The transfiguration read as metamorphosis: as the caterpillar or grub, after the stillness of the chrysalis, comes out a butterfly that no one could have predicted from it, so man does not remain what he appears to be while asleep; something entirely new is born from within him.
Look for the large bowel on the leaf in the cabbage patch and you see the caterpillar – but you cannot see the butterfly.
man to the higher world is simply this carnivorous bowel, giving off the most offensive odor
Who looking at a caterpillar could predict his future as a painted butterfly if you’ve never seen a butterfly and didn’t know the source of the butterfly?
this is a cocoon out of which the great butterfly comes. It is giving birth to God. And the difference between what is coming out which is God and what hatched it out is the same difference between the cocoon and the butterfly
man’s future was relative to his present large bowel – like the caterpillar, whose future is the butterfly
This is the true meaning of the transfiguration. There is a complete metamorphosis taking place like the grub into the butterfly.
You differ as much from what you appear to be now as the butterfly from the caterpillar, and yet out of the caterpillar comes the butterfly.