1 Now YHVH said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
The Soul’s source, YHVH, creates the impulse to seek spiritual enlightenment, which is symbolized by YHVH telling Abram (faith in intuitive guidance) to leave it’s country (ignorance).
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
YHVH making Abram’s name great symbolizes the consciousness being expanded as the individual becomes more enlightened. The name of Abram being a blessing symbolizes the many blessings of Spirit that occur when the individual begins to be enlightened.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves."
Those who favor enlightenment will receive the same blessings. Those who choose to remain unenlightened will be cursed by the effects of that state until they start becoming enlightened.
4 So Abram went, as YHVH had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Abram leaving in accordance with YHVH’s instructions symbolizes actively taking the first step in the path to spiritual enlightenment. Lot accompanying him symbolizes the fact that as the intuition is purified, the instincts are as well. Abram departing from Haran represents the leaving behind of Arrogance.
5 And Abram took Sar'ai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
Abram brings his animal-soul (soul lacking life force and carrying animal instincts), unenlightened part of his subconscious (Lot), everything learned that led to the decision to seek enlightenment (Haran) and enters the state of purity in the body of the practitioner (Canaan).
6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
The individual’s consciousness goes through the purification of the body (Canaan) and becomes more receptive to Truth. This state is symbolized by Shechem. In the Bible, it is reflected in the story of the Israelites conquering the Land of Canaan. Protection and strength are found by the individual at this time (oak of Moreh). The Canaanites symbolize the urges produced by the body.
7 Then YHVH appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built there an altar to YHVH, who had appeared to him.
The forces of creation (YHVH) will give the body to the forces and states of mind born from obeying the intuitive guidance (Abram). Knowing this causes the intuition to honor the forces of creation, which are ultimately it’s source, which is intuitively perceived.
8 Thence he removed to the mountain on the East of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the West and Ai on the East; and there he built an altar to YHVH and called on the name of YHVH.
Abram relocating to the mountain on the East of Bethel (House of God) symbolizes the raising of consciousness to the point between the state of realizing that all material things are manifestations of spiritual forces (Bethel) and that of Egotism and self-confidence without the recognition of Spirit (Ai). Abram’s altar in this location symbolizes self-confidence born from recognition of the spiritual forces and your place in governing them.
9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the South.
South symbolizes going downward toward the lower charkas, in this case, the Consciousness center in the Solar Plexus.
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Egypt symbolizes the seat of the vital forces in the body. The famine symbolizes the loss of spiritual energy caused by focusing too much on the physical and not enough on the spiritual.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
The consciousness not yet enlightened as to the soul’s significance, is willing to sacrifice her to the Ego (Pharaoh).
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."
This is done by denying the sacred marriage of soul and Consciousness of Spirit, symbolized by the lying of the relationship of Sarai to Abram.
14 When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
The admiring of Sarai by the Egyptians symbolizes the gradual ensnaring of the soul by the physical experiences.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
The taking of Sarai into Pharaoh’s house (Materialistic Consciousness) symbolizes the merging of the corrupted soul with the Ego.
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels.
While merging the soul to the Ego may produce physical rewards, which come from the Ego…
17 But YHVH afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Merging of the soul and Ego at the expense of the awakening of spiritual consciousness (Abram and Sarai’s Marriage) harms the physical body by blocking the proper flow of the life force. This harming of the physical body through sickness is symbolized by the plagues that afflicted Pharaoh (the Ego) and his house (the body).
18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
By denying the Sacred Marriage of the Soul and Consciousness, the Ego is also harmed.
19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."
This often occurs when one does not acknowledge spiritual forces as the source of consciousness and creation. This is the deception of Self, and is symbolized by the Pharaoh confronting Abram.
20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.
The Ego, having been tormented and weakened, restores the Soul and Spirit to their rightful state because of it’s weakened condition.