Revelation 18:23 · World English Bible
The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
When the inner light goes dark this is the spine gone unlit: the candle is the spinal column, and its flame dies when no energy rises through it, so the body stands without its own light. With that light gone the inner marriage falls silent too.
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When the inner light goes dark this is the spine gone unlit: the candle is the spinal column, and its flame dies when no energy rises through it, so the body stands without its own light. With that light gone the inner marriage falls silent too. The bridegroom is the sun, Christ consciousness, and the bride is the pituitary; their union is the holy oil rising to meet the higher mind, and where the spine is dead that meeting is never heard.
The deceiving sorceries are the impulses of false traditional authority, the outward voices that sold the mind, the earth, on borrowed belief until the whole of a person was misled away from the light within.
Candle: the human spine, the column whose flame goes out when no energy rises through it Bridegroom: the sun, Christ consciousness, the higher mind that descends to meet the body Bride: the pituitary gland, the receiving inner presence whose union with the higher mind is the sacred marriage Earth: the mind, the ground of a person sold on false belief by outward authority
Esoteric lens
Which of my certainties have I never once checked for myself?
Do not accept a teaching because it is traditional, because many repeat it, or because a respected voice says it. Test it in your own experience and keep only what holds.
There is a lamp inside you. If you keep begging for light from the crowd outside, you will stand in the dark holding an unlit candle.
Most of what you believe you absorbed from others without examining it. Look at the opinion itself and ask whether it was ever yours.
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