1 Kings 11:11 · World English Bible
Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
Solomon carries the name of peace and the sun, the crowned mind at its height, ruling from Jerusalem, the seat of vision inside the skull. Yet the ruling mind that turns toward foreign gods, toward the outward senses and their many attractions, loses the inner authority it was given.
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Solomon carries the name of peace and the sun, the crowned mind at its height, ruling from Jerusalem, the seat of vision inside the skull. Yet the ruling mind that turns toward foreign gods, toward the outward senses and their many attractions, loses the inner authority it was given. The kingdom is within, and it is rent when the higher self stops keeping its own law and scatters after appetite.
What is torn away passes to the servant, the lower faculty that was meant to obey. When the sun-mind abandons its center, the very energies that should have served it rise up and take command. The crown does not vanish, but the one who wears it changes, and a person ruled from below lives out the loss of a throne he was born holding.
Solomon: the sun-mind at its noon, the crowned reason meant to rule the whole body from its high seat Jerusalem: the vision of peace within the head, the inner city where the ruling self is enthroned Kingdom: the whole ordered domain of the body and its powers, held together by the mind that governs it Servant: the lower nature that was made to obey and instead inherits the rule when the higher self falls
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Who has been running your day lately, you or your reflexes?
The senses were made to serve the mind, and the mind to serve what is highest. Flip that order and the servants start giving the orders.
Reason is meant to be the thing that judges your impulses. Let impulse do the judging and you are no longer the one living your life.
Mastering yourself is real power. Let it go untended and whatever is loudest in you takes the seat you left empty.
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