Hebrews 9:28 · World English Bible
Hebrews 9:28 Meaning So Christ Also
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
What does Hebrews 9:28 mean?
The oil of the spine descends once into a person and takes up the whole weight of a mind that has fallen wide of its aim, carrying the accumulated missings of many faculties down into the flesh so they can be answered from within rather than escaped. This is the single offering: the anointing principle assuming the burden of the lower self and passing through it.
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The oil of the spine descends once into a person and takes up the whole weight of a mind that has fallen wide of its aim, carrying the accumulated missings of many faculties down into the flesh so they can be answered from within rather than escaped. This is the single offering: the anointing principle assuming the burden of the lower self and passing through it.
What returns is that same principle, now stripped of the load, and it shows itself only to the attention already turned inward and waiting for it. When the crism is raised again to the pineal, judgment and death lose their grip, and the lifting of consciousness out of its fallen condition finishes what the first descent began. Salvation here is that completed rise, felt in the body as the mind clearing and steadying.
Christ: the oil of the spine that rises to anoint the brain, the anointing energy at work in a person
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Live Hebrews 9:28 today
- Sometime today, let yourself feel the full weight of something you have been carrying instead of distracting yourself from it. Put the phone face down for five minutes and just let it be heavy. It tends to get lighter once it is actually felt.
- Tell one person something you have been holding alone. Not the whole story, just the true part, and let them carry a corner of it with you.
- In a tense meeting or a hard phone call, sit up straighter and breathe out slowly before you answer. The body clearing first is often what lets the mind clear at all.
What have you been holding up high that you could set down and look at instead?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Tao Te Ching
The way goes down before it rises. What is lowest gathers everything, and only what has been willing to sink can later come up carrying nothing.
Hinduism · Kundalini teaching
The energy coiled at the base of the spine rises through the body to the crown, and what was heavy and sleeping becomes clear and awake. The whole path is one current finding its way up.
Buddhism
The awakened one returns to the marketplace, but empty-handed now. Nothing was added; a weight was set down.
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