What is born of the Spirit is spirit
John 3:3-7 : Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.'
Paraphrasing the Gospel, what is born to a duck from an other duck, is supposed to be a duck, however what is born from the Spirit is spirit.
Once upon a prehistoric time beyond the glass mountains there was a crystal egg. Laid by an archetype duck, which had dived once the Black Sea for dirt, and she brought an island up from the deep. Even after she dove deep she did not became a dove, but remained a duck, adamantly sticking to her self identity, in order to avoid an identity crisis.
The premordial duck was her designation from time immemorial till the end of the eras. Thus, her egg was a duck egg, by definition
Identification can also be important regarding birds as well. As Jesus was baptized by John, the Gospel of Matthew explicitly said, that the "Heavens were opened to him. (and) He saw the Spirit of God descending a a dove, and coming on him.
Dragons and salamanders were her dinosaur cousins for real, not like the entirely mythical creatures like the allegedly immortal phoenix bird from Greece or the Garuda eagle from India. Other than some DNA traits, she had not much to do with the furry mammals of Siberia or North America completely extinct now, because of the extinction level glaciation cast by the contemporary but also cyclically recurring ice age.
The western coast of the Black Sea was her original idea to build a nest, to establish social circles, to lay down the very foundation of organized society, law & order, legislative system based on consensus, a duck society, where nobody will be left behind.
The latest serious ice age ended around 13000 years ago, thus the territorial boundaries of the coastal lands of the prehistoric seafaring empire, called Atlantis, due the the nicer climate, stretching throughout the entire planet, reached finally the shores of the Black Sea.
At that time the Black Sea was supposedly a giant freshwater lake sealed off from the Mediterranean sea. However, as primordial rumor has it, somewhere in the marking of the transition period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, around 5600 BCE, the melting ice caps of the Earth raised the sea level that much that the flooding Mediterranean Sea breached the rocky land barriers at the Bosporus strait, and flooded the Black Sea coastal lands ruining the Atlantic civilization over there.
The human flood refugees settled in Mezopotamia, Egypt and Greece, creating the ancient Bronze Age civilizations practically overnight as they suddenly emerged out of the blue or actually out of the costal lands of the Black Sea, exactly as it is written in the Book of Genesis chapter 8 that “ The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains, in Armenia today, a reasonable escape gateway to the south.
The duck as a bird or broadly as a dinosaur refugee did not follow the human escape route to the south, to the fertile crescent, but searching for the emarald northern light in order investigate the very cause of the flood, and to give birth an after fllod generation premordial duck. Thus, she flew northward through the glass mountains, called the Ural mountains today, passing over the glass river, called Yayik today.
Meanwhile flying, as it was getting colder and colder, her eggs became crystallized, and of glass itself. It felt ice or glassy ice, when she reached the region of the northern light.
During the long polar twilight, which used to last 179 days, the polar light was beautiful and emerald but freezing cold itself and was not able to warm-up the crystal egg laid on the top of an emerald pole. The emerald light was mirrored on the surface of the crystal egg, but was not able to penetrate it. The duck tried everything to transfer her own body heat to the egg, as well, but no avail. The icy wind, called the Borealis, did not help either to make matters better or warmer.
There was no sign of life in the egg, until the Sun rose after six month of day and night ruled by the dim and disheartening polar twilight. But the Sun rose like a victorious general over the stars, and hit the egg with a gentle touch of the heat of its burning furnace, a thermonuclear power plant designed by the Almighty God to heat up the dark and ice-cold universe to help life to awaken.
The Sunshine like trillions of candles broke the chains of the darkness, and the shadowed arctic reality suddenly came into life, when the single cell of the egg began the path of all lives obeying the command of God, as it is written in the Book of the Genesis about the beginnings, that “God said, “ ‘Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.’ God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’ ”
We are all carrying our hearts as a bird carries its egg as a treasure of the promised new life. We all carry our hearts with great difficulties through personal, national and global history, through complex though human pathways, burdened with tragedies, calamities, mistakes and errors, burdened with suffering and freezing winds, until the end.
Sometimes just when the end nears we begin to realize that our hearts are like ice-cold eggs, and nothing helps, if the heart will not survive the body. The body without the soul is lifeless. The soul without the enlivening spirit of God, is lifeless, as well.
That is why Jesus told Nicodemus that "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." That is why to be born again is not a only a possibility, not only an opportunity, but a life or death necessity. After our physical birth, we have to be born again by the spirit, experiencing a rebirth in the Spirit.
The icy egg inside of our minds must be penetrated and fertilized by the Spirit of the Almighty God, that by the touch of the immortal Spirit, the spark of the very immortality may begin to grow in the heart, breaching the ice crystals of the shell, in order that when the body falls, our soul may get its spirit wings to fly above. Just as Jesus told Nicodemus , that “What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. “
As the body is taken from the ground, it returns to the ground, but what has been born from the Spirit of God, it returns to the Spirit of God. May Jesus who is our guide to immortality, be blessed, for ever, AMEN.
