Acts 1:13 · World English Bible
When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
The ascent into the upper room is the lifting of attention out of the lower body into the high chamber of the head, the elevated place where consciousness gathers before it is charged. There the powers of a person assemble and abide, waiting.
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The ascent into the upper room is the lifting of attention out of the lower body into the high chamber of the head, the elevated place where consciousness gathers before it is charged. There the powers of a person assemble and abide, waiting. The 11 named ones are faculties of the awakened being, each a distinct energy: hearing, faith, love, strength, and the rest, drawn together in one raised place instead of scattered through the outer life.
The number 11 stands here for the circle left after the betrayer has fallen away, the working powers of a person gathered and not yet completed by the descending fire. The upper room is entered by going up within, by raising the whole company of inner powers to the top of the temple that is the body, where they wait as one until the higher energy comes down upon them.
Upper room: the high chamber at the top of the head, the elevated place within a person where consciousness gathers to be charged The 11 named: the working faculties of the awakened being, distinct inner powers drawn up together and waiting after the 12th has fallen away
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