Job 26:13 · World English Bible
Job 26:13 Meaning By His Spirit the Heavens Are Garnished
By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
What does Job 26:13 mean?
The crooked serpent formed by the hand is the coiled power that lies at the base of the spine, the same force that garnishes the heavens once it rises. Spirit adorns the vault overhead, the skull and its inner sky, by the same act that shapes the winding current below, for the 2 are one work.
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The crooked serpent formed by the hand is the coiled power that lies at the base of the spine, the same force that garnishes the heavens once it rises. Spirit adorns the vault overhead, the skull and its inner sky, by the same act that shapes the winding current below, for the 2 are one work. The serpent is called crooked because it lies bent and asleep, wound in on itself, until breath and attention draw it up the spinal channel. What decorates the heavens of a person is not distant starlight but this energy climbing into the head and lighting the chambers there.
Crooked serpent: the coiled energy asleep at the base of the spine, bent in on itself until it rises Heavens: the skull and its inner sky, the vault overhead that the risen force adorns and lights
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Live Job 26:13 today
- Once today, sit up straight, feel the base of your spine on the chair, and take six slow breaths. That is the whole thing, you are letting something bent begin to unwind.
- Instead of texting back a quick line, call the person and talk. Breath and voice carry something a screen leaves out, and both of you feel it in the body.
- When a meeting or an argument starts to collapse your chest and shoulders, straighten and breathe low and slow. You are not performing calm, you are letting the current come back up into your head so you can actually think.
What changes in your mind when your spine comes upright?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · kundalini
The coiled energy sleeps at the base of the spine and the whole practice is drawing it up until it lights the crown. The power below and the light above are the same power.
Taoism · inner alchemy
Breath is used to lift the heat from the lower belly up the back and into the head, where the practitioner is said to find his own inner heaven.
Zen · zazen
Upright spine, slow breath, open attention. Nothing is imported from outside, the seat itself is what brightens the mind.
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