1 Kings 6:8 · World English Bible
The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
The house is the body, built in stories, and 1 does not enter the higher rooms straight on but by a turning, winding climb. The door opens on the right side, the way of active strength, and from there the ascent is gradual: first the middle chamber, then out of the middle into the third, never skipping a floor.
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The house is the body, built in stories, and 1 does not enter the higher rooms straight on but by a turning, winding climb. The door opens on the right side, the way of active strength, and from there the ascent is gradual: first the middle chamber, then out of the middle into the third, never skipping a floor. This is how awareness rises in a person, level by level, each state opened only after the one below it has been passed through and closed. There is no leap to the top; the stairs wind because growth in a person turns back on itself before it climbs higher.
House: the body built in stories, the temple whose rooms are the rising levels of a person's awareness Winding stairs: the turning, gradual climb by which awareness ascends, curving back on itself before reaching higher Middle chamber: the intermediate state of consciousness, the room 1 must fully pass through before the next opens Third: the higher room reached only in order, after the levels beneath it have been entered and left behind
Esoteric lens
What step are you trying to skip, and what would it look like to simply take the one in front of you?
The path is drawn as an ordered series of scenes, searching, glimpsing, taming, riding home. Each picture only makes sense after the one before it.
The path is laid out in stations, and a traveler cannot claim a station they have not lived through. Pretending to be further along only stalls the journey.
The tree that reaches high began as a sprout, and the long road is walked a step at a time. Hurry breaks what growth would have built.
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