Refiner's Fire

2000-10-20 02:46:00

Neither tree is a victim, Chris, for neither have individualized. Both trees in their consciousness merely fulfill the destiny that is placed upon them by the energies and events in which they participate.

There is a correspondence between the plant and human kingdoms, but such correspondences are never exact. Trees are damaged by fire and strengthened by wind. Humans are damaged by wind, but strengthened by fire as related in the scriptures:

Mal 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
Mal 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

The greatest lights among humanity must be refined by fire even as gold and silver is. The individuals who withstand the fire and do not succumb to victimhood become as rare and precious as gold.

Again, let me state that the test as to whether something works, is that it works. The principles I have applied in my life work; they leave me full inside not empty, leave me free from pain, not a victim of it, elevate me beyond the clinging lives, and leave me free to put my attention on things more noble.

Fortunately, I am not alone in this realization.