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Plants as a correspondence for spiritual growth

Ethan preached this morning about plants (it's the first day of spring, of course) and how their stages of growth correspond to regeneration. I found myself thinking about my challenges as a plant grower. (Anything to avoid thinking about my own spritual growth !!) Do all the pests that I contend with in trying to get my fruit trees to grow correspond to temptations of various sorts? If so, what sorts? What do the Writings have to say about this, if anything? Ethan noted the passages dealing with the wheat and the tares, and weeds generally. But what about various insects and other diseases that trouble plants? Anything about any of them in the Writings? I did some boolean searches, but came up blank. Help from anyone would be welcome.

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Comment by Donald Brandis on March 22, 2010 at 10:12pm: Tom: as I understand it trees represent people and the main things of people: inmosts (will), interiors (understanding) and exteriors (activities). In some passages one of these meanings is emphasized, in others another. Insects are usually falsities but not always (AC 7441-7442, 9331). See Amos 4:9, 12 as discussed at AC 1069 and 9277.3-4. See Deut. 19:4,6 as discussed at AC 9011. Fruit trees are hard to manage, being subject to many diseases and insects, and I have been advised to enjoy the flowering and not count on the fruit of ours unless I want to do a lot of expensive spraying. So there may be no correspondences here, or there may be. You might look at some of these texts for the kind of things generally mean by the things that hinder harvests and fruitfulness, and consider if it applies to you or those around you in some way.

-Don

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Wrap it in 1 problem.
Among + + big the problem is large gift.

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Plants as a correspondence for spiritual growth

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