The Tree I Am

Yesterday we mentioned that the interior of the building is hidden while the tree is open to view.

Today let’s talk about another difference.   The building experience is superficial–literally superficial, it happens on the superficie of the building–and relies on the non-building world to be meaningful.

When the building first comes to our attention, its because of all the people on balconies or windows in it mocking and pointing.

And I also cast my eyes round about, and beheld, on the other side of the river of water, a great and spacious building; and it stood as it were in the air, high above the earth.

27 And it was filled with people, both old and young, both male and female; and their manner of dress was exceedingly fine; and they were in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit.

When people go into the building, they quickly appear on the exterior mocking and pointing too.

And great was the multitude that did enter into that strange building. And after they did enter into that building they did point the finger of scorn at me and those that were partaking of the fruit also;

Whatever secrets are in the interior of the building, they are apparently too boring and meaningless to occupy anyone for long.  There is nothing to do there other than to point fingers at people who aren’t.  What is hidden inside the building is almost literally nothing.  The physical building is founded on little to nothing.  The building experience is also founded on little to nothing.  There is no there there.

The entire experience of the building is dependent on there being someone outside it to mock.  If everyone came to the GSB, there would be no point left at all.

The tree, in contrast, is a self-sufficient experience.  The mists and the mockers and the persecutions no doubt serve a spiritual valuable role of testing the people at the tree.  But they are not necessary to the tree experience, which is essentially about the purity and sweetness and soul-filling joy of the fruit.  The building and the mist could all vanish and the point of the tree would remain.  In the same way, the tree experience would be in no way diminished if everyone came to it and remained.  On the contrary, it would be enhanced.

The tree, like God, is a total and complete existence.  The GSB, like the devil, is derivative.