The Heart of Water
Teaching 8, The Heart of Water , has been a source of consternation and confusion amongst both adherents and people outside our faith for a few specific passages. Today, I would like to give out my hermeneutical approach to the text, and specifically passages 32-46. The Teaching begins with instructions, of putting one's trust in Spirit and God Herself. To be virtuous in humility and love, to keep one's love and heart flowing like water. Contrasting to one with a heart of ice, one who is hard, unfeeling, or worse, tyrannical, means that one should strive to follow the path of love. Our hearts and souls seek to achieve closeness to the Spirit, the spiritual waters of Dea, as it says in Teachings 10:39; Every soul is athirst for the waters of Life... As water is vital to life on earth, so the waters of Life are vital to our souls. Verse 15 is the start of where many people get unsettled or confused by the Teaching: The heart of water is in all obedience, nor hardens against he...
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