Women are as independent as a tropical fern in a greenhouse in Iceland.
If the men “leave” the women will follow, because female “independence” is an illusion.
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'The most decisive proof for the correctness of the view that attributes henidsto woman and differentiated thoughts to man, and that sees in this afundamental sexual distinction, lies in the fact that wherever a new judgmentis to be made, (not merely something already settled to be put into proverbialform) it is always the case that the female expects from man the clarificationof her data, the interpretation of her henids. It is almost a tertiary sexualcharacter of the male, and certainly it acts on the female as such, that sheexpects from him the interpretation and illumination of her thoughts. It isfrom this reason that so many girls say that they could only marry, or, atleast, only love a man who was cleverer than themselves; that they would berepelled by a man who said that all they thought was right, and did not knowbetter than they did. In short, the woman makes it a criterion of manlinessthat the man should be superior to herself mentally, that she should beinfluenced and dominated by the man; and this in itself is enough to ridiculeall ideas of sexual equality.' -- Otto Weininger, Sex and Character, Male and Female Characteristics
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“The woman follows the man. In her youth she follows her father and elder brother; when married, she follows her husband; when her husband is dead, she follows her son.” – Confucius
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Further Reading:
Pook #40 - Do Girls Want Sovereignty?
Bonecrcker #47 - Living in La-La-LandNot long ago I under took a study of the word 'vessel' in the scriptures. For sometime I had been impressed by the scripture (which is repeated four times in the standard works) which says,
I was intrigued by that word 'vessel'. I looked it up in the 1828 Websters Dictionary as saw that it was defined as:
As I studied the use of the word 'vessel' in the scriptures I found that there are three main ways in which the word is used. The first was to refer to the vessels (bowls, cups, spoons, etc) that were used in the ancient tabernacle and in Solomon's temple, the second was to refer to a sailing ship (Ether 2:12), and the third was to refer to the human body, specifically in the context of sexual purity.
The vessels of the tabernacle and temple were stored in the Holy Place on top of the table of shewbread (which can be translated as the 'table of presence'). This table held loaves of bread which literally stood before God, seeing as they were placed before the veil that separated the holy place from the holy of hollies, where God dwelt. The bread sat on the table all week until the Sabbath when it was eaten by the priests and replaced with new bread. The table of shewbread also had four rings on its sides in which were inserted two staves (poles). The tabernacle was portable and the poles were used by the Levites to carry the table when the children of Israel were traveling in the wilderness. The ark of the covenant, the altar of sacrifice and the altar of incense were also carried by the priests in the same fashion (see Exodus 37).
In addition the table of shewbread also contained many vessels, which were described as God's 'dishes and his spoons, his bowls, and his covers to cover withal (Exod. 31:16).' That final phrase 'covers to cover withal' can also be translated as 'jugs used for pouring libations', a libation being a ritual pouring out of a liquid (usually oil or wine) as an offering. The vessels were made of pure gold and they were dedicated to the Lord, only to be used seen by the priest and used for His purposes. The table of shew bread in Solomon's temple contained more than 5,400 vessels of gold and silver (Ezra 1:6-7) and the weight (and thus worth) of them was unweighable because it was so great (1 Kgs. 7:45-51).
As I studied the history of the table of shewbread I was struck by the apparent similarities it has to our modern day sacrament. Today, once a week on the Sabbath, we also offer up bread in remembrance of Christ's body and pour out water, in numerous vessels, in remembrance of His blood. Like in ancient times these emblems are still carried, or born, by those who hold the Aaronic priesthood. Though unlike in the temple of old, today all who are worthy-- not just the priests-- may eat of the offering and make sacred covenants to take the name of God upon them.
This is why the scripture ' Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord' is often used to remind the men who use the priesthood to bless and administer the sacrament that they must be morally clean and worthy to handle those sacred emblems. They are, like the ancient priests of old, administering from the vessels of the Lord.
Yet the phrase 'be ye clean who bear the vessels of the Lord' goes even deeper than that. There are numerous examples throughout the scriptures in which the human body is referred to a vessel, specifically in reference to remaining sexually pure. For example, in 1 Thess. 4:4 Paul admonishes the saints to be sexually pure and abstain from every fornication. Then he instructs, 'Everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor.' Afterward he continues by telling them that they should not have 'lust of concupiscence', concupiscence coming from the root of 'concubine' and meaning to have a strong sexual appetite.
