Originally posted by
Seikou-Kishi
Yes, precisely! In summer, plants absorb all the sun's light and towards autumn and winter begins the retreat: all this energy travels into the roots which swell with starch. In the same way, our spiritual insights and advances are condensed down to the nethermost point of our being where they incubate at this time ready to return as integral parts of our consciousness. All such things are condensed down and like food being broken down into the building blocks of our own bodies we break down these spiritual insights and build ourselves anew of them.
Winter is the time to digest the year's harvest within our own earth, our own womb or alembic. The more nutritious our subtrate, the higher our branches reach and the higer our branches reach, the more nutritious next year's subtrate. It is a positive feedback loop. The seed you sow determines the crop you reap and the crop you reap determines the seed you sow.
What is the re-emergence of the light except a light whose shining is now visible where it once was not? It is a mere trick of perspective, for what is a light that doesn't shine but the absence of a light? It is like asking for a being "which doesn't be". Thus, even when the light is hidden, it remains light. But again we bear witness to the light's shine; the rays of our light radiate outwards. Thus, the re-ermergence of the light is a time in which our inward-shining light, having stewed itself in the deepest, darkest alembic of our being, shines not only inwardly but also outwardly; we take what we have gained and ply it into the world, building that light into the its very fabric.
This is the "anchoring"; as St Theresa of Avilla said, God has no hands on Earth but yours. Every human spirit endowed with a body in this world is a union of the spiritual with the physical — each one a continuum filtering down from the rarest aether to this dense hell and thus is each one a conduit between those worlds which seem so distinct. Each one is a medium via which the highest spiritual potency can be drawn down into the physical. As the plants absorb their sunlight and squirrel it away within their roots to fuel next year's growth, so do we take in spiritual light and mature it in our own understanding ready to share it with the world.
The re-ermergence of the light is nothing less than divine intervention: it is the realisation that every human spirit is a divine agent; every human act an instance of the divine interacting with the physical world.