After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
James "supplanter". Jacob's name: the faculty that grabs a heel and takes a position that was never assigned to it.
Names & Places lens · Matthew 13:55
and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
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When a mind is drawn up and set apart from its usual noise, what it always was becomes visible. The change that comes over the figure before them is not a new thing added but a veil removed, the covering of appearance lifted so that the light beneath shows through. Nothing was created in that moment; something was finally seen, because the mind had climbed to where it could look without fear.
The height and the apartness are the inner condition for this seeing. Away from the constant traffic of judgment and defense, the mind grows still enough to perceive the truth that the ordinary day keeps hidden. What is shown on the mountain is what is always true, waiting only for a quiet high place in the mind where it can at last be recognized.
The 6 days are the 6 energy centers, the sixth reached before the light breaks open, the lower labor of the body completed step by step until the ascent can begin. Peter, James, and John are the 3 levels a person carries up together: the physical, the mind, and the spirit, with Peter the small stone, the pineal, the seed of vision at the center of the head. Led apart, away from the crowd of ordinary thought, they climb.
The high mountain is the raised state of consciousness at the crown, and there the form changes: the hidden radiance that was always inside the body shines out through it. Transfiguration is the light that lived within a person breaking through the surface once the climb reaches the top of the head.
James "heel-holder". Jacob's name in Greek: the grip that comes in behind and takes the place ahead of it.
John "the LORD is gracious". Favor that arrives unearned, standing right beside the grip that grabs.
Zebedee "gift". Both brothers are sons of a name built on the root for bestowing, so the grasping and the grace come from the same source.
Simon "hearing". The faculty that takes something in before it acts.
Jesus "the LORD is salvation". The saving principle in a person, and it addresses hearing.
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