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Matthew 20:17 · World English Bible

Matthew 20:17 Meaning As Jesus Was Going Up to Jerusalem

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

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What does Matthew 20:17 mean?

Going up to Jerusalem is the rising of awareness toward its own seat of consciousness, the ascent of energy through the body toward the head. The commanding presence draws the 12 inner faculties, each tied to a sign of the zodiac and seated in its own hollow of the brain, aside into the quiet place of meditation before the hardest passage.

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Going up to Jerusalem is the rising of awareness toward its own seat of consciousness, the ascent of energy through the body toward the head. The commanding presence draws the 12 inner faculties, each tied to a sign of the zodiac and seated in its own hollow of the brain, aside into the quiet place of meditation before the hardest passage. They are gathered out of the ordinary traffic of the mind and set apart in the way, the inner ground where the deeper teaching can be received.

The 12 are pulled off the busy road because what comes next cannot be heard in noise. Awareness climbing toward its own summit collects its scattered powers first, taking them into stillness so the coming ordeal is met as one and not as a crowd.

Jerusalem: your own consciousness, the inner seat awareness climbs toward 12 disciples: the 12 zodiac-aligned cavities of the brain, the faculties of the mind The way: the inner place of meditation and raised spiritual consciousness

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Live Matthew 20:17 today

  1. Before the part of your day you are dreading, close every tab and put the phone face down for two minutes. Do nothing, just let your attention come back from everywhere it has been scattered.
  2. Before a hard conversation, step outside or into another room for a minute first, instead of walking in straight from a group chat. Arrive as one person rather than ten half-thoughts.
  3. When something urgent lands in your inbox, resist answering in the first ten seconds. Breathe, gather yourself, then write.

What would change if you gathered yourself before the hard moment instead of during it?

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