1ST COURSE: DIVINE FRUITS

1^ST COURSE: FRUIT OF LIGHT

‘Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love’

                                                                   Song of Songs 2:5

The first course to be served at the Holy Table of the Aves is called ‘The Fruit of Light’. This fruit, like a glowing orb, is cropped from the Mystical Tree of Light at the Grove and its taste simply is out of the world. When a Scribe is signaled to pick from the basket of fruits at the glorious dinner, he feels a righteous ambivalence tugging at his heart, to know the one to pick amongst the alluring colors of orbs shinning before him or her. Because the Fruits of Light are many shades of an essence and its taste is according to its shade. Therefore, to chose the destined orb is to be prompted by the content of Shaliz imbued in the Scribe which leads his or her hand to the fruit of their destiny. The sage sang of this direction in the 18^th Song:

                                         A leaf led my heart

                                         To the truth

                                         Of your worth

                                         Beneath the bareness of your earth

                                                                                                       Module( Waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum)

For Aves, the importance of divine direction cannot be overstated. This is because in the world of matter a lot of decisions are incumbent on us to make every minute of our waking life. Various great questions of existence is thrust upon our intellect all day long which as mortals we are ill equipped to solve owing to the deficiency of the senses to solve the mystical puzzles of being. The sage, all immanent in wisdom sang of this great burden in the 54^th Song:

                                      Who am I

                                      Going to be

                                      In my nocturnal quest

                                      To know the deep mystery of being

                                                                                                             Paradox( Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga)

   Therefore, seeking answers from the Divine through the Leaf is a special privilege afforded to Aves, who sitting on the same table with the Holy Presence and feeding from the Mystical Fruit of the Grove, finds their souls filled with joy and contentment, sourced from the answers embedded in the sugar of the Mystical Apple. Of this the sage sang in the 63^rd Song:

                                     I was looking

                                     For fruit

                                     To raise a root

                                     When I found flowers

                                                                                              Cobalt (Common Nighthawk, Chordelies minor)