Isaiah 6:1 · World English Bible
Isaiah 6:1 Meaning In the Year That King Uzziah Died
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
What does Isaiah 6:1 mean?
King Uzziah is the old ruling self-concept in a person, the identity he had lived by, and its death is the necessary end of that outworn state. Only when the former self falls does a person see the Lord.
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King Uzziah is the old ruling self-concept in a person, the identity he had lived by, and its death is the necessary end of that outworn state. Only when the former self falls does a person see the Lord. That Lord is his own awareness of being, seated high and lifted up on the throne of his own consciousness. The one who governs the inner world has never been outside him.
The temple is the person himself. The train that fills it is the whole reach of that awareness, spreading to occupy every part of his life. A vision like this comes when a lower state passes and the higher takes the throne. What a person meets on that seat is not a distant God but his own imagination, revealed at last as the ruler of everything he experiences.
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Live Isaiah 6:1 today
- When you catch yourself in an old line about who you are, bad with money, not a people person, drop the sentence mid-thought and sit a moment with nothing in its place. See what remains when the label stops talking.
- Next time you are with someone who still treats you as the person you were five years ago, do not argue for the new you. Simply respond as the person you are now and let the difference speak.
- Before a meeting you are dreading, stand in the hallway for ten seconds and quit auditioning for the room. You are the one watching the whole scene, not a part trying to be approved.
Which version of me has run its course and is quietly asking to be set down?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 16
Return to the root and the whole thing settles. When the small self-made identity empties out, what is always present becomes plain.
Upanishads · Chandogya
The self seated in your own heart is the same reality that holds the entire world, nearer to you than anything you could travel toward. That you are.
Sufism · Al-Hallaj
The seeker looks and looks for God and finally finds that the one looking was never separate from the one sought. What falls away in that moment is the person he thought he was.
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