Revelation 18:7 Meaning However Much She Glorified Herself

The self-glorifying part of a person, the ego that feeds on pleasure and calls itself secure, measures its own coming grief by the size of its pride. Sitting as a queen and denying widowhood is the mind's boast that it stands alone, needing no marriage to spirit and fearing no loss. That very denial is the setup for the torment, because whatever refuses its dependence on the higher life is already cut off from what would sustain it. The delicious living is the constant self-indulgence of the outer nature, and it exacts its price in the same coin it enjoyed. The plain fact is that a mind convinced it can never fall has already stopped watching the ground beneath it.

Queen: the ego enthroned in the heart, boasting of a security it does not have Widow: the soul cut off from union with spirit, the loss the proud mind refuses to admit

When luxury is doing the work of certainty and significance, every warning sounds like it was meant for someone else.

Significance won by sitting above other people has to be re-bought daily, because the feeling dies the moment nobody is beneath. The hunger sets the state, the state buys more display, and display compounds into a self with no other way to feel real.

Certainty that is declared instead of earned deletes every reason to prepare or grow. Luxury filled the needs of the personality so completely that growth and contribution had no opening left, and a self arranged to be seen cannot spend itself on anyone. God hands back the cost that was folded into the purchase, which is why the torment comes measured rather than random. Giving up that line in the heart costs the elevation and returns the capacity to be corrected while correction is still cheap.