These essays are written in sequence and build on each other. Read the preceding essay here.
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
— KJV, Mark 4: 26-27
And should sleep, and rise night and day,
and the seed should spring and grow up,
he knoweth not how.
As we discussed earlier, we sow spiritual seed through our will, thoughts, and words, and the Power of God contained in the Laws of Creation automatically nurtures and develops these “creations” until they mature and manifest materially.
We also discussed that the material has no inherent life – it is “dust”. This implies that actual development does not take place in the material.
The development takes place in the spiritual/non-material, and what we observe in the material is only the outer manifestations of the real development, as indicated in The Word:
The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven,
— Matt 13:33
which a woman took,
and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened.
The “active ingredient”, the leaven, is the invisible (hidden) spiritual activity.
“[W]hich a woman took” calls attention to the use of the will (the volition) i.e. decision-making.
So we human beings are able to shape the material world through our God-given spiritual power, which we use every time we make any decisions. This makes us “mini-creators” within the material world.
That the spiritual activity is invisible does not mean it is “mysterious”; it can be inferred from what is visible. The two must be similar, just as the DNA of a fruit has similarities to the DNA of the tree that bore it.
For example: physicists have observed that every material object exerts a force of attraction on other material objects (Newton’s Law of Gravitation). This tells us that the phenomenon of attraction must be a major feature of spiritual processes.
Matter is matter i.e. all matter is composed of the same fundamental particles. So we see that matter attracting matter is in sync with the idea of types attracting only similar types.
In the spiritual, there are many more “types”. When we observe similar human beings becoming friends, it is not the similar physical matter of their physical bodies that brought them together, but the stronger attraction caused by their similar spiritual nature i.e. “birds of a feather flock together”.
Their banding together physically is the material manifestation of a spiritual attraction that has been operating based on their similar nature, without any conscious knowledge. It is an automatic activity powered by the Laws of God.
Leaven has its effect on bread unconsciously, but the human spirit is meant to mature and have a conscious and positive effect on Earth.
As we human beings become more spiritual (i.e. more in sync with The Word), we will consciously make use of these principles in order to fulfill the words “Thy Kingdom Come”.
Today’s Resolution:
- We shall remind ourselves that every decision we make has spiritual consequences, and we shall strive to make those decisions spiritually uplifting.
The Word, (Re)Discovered 