2 Chronicles 36:23 · World English Bible
“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’ ”
A foreign king, a worshipper of light, is charged to raise the house in the high city because the faculty that rebuilds the sacred structure does not answer to any one creed. The temple is the human head, the brain set between the ears where the 2 hemispheres meet, and the house to be built there is the seat of the light-receiving center.
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A foreign king, a worshipper of light, is charged to raise the house in the high city because the faculty that rebuilds the sacred structure does not answer to any one creed. The temple is the human head, the brain set between the ears where the 2 hemispheres meet, and the house to be built there is the seat of the light-receiving center. Jerusalem is the higher consciousness, the crown of the mind, and the one sent up to build is the part of a person that has heard the command of light and turns inward to construct the dwelling where the divine is known.
Cyrus: the light-worshipping faculty within, moved to rebuild the sacred center regardless of the creed it wears Temple: the human head, the brain between the ears where the 2 hemispheres meet Jerusalem: the higher consciousness, the crown of the mind, the inner city raised on the heights Heaven: the sky-mind above, the ancient Ouranos, the realm of light from which the charge descends
Esoteric lens
What am I building inside my own head, on purpose or by accident?
Without going out the door, you can know the world. The way in and the way up are the same road.
No one purifies another; you are your own refuge and you build it yourself. The work is interior and nobody else can do your part of it.
The Sufis speak of the heart as the house God chooses, which is why it must be swept and kept. The structure is built inward, not upward on the ground.
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