Secrets of Creation · Chapter 09 · The Apple (July 7, 1871)

Chapter 09

The Apple (July 7, 1871)

01] The Son of your brother has asked you for a word concerning the comparison which I made in the Spiritual Sun with an apple.

02] But the dear child did not understand the actual meaning of this speech. I cited the apple as an example that everywhere in all products and forms an even deeper spiritual something lies hidden, it does not have to be just an apple, but every object in its state of nature has a spiritual meaning, that is to say a spiritual, corresponding similarity with something from the spirit heaven and its ethereal products.

03] But since this child would like to know something about the apple in particular, I want to draw his attention to some of the peculiarities of this fruit, which expresses its form and content spiritually - and even more deeply in heavenly terms.

04] But before moving on to the apple itself, we first want to touch upon its emergence from the blossom lightly and then proceed to the fruit.

05] Well, then listen, My dear child:

06] You will remember that in another word I said to a dear daughter: “the flower is the bride's estate". So it is also the flowering of a tree, it is also the second to last stage of its actual destiny as a tree, because the last one is the fruit itself.

07] And if you look closely at a flower, you will notice that in addition the white petals, it also has filaments and in the middle of them the actual reproductive apparatus.

08] As soon as the bloom reaches full maturity and enters its final stage as a flower, where the filaments begin to fill as fertilizers with the finest juice of the tree as a pollinator and this juice is then spiritualized by the sunlight, the moment approaches when these filaments then bend inwards into the calyx of the flower, discharge this moisture and then force the calyx to close.

09] The leaves of the flowers as well as the empty filaments fall off, the lower part of the blossom closes, and a juice rising from the inside then begins to gradually find this closed capsule and form the fruit or apple.

10] Where the inoculation through the filaments took place, first the main part of the fruit is formed, the kernels are the seeds, and in order to develop them completely, juices are constantly draw in from the inside of the tree, surround the kernels in order to protect them from the influences of the weather, but also to provide them with food through the moisture stored in their cells, until they have developed themselves, and developed their inner as well as their outer parts.

11] The thousands and thousands of cells that surround the nucleus are thus those that are constantly being filled more and more and enlarged in size and thus form the crown of the apple, which is also just opposite the calyx, at the end still shows the inflection where the fertilization took place.

12] So these juices accumulate, are robbed of their larger acidic substance by sunlight and the sun’s heat, the water evaporates and the rest is transformed into something more sweet than sour in taste.

13] Thus the apple remains, enters the process of oxidation on its surface, which is why its skin is colored on some sides facing the sun, indicating a change in its inner substance, which, having arrived at the last point of development, wants to change into other forms by decomposing its elements.

14] The spiritual analogy of the apple is that it has the shape of your earth, on which it grows and to which it also owes its origin.

15] The apples are different in taste according to the essence on which the trunk grows, nitric acid substances surround the roots, and it is also true that where the apples have been raised to greater than usual volume, even in the raw state of nature, they are not among the most pleasant food because of the large mass of acid which they have absorbed from the earth through the trunk; they process the acid in their cellular tissue by means of the sun's heat, It cannot be completely removed by itself, and then only partially escapes when it is cooked by means of fire.

16] The further spiritual meaning of the apple is an important one for your entire generation, since it was just an apple which I, as a test of obedience, forbade the first man to eat and figuratively meant to tell them:

17] "Do not bite into this sour apple, for you and all your descendants will have to pay for it"

18] I chose the apple as a symbol, imagining the earth, who had also kept enough of the acidity for her future inhabitants, and it was just Eve who carried out what I wanted to spare her, she bit into the sweet and sour fruit and thus passed on to all her family the acidic and bitter sufferings hidden under sweet garments to which the female sex is subjected until the end of her life.

19] In general, it is also true for women that the more they are exalted and overblown, the more sour and bitter their minds are, and they also are not to be enjoyed until the strong fire of purification makes them less acidic and thus more bearable for human society.

20] As with the apple, the smaller and the rosy-cheeked its outside is, like a girl whose health is written on her forehead, the sweeter the apple is and the better the girl's mind.

21] The greener, harder and more distended the apple is, the more it resembles the female being, which is almost green with anger and jealousy and does not want to tolerate anyone next to it!

22] The apple was the first source of seduction for the first woman of the earth and at the same time remained the image for all her gender, it also expresses the life of this earth incidentally where, in order to come to the knowledge of himself, man must earn his bread sourly by the sweat of his brow, where he has to struggle with all the vices and passions, having to train himself to be My former child and, finishing his mission through bitter and sour experiences only then enters into the life afterward as another, better, spiritual one.

23] What is the flowering of the tree in man's life is his first awakening to the earthly life, where he does not know any sorrow or suffering, until the filaments of human life teach him the first wounds and through this etching incite him to fight and quarrel with his own nature and the world surrounding him.

24] And as the calyx of the blossom closes and then the inner juices find fruit, so also the young wounded heart closes, and from within the life elements of its own nature, and from the outside receiving as nourishment that of its mother earth, it too will be a container of good and bad, sweet and sour passions and peculiarities, until finally in the struggle with itself, the bitterness eradicated, it approaches its higher destiny. And like the apple, the cell tissue surrounding the core contains the means for the further development of another tree, so it is also the good qualities which should surround and protect the soul as a nucleus with its garments, enabling the human being for a series of higher levels of education.

25] What the apple contains in itself as sourness, these are the impure impulses in man, which on the one hand incite him to grant it, but on the other hand inspire the better self to resist and thus produce a dissolving principle from the struggle of the sweet and sour, which has become a healing principle for the human being, when it is at its best as a tasty juice, if it has become the result of his life as a bitter vinegar or intoxicating wine.

26] Therefore you too, My beloved child, in whom everything is still sweet and sour, as in the budding apple, is understood in the fermentation process that the sourness in you does not gain the upper hand, for what love actually is as warmth, this is the sugar as opposed to the hatred, anger and other passions that arise from bile and are to be understood as synonymous with acidity.

27] Strive forward! be attentive to yourself and to the impulses in your heart, so that you do not have to "bite into a sour apple", as the saying goes: once upon a time, but that you are still outgoing at the moment, only sharpen the goodness in deeds around you, and so confidently embark on the path of the second spiritual succession in the hereafter!

28] Here you have the triple image of the apple: as a fruit, as a symbol of the earth and as a counterpart to human life.

29] Take the proper teaching from it, so that this word has not been given to you in vain. This is what your father tells you, who will always strengthen you bless your actions! Amen.