It is quite natural to assume the "kingdoms" seen from the highest mountain are geo-political areas. However, if we recognize that the 40 days are the time it takes for the Cosmic Christ to experience and come to know earthly embodiment, then it becomes apparent that the temptations all relate to the biological realities of human embodiment.
Here is the third temptation : And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will, I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou serve.
From the experience of embodiment or incarnation the high mountain is then understood to indicate the brain and the nerve/sense system that is the biological source of all mental images. The kingdoms are ways in which perceptions of the world are formed and the perceptions themselves - sight and the seen, hearing and the heard, taste and the tasted, smell and the smelled, feeling and the felt.
Spiritual beings do not have these perceptions. Perceptions occur in the experience of separateness and there is no separation in the spiritual world. We enter into the world and the world enters into us through our senses. Spiritually, there is no "into" as it is all one and unified.
We must know our senses and their perceptions, but not be seduced by them.
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