Food keeps man in a limited physical existence where he can hide from God. But man's purpose of life is to choose rightly and face God again. This will dissolve his body. To start this process is to disconnect from all lower desires. That will return him to the higher and follows a certain order which can be learned. Every level of life draws its own kind of food. A warrior must eat meat to arouse anger so that he may face his enemy. But the enemy can be any life-situation. A fruit eater cannot be taken to war nor will he meet with the successes of this world, as he sees no reason to fight. A grass eating dear does not kill, he has no drive for it. Over time man has constantly travelled deeper into his body thereby he became increasingly more hostile and his food intake became coarser. From the harmless entity living in the paradisical world he changed into a predator. Eating destroyed foods, he has taken on the nature of a vulture and a pig. Only Satan himself could have taught man to go deeper and use fire to prepare his food. But fire turns food to ashes. Man lives cleanest from living cells and not from dead matter. Busted cells become minerals and like every medicine, are a poison.
Presently man is a self-harming animal that still has a choice to return to a harmless state and transcend animal nature. He can climb up to his higher body which are his heart and mind. If he does not, his fate is sealed. He is a branch that is cut off from the vine and is consumed by fire. Here is a fundamental approach to life:
Matter is the end of creation and all of it turns into dust. Build your life on matter and you will experience unending pain that will last as long as matter exists. Direct all your aim to return to your spiritual home and you will come back to life again.
A return to a higher world is orderly and follows a perfect sequence. Being stuck in the lower parts of the body is like living inside the legs and the excretory organs. All of a man's thinking and acting is connected to these centers. The ego symbolizes the excretes of the human entity. To live there destroys him fastest and requires a digestive environment that has turned acidic to cope with. Man still can stop that process and travel upwards into his heart and mind. On the way he has to disconnect from the sex center (procreation) and the solar plexus (emotion). Withdrawal takes away the wind to a fire and his coarse nature disappears.
The false desire to survive in a material universe permeates every sphere of life. A long life in the physical body is needed for learning how to give up one's life for righteousness sake. Instead, man does everything to survive in this hellish surrounding. That degrades his God-given integrity so that he may remain there. But instead, man's life becomes shorter in consciousness. Today's bodies are goaded into life with medical knowledge at the cost of integrity of life.
The first religious teachings on this earth probably was the knowledge that man had no right to life there. This has meant a journey to a complete dissolution of his material existence. Every successive religion has increasingly compromised with this goal until it got mixed up with procreation.
Man never evolved out of a beast, but he can become the beast by his own choice. Man was a spark of light that has wandered away from God and joined itself with matter, increasingly losing his essence. Every time a man makes himself more comfortable in this world, he becomes a little more saturated with matter.
All of man's foods are stimulants by which he draws a fake life to himself. Man's true food is life and it does not come from food. The deeper a man dives into his body, the more lifeless the substance of his food becomes and the greater the quantity of it he must eat. This enables him to cope with his degenerating outside world. The first man must have lived by breath alone. Then came a heavier food that took the form of fruits. They just offered themselves to man by having beautiful colors and a sweet aroma and taste. Fruits are enticing to the eye, smell fragrantly and taste wonderfully. Eating them involves no killing. But as man became emotional, he needed coarser foods and he began to eat roots, stalks and leaves. Next he digressed to grains and nuts. But these substances were created to beget new life and eating them became a violation. Suddenly he realized that he had cast himself out of paradise and he blamed God for it. The deeper he sunk into his body the heavier in substance became his food. To the degree he killed his food he also killed himself. He had to cope with pain that came from his choice to turn away from God. Today man feels nothing wrong when he kills life.
Man made himself a servant of fire. The consuming of meat is a consummation of self. But by using fire to destroy his food, he speeded up this process. Cells are alive and give life to the body, but when they burst by fire they turn into lifeless minerals. Minerals are equal to sand and dust. Lifeless matter goads essence into exhaustion.
Food never builds like but destroys life and it is the density of the food that determines the speed. The further man travels away from his paradisical life the heavier his food becomes and the shorter is his life. Today's food is saturated with ashes and the application of fire was the cause of it. It turned organic substances into minerals and chemicals. Man has become so coarse that mineral substances must give life. Fruits give no satisfaction and he craves for proteins, carbohydrates and minerals. They are still able to draw out life.
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