The Rest of Esther 10

How to read these pages: the text itself comes first, verse by verse, in the volume's own translation. Beneath each verse stands its Meaning — a rendering of what the passage's terms name in the inner life, drawn from the correspondences the text itself uses. The text is never altered; the meaning is offered, not imposed.

King James Version

4Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.

Then Mardocheus said: The Source hath done these things.

5For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.

For I remember a dream — a message of the deeper mind, truth shown in symbol while consciousness rests — which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing of it hath failed.

6A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:

A little fountain became a river — a small source of truth became a current of life through the state — and there was light, and the sun, and much water: understanding, and Divine Love-Wisdom itself, and a great flow of thought. This river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen.

7And the two dragons are I and Aman.

And the two dragons — the sense-mind's devouring states, set against one another — are I and Aman.

8And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:

And the nations were the gathered peoples of consciousness that assembled to destroy the name of the Jews — the inner name-nature of the praise-people.

9And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.

And my nation is this Israel, which cried to the Source and was saved: for the indwelling LORD hath saved His people, and the indwelling LORD hath delivered us from all those evils; and the Source hath wrought signs — works in the outer that signify a greater work in the inner — and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.

10Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.

Therefore hath He made two lots — two portions assigned under the divine order — one for the people of the Source, and another for all the Gentiles.

11And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.

And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment — the crisis-moment when the divine order confronts a state all at once — before the Source among all nations.

12So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

So the Source remembered His people, and justified His inheritance — set it again in right relation to the divine order.

13Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with gladness before God, according to the generations for ever among his people.

Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly — a gathered company — and joy, and with gladness before the Source, according to the generations for ever among His people: the order of states unfolding, age after age.

Companion volume to The Why Bible — the King James Apocrypha, rendered in its spiritual meanings. First final edition, October 2026.