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[Inner Wheels] > Isaiah 61 - Peh - Beauty for Ashes
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Spoke 17

Isaiah 61 - Peh - Beauty for Ashes

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 61

The opening of the prisons exemplifies the fundamental theme of Spoke 17 (cf. The Promise of His Coming). The phrase beauty for ashes is a Hebrew wordplay - pic (Epher, Ashes - from the idea of blowing) being an anagram of pic (Pa'ar, Beauty). The active element of both it the Letter Peh which means "mouth" and with many connotations to things of the face. It is deeply integrated with all the elements on Spoke 17 and its associated Inner Cycles. Of particular interest is the mysterious appearance of yet another fundamental Peh KeyWord that differs from pic (Pur, Lot) - the central theme of Esther, Book 17 - by a single letter. This is all greatly amplified by the central theme of Esther - Beauty (Pa'ar). Yet there is more. The theme expressed in the passage above sums up the whole book of Esther! We read (Esther 9.22f):

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

There are two KJV KeyLink sets that connect Isaiah 61 to this seminal passage of Esther. Searching either for the set (mourning, joy, give/gifts) and (mourning, joy, "unto them") selects Esther 9.22 and Isaiah 61.3. Using