Ezekiel 11:22 · World English Bible
Ezekiel 11:22 Meaning Then the Cherubim Lifted Up Their Wings
Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
What does Ezekiel 11:22 mean?
The cherubim lifting their wings are the pituitary and pineal within the head rising into activity, and Israel is Isis the spirit joined to Ra the mind and El the god within, so the glory of the God of Israel is that whole inner union shining above the glands. The wheels turning beside them are the circling energies that move with the awakened centers.
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The cherubim lifting their wings are the pituitary and pineal within the head rising into activity, and Israel is Isis the spirit joined to Ra the mind and El the god within, so the glory of the God of Israel is that whole inner union shining above the glands. The wheels turning beside them are the circling energies that move with the awakened centers. The glory rests over them and above, the light of the indwelling divinity crowning the head when spirit, mind, and the god within are gathered as one. This is the interior lifting off: the sacred machinery of the skull coming alive with the light that belongs to a person's own higher self.
Cherubims: the pituitary and pineal glands within the head, lifting into activity. Israel: Isis the spirit, Ra the mind, and El the god within, joined as one. Wheels: the circling energies that turn beside the awakened glands.
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Live Ezekiel 11:22 today
- Sit somewhere quiet for a few minutes with your phone face down in another room, and let your attention rest in the space just behind your forehead. Nothing to picture, nothing to achieve, just attention sitting still in one place until the noise settles.
- When you are with someone today, a partner, a friend, your kid, give them your eyes and your full head instead of half of it. You will feel the difference in your own skull when everything in you faces one direction.
- In the middle of a hard meeting or a tense call, pause for one breath and lift your attention from your churning stomach to the top of your head. The problem stays, but you stop being underneath it.
What in me is still scattered in six directions when I already know where the light comes in?
The same truth in other traditions
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
The teaching points to a center behind the brow where focused attention gathers and steadies. When the scattered mind is drawn to that one point, a light is said to appear that is not borrowed from the senses.
Taoism · Inner Alchemy
The Taoist adepts spoke of circulating the breath up the spine and into the crown, where the refined energy pools. They called the result a light in the upper chamber, the body itself becoming the vessel.
Kabbalah
The crown, Keter, sits above thought rather than inside it. What shines there is not something a person builds but something already overhead, waiting for the lower faculties to align and receive it.
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