Another one of the most interesting uses of the word 'vessel' is in 1 Sam. 21:5 when David and his men, starving after a long flight from Saul, approach the priest Ahimelech and ask him for food. Ahimelch has no bread to give them except for the shewbread, which is only to be eaten by priests. Even so, Ahimelech tells them that he will allow them to eat it if, 'the young men have kept themselves at least from women.' David responds by telling him that all the men have been at least three days without being sexually intimate with women. He says, 'The vessels of the young men are holy', after which the priest allows David and his men to eat the holy bread.
These examples are so interesting to me, because not only do they refer to the body a vessel, but they are specifically referring to the sexual organs as being holy vessels. Think back to the definition of the word vessel, it is a cask, a tube, a canal for carrying something, specifically a liquid.
There are many parts of our bodies that can be considered vessels (veins, heart, lymph, etc) but there are only a few organs in both men and women that possess God-like abilities. The life giving organs in both men and women meet the definition of a 'vessel'. In men their vessel stores and then pours out life giving liquid while the female vessel receives, and then contains, the liquid. Furthermore, a woman's body takes this liquid and creates from it a new human life, a body that will grow and develop within her. The womb becomes the ultimate vessel, carrying the potential of continuing life.
Despite our scientific advances much of what happens within the womb, within that vessel, is still mysterious to us. This is because the womb is a sacred vessel, and even if it never bears a child, it is still a place a place where God's power dwells and the potential for new life resides. Any woman who has ever
I recently read a summary of a talk Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave at a recent regional conference. Here is what the author related:
It is fascinating to me to think about the womb and the male and female sexual organs as being vessels of the Lord. This is especially meaningful for those who have made covenants in the temple because it means that our bodies are really not our own. They are promised to God and when we use our power in God's work we become His holy vessels, places in which God pours out His power and works miracles. We literally carry God's work forward on the earth as we bear forth in our bodies His power, His priesthood, His children, His authority, His truth, His testimony.
Each and every one of us bears the vessels of the Lord.
Be ye clean.
'... Women may have happy ideas, taste, and elegance, but they cannot attain to the ideal. The difference between men and women is like that between animals and plants. Men correspond to animals, while women correspond to plants because their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the rather vague unity of feeling. When women hold the helm of government, the state is at once in jeopardy,because women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions. Women are educated--who knows how?'
The woman was to get together empty vessels: these were to be set in her room. All these empty vessels were filled. As long as there were any empty vessels left, the oil kept flowing until they were all filled to the brim.
-- G.F. HegelThis is very old and part of the human condition. In fact, the story of the Garden of Eden is very much about the Absolute Truth being over-ruled by the Relative Truth of Eve.There was only one rule in the Garden… DON’T EAT FROM THAT TREE! There was only one truth that Adam and Eve had to follow… and here is where it gets interesting, because Eve was deceived but she was not particularly lied to. In fact, the serpent’s assertions are perfectly valid, although very craftily worded:
- The serpent was right when he says “you will not surely die.” (He was right, they did not surely die… After being tossed from the Garden, God offered them a path to salvation and eternal life – if they chose to follow God’s path).
- The serpent was right, when they ate the fruit, their eyes were opened, and they did become like God and gain knowledge of good and evil.
And then Eve’s female rationalizing hamster wheel starts churning, mired in Relative Truth.
“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”
- The serpent was right, when they ate the fruit, their eyes were opened, and they did become like God and gain knowledge of good and evil.
And then Eve’s female rationalizing hamster wheel starts churning, mired in Relative Truth.
“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”
Because it was good for food, pleasing to look at, and desirable for gaining wisdom… Eve rationalized to herself why the Relative Truth which she wished for ought to be able to over-ride the Absolute Truth that existed.
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Ahem… could placing the Relative Truth we create in our brains over the Absolute Truth that exists in reality be the “original sin?”
Also to note here in the Garden story is the difference between men and women, and something we also often speak of in the MRM: Adam, the mangina, simply went along with her.
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1 Timothy 2:12-14 RSV “I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”
Adam was not deceived. He sinned willingly. Eve deceived herself with her female driven hamster-wheel of a relative-truth laden brain… but Adam was not deceived at all. He was standing right there and was not deceived; Eve gave it to him, and he was still without sin at this point but like a mangina eager to please he said, “Sure thing, Toots!” and swallowed ‘er down whole.
Adam sinned willingly, but Eve was deceived.
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’… (Man’s Curse)
It’s pretty clear.
Between Adam and Eve, God expects a different level of cognition… God expected Adam to “know better” than Eve… because Adam has the capability to know better.
