Objective:

This week’s discussion will cover the fifth day of creation.

Beads:

Section 4, the 8th Small bead:

(Bead 8): “And, on the fifth day, the Creator formed the fish of the sea (our desires for mercy) and the fowl of the air (or desires for knowledge and wisdom).  That the fowl might feed in the waters and fly unto the heavens.”

Passages to Ponder

Zenock 7:27

27. And thy left foot is planted in thy submission to YHVH, for the glory (Hod) of El Elyon, that thou should receive all that Yah doth have for thee, and this is the fifth day.

1 Moses 3

31. ¶ And I said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the desires, passions, and appetite that hath life, and fowl which may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heavens.
32. And I created the great ones: the monsters of the deep, and all life that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind; and every winged fowl after his kind.
33. And I saw that all things which had been created were good;
34. And I blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sea, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
35. And this age was the fifth degree.

4 Moses 2

17. ¶ And in the fifth age Elohim created the monsters of the deep, and the fish, and everything that moveth in the waters; the first of flesh upon the earth;
18. And Elohim created birds, and the insects, and everything that flies, and all their kind;
19. Yea, everything that was above the earth, and everything that is below the earth, and everything that shoots out of the earth that are flesh.

Melchizedek 6:45-49

45. ¶ And the fifth key is the creation of life in the waters, and the air; and the fish are our desire for mercy, and the fowl are our desire for knowledge and wisdom, and as the foul eat the fish, understanding is given upon the earth.
46. The perfecting of the earth is the perfecting of our desires upon it, and the greatest of these is to reach up, as the fowl of the air, and fly unto the heavens.
47. And the union of spirit and the flesh are washed clean by the desires that grow in the seas, the water taken up to the heavens to be purified and rain back down to cleans the earth.
48. As the soul submits to the will of El Elyon, the flesh and the spirit are cleansed and housed anew in the soul;
49. Therefore, watch thy desires that they do not fly so free that they forget to feed in the waters, and to nest upon the earth, for the work of the fifth key is never ending.

Questions of Knowledge (What it says at the surface)

• What all does it say happened on the fifth day?
• What is the Key provided to understand the fifth day?

Questions of Wisdom (What it means below the surface)

• What do the fish and fowl represent symbolically?
• What does it mean that the fish are in the sea, below?
• What does it mean that the fowl are able to go up into the firmament, above?

Questions of Understanding (Likening it to Ourselves)

• Which of your desires are like fish?
• Which of your desires are like fowl?
• Are there any monsters among the fish in your ocean? How about Great fish?

Questions of Mystery (What deeper meaning can be harvested)

• Why are monsters found within the depths of creation?
• What desires for knowledge and wisdom should you be reaching for, and what desires for mercy might fuel their flight?  How does that mechanism work?