Revelation 20:8 · World English Bible
and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Doubt goes out to deceive the whole lower mind and muster it for war against the higher self. The 4 quarters are the 4 natures of a person centered on the self, the emotional, the spiritual, the physical, and the intellectual, and to deceive the nations in those quarters is for doubt to invade all 4 and turn them against the awakened center.
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Doubt goes out to deceive the whole lower mind and muster it for war against the higher self. The 4 quarters are the 4 natures of a person centered on the self, the emotional, the spiritual, the physical, and the intellectual, and to deceive the nations in those quarters is for doubt to invade all 4 and turn them against the awakened center. Gog and Magog are the massed material mind, the sheer weight of earthbound thinking rallied to overwhelm what has begun to rise. Their number like the sand of the sea is the endlessness of such thoughts, uncountable grains at the edge of the emotional deep, always more where the last came from. This is what a person faces when the material mind gathers in full against the higher life waking inside.
4 quarters of the earth: the 4 natures of a person centered on the self, the emotional, spiritual, physical, and intellectual Gog and Magog: the massed material mind, the weight of earthbound thinking rallied against the higher self Sand of the sea: the endlessness of the lower thoughts, uncountable grains heaped at the edge of the emotional deep
Esoteric lens
When your thoughts come at you by the thousand, do you argue with them or just watch them pass?
It is not an outside enemy that undoes you but your own untrained thinking. The sheer volume of it is the weapon; there is always another thought behind the last one.
If something outside distresses you, the pain is not the thing but your judgment of it, and that you can revoke. Take away the judgment and the army thins out.
He says the still mind is a mirror: it reflects what comes and does not chase it. The endless stream quiets by being watched, not by being argued with.
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