Genesis 4: 3-5, The Mystery of Frequency and Offering
🌟 High Heart Chakra – The Altar of Inner Offering
📜 Introduction
In the beginning, the journey of the soul begins with a spark—a divine invitation to awaken and create.
Genesis 4:3–5 reveals the inner moment where the soul brings forth its intention before God. Cain, the laborer of the soil, and Abel, the shepherd of the high pastures, each offer what they’ve cultivated. But this passage is not a historical record—it is a living parable of Adam’s internal divide and our own.
Every word, every breath in this scripture mirrors our sacred journey: the contrast between offerings made from ego and those born of spirit; the revelation that only what is aligned with divine frequency can be received at the altar of the heart.
May this reflection guide you back to the Source of your being, as you awaken the light within and walk the eternal path of Adam’s transformation.
📖 Scripture Passage
Genesis 4:3–5 (NIV)
“In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.
So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.”
🕊️ Allegory & Metaphysical Interpretation
This passage reveals the mystery of frequency and offering. Cain, representing the ego-self, brings fruits of the soil—efforts birthed from a hardened heart, the lower mind, and a disconnection from Divine love. These are the “thorns and thistles” that God said would grow from the cursed ground—mental burdens, fear-based thinking, offerings made to please rather than to love.
Abel, the elevated self born of intuition and trust, brings forth the firstborn of the flock, symbolic of the earliest, purest vibrations of the High Heart. The fat portions he offers are the highest frequencies—joy, gratitude, surrender, trust, unconditional love. These are the thought-forms that align with Divine resonance and can be received.
God’s favor is not personal—it is energetic. The Divine simply reflects what is. Abel’s offering is aligned, and thus it is received. Cain’s is distorted, and thus it cannot resonate. Cain’s anger arises from the dissonance he feels within, not from external rejection. His face falls because the heart knows when it’s out of tune.
We are each invited to examine what we bring to the altar: Are we offering out of fear, guilt, performance? Or are we offering from presence, peace, and divine alignment?
🌟 Why We Use Kabbalah Insights, Tarot Guidance, A Course in Miracles, Chakra and Energy Healing, Essential Oils, and Crystals
We weave these spiritual tools into our reflections and rituals because they are gateways to deeper understanding and alignment with the Divine.
🌟 Kabbalah Insights
This passage aligns with the sefirah of Tiferet, the heart of the Tree of Life. Tiferet reflects beauty through harmony—when the inner offering matches divine design.
Cain operates from Yesod (foundation), a lower astral state connected to desire and ego. Abel ascends to Tiferet, where the heart aligns with heaven.
Just as the Tree of Life unfolds from Keter to Malkuth, our soul descends and must rise again—by choosing alignment over effort, grace over striving.
🌟 Tarot Guidance
🌟 Why Use Tarot to Help Explain the Bible?
Tarot and the Bible both speak the language of the soul—a symbolic language that transcends time, culture, and religious tradition. When we read the Bible as a mystical or allegorical text, Tarot becomes a powerful companion tool that can help us:
1. Access the Archetypes Hidden in Scripture
The Tarot is built on universal archetypes: The Fool, The Magician, The Lovers, The Tower, etc. These archetypes are spiritual energies and inner states we all encounter on the path of awakening.
The Bible is full of these same patterns:
- Adam is The Fool—innocent, beginning a journey.
- Moses is The Hierophant—teacher and spiritual leader.
- Jesus is both The Hanged Man (sacrifice) and The Sun (illumination).
By using Tarot, we unlock a symbolic key that helps us interpret the characters and events in scripture as reflections of our own inner transformation.
2. Bridge the Subconscious and the Sacred
While the Bible speaks to our higher mind and spiritual understanding, Tarot speaks to the subconscious, the intuitive, and the emotional body. Combining them creates a full-spectrum map of healing—one that engages the conscious, unconscious, and divine self.
Tarot doesn’t “predict” the Bible—it mirrors it, offering:
- Emotional resonance
- Inner meaning
- Spiritual lesson
This helps us embody the teachings rather than just intellectualize them.
3. Support Non-Literal, Mystical Interpretation
If we read the Bible not as historical fact but as a soul journey, Tarot supports that framework. It helps us see:
- The Garden of Eden as a state of inner harmony.
- The serpent as a catalyst for awakening.
- Cain and Abel as personas within the psyche.
Tarot cards echo these same patterns—inviting us to reflect and evolve, not just obey.
4. Guide Personal Revelation
Each Tarot card acts as a spiritual mirror. When placed alongside a biblical passage, it can help a person:
- See what part of the story they’re currently living.
- Recognize emotional blockages or spiritual opportunities.
- Receive direct inner guidance from their higher self.
