The oil and wine symbolize the spiritual qualities that enrich our soul, after having passed through the fire of trials: "We must all experience many hardships before we enter the kingdom of God" (Acts of Apostles 14:22).

Let us examine,in detail,the symbolismof wheat, barley, oil and wine. This is aboutmortal nature of manand saving grace that leads to immortality. Each man is a universe in himself, so he is created in the same way that the whole world.

First, is created the Creation, it is composed of four pillars or four floors, as you like. The right hand clearly demonstrates this: the upper finger, the index is an integral power of God, it is oil, the whole energyof Creation, taken entirely; it is represented by an eagle, as we have already said. Then the Lord dissolves this energy by His Wisdom and transforms it into wine. Wine, used on Eucharist, is necessarily diluted with water. Wine is a dissolved power of God, so are obtained other three fingers: angelic world, world of earthly energies before the space, integrally assembled, it's a lion and material world of man.

Thus, man is created from the dust of the ground, the power of God completely dissolved in the abyss of water, and then the reverse process begins. Now, it is already man who begins, in reverse order, to gather his world, his throne, his inner realm of grace of Christ; and divine grace comes from the connection of the earthly and heavenly nature.

Wheat and barley are symbols of earthly nature of man. Barley is a nature in its fragmented state, wheat - in its integral state. Man is composed of body, soul and mind; these three components are symbolized by barley. If these three components are gathered into one unit, in the state from which they originated and in which they should return,so we get wheat; this is from earthly point of view.

On the side of Heaven, the situation is similar: oil is our soul, completely transformed by grace; it is like 100% integral grace, this is white clothing given to saints, when they contain, in themselves, the whole integrity of God; this is a formula of completely transformed man who has reached a likeness of God. Wheat, mixed with oil, symbolize a result of the entire earthly life.

If we consider the situation apart, according to certain periods of our lives, then another symbol comes into force: barley and wine, or prosphora particles and wine, as on Eucharist. Life is made up of many actions, and if they are directed towards God, we connect with Heavens, every day a little bit, and we are partially transformed by grace.

Thus, barley mixed with wine, symbolizes a gradual transformation of our threefold nature that occurs throughout our lives. If we look at our life as a whole, without fragmentation on days, months and years, then we get wheat, mixed with oil. Thus, wheat and oil represent our entire life from birth until death. Barley with wine is already our whole life in its many details, these are the particles which make up our future integral life that we will bring to God, and will show at the Last Judgment.

So thateverything goes wellin lifeand our transformation goes from glory to glory, we need to constantly move up on the ways of God's will, thus occurs gathering of our lives in the whole and enrichment by divine grace. If we stray from our true pathway, so instead of an integral gathering comes disintegration.

 

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