1 Kings 11:7 · World English Bible
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
When the ruling mind bows to lower cravings, it raises altars to them inside its own head, building high places of worship for the very forces that consume it. Chemosh and Molech are the fire-gods of appetite and of devouring desire, the burning drives that ask the self to sacrifice its living energy to them.
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When the ruling mind bows to lower cravings, it raises altars to them inside its own head, building high places of worship for the very forces that consume it. Chemosh and Molech are the fire-gods of appetite and of devouring desire, the burning drives that ask the self to sacrifice its living energy to them.
That these shrines rise on the hill before Jerusalem means the corruption is set up right beside the center of peace within, the seat of wholeness now shadowed by rival altars. The temple of the body ends up housing the gods that eat it.
High place: an inner altar of worship, a craving exalted and given a shrine in the mind Chemosh: the fire-god of appetite in the Moabite flesh, the drive that burns up a person's energy Molech: the devouring desire that demands the self sacrifice its own vitality to it Hill before Jerusalem: the height of consciousness set right beside the center of inner peace, now overshadowed by rival worship
Esoteric lens
What have you given a permanent place in your life that you never meant to invite in?
No enemy does a person as much harm as his own untended mind. What he feeds daily becomes what rules him.
There is no worse trouble than wanting without end. The hunger you keep honoring is the one that eats your days.
Who is strong? The one who rules himself. The appetite you keep saying yes to builds itself a throne in you.
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