BAPTISM-THE MYSTICAL REBIRTH

PHASE V

THE BAPTISM-REBIRTH IN SPIRIT

"His eyes are like dove by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set
                                                            Song of Songs 5:12

The phase of baptism is the most hallowed in the Journey of the Scribe. Because it is here the Sojourner becomes endued with the gift of grace, given immediately upon emerging from the purest rivers of waters flowing from the Grove of Gold and which is the pass to enter through the great gate at the western slope into the banquet holding inside the Grove of Gold. Singing of this beautiful gift the sage in the 45th Song cooed:

                                                     You put a fire in my heart
                                                      In my blindness
                                                      Like gold lights up the desert
                                                      I become filled with stellar brightness

                                                      Corona (Tufted Titmouse, Baelophus bicolor)

 The significance of this baptism can only be imagined as its real essence is really overwhelming. First, after emerging from the wilderness of trials, a Sojourner mired in dirts and scorched of dust feels a rapturous joy in the heart to sight the hallowed river of the Grove. Here, led by the light of the Ave, he becomes immersed in the amniotic fluid of the celestial which purges a mortal being of impurities making him clean and blameless to sit in the fellowship of the sages. The sage sang of this atavistic thirst in the 1st trope of the 2nd Song thus:

                                                         All I ever ask
                                                         Is a pint of water
                                                         From the flowing river
                                                         To fill my flask

                                                                   silt ( Albatross, Phoebastria nigripes)
  
 At baptism stage, the Sojourner have passed through many miles of experience to reach the bank of the river where he will be met with a Seer who will perform the baptismal rites, leading the Sojourner through the purificatory tube where the last remnants of old life is shed like a worn garment to now emerge a new being gifted with sight, voice, wings and grace to fellowship at the Grove of Gold. The sage sang of this glorious baptism in the 35th Song:

                                                     Inside the spinning sphere
                                                     Where living is swift and severe
                                                     Now I know when birds die
                                                     They rise to dream with the moon up high

                                                       Nocturne (Common Crow,Corvus branchyrynchos)

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