Revelation 19:20 · World English Bible
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
The beast is a person acting out, the self run wild and out of control, and its capture is the moment that runaway nature is finally seized and held. The false prophet beside it is the deceiving faculty of the lower mind, the part that works apparent wonders and sells the mark and the image so a person keeps worshipping their own lower pattern.
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The beast is a person acting out, the self run wild and out of control, and its capture is the moment that runaway nature is finally seized and held. The false prophet beside it is the deceiving faculty of the lower mind, the part that works apparent wonders and sells the mark and the image so a person keeps worshipping their own lower pattern. Both are cast alive into the lake of fire, which is stifled desire and passion and boredom set ablaze, the pent lower energy turned into burning that consumes what fed it. The fire is spirit, and thrown into it the beast and its prophet are not destroyed from outside but burned down inside the very heat of the desire they lived on.
The out-of-control self and the lie that justified it end together in the same flame. What kept a person captive is fed to the spirit-fire and burned away in the passion it once ruled.
Beast: a person acting out, the self gone wild and out of control False prophet: the deceiving faculty of the lower mind that works wonders and sells the image Lake of fire: stifled desire, passion, and boredom set ablaze, the pent lower energy turned to burning Brimstone: the sulfur-heat of the spirit-fire, the burning-down of the lower pattern from within
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What would end in me if I stopped defending it?
Hatred is never ended by hatred. It stops only where someone sets it down.
Anger punishes the one who carries it worse than the one it is aimed at. It consumes its own host first.
Bring the whole of your wanting into the fire. It does not kill you, it burns off everything that was never you.
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