
Matthew 24:23 · World English Bible
Matthew 24:23 Meaning Then If Any Man Tells You
Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.

Matthew 24:23 · World English Bible
Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
Christ is not a person to be located in a place, but your own imagination, the creative power awakening within you. So a voice pointing outward, here or over there, to a man, a shrine, or a distant coming, is pointing away from the only place the power lives.
From the Manifestation reading below.
The same verse, read by 2 traditions.

MANIFESTATION
Christ is not a person to be located in a place, but your own imagination, the creative power awakening within you. So a voice pointing outward, here or over there, to a man, a shrine, or a distant coming, is pointing away from the only place the power lives. Belief given to any such external Christ scatters the attention that should rest inward, and the seeker who chases these signs is looking everywhere except the one center where the power actually stands.
The warning holds because nothing outside you carries this authority. Every "here" and "there" is a rumor, and a rumor cannot save. The awakening comes from within, where your own awareness of being does the work. The Christ you seek is the imagination in yourself, and it is found nowhere on the outside.

ESOTERIC
Christ is the oil rising in the spine to anoint the brain, and anything sold as Christ in a place outside the body is a false pointer meant to pull a seeker away from where the work actually happens. The anointing is an internal event, the sacred fluid climbing the column to reach the higher centers, so a voice announcing it over here or over there is trafficking in a gimmick, exploiting the search for healing by locating the sacred anywhere but within. Every external claim splits attention from the one place the oil moves.
What rises in a person cannot be shown across a room or a distance. The direction to disbelieve is a direction to stop looking outward, because nothing announced at a location is the thing that anoints the brain from inside.
Christ: the oil of the spine rising through the body to anoint the brain
Manifestation lens
What am I hoping to find out there that was never located anywhere but here?
If you meet the Buddha on the road, keep walking. Anything you can point at and call the answer is a signpost someone left, not the place itself.
The way that can be named is not the way. The moment it is fixed in a place or a word, you are holding the label and not the thing.
Do not go looking in the world for what you keep in your own chest. The treasure is buried under the house you already live in.

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