Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Zion is the stronghold in Jerusalem that David captured (2 Samuel 5:7), and the name grew to mean the city and God's home among his people. Psalm 132:13 says Yahweh has chosen Zion, and Hebrews 12:22 uses it for the heavenly Jerusalem.
The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
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The desert is a mind's own little kingdom, kept apart and defended, and it is dry because nothing grows where nothing is shared. It blossoms the moment love is invited in past the barrier built to keep love out. The blooming then spreads on its own, since every brother welcomed arrives carrying love with him and never departs alone, and the garden widens with each one taken in.
Streams breaking out in waste ground are miracles, falling like drops of healing rain from Heaven onto a world gone dry and dusty. The water is love given to everyone who thirsts and has grown too weary to walk on by himself. The sick and the sorrowing are healed by calling on the Name of God, which is the caller's own name as well, and under it the tears of pain dry and happy laughter goes out to bless the world.
Sightless eyes open because Christ gives them His own vision, and stopped ears hear because He sings to them of Heaven, until the sound of battle and of death is nowhere in them any longer. What waits at the end of the holy way is a sanctuary with its doors standing open, where brothers near and far come in and rest.
The call to arise and shine is the summons to lift consciousness from its long sleep in the lower body up into the awakened soul-state in the right side of the head, the upper room entered only in stillness. When a person practices the single eye rather than only reading about it, an inner electromagnetic radiance is released, the melatonin brightness that the ancients called light, and it fills the one who has risen to meet it. This is not a lamp lit from outside; the shining comes from within the skull once the soul turns upward and touches its source.
The glory said to rise upon a person is that same source operating in the body, the current of spirit reaching its highest station. What religion pictures as a far-off dawn over a city is the ordinary morning of anyone who quiets the mind and lets the higher consciousness wake.
monument; raised up; sepulcher
sunny; very dry; clear
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