The Apple Core is a vision. It speaks volumns about where we are in time and how the eating of the apple in the Garden of Eden has taken on a new meaning.

The Apple Core

Rev. Cheril Goodrich ©

 When I was ordained, in 2000, as I lie in bed one night, I saw a vision of an apple core. I thought perhaps the vision was for another person who was going through the same process that I was. Her personal vision was to feed the hungry in Detroit, and she did not know what she was going to call her organization or how she was going to accomplish this task. I had listened to her discuss it with others, and it was the next morning in the twilight of sleep that I saw the vision of the apple core. My belief was that she was to call her organization The Apple Corp.

Because sometimes the best intentions, or intentions of the heart, get lost in the scattered drudgery of every day life, her vision did not come to pass. So it was the vision of the apple core stayed with me. I have received this kind of vision before, although not necessarily an apple core, but the kind of vision that speaks volumes about something. Sometimes I can tell what the vision means. Other times the vision takes years for me to understand. I put the vision in the back of my mind. At times I would pull out the vision and examine it and wonder what it meant. Other times I would try to make a circumstance resonate with the idea of an apple core, but nothing seemed to fit. That is until the last week of March, 2003. I was thinking about the apple core and how to create a class of a spiritual nature around this idea when all of a sudden I was flooded with the information concerning what this vision meant. The following article describes the meaning of the apple core. Because a vision speaks volumes about one subject, it may take some time before the vision is appreciated.

In the physical realm we communicate by means of the spoken word. In the spirit realm, the spoken word is considered primitive. Whole ideas are conveyed in pictures because they can convey so much more than words. For instance dreams; one picture in a dream can explain a whole problem and also the solution at the same time. Before the language of spirit can be understood, which is also the language of the heart, the symbolic language of pictures have to take on a personal meaning. But this is getting me off the subject. Let me share with you the story of the apple core.

In the beginning there was Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Everyone knows the story of the temptation and how the of the eating of the apple sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden and into the world where they would have to fend for themselves. In order to understand the significance of the apple core, the apple peel and the meat of the apple and what their symbolic representation was when the apple was eaten. The Bible explains the Spiritual History of the world. It begins by showing us that Adam and Eve were in direct contact with God. The story takes us through creation and begins to get really interesting just before the eating of the apple. But before the eating of the apple is examined, what must first be examined is the motive. This is done because to understand life as it is now, we must be motivated through our understanding before we will do anything.

The Bible says that Eve was tempted, so, what will first be examined is the idea of temptation; what is it?In the beginning there was nothing else besides what God created. Nothing was known outside of His Creation and because there was nothing else, what could possibly tempt Eve? Something had to enter her mind that was unlike God or His Creation; so the temptation was to make something real that was not real.

This is where the symbolism of the eating of the apple comes in.  The symbolic breaking of the skin of the apple was the symbolic breaking of the protection of God’s Love and venturing into what was unknown to God.  Because in truth there is nothing that He did not create or does not know, the unreality of another dimension was exposed that did not reflect the Light of His Love. This did not mean that God placed His recognition in the unreality of the temptation. He still did however recognize Adam and Eve because they were a part of His Creation.  But the place in which they entered was unknown to Him because He did not create it. Therefore the temptation was to make something real that was impossible to make real because it did not carry the backing of God.

Temptation is not known in the eternal realm, so it was a new way of thinking that was meant to dispense with the old way, or the way that God held His Thought. In the Mind of God, where eternity lies, only Love is known. Also, because Love is a thought of the highest vibration that is held by God, a lower vibrational thought had to be introduced into the mind that was unlike Love. This lower vibrational thought was fear.  Love, unlike fear, is an internal idea that is held in the Mind by God.  In order to use the new vibration of fear, a new arena would have to be made outside of the protection of Love, or God.  This new realm would only be real to those who used fear as a protective measure.

In the eternal realm everything is surrounded by peace. It is difficult for us to understand that peace is the atmosphere of Heaven and it is the atmosphere of peace that surrounds the idea of Love and keeps the Laws of Heaven from the intrusion of conflict. The new idea of fear had to be cast out of the peaceful condition of Heaven into an atmosphere that could hold it. This atmosphere would have to be one that was unfeeling and uncaring, and so devoid of any higher emotion. Thus began the physical reality (unreality) known as time and space.

