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the flower first? or do I plant deep out of sight, a
lilly bulb, which in due time sends forth stems, out of
which burst the blossom? All of us can plant a bulb and
have a lilly. The bulb contains within it the perfect
lilly; the flower is the result of the perfect life and substance that is in the bulb.
This bulb may represent to us our Divine Nature.
The planting of it in mother earth, may remind us to see
our Divine Nature implanted within the Whole Divine
Life, the Mother, Father, God Source of all; Power in
and through all; "Your life is hid with Christ in God." -- Col. 3:3.
To understand my life buried with Truth in God, is
to plant the bulb of my existence, the starting point of
all outward expression of good.
The "stem" and "flower" represent to us this outward expression, put forth from within the bulb, after it
is buried. When we look from the visible to the Invisible
Life, from the act to the Actor, or Power of Action,
Divine Life stirs up our souls, by pushing out Its own
action, and the result comes into the visible act of goodness.
With faith in the bulb, and what it can do, we plant
it, and wait. With faith in Divine Nature, and what it
can do, we believe in it, and wait. "For we have need of
patience that after we have done the will, we may receive the promise."
The Divine Soul is the budding out of the Spirit of
Life, Truth, and Love. The Divine Body is the development of this bud into the perfect flower.
When thought is truly converted, it sees that we
cannot make perfect lives, but we can be the Perfect Life
in God, and thus let it put forth its perfection, peace, and
beauty, into soul and body.
