Revelation 21:18 · World English Bible
Revelation 21:18 Meaning The Construction of Its Wall Was Jasper
The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
What does Revelation 21:18 mean?
The finished self is described as a structure of pure light, and every part of it names a state reached inside a person. The wall of jasper is the boundary of a settled consciousness, hard and clear, protecting the awakened field from the disorder outside it.
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The finished self is described as a structure of pure light, and every part of it names a state reached inside a person. The wall of jasper is the boundary of a settled consciousness, hard and clear, protecting the awakened field from the disorder outside it. The city is the whole ordered assembly of thought and feeling raised into gold, the highest refinement of mind, and its being like clear glass means nothing in it is hidden or clouded any longer. This is awareness made transparent, where the light passes straight through without shadow because the flesh has been purified into spirit.
The city of gold is a person whose inner life has become wholly clear, holding nothing back from its own sight.
Wall of jasper: the firm bright boundary of a settled consciousness, guarding the awakened field from the disorder outside City: the whole ordered assembly of thoughts and feelings raised into their highest refinement Gold: the perfected light of mind, value purified out of the coarse into the fine Clear glass: awareness made fully transparent, holding no shadow or hidden thing
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Live Revelation 21:18 today
- Write down the one thing you are keeping from yourself, the thing you avoid thinking about at night. Just seeing it clearly is the refining, you do not have to fix it today.
- Pick one healthy edge and keep it today: phone out of the bedroom, no work email after dinner, one group chat you stay out of. A boundary is not coldness, it is what keeps the clear thing clear.
- In a hard conversation, say the whole of what you mean, kindly, without the hidden second meaning. Pressure is where you find out whether you are actually transparent.
What am I still keeping in shadow, even from myself?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A settled mind is described as still water: it has a clear surface and a firm bed, and it hides nothing at the bottom. You can see all the way down because nothing is stirred up.
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
The sage's heart is called a clear mirror that neither grasps nor pushes away. It is bounded and quiet, and that is exactly why nothing in it is clouded.
Buddhism
The refining of the mind is likened to working gold, heating it again and again until the impurities lift away. What is left is both soft enough to be worked and bright enough to see by.
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