Hekima Review No. 7 (Feb 1992)

The school of life portrays all things as unendingly passing; life itself and all that it entails is subject to this undying flow of events. Human growth itself is a classic of this procession: from birth humans are, almost contrary to their will, catapulted into this process of growth: physically, mentally, and spiritually, in short, nothing Is excluded. This course of events is perceived as culminating in death; yet death, regarded as transformative, is paradoxically a source of new life. Jesus sums it thus; "Unless the grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies ... "