THE DAWN OF PERCEPTION

Pro 4:18"But the path of the righteous
is as the light of dawn,-going on and
strengthening unto meridian day".(when
the sun is directly overhead)

The dawn of perception is the spiritual representation of conception in the womb. As the latter is the beginning of the creation of a living physical being, so the former is the beginning of the New Creation-a creation of a spiritual being. It is not a birth or "born again" experience as most of those who call themselves christian believe, for at that moment they are CONCEIVED; ie, begotten of God, not born. As the natural, so the spiritual.

The new birth is a "should be" or "ought to be" or "necessary to be", but most professing christians are not. The new birth is the end result of going the "narrow way". In the natural birth the "narrow way" is the birth canal, which is designed with special purposes having to do with the baby's head. Likewise there is a "birth canal" that one must go through in order to be spiritually born.

The world is the christian's "birth canal". The world is the necessary instrument of pressure used by God in the transformation/birth of the individual. The pressure of the world-or rather the pressure that IS the world, "shapes the spiritual body in the womb"and the "birth canal" is the seven overcomings of Revelation 2 and 3, which when completed by the individual, he is then "born again"/"born from above"/"born of the spirit" and enters the Kingdom of God, having been raised from the dead. The death is a "process" which is the "birth canal"/seven overcomings.

The dawn of perception/conception is the beginning of spiritual awareness. Spiritual "growth" is expanding awareness. The "lightbulb" has been turned on and the individual begins to realize that the seen world, the world of the senses, isn't all there is after all. Prior to this he was an "unconscious-concious" being; ie, he was in darkness and darkness was in him, yet he was physically aware. When his time came, God said,"Light be!", and light was. Darkness is the foundation or ground out of which light comes....

"....God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness...."
2Cor4:6