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Revelation 11:15 · World English Bible

Revelation 11:15 Meaning The Seventh Angel Sounded

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

What does Revelation 11:15 mean?

The kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of the Lord is the whole outer scene passing under the rule of your own imagination, once you know what your imagination is. The Christ named here is not a person but the creative power buried within you, your own human imagining, waking to find that everything visible answers to it.

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Revelation 11:15 through 2 lenses

The same verse, read by 2 traditions.

MANIFESTATION

Manifestation

The kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of the Lord is the whole outer scene passing under the rule of your own imagination, once you know what your imagination is. The Christ named here is not a person but the creative power buried within you, your own human imagining, waking to find that everything visible answers to it. The great voices in heaven are the inner recognition breaking over you that the awareness in you is the sovereign of your world.

The seventh angel sounding marks the finish of an inner drama every person passes through, the point where the last outer authority is seen as yours. He shall reign for ever, because once you know imagination is the cause of your experience, that knowing does not lapse back into helplessness. The rule is permanent because the truth of it does not expire. Your own imagining sits on the throne of your world, and nothing outside it commands you again.

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ESOTERIC

Esoteric

The seventh angel is Eta Carinae, the star swelling in the sky as the seventh angle of the great turning, signaling a shift from the lower brain to the higher and the unsealing of the code written in the DNA. When it sounds, the kingdoms of this world, which are the left hemisphere with its calculating lower mind, pass over into the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ, which are the right hemisphere, the seat of Christ consciousness anointed by the rising oil.

This is a change of rule inside the head, not a distant political event. The left-brain reign of fear and division gives way to the right-brain reign of the higher mind, and once that higher mind holds the throne, it rules without end.

Seventh angel: Eta Carinae, marking the seventh angle of the turning, the shift from lower brain to higher and the opening of the DNA Kingdoms of this world: the left hemisphere of the brain, the calculating lower mind Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ: the right hemisphere, the seat of Christ consciousness anointed by the rising oil Heaven: the higher region of the mind where the announcement sounds

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Live Revelation 11:15 today

  1. Next time you catch yourself bracing for a day you have not lived yet, stop and set the inside picture first. Sit with your coffee and feel the day going well, as if it already did, before you open a single app.
  2. With one person today, drop the running commentary about how they always are. Picture them at their best for thirty seconds before you walk in or press call, and speak to that version.
  3. When something lands badly, a sharp email, traffic that will not move, bad news in a group chat, say quietly to yourself: this does not get to tell me who I am. Then choose the inner state you want and stay in it while you deal with the thing.

Where in your day have you been handing the throne to something outside you?

The same truth in other traditions

Upanishads

The self within you and the ground of all reality are one and the same. What you took for a world ruling over you turns out to be the field of the awareness you already are.

Zen · Huang Po

There is nothing to seek outside, because the mind you are looking with is the thing you are looking for. The moment that lands, the search ends and does not need to be restarted.

Stoicism · Epictetus

Nothing outside your own judgment has authority over you. Once you see clearly where the power sits, no circumstance can issue you orders again.

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