Daily Meditation: Friday, June 29, 2001

People should know that each thing, each being in nature …

06/29/2001

People should know that each thing, each being in nature has two poles. Look at a tree: it feeds on air and light through its branches and leaves while it feeds on water and earth through its roots. Just like the tree, man receives forces from above and forces from below.
When Adam and Eve lived in paradise in the Garden of Eden, it was as if they lived within flowers. Flowers are exposed to the air, to the light of the sun and are visited by butterflies and bees. In the flowers one lives a heavenly and radiant life. But the day Adam and Eve left the flowers under the influence of the serpent and went down through the trunk to the roots of the cosmic tree, they reached regions that were deprived of light and warmth; they thus felt the weight of matter, and everything - moving, eating, etc - became more difficult. Human beings are in the same situation today. But the work of the disciple is precisely to learn to control and use the subterranean forces he draws from his roots so as to produce flowers and bear fruit.