Mark 13:1 Meaning As He Went Out of the Temple

The temple and its great stones are the mental structures a person has built from other people's ideas, the framework of borrowed beliefs he has taken for solid. The disciple admiring the masonry is the mind still impressed by what was handed to it, mistaking inherited opinion for something that will stand.

All of it is about to come down, and it must, because the true temple is the state within yourself, and Christ, the way of salvation, is never found in outward things but rises from inside. Christ here is not a person but that inner way, buried in you and waiting to wake. So the man walking out of the building is imagination leaving the old scaffolding behind. In plain words, the beliefs you absorbed from others have to collapse before you can discover that everything you were seeking was already within you.

The temple is the human brain, and within it the region by the pineal gland on the side of the head, so the great stones and buildings admired here are the impressive structures of the physical mind and the outer forms it raises. A meditative faculty of the self marvels at that grand construction, dazzled by the material edifice rather than by what it houses. The awakened awareness is moving out of that structure even as the wonder is spoken.

What is shown is attention caught by the magnificence of the outward brain and its works while the higher life departs from them. A person can stand amazed at the built and physical while the awareness that matters is already leaving those walls behind.

Temple: the human brain, and the pineal region on the side of the head Stones and buildings: the impressive structures of the physical mind and its outer forms Disciples: a meditative faculty of the self, drawn to admire the material edifice