Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00289)

CITRUS FRUITS denote sweet acid. Contemplate the contrasts between the
sensations: namely sweetness, fragrance, and the sharpness of the
accompanying acidic sting ...
We may compare our attitudes of concept forming, to that of the experience
of a good, freshly picked, juice impacted citrus fruit. When we come to try
a teaching or a new thought, and weigh it in measure with our former
experience, and then by comparisons with spoken and unspoken truths, we may
know of those qualities that appeal to our inner senses - just as keenly as
we should experience the citrus.
As concepts go, there are many that hang heavy on the tree of knowledge. To
the personal sense, some may have been lost to decompose, where fallen
unclaimed, and with time spent, turn to rancid waste. The acidic elements
with water combine, split the skin, and then weaken the form. Finally there
is shrinkage or dissipation, in final breakdown. What of the fruit left
unhappily beneath the tree? It returns, absorbed through the ground,
eventually making its way back to the bough. Unless of course, it has been
claimed.

And some might hurry to pluck the unripe and immature fruit. All sour and
distasteful, and alarming to the unsuspecting, eager picker. The fragrance
brings promise, but the sweetness yet to unfurl. Green and unpalatable.
Some prefer marmalade, some prefer the juices expelled. Moreover the
vitality is largely spent when one dilutes, adds or extracts long after the
fruit has been first pried into.
May we put to test the offerings of wisdom, by the fragrance, the sweetness,
and the acidic bite. The nature of a truth, does surely hold a spirited
fragrance, which expels/emits an inner sensory notation, which speaks to us.
The sweetness comes from Heaven herself: for all which is in truth cosmic
and pure, is pleasing and sweet to the soul. The acid is the action of true
clarity and vision, where illusion is put to the quick, and dispelled in the
light of right knowledge.
B.Hive