CH XIII (excerpt) — the rebirth
G.R.S. Mead / Walter Scott (composite, public domain) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1Tell me, father, what is rebirth? It cannot be taught.
2It is from the will of God; from the womb of Wisdom; from the seed of the True Good. It is conceived in silence; it is brought forth not by a man, but by the Mind. It is not the body that is reborn; it is the soul.
3Twelve are the tormentors of the body — ignorance, sorrow, lack of self-control, lust, wrath, greed, deceit, envy, treachery, anger, rashness, malice. They are governed by the seven; the seven dispatch them.
4Ten are the powers that come into him who is reborn — knowledge of God, joy, self-control, endurance, justice, generosity, truth, good, life, light. They cast out the twelve.
5When the ten powers come, the rebirth is accomplished. Then the man is no longer a man — he is a son of God. He sees with the Mind; he hears with the Mind; he speaks with the Mind. The Mind has come to dwell in him.
6Be silent, my son. Do not tell this to the unworthy. The Mind has come to you. Sing the silent song. Live the new life.
7Such is the rebirth. He who has it has the Father in him. He who has the Father in him knows the All.