Ezekiel 1:26 · World English Bible
Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.
At the very top of the great vision, above all the wheels and fire, sits not a force or a blaze of light but a figure shaped like a person. The highest thing the mind can picture of God still wears a human face.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
At the very top of the great vision, above all the wheels and fire, sits not a force or a blaze of light but a figure shaped like a person. The highest thing the mind can picture of God still wears a human face.
This matters. The divine and the human are not strangers. The center of the soul, the part that quietly orders everything else, shows up as a person on a throne because that center is what a whole human being looks like from the inside. What rules at the top of the vision is the same wholeness each person is slowly growing toward.
Psychoanalysis lens
Where have you been looking for something holy that was always wearing a human face?
The deepest self and the ultimate reality are not two separate things. What sits at the summit and what sits in your chest are the same.
He said the truth that cost him everything: what you are looking for is not far from the one looking. The distance you imagine is the only distance there is.
Stop looking for the holy outside yourself. The ordinary person in front of you, reading this, is where it is happening.
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