2 Chronicles 36:22 · World English Bible
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
The releasing power that frees the captive faculties comes stirred from within, and it wears the face of a foreign king to show that the awakening current is older than the religion that inherited it. Cyrus, whose people kept the fire temples and worshipped the light, is the roused solar force in a person that issues the decree of return and sends the scattered powers home from exile.
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The releasing power that frees the captive faculties comes stirred from within, and it wears the face of a foreign king to show that the awakening current is older than the religion that inherited it. Cyrus, whose people kept the fire temples and worshipped the light, is the roused solar force in a person that issues the decree of return and sends the scattered powers home from exile. The stirring of his spirit is the true god waking that agent inside, the warmth in the Persia of the self, the region of inner fire where devotion to the light burns. What the outer story reads as a Zoroastrian ruler named in Hebrew scripture is the inner truth that the power of liberation was always one, and that the awakened self proclaims release throughout its whole kingdom, the body and its every faculty.
Cyrus: the roused solar force in a person that decrees the return of the exiled faculties Persia: the region of inner fire and warmth, where devotion to the light burns in a person Kingdom: the whole body and its every faculty, over which the release is proclaimed
Esoteric lens
What inside me has been quietly asking to be let out of exile?
The liberating knowledge is not acquired from outside; it is uncovered within, where it has been the whole time. The teacher only points.
Something rouses and the whole thing turns over at once: the old masters spoke of a sudden waking that nothing outside produced. The spark was always there, and no tradition owns it.
What you seek is seeking you. The longing that moves you toward the light is itself the light already stirring.
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