Daniel 3:19 · World English Bible
Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
The tyrant is the ego enraged when the steady faculties in a person refuse to bow to it. Nebuchadnezzar is the ruling self of the lower mind, and when it cannot bend the higher powers to its will it turns up the heat, stoking the inner fire to burn them out.
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The tyrant is the ego enraged when the steady faculties in a person refuse to bow to it. Nebuchadnezzar is the ruling self of the lower mind, and when it cannot bend the higher powers to its will it turns up the heat, stoking the inner fire to burn them out. The number 7 is the full spiritual measure, the complete set of centers in the body, so the furnace raised 7 times over is trial pushed to its total intensity.
Yet the fire meant to destroy is the very fire that refines. What the ego heats to consume the higher nature only tempers it and leaves it standing.
Nebuchadnezzar: the ruling ego of the lower mind, enraged when it cannot command the higher faculties The furnace: the inner fire of trial and passion, the heat that either destroys or refines 7 times: the number 7, the full spiritual measure of the centers, trial raised to its complete intensity
Esoteric lens
When the heat got turned up today, did it burn you or firm you up?
Water does not fight the stone, yet it wears it down. What cannot be commanded is what finally outlasts the one doing the commanding.
Another's rage can reach your body and your circumstances. It cannot reach your judgment unless you open the door and let it in.
Gold is tested in fire and comes out gold. Pressure does not create what you are, it only burns off what you were carrying.
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