Good Morning Garden

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee (Exodus 20:12).

We should respect our parents just because they are our parents, but that teaching is just the very outer layer of this commandment. Underneath it is instruction in divine metaphysics because your real father and mother is God. When this commandment says, “Honour thy father and thy mother,” it brings in the two poles, the male and the female, and, of course, polarity is the motive power of the universe. In the bible, mother means the feeling nature, and the father is the knowledge nature. Most people have one side or the other more developed. When our prayers fail and we do not demonstrate, we fail because we are not honoring our father and our mother.

This commandment illuminates the dual nature of humans both physically and spiritually. We are physically created from the combination of our Mother and Father’s bodies. So we are all physically part male and part female. In our behaviors and perspectives the dual elements of our physically created bodies reflect that we are both knowledge and feeling, reason and intuition. Because we are the products of our parents, we should always honor them by doing that which is right for them and for ourselves in relation to all of us.

Honoring all our parents,
Z gardener