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Revelation 19:17 · World English Bible

Revelation 19:17 Meaning I Saw an Angel Standing

I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,

What does Revelation 19:17 mean?

The angel standing in the sun is illumined intelligence at the solar center of the body, the messenger of higher mind lit from within by that inner fire. The fowls flying in the midst of heaven are the thoughts moving through the upper region of a person, the mental faculties in the head that answer when the sun-center calls.

From the Esoteric reading below.

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The angel standing in the sun is illumined intelligence at the solar center of the body, the messenger of higher mind lit from within by that inner fire. The fowls flying in the midst of heaven are the thoughts moving through the upper region of a person, the mental faculties in the head that answer when the sun-center calls. The supper of the great God is the taking in and consuming of the lower nature, the feast where the risen power devours what has been slain in the flesh.

Gathered to that meal, the mind consumes the remains of the base life and turns it into fuel for the higher state. Illumination at the solar center summons the thoughts to feed on the conquered lower self.

Angel standing in the sun: illumined intelligence at the solar center of the body Fowls that fly in the midst of heaven: the thoughts and mental faculties moving through the upper region of a person Supper of the great God: the consuming of the slain lower nature as fuel for the higher state

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Live Revelation 19:17 today

  1. Take the thing about yourself you are most tired of today and ask what it has taught you that nothing else could. Write one line of the answer down.
  2. When someone brings you their hard news, do not rush to fix it. Let yourself really take it in, and let that be what you give them.
  3. Next time something goes wrong at work, before complaining, name one thing it is showing you about how you actually operate. Then complain if you still want to.

What have I been throwing away that was meant to be fuel?

The same truth in other traditions

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

The fire takes whatever is thrown on it and turns it into light. A strong mind does that with every obstacle it is handed.

Zen

The lotus grows out of mud, not out of clean water. What you would rather not look at is the material.

Taoism · Chuang Tzu

The useless log becomes the shade tree. Nothing in a person is waste once it is seen for what it can feed.

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