Daily Meditation: Thursday, March 31, 2011

Word, the - is creative because it reunites the two principles, the masculine and feminine

03/31/2011

A man or a woman cannot give birth to a child on their own; for it to happen, there must be the two of them. But, through the spoken word, they can each separately become creators thanks to the two principles, the masculine and the feminine, contained in their mouth – the tongue and the two lips. The Gospels all illustrate this truth. It is thanks to the all-powerfulness of the word that Jesus performed miracles. He said to the paralytic, ‘Stand up, take your bed and go to your home’, and the man walked. To bring Lazarus back to life, he went to his grave and shouted in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ To bring the daughter of Jairus back to life, he took her by the hand and said, ‘Child, get up.’ When he cured the possessed, he ordered the demon, ‘Go!’ When he cured a leper, he said, ‘I do choose, be clean!’ When he calmed the storm, he said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ The very way our body is made is, in itself, a teaching on the masculine and feminine principles. It teaches us that only here below on the physical plane are the two principles separate: physically, except in very exceptional cases, a human being can only be either a man or a woman. But on high, on the divine plane, the two principles come together as they do in the mouth; only on high are human beings creative and free.