For example:
- Reading Genesis 4:9 (Cain & Abel) with the Five of Swords and Judgement card helps us feel the moral weight and spiritual call beyond the literal murder.
5. Restore Feminine and Intuitive Wisdom
The Bible, as traditionally interpreted, often silences the feminine, intuitive, and nonlinear aspects of truth. Tarot reintroduces that dimension:
- The High Priestess restores inner knowing and divine mystery.
- The Empress revives the sacred feminine as a nurturing creator.
- The Moon invites emotional depth and healing.
This balances the rational, patriarchal frameworks and helps integrate heart with mind, intuition with logic.
Final Thought:
Using Tarot with the Bible is not about divination. It’s about illumination.
It’s about awakening the layers of divine meaning encoded in scripture so that it becomes a living revelation—one that meets you exactly where you are on your spiritual path.
The relevant card is The Lovers—not about romance, but divine choice. Do we unite inner dualities and offer from wholeness?
Cain represents the divided mind. Abel, the integrated soul. The Lovers card invites us to choose again: offer your highest truth, not your performance.
🌟 A Course in Miracles Reflection
“Only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation.” – ACIM
Cain’s offering lacks alignment because it is not given in spirit—it is presented in form.
Abel’s gift is spiritual substance.
Key Lesson: The content, not the form, is what matters to God.
Reflection: When I shift from fear to love, all my offerings become holy.
🌿 Why We Include Rituals
Every blog post in this Scripture and Ritual series is more than a reflection—it is a living practice.
Rituals are bridges between the seen and the unseen, inviting the soul’s highest truths to manifest.
By including meditation, journaling, tapping, or anointing, we honor that spiritual transformation is a full-body, heart-centered journey.
💜 Chakra & Energy Healing Focus
Chakra / Energy Center: High Heart Chakra (Turquoise Light)
The High Heart is a portal between the lower heart (personal love) and the upper chakras (divine communion). It is the sacred altar of inner offering.
- Balanced State: Pure love, intuitive generosity, unshakable joy.
- Imbalance: People-pleasing, spiritual striving, performative worship.
Chakras are portals linking the unseen spiritual realms to the body. Our level of love or fear determines what enters through these gates. Abel offers through love—Cain through fear.
🌿 Essential Oils
- Frankincense – Elevates consciousness, aligns offerings with divine purpose.
- Geranium – Opens the heart to trust and emotional honesty.
- Blue Tansy – Calms inner tension, supports intuitive alignment.
💎 Crystals
- Rose Quartz – Harmonizes and clears the emotional body.
- Turquoise – Activates the high heart and strengthens intuitive expression.
- Celestite – Bridges the gap between spirit and form, calling in divine support.
👐 EFT Tapping Sequence
🌀 How to Use This Tapping Sequence
Before beginning, breathe deeply and tune into the emotional tone of your “offering.” Is there fear? Expectation? Longing?
Tapping Points and Affirmations
1️⃣ High Heart (center of chest, above heart):
“I open this altar with love, not fear.”
2️⃣ Eyebrow:
“I release the need to perform for love.”
3️⃣ Side of Eye:
“I let go of offerings made from guilt.”
4️⃣ Under Eye:
“I offer what is real—my truth, my presence.”
5️⃣ Under Nose:
“I no longer strive. I surrender.”
6️⃣ Chin:
“I bring my highest thoughts before the Divine.”
7️⃣ Collarbone:
“My true offering is my alignment.”
🌟 Integration Breath
Breathe into the High Heart. Feel the release. You are received.
🌅 Simple Anointing & Meditation Ritual
Anointing Practice
1️⃣ Place a drop of Frankincense on your fingertips.
2️⃣ Gently anoint the High Heart Chakra and whisper:
“I anoint the altar within. I give with love, and I am received in light.”
3️⃣ Optional: Anoint Crown and Third Eye to invite spiritual clarity.
Crystal Companion
Hold Turquoise or place it on your chest as you enter the meditation.
Meditation for Divine Offering
- Sit comfortably.
- Visualize a soft turquoise flame in the center of your chest.
- With each breath, this flame grows brighter.
- Offer a thought, a prayer, a feeling into this flame.
- See it rise like smoke into the heavens, received with joy.
- Affirm softly:
“I am worthy. I am aligned. I am received.”
🖋️ Journaling for Reflection
What do I offer from love?
What have I offered from fear?
Where have I tried to prove my worth instead of trusting it?
Today, I begin again—offering only what is real and aligned.
✨ Closing Blessing
May your heart be the holy altar where only truth is offered.
May you remember that what the Divine favors is not your effort, but your alignment.
Let your offerings rise from love, and may the fire of the High Heart consume all that no longer resonates with your highest self.
You are seen. You are received. You are the light of the offering. So may it be.
– Alchemist Iris
alchemistiris.com