1 Kings 11:6 Meaning Solomon Did That Which Was Evil

Peace that once sat crowned inside a person turns and misuses the very power that built it, spending divine energy downward instead of holding it toward the light. Solomon is the settled stillness reached in meditation, and evil here is nothing devilish, only the god-power in a person bent to lower ends, so the higher aim slips and the inner ruler no longer keeps his face turned upward.

David, the earlier part of the personality, still lived surrounded by inner war and kept pressing wholeheartedly toward the center, while this later part drifts and divides. What breaks is not a man's morality but the single, undivided attention that carries a person all the way in.

Solomon: the crowned stillness and peace a person reaches at the height of inward meditation David: the earlier part of the personality that lives surrounded by inner war yet presses toward the center Father: the right hemisphere of the brain, the source the ruling self is meant to keep turning toward