Revelation 21:16 · World English Bible
The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
The city is the perfected state of consciousness in a person, and its being foursquare, equal in every direction, is the balance of a mind in which no faculty overpowers another. Length, breadth, and height are the same because the higher self, once whole, is symmetrical, the 4 sides answering the 4 elements and functions brought into agreement inside the one body.
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The city is the perfected state of consciousness in a person, and its being foursquare, equal in every direction, is the balance of a mind in which no faculty overpowers another. Length, breadth, and height are the same because the higher self, once whole, is symmetrical, the 4 sides answering the 4 elements and functions brought into agreement inside the one body. The number 12 is the number of the completed inner order, the full circle of the faculties, and 12000 is that completeness multiplied and confirmed.
Measuring the city with the reed is the exact weighing of that inner balance. A person arrives at this city not by travel but by bringing every part of the self into equal proportion until the whole stands square.
City: the finished, perfected state of consciousness a person becomes when the whole self is unified Reed: the measuring rod of exact spiritual proportion, weighing the balance of the inner faculties 12000 furlongs: the number 12 of complete inner order, multiplied to confirm the fullness of the awakened self
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Which side of me is overgrown right now, and which side has been left short?
The Buddha taught a path that leans to neither extreme, not indulgence and not harsh denial. A life in balance is not a compromise, it is the shape awakening actually takes.
The mature person is described as centered and in proportion, no part of them running ahead of the rest. Harmony inside one person is the root of harmony everywhere else.
He compared the good soul to a sphere, the same all the way around, not bulging toward one thing or caved in by another. It keeps its own shape no matter which way it is turned.
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