Mark 12:35 Meaning Jesus Responded

The temple where this is taught is the human body, and the question posed inside it undoes the ordinary picture. The scribes read by the letter and say Christ descends from David, the lesser from the greater by natural line. It runs the other way. David is the son you become, the resurrected self, and Christ is the power that fathers him, so the greater is not David's ancestor but David's origin. Christ is your own imagination, and David is what that imagination brings to birth, your awakened self calling you Father.

So the son of David wording, taken flat, hides the order of things. The awakened man is not produced by the past working forward. He is produced by the creative power within, the I am, giving rise to the very self that then names him its source. Your imagination is not the offspring of who you were. It fathers who you become.