WATER: Blood and Heart of Earth
By Raïna Manuel-Paris, Ph.D
“Amidst a world increasingly disoriented and at war with itself, each person carries with them the seeds of a unique and valuable story trying to unfold. The youngest part of each psyche still longs to find the holy waters that can ease the pain of living and make life whole and meaningful again.” – Michael Meade
Water is life. It is healing power and transformation. In the Christian tradition water can be purification, as is the case with the baptismal water that washes away original sin and admits a child into the Church—the Corpus Christi.
The Gospel of John quotes Christ’s words to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again of water and the spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” And in the Revelation of John: “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal . . . on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month” (22:1–2).
But water can also be destruction, as in the flood from which only Noah and his family escaped. Water has many correlations. Christ walked on water and transmuted it into wine. These miracles can be seen as transcendence of the earthly condition.
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Water is life. It is healing power and transformation. In the Christian tradition water can be purification, as is the case with the baptismal water that washes away original sin and admits a child into the Church—the Corpus Christi.
The Gospel of John quotes Christ’s words to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again of water and the spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” And in the Revelation of John: “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal . . . on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month” (22:1–2).
But water can also be destruction, as in the flood from which only Noah and his family escaped. Water has many correlations. Christ walked on water and transmuted it into wine. These miracles can be seen as transcendence of the earthly condition.
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