Rising above the grasp of mortality seems to be a personal struggle, but, spiritually viewed, it is the impersonal dawning and steady unfoldment in individual consciousness of the revelation of God's allness. Being "born again" was the way Jesus described it. It is as when a small but growing light introduced into a dark room at first but glimmers in the gloom, then grows ever brighter, until it vanquishes the darkness entirely and fills the room with its own brilliance.
Every human being includes a capacity to entertain something of the true, spiritual view of existence as well as the seeming material view. But many people are so captivated by the material sense of existence that they are hardly aware of the permanent, more satisfying spiritual sense. Nevertheless, these two contrary views cause continual conflict in human consciousness until the individual is willing to put forth the effort demanded to resolve the situation, namely, make the painstaking separation between the two by embracing the genuine and relinquishing the false. These opposites are the tares and wheat, which the Way shower, Christ Jesus, explained must be separated, the one to be destroyed, the other to be cherished.
Quite often spiritual sense first comes to light in one's experience as a tiny spark of spiritual intuition, but it continues to reveal its harmonies—the truths of being destined ultimately to extinguish mortal discord and material sense altogether. Individuals ignorant of this process of growth and awakening often consider the resulting chemicalization (the turbulent breaking down of materialism in their thought) as cause for anxiety. Often they resist this action by clinging the more tenaciously to material belief, not realizing that if they stick to the spiritual truth, harmony inevitably results.