This new home made from fear could be used for creative purposes that did not reflect the Laws of Heaven. It could be a place where it could be proven that fear could be used as master instead of Love to protect and defend the occupants of this new world. This new idea of fear, or beliefs that respond to fear, is represented by the meat of the apple. Eating the apple was symbolic of ingesting a new thought form that had nothing to do with Love. Whenever we ingest something we take it into the physical body. The physical body thus became the recipient of how the mind could hold fearful ideas that did not reflect Heaven’s Laws of peace. These ingested ideas could be cast into the new atmosphere known as time and space. And because time and space holds the physical reality of man, what was being held in the physical body was played out on the screen of time. The external world became a place where the internal conflicts held within the mind/body awareness could be played out.

As the story unfolds, Eve blames another for her temptation, but the temptation that she tried to cast outside of herself came from her mind and it is impossible for a thought to leave the mind that it originated in. Adam did the same thing. As a world of people, we have been “eating” the apple since the beginning of time and trying to blame others for the ideas we hold.  We have cast guilt into the world by looking for ways to cast blame upon others for fear that originated with us.  This is why fear is the orignial sin. We do this in many ways and this is called being deceived.

As Eve said: “It wasn’t me, it was the snake.” By blaming others we hope to escape the Laws of Lifethat have been written on the heart that state; everything that is happening is coming from myself. Unfortunatley, breaking the Laws of Life is being shown to us by getting what we do not want while being physical because blame does not atone for our mistakes, but the fear we have used for a false sense of security since the beginning of time would have us believe this.

Since time began we have been eating the meat of the apple. We have tried every way that is possible to get our outer life to fit what we want internally, but we can’t do that because getting violates the Laws written on the heart. Before we are physical we are spirit so we must abide by the Law even though we do not know how it works. Being physical means we manipulate or force physical matter to bend to our way of thinking. But trying to physically force or manipulate someone else is actually a way we try to manipulate their spirit by trying to get them to do what we want. We also try to manipulate outside circumstances (or events in time and space that are not real) so we can have or get what we want, but generally our wants stem from a sense of fear or guilt.

When we do not believe that Spiritual Law is true it is because iHigher Laws seem to violate the laws that we have been associated with while inhabiting a body. The belief that it is possible to violate Spiritual Law and use physical laws to manipulate another is a bite of the apple. Sooner or later the meat of the apple has been totally ingested, and because there is nothing left to eat, something else is introduced. So now the question becomes whether we will cry over the loss of what is gone or look at what is left. Everything that can be accomplished without Love has occurred, except possible extinction of the human race.  Every inhumanity that has ever been done has already occurred.  There is poverty, starvation, lack, war, hate, conflict, muggings, sexual offense, and the list goes on.  Is this what we yearn for?  It seems so, for we would rather choose to continue on in the state of affairs that we have learned from our past fear, then learn the Lessons of Love.  Change will not come easy.

After Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden, they learned to live by physical law, or by the sweat of their brow. This symbolism shows that their mind was no longer looking at the idea of Love for understanding. In other words they chose to learn a new way of understanding creation. It is this that led them to using physical law or trying to force and manipulate their outside circumstances. This also led them to believe that through domination with fear tactics they could rule the earth.  The new laws of force and manipulation helped them compensate for their own inadequate feelings of fear. This would mean that the original purose of Love would have to be twisted in order to use the idea of fear because it is impossible to create anything without Love.  So it was, the purpose of Love became distorted to make way for the purpose of fear, but this was so only in the mind of the one doing the twisting for it is impossible to distort the purpose of Love.

Because fear was introduced into the mind, a new plan was formulated by God to bring mankind back into the fold of creation. Because God could not violate His own Law of peace, or the atmosphere where Love presides, the plan would allow for mankind to use the physical laws that he had chosen over Spiritual Law for an appointed time. For a time it would look like fear had dominated over Love. Also, because God was not physical, He could not use force and manipulation to formulate His Plan. After the physical history of the world had been well established, the Spiritual History of the world began. This is included in the story of the Garden of Eden, but actually took millions of years to accomplish.

