1939_08_19 NEW BIRTH

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Note 4p

 

NEW BIRTH

 

Reflection

 

As he comes across his nature, man finds a great discrepancy. He wants to explain the reason for it, but he cannot. For this discrepancy it was said in the Scriptures: “God, I have been created both marvellously and terribly.” The grape might also ask itself why its fresh juice is sweet, but several days later turn sharp and sour. The scientists have solved this problem. They say that special bacteria live in the air called ferments, and getting into the grape juice, they cause Spirit fermentation. The grapes and the fruit sugar within them break down into spirits and carbon dioxide under the influence of the spirituous ferments. So we say that the grape juice turns sour, that is – it ripens. Every single thought, desire and deed leave within man peculiar sediments that undergo fermentation or souring. In order to prevent the souring, man should apply the filter of his heart and mind and separate them before the sediment has been deposited. In order to apply these filters, man should be born again. That is why Christ says: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” The newly born lives with Divine thoughts and feelings and these never undergo fermentation. Consequently, until he enters the Divine Kingdom, man will constantly undergo fermentation. As he undergoes fermentation, he will taste the discrepancies of his life. As he lives within the Divine – nothing will undergo fermentation within him.

 

One of the great discrepancies in human life is a result of nutrition. As a process, the nutrition causes internal discrepancies within man. For instance, what greater discrepancies you may seek, than those, to which the flesh-eaters come across? Meat contains a lot of poisons and impurities that cause many illnesses. Illnesses ruin human life. The meat food influences not only the human organism, but man’s mental life as well. By eating meat, man acquires the characteristics of the animal he has eaten. Such a distinctive feature of the pig, for instance, is rooting about. The pig thinks that everything might be achieved by rooting about. Rooting about is a negative characteristics that man adopts from the pig. As you know this, you should choose your food carefully.

 

As it roots about the root of the pear tree, the fruit begins to fall on the ground and the pig thinks that it has rooted them by itself. Sometimes the human thinks in the same way. He tills the soil, sows the wheat, and then says that he himself has made the wheat grow. There was a time when the wheat was growing by itself, without being sown by people. Besides, the original wheat grains were very large. The more wise and intelligent people were becoming, the smaller the wheat grains were getting. There was a time, when all the wheat grains were large as cornels. The cornel-tree is a tree that blossoms earlier and ripens latest. Due to this distinctiveness of the cornel-tree, an anecdote has been created.

 

In the distant past, the Devil decided to choose one of the fruit-trees as his own and observe which of them will blossom earlier. As he saw, that the cornel-tree blossomed earlier, he was delighted and said: The cornel-tree will be my tree – it blossoms early, it will ripen earlier, so I’ll finish my job earlier. He was greatly surprised as he saw that the cornel-tree ripened last. The Devil got angry, because for the first time it was mistaken in its choice and cursed the cornel-tree to become hard, so that when they trash somebody with a cornel-tree stick, he might know that he will ripen late. From that day on, the Devil lost its faith in trees that blossom early. The cornels have healing characteristics, though. They are used to prevent upset.

 

They asked the cornel-tree: Why your fruits are so small? Look at the fruits of the pumpkin! The cornel-tree answered: The big things stand for six months only, while the small ones last for ages.

 

August 19, 5 a.m.