WORD_SCRIPTURE
Water to Wine Transformation
This concept describes the spiritual progression from a literal understanding of scripture ('stone') to a psychological understanding ('water'), and finally…
Related Bible passages
- John 2:7-9
- Genesis 29:2-10
Related ideas
StoneWaterWineLittle shaggy white dogAllegoryPsychological MeaningLiteral InterpretationImaginationApplicationFaith
Every Natural Effect
Well, may I say to you, in the Bible, we speak of stone, the water, and the wine. The stone is the literal story, the allegory. And man must discover the fictitious nature and character of a story. And when he discovers the fictitious character of the story in scripture and then learns its meaning, he has found water. He has struck that rock like a Moses and water flowed out of it. Now, the first miracle or sign in the Book of John is the turning of water into wine. And so, you’re told, 'Fill the stone jars with water and when they draw it out of the stone jars, that water that was in the stone jar, it was wine, perfect wine, lovely wine. So, first we have a story and man takes the story and accepts the story literally and so he goes through life with the literal meaning or the stone. When he discovers the fictitious character of the story and then it reveals itself to him, the true meaning, he has the psychological water. Now the little dog is the symbol of faith. Your faith is now in the psychological meaning of these great truths. If you apply what you know, you will convert it into wine. If you apply it. If you will take what you now know, that imagining creates reality, and dare to imagine that you are now what you would like to be, then you are turning this water into wine.
This concept describes the spiritual progression from a literal understanding of scripture ('stone') to a psychological understanding ('water'), and finally to the active application of that understanding through imagination ('wine'). It's the process of transforming intellectual knowledge into manifested reality.