Zechariah 6:12 · World English Bible
Zechariah 6:12 Meaning And Speak to Him
and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
What does Zechariah 6:12 mean?
The man called The BRANCH is the full human being unfolding in four stages, as king, as servant, as the ideal man, and at last as God. One growth reveals itself by degrees within a person.
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The man called The BRANCH is the full human being unfolding in four stages, as king, as servant, as the ideal man, and at last as God. One growth reveals itself by degrees within a person. He is not a figure standing outside in history. He is what awakens inside you, the whole pattern of maturing consciousness given a single name.
He grows up out of his place, meaning he rises from the deep self within and is not brought in from outside. And he builds the temple, for the temple is the person himself made into a fit dwelling for God, raised up by his own inner unfolding. Nothing is added from without. The whole structure comes up out of what he already carries within, stage upon stage, until the building is complete.
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Live Zechariah 6:12 today
- Think of one way you are quietly further along than you were a year ago, something no course or purchase gave you. Let it count.
- With someone you want to fix or hurry along, hold back the advice. Trust that what they need is already forming in them and just keep them company.
- When you catch yourself comparing your life to a stranger's on a screen, close the app and name the stage you are honestly in right now. Stand in that one instead of skipping ahead.
What is growing in me that I keep trying to source from outside?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
The oak is already complete inside the acorn. Nothing is added from outside, it only unfolds.
Tao Te Ching
The great tree grew from a tiny shoot by its own nature. Nobody hauled the trunk in.
Bhagavad Gita
You grow by your own path, step by step, through the stage you are actually in. A borrowed shape, however fine, will not hold you.
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