Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. Were they abandoned by God?
No. They were being forged and reformed. Strength, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, does not emerge from nothingness. It is grown by resistance, and the repetition in trying to overcome it. It is birthed in the juxtaposition of one’s will against one’s reality, in the friction between being and becoming.
The descent into the underworld is not a detour, it is an essential part of the process. It is the burning away of the overgrowth and the debris; the unmasking and falling away of the untrue, the excess, the parts of you that are unworthy of the journey. It is the germination phase of the seed planted within you - cold, dark, and lonely, but essential, nevertheless.
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