Luke 1:11 · World English Bible
Luke 1:11 Meaning An Angel of the Lord Appeared
An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
What does Luke 1:11 mean?
A messenger of higher mind rises on the right side, the side of spirit and strength, at the very place where the breath is offered. The altar of incense is the point in the body where prayer becomes smoke and ascends, the breathing center where thought is refined into rising vapor, and it is there, not at the altar of slaughter, that the finer intelligence shows itself.
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A messenger of higher mind rises on the right side, the side of spirit and strength, at the very place where the breath is offered. The altar of incense is the point in the body where prayer becomes smoke and ascends, the breathing center where thought is refined into rising vapor, and it is there, not at the altar of slaughter, that the finer intelligence shows itself. An angel is a thought-force from the higher regions of a person, and its appearing on the right marks the awakening of spirit over the left side of flesh and matter.
What happens within is that at the burning of the breath, in stillness, a message from the higher self becomes visible on the spiritual side of the inner temple.
Angel: a messenger-thought from the higher mind, a force that rises into awareness from the finer regions of a person Right side: the side of spirit and strength in the body, where the higher nature stands over the flesh Altar of incense: the breathing center where prayer and thought are refined into rising smoke and offered upward
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Live Luke 1:11 today
- Before you open your phone in the morning, take three slow breaths with your eyes open and nothing playing. That small burning space is where anything clear tends to show up.
- In the middle of a conversation, when you feel the urge to jump in, breathe once first and let the other person finish. Watch what you hear that you would have missed.
- When an email or a message spikes you, do not type. Breathe out longer than you breathed in, twice, then decide. The answer that comes after that is usually the better one.
What might be trying to reach me in the pause I keep filling?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Prana and the breath
The yoga tradition teaches that the breath is the bridge between body and mind. Steady it, and the finer awareness that was always there becomes visible.
Zen
The breath is the whole practice. When attention rests on the rising and falling air and nothing else is added, understanding arrives on its own, unasked.
Sufism · dhikr
The Sufi remembers God on the breath itself, in and out, until the breathing is the prayer. It is in that burning, not in any argument, that the messenger speaks.
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