Of all of the things that were in the world during the Garden, the only thing not directly from God… is Eve. She was created from Adam, who was created in God’s image. Adam is a copy of God, and Eve is a copy of Adam… Adam is “one step closer” to God/Absolute Truth than Eve is.
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Adam was not deceived. He sinned willingly. Eve deceived herself with her female driven hamster-wheel of a relative-truth laden brain… but Adam was not deceived at all. He was standing right there and was not deceived; Eve gave it to him, and he was still without sin at this point but like a mangina eager to please he said, “Sure thing, Toots!” and swallowed ‘er down whole.
Adam sinned willingly, but Eve was deceived.
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’… (Man’s Curse)
It’s pretty clear.
Between Adam and Eve, God expects a different level of cognition… God expected Adam to “know better” than Eve… because Adam has the capability to know better.
Of all of the things that were in the world during the Garden, the only thing not directly from God… is Eve. She was created from Adam, who was created in God’s image. Adam is a copy of God, and Eve is a copy of Adam… Adam is “one step closer” to God/Absolute Truth than Eve is.
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1 - Absolute Truth = God
3 - Subjective Truth = Woman
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Everywhere in nature, the male is the reproductive servant of the female. However, while humans are of the animal kingdom, we are not animals. It was when humans started putting the male principle in front of the female principle that we stopped living like animals and rose up from being beasts of the field.
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Buddhism also acknowledges the way a woman's mind is mired in Relative Truth..
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The course of a river and a woman’s mind both wander. Water is malleable, it turns here and there when rocks and mountains block its path. Women are like this. They are inconstant as water. Although they know what is right, when they run into the strong will of a man, they are checked and turn in bad directions. The right fades like a line drawn on the water. Women’s nature is unsteady: though they see what they should be, they soon become what they should not be. Buddhahood is founded on integrity. Therefore, women, who are easily swayed, cannot become Buddhas. Women have the “five obstacles” (inability to become anything great) and the “three followings” (follows first the father, then the husband, then the son). Thus in one sutra it is written: “Even should the eyes of all the buddhas of the three worlds fall to the earth, women cannot become Buddha.” Another text says: “Even if you can capture the clear wind, you can never capture the mind of a woman.” -- Buddha - from Selected Writings of Nichiren
You can also see how women’s “truth” never really exists by the way they relate to men sexually. Many men will notice this if they meet up with an ex-girlfriend after a few years of not seeing her. She is an entirely different person than who he remembered her as. It is as if the girl he once knew was completely false and no longer exists.
Women are “empty vessels” – they conform themselves to whatever man they are currently with and take on his truths, that is, until her rotating polyandry shifts her to her next man, then she takes on the new guy’s truths.
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'As a rule, the woman adapts herself to the man, his views become hers, hislikes and dislikes are shared by her, every word he says is an incentive toher, and the stronger his sexual influence on her the more this is so. Womandoes not perceive that this influence which man has on her causes her todeviate from the line of her own development; she does not look upon it as asort of unwarrantable intrusion; she does not try to shake off what is reallyan invasion of her private life; she is not ashamed of being receptive; on thecontrary, she is really pleased when she can be so, and prefers man to mouldher mentally. She rejoices in being dependent, and her expectations from manresolve themselves into the moment when she may be perfectly passive.' -- Otto Weininger, Sex and Character, Woman and Her Significance in the Universe
For example, I’ve known one woman for many years now. When I first met her, it was through snowmobiling. I was an avid snowmobiler and so was her boyfriend. She was

The next guy she was with though, was really into drag-racing. She ended up marrying that guy, and really got into drag-racing. In fact, she ended up becoming the President of the Drag Racing Association of the town she lived in… until she divorced the guy. Now she couldn’t care less about drag-racing.
The guy she is with now is a sheep farmer and breeds border collies on the side. Now she has a government job which monitors forage for sheep farmers, and she is a member of the Border Collie Breeding Association or something – they travel all around to dog shows etc. and she is really into it.
That woman is by nature intended to obey is shown by the fact that every woman who is placed in the unnatural position of absolute independence at once attaches herself to some kind of man, by whom she is controlled and governed; this is because she requires a master. If she, is young, the man is a lover; if she is old, a priest.- Schopenhauer, On Women
Now, does such a woman actually have a personality of her own? No. She finds her personality through her man. She has no “truth” of her own – it is always relative and is always subject to change.

