“Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate that leads to hell” – Matthew 7: 13-14.
Many are familiar, I am sure, with the above writing. But, practically speaking, where exactly is this instructional verse headed and for what spiritual benefit?
Now let’s put some spiritual meat into this skeletal sentence and see what esoteric food can be extracted from it, as opposed to the literal interpretation. Let’s find out how this particular scripture, when applied wholeheartedly, can change our lives to know deep happiness, love, bliss, and inner peace.
Activate latent media
The truth is that each of us is internally equipped for spiritual awakening. But until we consciously connect with this inner faculty, then scriptures like these remain in their intellectual value only. In other words, literal reading is not enough. It does not trigger the latent means of awakening the soul: that of directly knowing our true divine nature.
“Be still and know that I am God” – Psalm 46-10
To achieve this awakening to God, external means are not required, because no one can give us God, because, deep down, each one of us is already God-nature; we are born with this.
Spiritually wise, it is time to evolve beyond soulless religious dogmas and outdated fear-driven belief systems into authentic reality and spiritual maturity. Time to experience the Presence of God directly, thus expressing our innate potential for miraculous awareness to benefit ourselves, others, and all of creation simultaneously.
In moving beyond non-seneschal religious literalism, moving toward esoteric rather than exoteric scriptures, it is important to recognize that the biblical ‘church’ does not refer to a physical building, but to one’s own consciousness. Similarly, the biblical term ‘Jew’ does not refer to the Jewish nation or its people, present or historical. The term ‘Jew’ biblically refers to being ‘inwardly’, someone who seeks God within. Therefore, the words on top of the crucifixion cross say: ‘hail, king of the Jews’, which means, praise (awakening) to the inwardly directed soul that seeks its own Christ (or whatever title our culture, tradition have for this divine standard) within. The crown of thorns symbolizes victory in this “inner” process.
Each of us is programmed to be ‘inwardly’: each encoded as a truth seeker, a spirit-soul journey finding our way back to conscious awareness of Source AS. Therefore, the above Matthew scripture refers to the inner spiritual awakening by crucifying the lower ego through the means or mechanisms of the faculty that already exist within each of us unconditionally.
question
What exactly does narrow and wide door mean, where do they refer specifically?
Answer
Narrow gate refers to becoming ‘smaller’ or smaller in the lower ego. The wide door refers to the outside world: the addictive nature of the carnal mind with the five ordinary senses of perception and its primitive animal pattern. Becoming the “lesser” means, therefore, crucifying the lower ego, our own carnal mind. This is the esoteric symbolism behind the image of the crucifixion. The white garment wrapped around the waist of Jesus signifies purity.
Three more questions
What practicalities are involved in entering through the narrow door? How do you ‘get in’ through it? Do we enter with our belief systems, our creeds, social status, or with our flag of religious faith and high moral conscience?
Answers
No, none of the above.
The narrow gate, the convergence of the human intellect to the ‘minimum’, occurs in the brain through vibrational meditation, which will be explained here, while the wide gate works under the law of spiritual ignorance, that is, the standard of the lower self or the carnal mind, referred to here. as hell.
To become inwardly
At their functional level, both doors present themselves as polar opposing states of mind: negative and positive. The reason is that we must learn from our wide-door world experiences and, through that learning, suffering, or lessons, choose one door standard over the other. Therefore, having chosen heaven, chosen to be inner or narrow door, we take practical steps in that direction, like a daily spiritual practice like Yoga or meditation, for example.
Like waking up from a bad dream, making this decision to turn inwardly initially requires courage. The process is not really difficult, but it does require a commitment to inner awakening. In other words, we make the decision and move on regardless of our wide-open experiences. In this context, we remember the words of Scripture: “and it happened …”, that is, every personal situation, struggle or challenge, changes or happens. So this is our divine encouragement throughout the process of becoming ‘inwardly’, divinely oriented.
Narrowing the focus
By turning and living through a false person cocoon, this conditioning shell has resulted in the loss of spiritual identity, that we do not relate spiritually, divinely. So, like the butterfly, in order for us to witness the miracle of inner transformation, we must now shed this cocoon to find our spiritual wings.
At first, getting rid of this cocoon is about NARROWING the wide door person: narrowing the scattered irresolute intellect: narrowing the activities of the unceasing superficial thinking mind and its addiction to carnal sensory awareness only.
Like the turtle withdraws its limbs into its shell, narrowing mental focus is how the senses withdraw or separate from their object of attraction, the world, both mental and emotional. Withdrawing ‘inward’ is the process through which the five senses experience a spiritual reorientation: a transformation that neutralizes addictive thought patterns that result in heightened spiritual awareness and a pure experience of the present moment; it is also the left-right brain harmonization process.
Miracle of convergence
Part of the esoteric message of the crucifixion is revealed in the image where the eyes of Jesus, on the cross, converge upwards. Narrowing or converging the mental focus replicates the personal crucifixion of the lower self: demolishing the temple of the false person, the structure of the carnal mind, when a new consciousness of the temple will arise.
Daily ‘convergence’ facilitates brain-nervous system adaptation, of handling two states of consciousness simultaneously: time and space with eternal consciousness. Before this ability, the nervous-brain system functioned in a single state of consciousness or in a single state, which is known as spiritual ignorance. Through the permanent establishment of transcendental consciousness, miraculous consciousness becomes our ever-present level of divine consciousness; where the resolute intellect – high spiritual discernment capacity – frees the soul from the bondage of the rectory decision-making, from the wide and relentless door, the lower carnal intellect.
Remembering that each of us came to this world raised only in mono consciousness. Therefore, after the integration of the lower intellect, when all decision-making is formulated through divine wisdom as opposed to the unresolved intellect, the brain-nervous system is recalibrated from single-state cognition to ease time and no time, relative and absolute, simultaneously. , making heaven on earth our reality now.
Because there is such intense bliss in contact with convergent point consciousness, the nervous system needs time to acclimate, to cultivate itself to withstand waves of sheer bliss. Repeated ‘dating’ (meditation) is needed for this mind / body physiology relationship to eventually ‘marry’, accommodate the experience of pure energy without the filtering influence of the lower conditioned ego. At this level of consciousness, one experiences the Divine Presence as something separate from the outside world: being in the world but not being of the world.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” John 1: 1
In translation: Word, Vibration or Consciousness, which means Existence, always was-always will be.
Hear the Word of God and the relevance of the Aum mantra
As in the universe, at our core, we are all vibratory sounds. Contact with Vibrating Aum awakens the unconscious aspect of our deepest mind that leads to expanded consciousness, latent states of cosmic consciousness. This sonic Vibration, when picked up by our deepening inner ear acting like a sonar, stimulates the soul to directly reverberate AS Divine Vibration – Self-Revealing Pure Consciousness – our Transcendent Self.
Inner Hearing Deepening recalibrates the brain from the market Beta brain speed of 14-21 cycles per second to range between 1-3 cps, Delta or divine rejuvenation state.
At this stage in our spiritual evolution, life is no longer experienced through the rear-view mirror of fear, stress, and uncertainty. We are now free to LIVE life and not exist as prisoners THROUGH one or many controlling dogmas or social mindsets. The vibratory Aum, through convergence, has freed the soul from the bondage of time and space, from the illusion created by thought to eternal freedom in God Consciousness.
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