The interpretation of the WORD is like a TREE

From the Book of True Life - Volume VIII - Teaching 234: 27-38

27. The first to listen to me treated my work like a tree by cutting off the first branches to transplant them to different areas. Some interpreted my instructions well, others missed the way.

28. Small were the groups that came together in the shadow of the poor meeting rooms. But when these became more numerous and the multitude of people grew, I called them to join forces so that everyone would recognize themselves as disciples of one

master and would be instructed in the same way; so that the seed would not be sown

according to the "workers" discretion, but according to the divine will.

29. Before the spiritual ark of the New Covenant, the multitudes praised submission,

obedience, and goodwill; but when the hurricanes burst in with force and the branches

of the tree were whipped, some became weak, while others remained steadfast and

taught the new "workers" to till the "fields". Some who had recognized the magnitude

of this revelation intended to penetrate my secrets further than my will to acquire

knowledge and power that should make them superior to others; but very soon they faced my justice.

30. Others, who could not discover the size of this work in its honesty, in its simplicity,

have adopted rites, symbols and ceremonies from sects and churches because they

thought that they would give my announcements solemnity.

31. I have called you "the strong people" because you have fed on my divine Word,

which is a non-man-made book of wisdom. Every word is a page in it, every page is

important. Find out, don't content yourself with imprinting my messages on your

memory. Then this book will be kept in your hearts.

32. As the time approaches when I no longer speak to you, I correct everything that

 your predecessors did not know how to correct. Because I do not want any newcomers

among the disciples who do not understand my instruction, nor "workers" who do not

know how to sow.

33. The teaching that I teach you is not new. Don't say that with my coming a new

religion has arisen on earth. My announcement in this era shows you the same path as

the one I have marked for you since the beginning of time, and my word explains and

reveals to you the secrets of the law and the teaching that you received earlier.

34. Those you call foreigners have been among you to temporarily increase your ranks

and to become disciples of my divinity. Consider them all real brothers. Do not give bad

examples, do not secretly accept appointments, and do not hastily take on responsibilities

or what is not for you, because then you will see the plants that you should cultivate

become skinny. This will cause great pain to your hearts.

35. Prepare yourself. Because I have already told you that your siblings from different

religious communities will knock on your doors - some to hold you accountable for what

you think they have kept secret; the others to ask you to explain many secrets; still others

who seek refuge and comfort in your heart. Prepare yourself so that you give shelter to

the needy and give a satisfactory answer to those who question you.

36. Let the high-ranking and ordinary people, the learned and the uneducated find their

way to you. But do not allow fraud to spread or be mixed with my work and do not allow desecration.

37. My teaching must transform people by convincing them with their love, gentleness

and justice, and bringing them renewal and peace. The "kings" will humble descend

from their "thrones". The fratricidal wars will give way to forgiveness and unity. Bad

passions will be curbed, and that thirst for blood, comparable to that of beasts who

kill each other to satisfy their instincts, will give way to feelings of humanity.

38. This people here will be the good spirit of the earth, a spirit of peace and blessings.