XV. Maintain your state control
You are an oak tree. You will not be manipulated by crying, yelling, lying, head games, sexual withdrawal, jealousy ploys, pity plays, shit tests, hot/cold/hot/cold, disappearing acts, or guilt trips. She will rain and thunder all around you and you will shelter her until her storm passes. She will not drag you into her chaos or uproot you. When you have mastery over yourself, you will have mastery over her. — Roissy’s Sixteen Commandments of Poon
The problem comes in when we falsely believe that men and women are equal, and thus let women “lead us.” They can’t, for they are full of relative truth – their truth doesn’t exist, not for long anyway. It is why women resent men so much who don’t take the lead. It may satisfy a woman’s ego to have her husband grovel before her, but what she needs is for a man to be strong so she can conform herself around him. She needs his “truth” in order to find herself through him.
What’s going on in society is that as a culture we have been failing feminism’s shit tests and have become weak men.
A man should also never be afraid to lose a woman for once you are in that position, she is the leader and he is the follower. If as a culture we are failing feminism's cultural shit tests, the solution is to become Men Going Their Own Way. See ya toots!
Women are as independent as a tropical fern in a greenhouse in Iceland.
If the men “leave” the women will follow, because female “independence” is an illusion.
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'The most decisive proof for the correctness of the view that attributes henidsto woman and differentiated thoughts to man, and that sees in this afundamental sexual distinction, lies in the fact that wherever a new judgmentis to be made, (not merely something already settled to be put into proverbialform) it is always the case that the female expects from man the clarificationof her data, the interpretation of her henids. It is almost a tertiary sexualcharacter of the male, and certainly it acts on the female as such, that sheexpects from him the interpretation and illumination of her thoughts. It isfrom this reason that so many girls say that they could only marry, or, atleast, only love a man who was cleverer than themselves; that they would berepelled by a man who said that all they thought was right, and did not knowbetter than they did. In short, the woman makes it a criterion of manlinessthat the man should be superior to herself mentally, that she should beinfluenced and dominated by the man; and this in itself is enough to ridiculeall ideas of sexual equality.' -- Otto Weininger, Sex and Character, Male and Female Characteristics
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“The woman follows the man. In her youth she follows her father and elder brother; when married, she follows her husband; when her husband is dead, she follows her son.” – Confucius
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Further Reading:
Pook #40 - Do Girls Want Sovereignty?
Bonecrcker #47 - Living in La-La-LandNot long ago I under took a study of the word 'vessel' in the scriptures. For sometime I had been impressed by the scripture (which is repeated four times in the standard works) which says,
'Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.' (Isa. 52:11)
'And then shall a cry go forth: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.' (3 Ne. 20:41)
'And go ye out from among the wicked. Save yourselves. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Even so. Amen.' (D&C 38:42)
'Go ye out from Babylon. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.' (D&C 133:5)
I was intrigued by that word 'vessel'. I looked it up in the 1828 Websters Dictionary as saw that it was defined as:
- A cask or utensil for holding liquors and other things;
- In anatomy any tube or canal in which blood or other humors are contained or secreted-arteries, lymphs, spermatics, etc;
- In physiology of plants, a canal or tube in which sap is contained;
- A ship.
As I studied the use of the word 'vessel' in the scriptures I found that there are three main ways in which the word is used. The first was to refer to the vessels (bowls, cups, spoons, etc) that were used in the ancient tabernacle and in Solomon's temple, the second was to refer to a sailing ship (Ether 2:12), and the third was to refer to the human body, specifically in the context of sexual purity.
The vessels of the tabernacle and temple were stored in the Holy Place on top of the table of shewbread (which can be translated as the 'table of presence'). This table held loaves of bread which literally stood before God, seeing as they were placed before the veil that separated the holy place from the holy of hollies, where God dwelt. The bread sat on the table all week until the Sabbath when it was eaten by the priests and replaced with new bread. The table of shewbread also had four rings on its sides in which were inserted two staves (poles). The tabernacle was portable and the poles were used by the Levites to carry the table when the children of Israel were traveling in the wilderness. The ark of the covenant, the altar of sacrifice and the altar of incense were also carried by the priests in the same fashion (see Exodus 37).
In addition the table of shewbread also contained many vessels, which were described as God's 'dishes and his spoons, his bowls, and his covers to cover withal (Exod. 31:16).' That final phrase 'covers to cover withal' can also be translated as 'jugs used for pouring libations', a libation being a ritual pouring out of a liquid (usually oil or wine) as an offering. The vessels were made of pure gold and they were dedicated to the Lord, only to be used seen by the priest and used for His purposes. The table of shew bread in Solomon's temple contained more than 5,400 vessels of gold and silver (Ezra 1:6-7) and the weight (and thus worth) of them was unweighable because it was so great (1 Kgs. 7:45-51).
