Ezekiel 10:1 Meaning Then I Looked

Above the guarding energies of the body sits the seat of rule, and that seat is the highest center in the head, where consciousness governs everything below it. The blue of sapphire is the color of the pineal light, the deep still radiance that comes on when the lower fires are quieted and awareness rises to its crown.

The throne is only a likeness, a seeming, because the true ruler is not an object to be seen but the seeing itself. What appears over the head is the place of command in a person, the point from which the whole living temple is ordered.

Firmament: the vault of the skull, the inner sky where the higher mind sits above the body Cherubims: the guarding life-forces that surround and protect the seat of consciousness Sapphire stone: the blue pineal light that shines when awareness rises and the lower nature grows still Throne: the ruling center in the head from which consciousness governs the whole body

Such a picture does not come from daytime thinking. It rises on its own from the deep layer of the mind that every person carries, the same layer that has shaped thrones and shining stones in the dreams of people who never met. When the mind reaches toward its own center, it tends to show that center as something raised up, radiant, and ordered above the confusion below.

The throne of blue stone is one of these images. It is the mind picturing the steady center that holds a person together, given as an image because that center is felt long before it can be put into words.

The man in exile keeps saying "like" and "as it were," and that honesty is itself the cure. A heart that claims to have seen God plainly is only showing off its own certainty; the humble heart admits it caught a resemblance, a blue stone standing in for a glory too bright to name.

Still, the throne is really there. The clear stone does not invent the light it holds; it lets the light be seen without pretending to be its source. So a person meets God exactly here, in the gap between the seeing and the seen.