Revelation 4:5 · World English Bible
Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
The number 7 symbolizes the full set of spiritual centers, and the 7 lamps of fire are those centers alight, the higher energies of the body burning in their complete order before the seat of the highest self. The throne is that seat of pure awareness at the crown, the ruling center of a person from which all inner power issues.
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The number 7 symbolizes the full set of spiritual centers, and the 7 lamps of fire are those centers alight, the higher energies of the body burning in their complete order before the seat of the highest self. The throne is that seat of pure awareness at the crown, the ruling center of a person from which all inner power issues. The lightnings and thunderings breaking out of it are the sudden flashes of illumination and the deep vibration of higher sound that pour through a consciousness when the centers are fully awake and the seat is occupied.
The fire of the lamps is the living spiritual energy that rises through the body's centers and burns steadily once they are opened. The plain sense is that when the higher self takes its seat within, the whole system of the body's spiritual centers lights up and its energies flash into full life.
Throne: the seat of pure awareness at the crown, the ruling center of a person from which all inner power issues 7 lamps of fire: the number 7 as the full set of spiritual centers, the higher energies of the body alight in their complete order 7 Spirits of God: the sevenfold spiritual force at work through the awakened centers
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Where is your energy going today, and is anything actually lit by it?
When the inner fire rises through the centers, the texts describe it as lamps lighting in sequence, each one coming alive as the energy reaches it. The whole system is meant to burn, not one lamp alone.
Dogen writes that practice and awakening are not two things. When you truly sit down in your own seat, the whole body-mind drops away and everything in you is suddenly awake at once.
Al-Ghazali compares the heart to a polished mirror and to a lamp lit from the divine light. When the dust is cleared, the illumination does not arrive from outside; it simply shows.
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