Principles and Fundamentals of Food
"If ye walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the
field shall yield their fruit. 5And your threshing shall reach unto
the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and
ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely."
- Leviticus 26:3
"For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is
our king; he will save us. Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not
well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is
the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. And the
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein
shall be forgiven their iniquity." - Isaiah 33:22
"And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy
bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst
of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy
land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. I will send my fear
before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt
come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee." -
Exodus 23:25
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Agriculture & Human Evolution
The use of the soil for
those developments in its supplying the needs to man, to supply that
which is its privilege a blessing to its Maker. Each product is to supply
certain elements to the body of man; not by man's changing same, but
that purpose the Creator gave it as food, as a supply to man's
physical need in even a changing world. Thus the stress should be
upon each agriculture product being given its opportunity for
fulfilling its mission in relationship to man; or the study of the
soil as to how better to produce grasses, vegetables, fruits,
berries or the like; or to supply the elements in the animal
kingdom; that its flesh, its milk, may have those elements necessary
for supplying to man that which has its spiritual value and not in a
cantankerous or a diffusing manner. The soil, with the
products of nature, for not only sustenance, not merely sustenance,
but look upon same as upon the supply. For, that which in nature
aids the individual man to fulfil His purpose towards the Creative
Influences or God, is fulfilling its mission in the material world.
That import as the supply
that which aids the plant, the animal, the tree, nature itself, to
better give greater sustenance, greater strength, greater purpose
for its material manifestation in the earth. As the product, the fruit
of soil, its purpose is to supply the physical strength for man's
sustenance, and is in spirit of the same source as the spirit of
man.
For, as man assimilates in the mind, so it assimilates in the
spirit. This is the reason why the
Order of the Good News, finds it necessary for taking
these things into consideration, as to these very necessary
elements. As this will enable man to
keep that balance. In those fields of service
and in the activities with the soil, with the products of the soil,
the Order is thus a community that makes practical not merely by
theory but by living practical spiritual evolution. Know that the silver and
the gold is the Lord's, the cattle on a thousand hills is His. These
are lent to thee that ye may use that substance as unto glory of
God, not gratifying of self-indulgence nor of self-glorification.
Self-Sustaining
The Teachings of the Order in
relation to the manner or its practice of Organic Agriculture in
teaching to the general public, the peoples in many lands that which
will show how that as there are added to the body-physical the
elements of the soil in their proper ratio, these bring to the
balanced mental and physical reactions the necessary forces for
keeping the moral, the mental, the soul, the spiritual balance in
the individual.
For each and every individual should own sufficient of the earth to
be self-sustaining. For the earth is the mother of all; just as God
is the Father in the spiritual, the earth is the mother in the
material. These are the supplies, the sources, from which
individuals sustain, or gain the sustenance for the material
undertakings. To be sure, there is a great deal in the theories that
are propagated by some groups, that what is in the vegetables and
fruits has much to do with the character. If the man who raises and
cares for them does it with love, it makes all the difference! Don't
think a grouchy man can ever raise a headed cabbage or a tomato that
will agree as well as those raised by a man who laughs and tells a
good joke, though it may be smutty! This might be extended to where
there might be included in half the acreage that is now under
cultivation in this county sufficient to supply twice as much of the
people, because they are happy in what they are doing! Consider the
days of old, these are not foolish! When there were the families
that produced upon the farm, how much better not only were the lives
of those individuals but the character of the product, and there
were not half so many pests to deal with! And whence came they? From
the same place that the flies and the fleas and the grasshoppers
came to plague Egypt! Insuring the better products for a better
people. You expect a new root race. What are you doing to prepare
for it? You must prepare food for their bodies as well as their
minds and their spiritual development!
"There are three things which build
and maintain civilization throughout time: Pure Air, Pure Water, and
Pure Food. And as an Eternal Truth I say unto you, that there are
three things which bring the end of civilization, even the mightiest
that have ever been and shall ever be, from the beginningless
beginning to the endless end of all time: Impure Air, Impure Water,
and Impure Food." - in "The Zenda Avesta", Oh Israel Known that
Thy Lord Is One!
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