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Psychological interpretation
Mark 11:12-14, 20. In 1948 read psychologically: the fig tree Jesus finds with nothing but leaves and curses is not a tree outside but one's own consciousness, the I AM that is the vine, in which habit suggests emptiness, barrenness and 'four months' before the feast. What is blasted is the belief in lack: from this day on it is to be barren and never again reproduce itself in one's mind.
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Bible wordings
Mark 11:13 | And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet
Mark 11:14 | No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever
Mark 11:20 | And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots
Own wordings
What tree am I blasting? Not a tree on the outside. It is my own consciousness
The belief in lack must from this day on be barren and never again reproduce itself in my mind
It is not a man blasting a tree