For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”
Wilderness: the barren stretch of the mind where the ego's beliefs rise to be met, the emptiness Spirit leads through rather than around
Christian Psychology lens · Luke 4:1
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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The wilderness is the mind that has wandered into its own thoughts of separation, a barren place because love has been shut out of awareness. A voice still calls there, the quiet certainty of truth that fear could not silence, asking that the crooked ways of judgment be set straight.
To prepare the way is to clear the mind of the grievances that block the memory of love. Nothing must be built and no one must be impressed. The path is made straight simply by laying down each attack thought, so that what was always present can be recognized again.
The spirit withdraws into meditation, the inward wilderness stripped of the world's noise, and there a place already waits, prepared by God for the soul's nourishment. Fleeing is turning inward: the feminine spirit leaving the crowded outer life to be fed in the silence where consciousness is reached.
The number 1260 is no stretch of calendar days but a deliberate code for a state of consciousness, the measured inner condition in which the spirit is sustained. What looks like a woman hiding from a dragon is the living soul entering stillness, fed in that quiet until it is strong.
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