What Does Priest Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

Accusation asks for an answer in its own language, and the moment a mind replies in that language it has agreed the charge is real. Silence here is not weakness or defeat. It is the refusal to make the attack meaningful by defending against it. Where love recognizes an accusation as a figure in a dream, there is nothing to argue, because there is no sin being described, only fear pointing at what it made.

A mind that answers nothing to the priests and elders leaves their charge without the foothold it needs. The accusation falls of its own weight when it meets no belief in it.

• Chief priests and elders: the voices of established guilt within the mind, the inner authorities that hand down verdicts of condemnation.

The high priest is the anointed awareness within, the higher self that does not stand apart from the struggling flesh but has passed through every pull the body knows. It has felt the whole range of appetite and fear from the inside, tempted at every point where a person is tempted, and so it understands the lower nature it means to lift.

Yet it came through untouched by the missing of the mark, kept whole because it never mistook the pull for its own identity. This is the part of a person that already carries the answer, having crossed the same ground the body crosses and knowing its weakness from within.

• High priest: the anointed higher self within, the mediating consciousness that has crossed the flesh's every trial without being owned by it