Daily Meditation: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Life - everywhere in the universe; the same succession of phases
For a seed to produce a tree, there are four necessary conditions: it must be placed in soil, watered, allowed to have air and provided with warmth and light from the sun. So, the four elements are present here: earth, water, air and fire. As the roots burrow down into the soil, a small stem comes up to form a trunk, and this trunk splits into branches, which grow buds. When the buds burst open, leaves and flowers appear, and the flowers produce fruit. Finally, with the seeds from the fruit, we come full circle. Everything in the universe, in its own way, goes through the same phases - roots, stem, branches, leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds - and this sequence of phases is what we call life. Depending on the created beings in question and which realms or planes they appear in, some processes are longer, others shorter. The remarkable thing about trees, particularly fruit trees, is that these processes are invariably repeated year after year, the four seasons being the four stages of the process. To emphasize the importance of these stages, the initiatic tradition placed each one under the influence of an archangel: Raphael rules spring, Uriel summer, Michael autumn and Gabriel winter.
Omraam Mikhael AivanhovBuy
- Aleph
- Anarchy, inner
- Androgyne
- Anxiety
- Art
- Attention
- Binah (from)
- Birth
- Bodies, spiritu…
- Book
- Breathing
- Bringing up chi…
- Cells
- Chain of beings…
- Choral singing
- Commitment, spi…
- Concentration
- Constructive he…
- Continence
- Control
- Control of thou…
- Create, the nee…
- Creations, inne…
- Creators
- Cries
- Destiny
- Devil
- Diplomas, human
- Distance, maint…
- Dreaming
- Earthly life
- Education
- Effort
- Elohim, the
- Emotions and fe…
- Exchange, law o…
- Failings
- Food
- Formula
- Friends
- Gifts and facul…
- Giving
- God’s work
- Good, the
- Happiness
- Hardships
- Human beings
- Ideal
- Incarnation, th…
- Influences, goo…
- Initiates
- Intelligence of…
- Interests, econ…
- Interests, pers…
- Judgments
- Limits, inner
- Liner
- Macrocosm (the …
- Magic, black
- Medicine
- Minute at a tim…
- Mission
- Money
- Music and singi…
- Mystical delusi…
- Nature
- Non-violence
- Opponents
- Optimism and pe…
- Orchestra
- Ordeal, an
- Other people’s …
- Peace
- Physical world
- Preparation
- Principles
- Protection of h…
- Protection, spi…
- Putting one’s h…
- Reincarnation o…
- Separation
- Sephirotic tree
- Sexual experien…
- Spiritual Maste…
- Suicide
- Sun
- Today
- Twin soul
- Visions and dre…
- Weaknesses and …
- Wishes
- Word, the
- Worker in the f…
- Yesod to Kether
- ‘Have salt in y…
- ‘I am the light…
- ‘I am the livin…
- ‘If your eye is…
- ‘In the beginni…
- ‘Our Father in …