Revelation 2:5 Meaning Remember Therefore From Where You Have Fallen

The fall is a drop from the higher right-brain mind down into the lower carnal one, and the whole remedy is to turn back up. To repent is to reverse that downward current, to change the way one is thinking and climb again toward the higher consciousness reached in meditation. The first works are the original inner practices, the quiet disciplines that first lifted the mind. Let them go and the candlestick is taken from its place, meaning the spine, the golden column up which the light was meant to rise, no longer carries the current, and the inner lamp goes dark. The energy that stood upright and shining settles back down, and a person who has stopped the practice loses the very channel the light climbed through.

Candlestick: the spine, the upright column up which the inner light rises First works: the original meditative practices that first lifted the mind