If I can deny the limitations of my birth, my environment, and the belief that I am but an extension of my family tree

What is the second birth? I find myself man, I cannot go back into my mother’s womb, and yet I must be born a second time.

In the Old Testament it is called Isaac, and in the New Testament it is called Jesus, and it is born without the aid of man.

self-begotten because you dared to appropriate that which was not given to you in your cradle, a concept of Self not formed in your mother’s womb

This second child has no earthly father. He is Self-begotten.

Man wants to be better, not different. The Bible speaks, not of being better, but of another man, a man reborn.

To take the Bible away from its central idea of rebirth, which means an inner evolution and implies the existence of a higher level, is to understand nothing of its real meaning.

Life demands of us the willingness to die and to be born again. This is not meant that we die in the flesh.

When we are united with the truth, then we will put off the old nature and be renewed in the spirit of our mind.

to me, that experience of the skull is the greatest of all, for that is the birth from above. That’s the spiritual birth.

The symbolism of the vision means that you are born from above.

And Jesus told him, “You must be born again or you cannot see the kingdom of God.”

And the first thing He does is to deny his earthy parents. “I am about my Father’s business, etc.” He turns his back on his earthly parents.

unless ye be born from above ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

But the womb is below and not above. It is speaking of the birth of the second man, the spiritual man.