Ezekiel 10:2 · World English Bible
He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” He went in as I watched.
The man clothed in linen is the purified will, sent down through the turning wheels of the body's own powers to reach the fire beneath its highest station. The coals gathered from between the cherubims are living heat drawn from the seat of spirit within, and scattering them over the city is the release of that fire through the crowded mass of ordinary thought and habit.
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The man clothed in linen is the purified will, sent down through the turning wheels of the body's own powers to reach the fire beneath its highest station. The coals gathered from between the cherubims are living heat drawn from the seat of spirit within, and scattering them over the city is the release of that fire through the crowded mass of ordinary thought and habit.
The descent happens inside, not over stone streets. The purified part goes down into the machinery of the flesh, takes up the divine fire stored at the center, and lets it fall through the whole population of the mind, so what is dead burns away and only what can bear the heat remains.
Man clothed with linen: the purified will in a person, wrapped in cleanness and sent to do the inner work Wheels: the turning powers and cycles of the body through which the will must pass Cherub: the guarding intelligence of spirit seated above the body's forces Coals of fire: the living divine heat stored at the center of a person, gathered to be released City: the crowded mass of thoughts and habits a person carries, given over to the fire
Esoteric lens
Where in my ordinary day does the heat in me need to go?
Do your work, all of it, but let it be an offering rather than a grab. The doing stays, the grasping goes.
The fire you fear is the same fire that cooks you into something edible. Let it reach the parts of you that are still raw.
Carry water and chop wood. Enlightenment does not pull you out of the ordinary work, it goes down into it.
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