The Childhood of Jesus
The Gospel of James
Biographical Gospel of the Lord
- Chapter 224 -
The Nature Of A Comet
JONATHAN BEGAN to rack his brain at this but was totally unable to take hold of a sensible thought.
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The little Child naturally noticed at once that Jonathan was unable to bring the milkbowl comet into harmony with the heavenly comet.
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He therefore sat up and said to Jonathan,
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'My dear Jonathan! See, your thoughts are like an image of the milkbowl comet which you saw.
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Your heart represents the large bowl filled with milk, in which your love is the milk.
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But above your heart there now is also an enormous swarm of midges, bugs and gnats, just like the one above the milkbowl.
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And this swarm consists of your thoughts which border on the ridiculous concerning the similar nature of the two comets.
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Now friend Jonathan, who ever would seriously consider the core of the heavenly comet to be a milkbowl and its tail to be a swarm of bugs?
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Those are after all only representations, but not perfect likenesses in nature!
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'Now do you really know what a representation is? - What is represented by the bowl? Or by the milk therein? Or by the swarm of bugs and gnats?
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See, you do not understand that; so listen and I will tell you something about it.
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The bowl represents a vessel used to hold substances to which My sustaining power of life is held fast;
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and the milk is such a substance which carries My sustaining power of life in most bounteous measure.
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In the midges, bugs and gnats the power of life is already freely active -
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but if it is not nurtured with a proper sustaining power of life, it soon becomes weak and cannot develop itself for a higher and more perfect state of existence.
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'And behold, the heavenly comet is nothing else than a newly created, becoming world!
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The core is the vessel which holds My sustaining power of life.
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This power of life is very strongly heated by its own inherent fire which I have given into this same power of life, and thus dissolves itself into nourishing vapors.
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And so these vapors carrying a more advanced power of life do not evanesce and become lost to the new world,
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they then are taken up by myriads of monads (amoeboids inhabiting the ether) and by them again carried to the newly-becoming world toward its more complete development.
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See, that is the corresponding similarity between the heavenly comet and our milkbowl comet!
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'Do not search any father now, so your love will not be weakened because of your searching!'
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This explanation was heard by quite a few, and while no one understood it, many believed it.