The Table, the Spine, and the Sun
- Bill Dandie
- Jan 27
- 3 min read
What if the 7 Chakras led us to the Table of the 13 and the story was always inside us?
What if the great spiritual stories were never meant to be read only as history — but as maps?
Maps of the body.
Maps of consciousness.
Maps of a journey that every human walks, whether they know the language for it or not.
The Ascent: Seven Centers, One Axis
Across cultures, the human body has been understood as more than flesh and bone. In Eastern traditions, the seven chakras describe a vertical ascent — from survival and instinct at the base of the spine to awareness, insight, and unity at the crown.
This ascent is not theoretical.
It is lived.
Breath by breath.
Choice by choice.
Layer by layer.
The spine becomes a ladder — Jacob’s ladder — a living axis between earth and sky.
And there are 33 vertebrae.
Thirty-Three: Completion, Not Coincidence
Jesus is said to complete his earthly life at 33 years.
In esoteric traditions, 33 is not about age — it’s about completion of ascent. The work of rising through the body is finished. Consciousness reaches the crown. The inner sun is realized.
What happens next is where most interpretations stop.
But the story doesn’t.
Leonardo Didn’t Paint a Moment — He Painted a Map
Look again at The Last Supper.
Not as a religious scene — but as a diagram.
A long horizontal table.
Twelve figures.
And at the exact center — the Sun.
The Son sits where the vertical and horizontal meet.
Not elevated.
Not distant.
Centered.
This is not accidental. Leonardo was steeped in sacred geometry, anatomy, and hidden symbolism. He knew the language of initiation.
The table is not just furniture.
It is the next axis.
The Crossroads: From Ascent to Expression
The vertical journey — the chakras, the spine, the inner awakening — brings us to the crown.
But awakening does not end the journey.
It turns it outward.
This is the Tau cross — the T.
Known as Tav in Hebrew, Tau in Greek.
It represents:
Spirit fully embodied
Consciousness meeting the world
The crossroads of inner realization and outer action
The vertical ascent meets the horizontal plane of life.
And that plane is always twelve-fold.
Twelve: The Work After Awakening
Twelve tribes.
Twelve apostles.
Twelve zodiac signs.
And long before Christianity:
The Twelve Labors of Hercules.
Hercules does not ascend the heavens.
He stays in the world.
Each labor is a confrontation with an archetype:
Power
Fear
Pride
Chaos
Time
Death
This is not pre-Christ mythology.
It is post-awakening work.
If 33 represents reaching the crown, then 33 leads to (3+3+3+3) 12 — not by arithmetic, but by necessity.
Awakening demands integration.
The Table Is Not the End — It’s the Beginning
The Last Supper is not about sacrifice alone.
It is about distribution.
What has been realized inwardly must now be shared outwardly — across the table, across the world, across the twelve domains of human experience.
This is why the Christ figure does not leave the table.This is why the Sun remains at the center.
The message is simple and unsettling:
Enlightenment that does not engage life is incomplete.
The Hidden Continuity
The ancients understood this:
Egypt encoded it in the ankh
Greece told it through Hercules
Christianity preserved it in story
Renaissance artists hid it in plain sight
The church taught salvation as escape.The symbols taught completion through embodiment.
The spine rises.
The Sun is realized.
Then the work begins.
A Question Worth Sitting With
What if the great teachers were not asking us to worship them —but to finish the journey they mapped?
What if the table was never meant to be observed —but sat at?
And what if the cross was never about death —but about standing awake at the intersection of heaven and earth?
Sometimes the truth isn’t hidden.
It’s just waiting for the right eyes.
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