Daily Meditation: Thursday, October 5, 2000

A man or a woman cannot create a child on their own, but by …

10/05/2000

A man or a woman cannot create a child on their own, but by means of the spoken word they are each creators, quite separate from each other, because their mouths contain both principles - the masculine and the feminine - in the form of the tongue and the two lips. The Gospels illustrate this. It is thanks to the omnipotence of words that Jesus performs miracles. He says to the paralytic: ‘Stand up, take your bed and go to your home.' When Jesus raises Lazarus to life, he goes to the tomb and he cries with a loud voice: ‘Lazarus, come out!' When he raises the daughter of Jairus to life, he takes her by the hand and calls out: ‘Child, get up!' When he heals those possessed with demons, he commands: ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!' When he cleanses a leper, he says: ‘I do choose. Be made clean!' When he calms the storm, he says to the sea: ‘Peace! Be still!' Looking at the way our body is built teaches us about the two principles, the masculine and the feminine. It teaches us that only below, on the physical plane are the two principles separate, since physically a human being can only be either a man or a woman. But up above, on the divine plane, the two principles are united as they are united in the mouth, and this is why up above human beings are creators, they are free, and they live in fulfilment.