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Ezekiel 40:22 · World English Bible

Ezekiel 40:22 Meaning Its Windows

Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them.

What does Ezekiel 40:22 mean?

The whole survey is a measuring of the human head as a sacred structure. The windows are the senses, the openings through which the outer world enters, and every part is cut to one measure because the body is built to a single divine proportion.

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The whole survey is a measuring of the human head as a sacred structure. The windows are the senses, the openings through which the outer world enters, and every part is cut to one measure because the body is built to a single divine proportion. The gate that looks east opens toward the right hemisphere, where the higher awareness dwells, so the entrance faces the side of the brain that receives the inner light.

The 2 rows of palm carved along the way are the twin currents of energy that wind up either side of the spine, drawing on the inner water as a palm draws from a hidden spring. One rises to that gate by 7 steps, the 7 nerve centers, each a stage the climbing energy must pass before it stands at the threshold of the awakened mind.

Windows: the senses, the openings in the head through which the outer world is let in Gate toward the east: the doorway into the right hemisphere, the side of the brain where the higher awareness lives Palm trees: the 2 energy channels that wind up either side of the spine, feeding on the inner water 7 steps: the 7 nerve centers along the spine, the stages the rising energy climbs

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Live Ezekiel 40:22 today

  1. Give your eyes and ears one quiet hour today with no feed, no music, no podcast. The point is not discipline, it is finding out what your senses sound like when nothing is pouring through them.
  2. When someone is talking to you, let their words come all the way in before you start assembling your reply. Your ears are a door, and most of the time we have it half closed.
  3. When the day gets loud, in traffic, in a packed store, at a tense table, come back to one slow breath and the floor under your feet. You are stepping up out of the noise one stair at a time, not leaping past it.

What have I been letting in through my eyes and ears today without ever deciding to?

The same truth in other traditions

Patanjali, Yoga Sutras

The practice begins with drawing the senses back from their objects, since these openings are what let the outer world flood in. Turn them inward and the same gates become a way through.

Taoism · Tao Te Ching 52

Close the openings and shut the doors, and you spend your life without exhaustion. Leave them wide and you spend yourself on everything that passes.

Buddhism · guarding the sense doors

The teaching speaks of six gates through which experience arrives, and of standing watch at each. Not walling them up, simply knowing what you are letting in.

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