As I studied the history of the table of shewbread I was struck by the apparent similarities it has to our modern day sacrament. Today, once a week on the Sabbath, we also offer up bread in remembrance of Christ's body and pour out water, in numerous vessels, in remembrance of His blood. Like in ancient times these emblems are still carried, or born, by those who hold the Aaronic priesthood. Though unlike in the temple of old, today all who are worthy-- not just the priests-- may eat of the offering and make sacred covenants to take the name of God upon them.
This is why the scripture ' Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord' is often used to remind the men who use the priesthood to bless and administer the sacrament that they must be morally clean and worthy to handle those sacred emblems. They are, like the ancient priests of old, administering from the vessels of the Lord.
Yet the phrase 'be ye clean who bear the vessels of the Lord' goes even deeper than that. There are numerous examples throughout the scriptures in which the human body is referred to a vessel, specifically in reference to remaining sexually pure. For example, in 1 Thess. 4:4 Paul admonishes the saints to be sexually pure and abstain from every fornication. Then he instructs, 'Everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor.' Afterward he continues by telling them that they should not have 'lust of concupiscence', concupiscence coming from the root of 'concubine' and meaning to have a strong sexual appetite.
Another one of the most interesting uses of the word 'vessel' is in 1 Sam. 21:5 when David and his men, starving after a long flight from Saul, approach the priest Ahimelech and ask him for food. Ahimelch has no bread to give them except for the shewbread, which is only to be eaten by priests. Even so, Ahimelech tells them that he will allow them to eat it if, 'the young men have kept themselves at least from women.' David responds by telling him that all the men have been at least three days without being sexually intimate with women. He says, 'The vessels of the young men are holy', after which the priest allows David and his men to eat the holy bread.
These examples are so interesting to me, because not only do they refer to the body a vessel, but they are specifically referring to the sexual organs as being holy vessels. Think back to the definition of the word vessel, it is a cask, a tube, a canal for carrying something, specifically a liquid.
There are many parts of our bodies that can be considered vessels (veins, heart, lymph, etc) but there are only a few organs in both men and women that possess God-like abilities. The life giving organs in both men and women meet the definition of a 'vessel'. In men their vessel stores and then pours out life giving liquid while the female vessel receives, and then contains, the liquid. Furthermore, a woman's body takes this liquid and creates from it a new human life, a body that will grow and develop within her. The womb becomes the ultimate vessel, carrying the potential of continuing life.
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Despite our scientific advances much of what happens within the womb, within that vessel, is still mysterious to us. This is because the womb is a sacred vessel, and even if it never bears a child, it is still a place a place where God's power dwells and the potential for new life resides. Any woman who has ever
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shed her blood each month has that power within her; she is a testament to the continuation of life. Alma bears testimony of this when he calls Mary, the mother of Christ, ' a precious and chosen vessel' before she has even born the Christ child (Alma 7:10). The womb of every woman is a precious and chosen vessel, even if it never has the opportunity to be filled.I recently read a summary of a talk Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave at a recent regional conference. Here is what the author related:
'He [Elder Oaks] first compared the vessels of the Lord to the emblems of the sacrament. He reminded the young men in the Aaronic Priesthood that they have a special responsibility to stay clean, physically and morally, in order to handle those sacred vessels. What I heard next surprised me just a bit... What he said was that just as young men have the potential to bear the emblems of the sacrament (and later officiate in other priesthood ordinances), and therefore the vessels of the Lord, so young women have the potential to bear children – vessels which will bear the spirit children of God. And for that reason, young men and young women are both bound by the counsel in Section 38, namely to be clean in order to bear the vessels of the Lord.
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It is so beautiful to me that Elder Oaks specifically refers to administering the sacrament (which is allows to be re-born into eternal life through Christ) as being similar to bearing children (which allows us to be born into mortal life.) Both men and women have important stewardships on this earth, and while they are different, they both are working towards the same goal, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' (Moses 1:39)
It is fascinating to me to think about the womb and the male and female sexual organs as being vessels of the Lord. This is especially meaningful for those who have made covenants in the temple because it means that our bodies are really not our own. They are promised to God and when we use our power in God's work we become His holy vessels, places in which God pours out His power and works miracles. We literally carry God's work forward on the earth as we bear forth in our bodies His power, His priesthood, His children, His authority, His truth, His testimony.
Each and every one of us bears the vessels of the Lord.
Be ye clean.