I’ve been hearing a lot about this “flow’r of life,” or some secret societies that had been afforded the right to know the secret of this “flow’r,” about tombs of Egyptian gods and goddesses whose origins have always been under a cloud of doubt. It is claimed that one has to do pilgrimage to some cultic tomb or go to some Egyptian desert to gain knowledge of this sort, which the large pitiful majority of all mankind has been deprived of. Or strive to be a cultist. That, to me is a lot of hogwash. Look, if that society is supposedly secret, hidden, that flow’r of life” would also be secret, hidden, mysterious. The fact that one person is now claiming to have cracked the meaning of that mystery, if I may say so, mystifies me more than mystery itself. And if one knows only about that secret now, it really does not mean it was a secret; it means some men did not know it before, or that man had not been afforded the opportunity to hear it then. We actually have a term for it; no not secret, but “apocryphal.” Please look it up; don’t tell me I am inventing it.
Flowers are real. On the other hand, the “flow’rs of life” (or was it “flow’r” singular?) are as legendary as the goddess Osiris. Believe you me, you gain nothing from such exercise. And I am not interested in the flower of life. I am interested in life itself.
And it is not a coincidence that Someone came to this earth about two thousand years ago, His arrival being a part of the great plan of the ages. He went to Egypt too, as Baby, not be initiated into the secrets of the pagan goddesses and their lying cults, but to fulfill what had been planned in ages past, as expressed through prophetic utterances that now found its way into the Holy Scriptures. I am talking about that Great Being whose tomb had been unsealed that day of His resurrection, the day we call the “Lord’s day.” His message is much more important that of the pagan goddess’s (whose tomb remained sealed to this day). He said: “I came that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Is it not time we lend Him our ears?
