Revelation 1:14 · World English Bible
Revelation 1:14 Meaning His Head and His Hair Were White
His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
What does Revelation 1:14 mean?
The figure standing among the lampstands is the awakened self seen from the inside of the skull, where the whitened head is the crown center burning clean of the dye of desire. White is the color of light before it splits into the wants and fears that tint a life, so the hairs of pure snow show a mind emptied of its old colorations, thought no longer stained by appetite.
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The figure standing among the lampstands is the awakened self seen from the inside of the skull, where the whitened head is the crown center burning clean of the dye of desire. White is the color of light before it splits into the wants and fears that tint a life, so the hairs of pure snow show a mind emptied of its old colorations, thought no longer stained by appetite.
The eyes as flame are the 2 lights of the face turned into a single fire that reads through appearance to essence, the way heat passes through what light only lands on. Consciousness raised to this pitch does not look at things, it burns into their meaning, and what is false cannot stand under that gaze.
Head: the crown center at the top of the skull where consciousness rises to its highest point White wool and snow: the colorless purity of a mind cleared of appetite, thought before desire tints it Eyes as flame of fire: the sight of the awakened self that burns through surfaces into the meaning within
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Live Revelation 1:14 today
- Before you open your phone in the morning, sit for one minute and let the first wave of wanting pass. Then look at the screen, and you will see what is actually there instead of what you were hungry for.
- In your next real conversation, hold off on your opinion until the other person is finished. Listen for what they actually mean under the words, which is usually a little different from what they said.
- When an email or a message lands and your chest tightens, read it twice. The second read, with the heat drained out of it, is almost always the true one.
What in my life looks different when I want nothing from it?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Zhuangzi
The mind of the sage is called a mirror. It does not grasp or chase, so whatever comes before it shows itself exactly as it is.
Zen
The practice is called polishing the mirror. Nothing is added to the mirror, only the dust of wanting is wiped away, and then it reflects without flattering or distorting.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
He told himself to look at each thing directly and name it plainly, stripping away the story his appetites had painted on it, so he could see the bare thing and judge it rightly.
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