Matthew 14:2 · World English Bible
Matthew 14:2 Meaning And Said to His Servants
and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”
What does Matthew 14:2 mean?
The higher voice that carnal desire tried to silence rises again and pours its power through a person. John is Elijah returned, the water-man of the age of Aquarius, the old force of truth that keeps coming back into a life however often the lower self cuts it down.
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The higher voice that carnal desire tried to silence rises again and pours its power through a person. John is Elijah returned, the water-man of the age of Aquarius, the old force of truth that keeps coming back into a life however often the lower self cuts it down. Carnal desire, sitting in its uneasy seat, feels the buried higher mind stirring back to life and reads its own works of power as that returned force at work. What happens inside is that the deeper knowing a person suppressed does not stay dead. It returns with strength, and the lower self recognizes it even while it fears it.
John the Baptist: the reincarnation of Elijah, the water-god of the age of Aquarius, the higher mind and voice of truth that keeps returning Servants: the ordinary faculties of a person, the working powers that carry out what the ruling self decides
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Live Matthew 14:2 today
- There is something you already know you should do, and you have talked yourself out of it several times. Let it come back up today without arguing with it. Just sit with it for a minute and admit it is still there.
- Ask someone who knows you well what you keep saying you want to change. If their answer stings a little, that sting is the point. Thank them and do not explain yourself.
- In a meeting or a group chat, when you feel the urge to swallow the thing you actually think, say it anyway in one plain sentence. Say it kindly. Then stop talking.
What quiet thing in me keeps coming back no matter how many times I talk myself out of it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
What is soft and yielding outlasts what is hard. You can push it under again and again, and it keeps rising, because it never fought you in the first place.
Sufism · Rumi
The voice you keep trying to quiet is your own deeper self calling. Shut the door on it and it comes back as longing you cannot explain.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The part of you that knows what is right cannot be destroyed by appetite or fear. Smother it today and it is waiting for you tomorrow.
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