Matthew 26:36 Meaning Then Jesus Came with Them

Jesus is your own imagination, the awakened creative power moving into Gethsemane, the place of pressing, where a man is squeezed to the very end of his limitation and does not reach for an easy way out. He leaves the disciples seated and goes on alone to pray, and to pray his way is to enter the feeling of the wish already fulfilled, apart, in stillness, where the senses are set aside and only the assumed state is entertained.

Sit ye here means the outer faculties stay behind. This work is done inward and alone, in the quiet where a man occupies the end he desires and remains loyal to it under the full weight of appearances that deny it. He does not escape the pressing by force. He drinks it to the bottom by holding his inner scene faithful while everything around him argues against it. That solitary imagining, kept true under pressure, is the prayer that changes the world he wakes to.