17. And to the Earth Being,Infinite
One said: “You, too, have acted not
by your own desire and choice but by
the influence of another. You have
listened to the voice of Fire Being
when you should have listened to your
own inner voice and you ate from
the tree of which I instructed you to
not eat. Now that you, too, have
separated your spirit self from your
physical self, your relationship with
the earth has become severed so that
you will find it strenuous to pick her
gifts where once she yielded to you her fruits with ease.
18. “Weeds and thorns will be your crop, for your have separated your Self from the earth and now see yourself as different from the rest of creation. As you have surrendered your own power to the voice of another, you will eat not of what you wish to bring forth but of what the earth chooses to yield, such as herbs and grasses. 19. “As for that which you desire to bring forth from the earth,
such as bread, it shall come to you only through hard toil and much sweat,
and this is how it will be for you until you return to being in relationship
with the earth again, for it is from earth that you were taken. Remember
you are not just of the earth but that you are earth itself, and you must
therefore endeavor to again become earth.”
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