Matthew 27:5 Meaning He Threw Down the Pieces of Silver

Guilt cannot hold the price it once thought it wanted. When a mind has chosen betrayal, the reward turns to poison in its hands, and it flings the coins away as if distance from the payment could undo the choice. But the guilt does not leave with the silver. It follows into a self-inflicted death, because the belief in separation, followed to its end, always turns upon the one who holds it and demands his life.

The strangling rope is only the outward shape of what guilt already does within: it tightens around a mind that has judged itself beyond forgiveness. What could not be seen here is that the wrong was a figure in a dream, and a dreamer is never condemned by what he dreamed.

Silver: the reward the ego promises for choosing separation, a payment that becomes unbearable the moment guilt looks at it. Temple: the mind's own sanctuary, the inner place where the choice for God is either welcomed or cast out.

Judas is Scorpio, the eighth sign under Saturn, the mind that imprisons the spirit and plays its ordained part in the drama, and the silver is 30 pieces because Scorpio holds 30 degrees of the wheel. That lower, calculating power flings its wages back into the temple, and the temple is the human brain. The betrayer within a person is the faculty that hands the flesh over so it can be crucified in meditation and the higher essence rise; its work done, the appraising self undoes itself.

This is not a moral tragedy but a cosmic office. The scorpion turns on its own, and the counting mind that valued everything in coin ends its own reign inside the head where the whole drama has been unfolding.

Judas: Scorpio, the eighth sign under Saturn, the mind that imprisons the spirit and stings itself when its appointed part is finished 30 pieces of silver: the 30 degrees of Scorpio counted out in the lower mind's coin, the wage of the calculating self Temple: the human brain, the chamber where this entire exchange and undoing take place