What Does Oil Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

The foolish mind mistakes the outward form of devotion for its substance. It carries the lamp, the appearance of seeking, but leaves behind the oil, the inner willingness that alone gives the seeking any life. This is the ego's whole strategy, to perform readiness while withholding the one thing that would make it real, so that the mind can seem to walk toward love while quietly staying where it is.

A form without content is the emptiest of possessions, for it deceives its owner most of all. To hold the lamp and neglect the oil is to want the reward of awakening without the small daily consent that awakening asks.

• Lamps: the outward show of seeking, the form of devotion carried for others to see.
• Oil: the inner willingness that gives seeking its life, the quiet consent that must be gathered within.

A fine oil is secreted within the brain, and as it rises up the spine and bathes the higher centers it becomes the teacher no outside voice can be. This is the anointing that abides, the Christ oil pooling in the chamber of the head, and where it flows it opens direct knowing so instruction from without is no longer needed.

The oil itself teaches because it wakes the faculties that perceive truth firsthand. To abide in him is to stay under this inner anointing, letting the raised secretion keep the higher awareness lit from inside rather than seeking the light through another person.

• Anointing, oil: the fine secretion of the brain, the Christ oil that rises up the spine and bathes the higher centers until it becomes the inner teacher