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What Does Sabbath Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
What does Sabbath mean in the Bible?
Sabbath: the appointed rest, the observance made to serve the mind's peace, which the ego reverses into a master the mind must fear and obey
Christian Psychology lens · Mark 2:27
Where Sabbath appears in the Bible
Matthew 24:20
Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
1 Chronicles 9:32
Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
2 Chronicles 23:4
This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.
Sabbath through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Luke 6:5
Christian Psychology
Rest was never a law imposed from outside to be guarded and obeyed; it belongs to the awakened self, which is master of it. Fear turns even peace into a rule and then quarrels over its keeping, mistaking the letter for the gift. But true rest is not a day the mind must earn; it is the mind's own nature once it has ceased to defend and attack.
So the quiet is not owed to a commandment but flows from what the mind already is. The awakened self does not serve the rule of rest; it is the source from which real rest comes.
- Sabbath: the appointed peace fear turns into a law to be enforced, which in truth is the mind's own restfulness once it stops striving
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Esoteric · Matthew 24:20
Esoteric
The escape upward is measured against 2 conditions inside the body. Winter is the cold, fruitless season of a person, the barren stretch when nothing is ripening; to flee then is to try to rise while the inner life lies dry. The sabbath is the seventh center, the crown, the pineal gland where the sevenfold ascent completes, so the caution about that day speaks to the state of that high center itself and not to any calendar.
Timing is the whole matter. The rising of a person should not fall in the frozen season, nor be forced against the very completion-point that the ascent is climbing toward. What is prayed for is simply the right inner moment to rise.
- Winter: the cold, fruitless season of a person, the barren stretch when nothing is ripening within
- Sabbath: the seventh center, the crown, the pineal gland where the sevenfold ascent reaches completion
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Commentaries on Sabbath
Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Sabbath
the seventh, seventh ( day ); seventh (month); seventh (year); restoration; restitution ; return to a former state; at-one-ment; atonement ; completion; perfection ; wholeness ; repose; rest
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