The LAW: Sowing and Reaping
“The Law” is slightly different from “the laws” in my novel the Weaving of Dreams, but they are both vital to the Weave, the allegorical understanding of reality that holds both heaven and earth together.
The Law, uppercase, is the unbreakable, immovable structure upon which the Creator hangs the foundation of reality upon. It’s the immutable principles that govern existence. The laws, lowercase, are the rules that are extracted from the Law, but also anchor us to our place within reality and life.
If we look at the created world as a Great Loom, the lives we live are threads woven into the tapestry of reality. The fabric of time and space is a Weave that includes all potential realities called into certain realities as strings woven across the loom, creating an intricate story of existence. The Warp Strings are the necessary points upon which the weave hold together, they consist of Light, Word and Spirit, as well as Shadow. But these Strings must anchor to the loom itself, the Loom of Law.
The LAW
In my novel, I’ve given names to certain aspects of Law. Here I’ll place them in a loose order of importance. I’ll spend this post and others to break them down further.
The Law of Sowing and Reaping
The Law of Full Disclosure
The Law of Agreements
The Law of Authority
The Law of Reciprocation
These, I believe are LAW because if the Creator were to break one these, He would no longer be Good and the Loom itself would be sundered.
Let’s look at these a little closer.
The Law of Sowing and Reaping
Expectation
This is the most simple law. It has to do with expectations. If you plant an apple seed you can expect to get an apple tree and not an orange tree as it’s growth. If you plant no seed, you can expect to get no tree. However, the allegory of plants is meant for something more. This principle applies to actions and words of all sort. It’s “if, then” language. If you tell someone you hate them, then they will believe you hate them. If they believe you hate them, they may treat you like an enemy. if they treat you like an enemy, then you will suffer the consequence of being an enemy. Therefore, if you sow the seed of hate do not be surprised or think it unfair when you reap the fruit of hate or animosity.
Retribution or Wage
If you sow you can be sure you will reap or someone else will reap. Reaping always follows sowing. Sometimes, the fruit of what we sow may not be seen in our lifetimes, but the next generation gets the benefit of our planting. A tree for example, if I were to plant in order to build a treehouse, would take far longer than my lifetime to grow before becoming mature enough for its boughs to hold a treehouse. Future generations would have to build it and use it. Then later generations would be able to also enjoy it. I sowed a tree for a treehouse, but another reaped. I sowed a tree and reaped a tree. The next generation reaped a tree and sowed a treehouse and reaped a treehouse. The next generation reaped a treehouse and perhaps then sowed the next idea so the cycle could continue. The work I put in was paid back to me in my time as a small wage, the satisfaction of seeing the tree grow and the hope it could one day hold a treehouse. the full wage was paid to that third generation that only had to reap the benefit, the full wage.
The same can be said for sowing what is not beneficial. I may drink myself into oblivion every day of my life and sow the seeds of addiction, neglect and disease. Certainly I would reap some fruit of that in my own lifetime, a wage of poor health and loss of opportunities. A retribution or punishment for my sowing. Passed over for promotion, left by my family and friends, perhaps even early death. But future generations receive retribution as well, unfair to them but all part of the wage that’s paid. My disease and abuse of alcohol has altered my children’s genes, making them ready to embrace the same pathways I took, make them susceptible to plant as I did. Some call it generational curse, but its nothing more than fruit of what’s been sown.
The Bible tells us in Galatians that this principle is linked to God’s character.
Galation 6:7 “Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.” (BSB)
Where just reaping not to follow sowing, God would be mocked. He would not be credible. He would not be fair.
Fair is an equal balance.
Kids can tell you what’s fair. They have a keen sense of balance. In fact this Law can be understood as an equal balance. Whatever you place on one side needs equal weight on the other side to balance it out. If you sow 100 perfect seeds you will reap 100 perfect plants. If you sow 100 sickly and rotten seeds the balance is no more the 100 sickly plants in any. Value for value. Eye for an eye. Tooth for a tooth. In fact, this was the way in which ancient Israel was supposed to understand justice according to the Law given by Moses.
If Jacob sows trouble for Rueben there are parameters on what that reaping of retribution looks like. If Jacob’s carelessness causes Reuben to lose his eye, Jacob can only reap a retribution equal to an eye. As angry as Reuben may be, he cannot give Jacob a punishment that would claim far more, like an arm or a foot, or even his life. Reuben can claim Jacob’s eye as the repayment or he may place a monetary value on his eye, or another equal measure of payment. This is fair.
Now is it fair if Reuben forgives Jacob because it truly was an act of carelessness, an accident? Jacob still sowed trouble, what then will he reap if Reuben forgives him and exacts no retribution? Jacob still reaps the fruit of guilt and sorrow but its Rueben who actually reaps here. Reuben reaps the retribution price in honor and dignity now and because Reuben sows the seeds of grace, mercy and forgiveness, he reaps a harvest of treasure stored in heaven for the age to come.
You still may say, its not fair, that Jacob should reap some punishment regardless what Reuben decides. But I’d argue that Jacob will reap the fruit of regret every time he looks at Reuben or at the eyes of his own children. Whenever a speck of dust gets caught in his own lashes and he wipes it free, and is reminded that he shouldn’t have this eye at all. Regret and Gratitude will be the fruit he reaps from his carelessness mingled with Reubens seed of Mercy. Fair.
Cosmic Retribution
Because the Creator, who is above all and greater than all, exists then the possibility of all other potentials can exist as well. this is chaos and darkness. However, the Creator sowed Light, Word and Spirit into the darkness therefore reality burst forth as the fruit to be reaped. Balance. Then, when the Creator sowed into the weave creature who were endowed with free will and autonomy to use it, that was the seed of freedom. If freedom was sown, then the expectation could be two fold. Obedience or Disobedience. Loyalty or Disloyalty. Alignment or Sin (Disalignment). Either expectation is a suitable and equal balance to the seed of freedom. However reapings of one harvest are traditionally the sowings for the next planting.
If one sows freedom and the reaping is disloyalty, then disloyalty becomes the new seed and the reaping of disloyalty is more disloyalty, among other things like betrayal, change, discord. The remedy to stop such a cycle is to reap what is sown then acquiring different seed to sow as the next planting.
In the cosmic narrative of the Creator and his creation, this sowing of freedom came with a reaping of both expectations. Some created beings continued to sow and reap in accord with the Creator’s will and good pleasure and then others did not. Others used their freedom to sow outside or against the will of their Creator and instead made their own will and pleasure the standard for which they sow. Sowing seeds of discord and bitterness, defiance and deception, they used those who were lesser than them to sow seeds that would accomplish their agendas but who’s reaping would never fall back on them. They could glean from the periphery the harvest of others no longer needing to risk retribution upon themselves.
Sounds absolutely diabolical and it is. But the Creator had plan in place long before the seed of freedom was reaped. A plan that would be the seed of a cosmic reversal. A seed of freedom whose fruit was new choices. A balance weight that could easily counter all the evil and diabolical scheming of the others. A way to restore balance and justice across the entire weave of realms.
More to come on that!