Revelation 20:6 · World English Bible
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
The first resurrection happens while the body still breathes: consciousness lifts out of the flesh and its appetites and wakes to itself inside the living form. Whoever rises this way is untouched by the second death, the fear of the grave, because awareness has already found the ground that does not perish.
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The first resurrection happens while the body still breathes: consciousness lifts out of the flesh and its appetites and wakes to itself inside the living form. Whoever rises this way is untouched by the second death, the fear of the grave, because awareness has already found the ground that does not perish. That waking makes a person a priest, the part in the head that stands between the animal below and the spirit above and offers the lower nature upward.
The number 1000 is the full measure of that steady inner rule, the mind at rest on its own throne while the flesh serves rather than commands.
First resurrection: consciousness waking out of the body and its appetites while still alive, not a rising of corpses Second death: the fear of the grave, which loses its grip once awareness rests in what cannot die Priests: the ruling faculty in the head that offers the lower nature up to the higher 1000 years: the full, settled reign of the awakened mind over the flesh
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What in you would still be standing if everything you are afraid of losing were gone?
The knowing self is not born and does not die; weapons do not cut it and fire does not burn it. Find your footing there and the grave loses its threat.
He told his friend to rehearse death daily so that living would stop being frightening. Once you have made peace with the end, the ordinary day opens up.
Die before you die, the Sufis say, and you will find yourself alive. What dies is the small self that was afraid of dying.
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