Revelation 11:2 · World English Bible
Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
The temple is the human brain, and its inner measure is taken while the outer court is left unmeasured. That outer court is the surface, unrefined faculties, the part still turned toward the earth and not yet drawn inward, and it is handed over to the Gentiles, the carnal element that lives on the outside of a person.
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The temple is the human brain, and its inner measure is taken while the outer court is left unmeasured. That outer court is the surface, unrefined faculties, the part still turned toward the earth and not yet drawn inward, and it is handed over to the Gentiles, the carnal element that lives on the outside of a person.
The holy city is the right hemisphere, the seat of the higher consciousness, and it is trodden down for 42 months. That number is 1260 days, and it reduces to the number 9, which is consciousness. So the treading is consciousness itself pressed under the coarse outer nature: the higher awareness held down for a season while the outward, earthbound faculties have the upper hand.
Temple: the human brain, the inner sanctuary that is measured from within Court without: the surface, unrefined faculties still turned toward the earth Gentiles: the carnal element of a person that lives on the outside Holy city: the right hemisphere, seat of the higher consciousness 42 months: 1260 days reducing to the number 9, human consciousness
Esoteric lens
What am I measuring carefully that was never mine to begin with?
It teaches tending the inner and not chasing after the outer, since the outside is endless and the inside is where you actually live. One is measured, one is not.
He divided everything into what is up to you and what is not, and said peace comes from working only on the first. What you cannot govern you hand over and leave alone.
He wrote of a season when the inner light is covered and the coarser self seems to rule, and said the dark stretch is part of the growing. The covering is temporary, not final.
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