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Revelation 10:3 · World English Bible

Revelation 10:3 Meaning He Cried with a Loud Voice

He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

What does Revelation 10:3 mean?

The lion's roar is the voice of the solar force in a person, the raised power sounding from the region of courage and fire in the body. When that force lifts and speaks, it wakes the 7 centers along the spine, and each answers in turn with its own note.

From the Esoteric reading below.

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The lion's roar is the voice of the solar force in a person, the raised power sounding from the region of courage and fire in the body. When that force lifts and speaks, it wakes the 7 centers along the spine, and each answers in turn with its own note. This is the inner column coming alive under one great surge of energy.

The number 7 symbolizes the full set of these centers from base to crown, the whole ladder of the body's power stations. Their thunder is the sound of each one firing as the roused life-force climbs, so that the whole inner instrument speaks at once when the higher energy calls.

Lion: the solar force of courage and fire rising in a person, the raised power that sounds through the body 7 thunders: the 7 energy centers along the spine, each firing its own note as the life-force ascends

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Live Revelation 10:3 today

  1. Say one true thing out loud today in your full voice instead of a careful half version. Feel how different your whole body is when it is not hedging.
  2. When someone needs backing, speak up for them clearly in the room or the thread rather than privately afterward. Courage spoken once changes the temperature for everyone in it.
  3. In the moment where you usually shrink, a hard phone call, a boss's question, a confrontation, stand up straight, plant your feet, and speak at normal volume. The body leads and the nerve follows.

Where am I speaking in half my voice?

The same truth in other traditions

Hindu yoga tradition

The rising life energy is described as waking each center on the spine in turn as it climbs, until the whole column is lit. One surge, many answers.

Zen

Kyogen is said to have woken up at the sound of a pebble striking bamboo after years of study got him nowhere. One ordinary sound, and the whole of him answered.

Sufism · Rumi

He wrote that there is a sound inside a person that answers the music it recognizes. When the real note sounds, everything in you resonates with it.

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