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Daniel 7:10 · World English Bible

Daniel 7:10 Meaning A Fiery Stream Issued and Came Out

A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set. The books were opened.

What does Daniel 7:10 mean?

A river of fire pours out from the seat of highest consciousness within, the living current of spirit streaming down through a person from the crown. The countless thousands that serve and stand before this throne are the innumerable cells, energies, and faculties of the body, the whole host of the organism ranged in order beneath the ruling light.

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A river of fire pours out from the seat of highest consciousness within, the living current of spirit streaming down through a person from the crown. The countless thousands that serve and stand before this throne are the innumerable cells, energies, and faculties of the body, the whole host of the organism ranged in order beneath the ruling light. Judgment is set when this higher center takes its seat and weighs every part of the nature against the flame. The opened books are the records held in the very substance of a person, the memory and pattern written into flesh, laid bare before the fiery presence. All that one is stands revealed under the streaming light and is measured.

When the crown of consciousness awakens, its fire flows down through the entire inner kingdom, and every faculty and stored record of the body is brought into the open and assessed.

The fiery stream: the living current of spirit pouring down from the crown center of consciousness Thousand thousands: the innumerable cells and faculties of the body ranged as servants beneath the ruling light The books: the records written into the substance of a person, the memory and pattern held in the flesh

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Live Daniel 7:10 today

  1. Sit still for a few minutes today and let your attention move slowly down through your body, jaw, shoulders, chest, hands, gut. You are not fixing anything. You are letting every part come into the open and be seen.
  2. With one person today, let something out of your own record that you usually keep closed, a memory, a regret, something you carry in your body. Say it in daylight and let it be looked at kindly.
  3. When you are angry in traffic or in a meeting and the heat rises through you, stay with it one extra breath instead of acting. Let that fire show you what it is actually about before you let it out of your mouth.

If everything I carry were brought into the light right now, which part would I most want to look away from?

The same truth in other traditions

Hinduism · Upanishads

The light seated in the heart lights the whole body, and nothing in you is outside its reach. Everything you are belongs to that one awareness.

Zen

When awareness truly wakes, nothing stays hidden; the dust you had swept under the mat is simply visible. The light does not scold, it just shows.

Taoism

The current comes down from above and every small channel fills in order. Each part finds its place not by striving but by letting the stream reach it.

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