Ezekiel 8:16 Meaning He Brought Me Into the Inner Court

The abomination is a matter of direction inside the head. The temple is the brain, its inner court the deep chamber where the presence would be met, yet the faculties stand at the very door with their backs turned to that inner light. They face outward to the rising sun and bow to it, worshipping the outer fire while the true east, the presence of god within, waits behind them ignored.

These are the sense-bound powers, fixed on what the eyes can catch and the outer world can offer. Every rite of the outward sun, the sunrise worship that later became the Easter morning turned toward the east, is born here, in faculties that mistake the light in the sky for the light in the skull.

Temple of the LORD: the human brain, whose inner court is the deep chamber where the presence is met Door between the porch and the altar: the threshold at the head where the light would enter, held open or turned from East: the direction of the presence of god, which here is sought outside instead of within Sun: the outer fire worshipped by the senses in place of the inner light