Daniel 4:15 · World English Bible
Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.
The great tree cut down is God descended into a man and living now among the animal states, feeding on grass, wet with dew, no longer aware that he is the Most High. Yet the roots are left, banded with iron and brass, and here is the whole promise.
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The great tree cut down is God descended into a man and living now among the animal states, feeding on grass, wet with dew, no longer aware that he is the Most High. Yet the roots are left, banded with iron and brass, and here is the whole promise. The stump held in the ground is your own buried divinity, bound so it cannot be lost while you pass through the field of human experience.
Iron and brass are the strength of that binding: what looks like the lowest reduction is in fact the seed kept safe. The man crawls with the beasts for a season, forgetting who he is, until the appointed time turns. Then the stump that seemed dead sends up its golden life, and God rises in you as yourself, individualized. Nothing was destroyed. It waited in the earth of your own being.
Manifestation lens
What in you has stayed whole through everything, even the parts you thought cost you yourself?
The way goes forward by seeming to go back. What looks like the lowest point is often the turn, not the end.
Krishna says the real self is never born and never dies, that weapons cannot cut it and fire cannot burn it. Everything that happens to a life happens to the outside of it.
The teaching speaks of a nature in each person that stays whole no matter how long it goes unrecognized. Mud on a mirror does not change what the mirror is.
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