 Slowly but surely then plan began to take shape through means of prophecy, vision and also the “seed”. The seed of the spirit was buried deep within the apple. It could not be violated by anything that was going on in the external or fear state of the physical realm. While the apple was being ingested by mankind, the seeds of the apple remained safely inside the apple, so the Seed of God could not be diminished or taken from its core. 

God looked for a pure heart, and these were the ones that were used to carry forth the seed of spirit and bring to fruition the Plan of God.  Even though these men were physical, the seed would be activated to carry out the Spiritual History when it was time to move mankind in the direction of the Plan. Each story of the Bible is indicative of how God used His Seed to impregnate, or keep alive, the spirit that lives deep within the heart.

The story of the Israelites is how Spiritual Law was re-interpreted to compensate for being physical. By using this re-interpreted law of spirit the Jews were protected because God responds to what He recognizes, and His Laws are clearly recognizable by Him when the heart is read. 

At last we see the culmination of the Spiritual History of the world when Jesus is born. He said he did not come to add to the law, but instead fulfill it. What does this mean? Mary was impregnated by the “Seed” of God. The birth of Jesus was the symbolic end of the eating of the meat of the apple. The physical spiritual history of the world was passing away to make way for the use of Spiritual Law by introducing a New Idea that eminated from Heaven.  This New Idea was Innocence and is known as a Child of God.   The birth of Jesus ushered in a new way of responding to the Seed of God. Jesus was the example of what was to eventually evolve from the Spiritual History that was introduced into the world and how mankind was eventually going to respond to His own spirit which entered time on the Wings of Love. The seed of Innocence was introduced and the end of fear would soon arrive.

Fear produces guilt, and innocence is the opposite of guilt.  Begiining with the Birth of the Christ, Innocence would eventually take the lead, as Innocence was buried deep within the core of every individual that entered time.  The activation of Innocence is upon us, but the world must make way for It. The apple has been eaten to the core. There is nothing left for fear to make.  With the lifting of the veil of fear everything will change and the way mankind relates to the world will be taking a dramatic turn.

Value must shift to take a spiritual flavor. This means that what we value externally will begin to loose its appeal. It will do this through revolutionary means. The fear that we created with before will be forced to take a non-existent nature to the Love Nature.  The value will shift from what we have to who we are. Fear will not go without a fight and we will see this being played out in the arena of time. This is in affect will be the fear that is exiting trying to maintain its position, but the fight is pitiful and cannot prove a worthy opponent to Love as it become stronger as we learn of our Innocence.

We, as a spiritual being first, agreed to come into time at exactly this moment to help with this process. So, what exactly is the core? The core is the essence of man’s spiritual nature. This is the turning point in the Spiritual History of the world when man begins to look inward for his truth. He stops looking for ways to manipulate with fear and turns instead to his true nature, which is spiritual. He looks at the true seeds of creation that are held within the apple core and begins to understand that he can live life another way, and this other way is how Love is introduced into time and the New World is created where only peace abides.  

We feel incomplete and the rest of creation is incomplete without us. Slowly but steadily we will make the change but it is up to us to recognize the sign of the times. If this resonates with you it is because this message is already in your heart and has been waiting for someone to put it into words. The ones hearing this message now are the ones that will lay the foundation of the New World that will be ushered in. The only way that this can be done is to learn how fear is ruling your life. Each person has been assigned a mission and a plan has been drawn out to specifically help that individual reach their purpose. Heaven is holding out a Hand and all we have to do is reach upward out of time and hold what is eternal. It is our eternal nature that we are seeking for, not the physical things that are only temporary. We are at the core of the apple. We have the opportunity to use our essence to usher in the seeds of true creation, or we can be like Lot’s wife and continue to look at the past and mourn for it.

This is a time of extreme turbulence in the world. It is essential that we begin our journey back to the core and allow the journey to lead us to the destination. Up until this point, we have tried to lead our destiny, but our destiny has already been decided and it was this we decided before we entered this realm. Each step that we take advances, not only ourselves, but also the world to healing. Let us not retreat into our fear and try to force the world to respect our position on how things should be. We do not know how things should be, but the opportunity is now open for us to learn.