Hebrews 7:21 · World English Bible
(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”
2 orders of priesthood divide here. The temporary kind, made without an oath, is the mind's ordinary religious effort that rises and falls and passes with the body.
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2 orders of priesthood divide here. The temporary kind, made without an oath, is the mind's ordinary religious effort that rises and falls and passes with the body. The eternal kind, sworn and unchanging, is the Christ consciousness within, a mediating awareness that does not depend on birth or death because it was never made by them.
Melchizedek, king of righteousness and king of peace, has neither beginning of days nor end, standing for the deathless self already present in a person. The unbreakable oath marks an inner priesthood that endures while every outward form of worship rises and falls.
Priests without an oath: the mind's passing religious efforts, made and unmade with the body Melchisedec: the deathless self within, priest without beginning or end, righteousness and peace joined
Esoteric lens
What in me has been there through every version of my life so far?
The self within was never born and does not die. Bodies and moods come and go across it the way weather crosses a sky.
Return to the root and you find what is still. Things rise and fall at the surface, but the deep place they rise from does not come and go.
Everything you can see is already changing. Rest your weight on what is not in that current, not on the forms passing through it.
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