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Revelation 2:18 · World English Bible

Revelation 2:18 Meaning To the Angel of the Assembly

To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

What does Revelation 2:18 mean?

The awakened power inside a person sees with eyes of fire, a perception that burns through appearance and reads the inward cause of every act. Nothing hidden in the flesh escapes that flame; it judges the body's motives from within the body itself.

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The awakened power inside a person sees with eyes of fire, a perception that burns through appearance and reads the inward cause of every act. Nothing hidden in the flesh escapes that flame; it judges the body's motives from within the body itself. The feet of brass are the base of the being, the lower ground on which the whole nature stands, tried by heat until it will not corrode.

What burns above in the eye has already been tested below in the metal, so the higher awareness rests on a foundation that fire has purified rather than destroyed. The divine faculty speaks this word to Thyatira, one of its own lower stations along the spine, ranking clear sight above the standing-place and asking the ground to bear the flame.

Thyatira: the fourth of the 7 inner centers along the spine, an assembly of energy the higher self addresses Eyes like a flame of fire: perception that burns through surface and reads the true cause hidden in the flesh Feet of fine brass: the refined base of the nature, the lower ground tried by heat until it will not corrode 7 (churches): the 7 energy centers of the body, the full ladder of consciousness from base to crown

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Live Revelation 2:18 today

  1. After a message you nearly sent today, ask yourself honestly what you wanted from the other person. You can still send it, you will just know what you are doing.
  2. When you give someone a compliment or an apology tomorrow, pause one second first and make sure it is for them and not for how you will look. Say it anyway, just say it clean.
  3. Under pressure in a meeting, when you feel the urge to defend yourself, look at the heat in your chest before you speak. Keep your feet on the floor and let the fire inform your words instead of running them.

If my reason for doing a thing were visible to everyone, which of today's actions would I still do?

The same truth in other traditions

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

Ask of every act what it came out of, because the motive is the act. Clear seeing starts with looking at your own reason for doing a thing.

Judaism · Pirkei Avot

Judge by what is inward, and remember that a strong house needs more root than branch. A wisdom with no ground under it falls in the first wind.

Buddhism · the Dhammapada

Everything follows from intention, so the mind is the maker. Two people can do the same deed and only one of them has done something good.

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