Matthew 26:31 · World English Bible
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
When the higher self is struck and lowered, the ordinary faculties lose their center and scatter, for the shepherd is the governing spirit within and the sheep are the many thoughts and powers it gathers and leads. This night is the dark interval of the inner ordeal, the passage through which the central awareness is brought down and the parts that depended on it are left without direction, drifting apart.
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When the higher self is struck and lowered, the ordinary faculties lose their center and scatter, for the shepherd is the governing spirit within and the sheep are the many thoughts and powers it gathers and leads. This night is the dark interval of the inner ordeal, the passage through which the central awareness is brought down and the parts that depended on it are left without direction, drifting apart. The offence is the collapse of the surface self's confidence the moment its guiding presence is stricken. What happens in a person is plain: remove the inner governor and the mind's flock breaks up and wanders, each impulse running its own way until the center is restored.
Night: the dark interval of the inner ordeal, the passage in which the guiding self is brought low. Shepherd: the governing spirit within, the central awareness that gathers and leads the faculties. Sheep: the many thoughts and powers of the person, the flock that scatters when its center is struck.
Esoteric lens
When I feel pulled in ten directions, what has actually gone missing from the middle of me?
The heavy is the root of the light, and the one who stays centered can travel without losing themselves. Lose the center and everything scatters.
Keep hold of the ruling part of you and outside events cannot disperse you. Let it go and every impression drags you somewhere else.
An untended mind runs in all directions like loose cattle. The herd is not the problem, the missing herder is.
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