Matthew 10:25 Meaning It Is Enough for the Disciple

To be slandered as satanic is the mark that a person has aligned with the higher consciousness, not a sign of straying from it. The master of the house is the inner ruler, the awakened mind seated over the whole body, and when that ruler is called by the name of corruption the accusation lands on the true center precisely because it threatens the old order. The lower thoughts, buzzing like flies over what is dying in a person, fling the slur upward at the very self that would lift them, and the household, all the faculties gathered under that ruler, take the same abuse. The naming proves nothing about the one named and everything about the ones naming. When the awakened self within a person draws that kind of scorn, it is standing where the master stands.

Master of the house: the inner ruler, the awakened consciousness seated over the whole body Beelzebub: the slur of corruption flung at the inner ruler, the name of decay pinned on the true center Household: the faculties and powers of a person gathered under that ruler, sharing its treatment

To be smeared with the same name as your teacher is no disgrace. It is a sign that a person has truly grown into the whole, true self.

When a group takes the darkness it will not admit in itself and pins it on someone, calling him Beelzebub, the insult is a genuine wound before it says anything about the one it hits. A life that makes God visible stirs up exactly the hidden fault the community cannot own in itself. Anyone who has moved past the puffed-up follower, the one who grows in reputation while the master takes all the risk, inherits the same accusation.

A doorway, the plain place where a guest is welcomed or turned away, is where this comes to a head. To share the master's disgrace is to share the suffering that wholeness asks a person to bear.