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Dianne J. Moore
Order A Maze of Grace: Claiming Your Twelve Powers
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
--J. Krishnamurti
A message from
The voice of God
SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
“…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of GOD…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:3-6).
These words were spoken by JESUS CHRIST in response to the comments and question posed by Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, who came to JESUS by night, after recognizing HIM as Rabbi, a teacher from GOD because of the miracles HE did.
After the initial statement in regards to being born again, Nicodemus asked the rhetorical question, “…How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
This very question has reverberated through the annals of time from the initial utterance. For, it appears as if man is incapable of understanding the concept of rebirth apart from the physical birth of man. It is difficult for us to comprehend that Spiritual birth is far more superior to the physical birth, therefore Spiritual rebirth has the same relationship.
Because we live in a materialistic world, we have come to equate all that we see around us as reality and that which we do not see as the illusion. However, as one matures and develops in the Spiritual, we can discover that the adverse is possible. It can become to apparent to the Spiritual Mature that all that we see in the natural realm is at the least an illusion which can cloud one’s perception of the Spiritual. This concept is made clear in the “Allegory of the Cave.”
In this allegory, it is pointed out that some prisoners were chained together in a cave with the only light coming through an opening high above them. There is a ledge running along the outer edge of the opening which allows those who are in the light to move about the opening freely. Their movement caused distorted figures to be cast below in the
Cave. Those who were chained together had begun to play a game of naming the distorted figures as they were cast. They also guessed which figures would appear and when. Some began to be outstanding at the game and were able to identify all the figures.
One of the better players of the game decided that he would try and escape and climb out of the cave into the light to freedom, after breaking free of the chain. The others tried to discourage him from making attempt to leave by telling him that he didn’t know what was up there and he wouldn’t be able to function in the light. Nevertheless, he made the attempt anyway and was successful in his escape.
When he made it into the light, he discovered that all the figures were not as they appeared to them in the cave. He realized that what they saw was only a reflection of that he now knew as reality. He further discovered that they were shadows that were cast by the light shining on the actual figures themselves. Then he learned the true nature and names of the objects that were unknown to him before when he was a prisoner.
Because of this new- found knowledge, he was eager to return to the cave so that he could enlighten those he left behind. However, upon his return to the other prisoners, and his attempt to share his new view of reality and the illusion of that which was reflected in the cave, they thought that the light had made him “go insane.” For you see, he now knew the truth of what was unknown to him and the others before his ascension into the light. He was no longer able to play the game, that he had mastered so successfully, any more. For that which he called the distorted figures were not what they had agreed upon when he was in the dark cave with the others.
So it is with those of us who able to escape the illusionary trappings of this world and come into the “Light of JESUS CHRIST” through the study of HIS WORD. For, HIS WORD is TRUTH. As HE said to the woman at the well, “Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the FATHER in SPIRIT and in TRUTH: for the FATHER seeketh such to worship him. GOD IS A SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.”
THINK ABOUT IT!!!!
Universally Yours,
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