Matthew 28:1 · World English Bible
Matthew 28:1 Meaning Now After the Sabbath
Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
What does Matthew 28:1 mean?
The sabbath is the seventh center, the pineal gland at the crown, and its ending as light begins is the moment awareness completes its climb and a new state dawns in a person. The 2 who come are named Mary, whose root is bitterness, the salt-water emotional nature that has grieved through the dark hours; Magdalene is not a literal woman with a history but a figure for that same emotional depth turned toward the empty tomb.
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The sabbath is the seventh center, the pineal gland at the crown, and its ending as light begins is the moment awareness completes its climb and a new state dawns in a person. The 2 who come are named Mary, whose root is bitterness, the salt-water emotional nature that has grieved through the dark hours; Magdalene is not a literal woman with a history but a figure for that same emotional depth turned toward the empty tomb. The sepulchre is the skull, the bony chamber where what seemed dead is found to have risen.
When the bitterness of the emotional nature turns at last toward the crown, it discovers that the buried life inside the head was never held there, and a new day of awareness opens.
sabbath: the seventh center, the pineal gland at the crown where awareness completes its rise Mary: the bitterness of the salt-water emotional nature within a person Mary Magdalene: a figure for the grieving emotional depth, not a literal historical woman sepulchre: the skull, the bony chamber where the buried inner life is found risen
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Live Matthew 28:1 today
- If you wake with a weight on you today, do not push the sadness off. Turn it toward something honest, a walk, a window, a few quiet minutes, and let it lead you instead of flattening you.
- Go toward one person you have been grieving some loss with, a friend, a parent, a partner, and sit near them without trying to lift the mood. Being there together is what opens the morning.
- When you are at the end of a long hard stretch at work or at home, give the finished thing one minute of attention before the next thing starts. The end of the dark hours deserves to be seen.
What have I been guarding as lost that may have already moved on without me?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
The grief you kept all night is what walks you to the door at daybreak. Sorrow turned toward the light becomes the one thing that finds the opening.
Zen
After the long sitting, the bell. What you were sure you had lost was never in the place you were guarding.
Tao Te Ching 40
The lowest point is where the turning starts. Reaching the bottom of the dark hours is not the end of the story; it is where the light begins again.
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