Revelation 6:11 · World English Bible
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
The white robes are purified bodies of light, the refined vesture a consciousness puts on when its lower coarseness has been burned away. These are the parts of the self already cleansed, clothed in brightness and told to wait.
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The white robes are purified bodies of light, the refined vesture a consciousness puts on when its lower coarseness has been burned away. These are the parts of the self already cleansed, clothed in brightness and told to wait. The rest for a little season is the pause in the inner work, the interval where the purified centers hold still while the rest of the nature is brought through the same fire. Nothing is finished until every faculty has passed through that death of the old self.
Inside a person the awakening does not complete all at once; the cleansed powers are robed and quieted while the remaining ones undergo their own dying, and only when the whole is transformed does the season of waiting end.
Esoteric lens
What in me is already changed, and quietly waiting for the rest of me to catch up?
Muddy water clears when it is left alone. The waiting is not wasted time, it is the work doing itself without your interference.
A student asks how long enlightenment takes, and the teacher asks how long it takes a plum tree to flower. The parts of us that ripen do not ripen on a schedule we set.
Patience is not gritting your teeth while you wait, it is the willingness to let something finish becoming what it is. Rushing a change half made undoes it.
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