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Revelation 22:11 · World English Bible

Revelation 22:11 Meaning He Who Acts Unjustly

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.

What does Revelation 22:11 mean?

A person does not remain unjust or filthy or holy because some sentence has been passed on them. Each state simply continues under its own momentum for as long as it stays unconscious.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

Revelation 22:11 through 2 lenses

The same verse, read by 2 traditions.

EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

A person does not remain unjust or filthy or holy because some sentence has been passed on them. Each state simply continues under its own momentum for as long as it stays unconscious. The mind cannot lift itself out of its condition by wishing or by being told to change, so it goes on being what it has always been.

This is not doom but a plain description of how the ego works. Your patterns repeat themselves automatically until awareness enters and sees them. Becoming conscious is the one thing that changes the outcome, because a pattern you are aware of no longer runs you unopposed, and only then does the old continuation finally break.

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ESOTERIC

Esoteric

Each state within a person hardens into what it already is when the inner reckoning arrives. The lower nature keeps sinking along its own line and the higher nature keeps rising along its own, so that at the sealing point every part of the mind is fixed on the course it has been running. Nothing changes direction at the end; the reckoning only confirms the momentum each state has already built.

Within one body these are not 4 different men but 4 running conditions of the same mind, and each is left settled in its own motion, the coarse growing coarser and the pure growing purer as consciousness closes into its final shape.

Ego v. Being lens

Live Revelation 22:11 today

  1. Watch one small automatic move in yourself today, reaching for the phone, snapping at a slow website, opening the fridge without hunger. Do not fix it. Just catch it happening.
  2. The next time you start the same argument you always have with the same person, say out loud that you can feel the old pattern starting. Naming it takes most of its power away.
  3. Under pressure, your oldest reflex shows up first, going silent, going sharp, taking over. See it arriving and give yourself one breath before it decides for you.

Which of your reactions has been running on its own for years?

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