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The bride (the church) stated: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir, nor awake my love, till he is ready (at the appointed time); but then she sees him coming, and asks: Who is this coming out of the wilderness (refinement) like pillars of smoke? The bride, who is supposedly deeply acquainted with her beloved, is unable to recognize him: for she knows not the nature of his coming, being partially blinded (veiled: hardened). Do not be ignorant of this, as a snare is her beloved's coming. Truth verily is incontrovertible: malice may attack it, and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end, there it is, in full manifestation, humbling malice and disconcerting ignorance.

Do you ever stop to think about growth, how the natural reflects the spiritual? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but simply allow the forces of life to operate through the source of life: they never know how they grow, they simply find themselves beautiful. But with man it is not so: for man, in his ingenuity, seeks to plot his own course, supposing to control the forces of life, thereby generating one strife after another, even striving with his Creator: he forgets that it is the LORD God who is doing the work both to will and to do of his good pleasure. For that which man sees of life, which he is experiencing, is simply a reflection of what the spirit (the true him) is going through in the unseen world (parallel): for the outer being (the vessel: flesh) bears the burden of the inner being (the spirit), until the perfection of the eternal being.

The death that man faces cannot be resolved if he chooses to remain at the same level of ignorant selfness as when he incurred the problem: for there is a way which seems right to man, but the end thereof is death. Glory to God, that with him all things are possible. This is the time of restorative transformation: therefore the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: and every tree (faith) which my Father in heaven has not planted shall be uprooted. And every tree that stands shall boast not against the branches: for it too is borne by the root, rooted in good ground, watered by the brook. Self (ego) is inimical to growth: growth is unobservable, it is silent and gentle, and occurs unnoticed through contact with the source and forces of life: even as the rising of the dough by the yeast goes unnoticed. And so is the kingdom of heaven, in fully manifesting conscious energy unto reconciliation.