John 19:23 · World English Bible
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
The crucifixion happens at the skull, the place where a person is fixed to a single state until it takes form. The garments divided into four parts are the outer self broken up and parceled out among the senses, each faculty seizing its share of the visible man.
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The crucifixion happens at the skull, the place where a person is fixed to a single state until it takes form. The garments divided into four parts are the outer self broken up and parceled out among the senses, each faculty seizing its share of the visible man. That much can be split, because the outer life is divisible and always being pulled in pieces.
The coat is different. It has no seam and was woven from the top throughout, made in one piece from above and not stitched together from below. This is the self that comes down whole from the awareness of being, the identity imagination weaves entire rather than assembling out of parts. The senses cannot divide it, because it was never sewn. A person's outer conditions come apart in every direction, but the self given from above stays one seamless thing, untouched by the hands tearing at everything around it.
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What part of you would still be there if everything you listed on a résumé were taken away this afternoon?
The uncarved block holds its wholeness precisely because no one has cut it into useful pieces. Once it is shaped and divided it becomes vessels, many and separate, and the original whole is gone.
Weapons cannot cut the self, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it. What is unborn and uncomposed has no seams for anything to work loose.
Your property, your body, your reputation belong to the world and the world will keep claiming its share. What is genuinely yours was never handed to you from outside, so no one can take it back.
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