Daily Meditation: Wednesday, September 26, 2001

If we observe how water is purified in nature, we will …

09/26/2001

If we observe how water is purified in nature, we will notice that there are two possible processes. By the first process, water disappears into the ground to be filtered slowly through the different layers, leaving behind its impurities as it goes, before emerging farther on as spring water. By the second process, water is heated by the rays of the sun, becomes lighter, rises in the atmosphere in the form of vapor and rejoices in light; it purifies itself by evaporation and then falls back to earth in the form of dew or rain, bringing life to the vegetation.
As for water, there are also two means of purification for human beings. The first - unfortunately the most widespread - is for people to let the events of life make them go through great suffering, which presses and crushes them until they understand that they must rid themselves of obscure and unhealthy elements that they have nourished within themselves. But the disciples of initiatic science choose the second method: each day they expose themselves to the rays of the spiritual sun and make some effort, through their mind, to ascend to the sun so as to absorb the most luminous elements, which will purify them.