The Natural Mirrors the Spiritual

written by

Tyler Neff

posted on

June 10, 2025

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Natural Mirrors Spiritual

  • The Pattern.   ‘Two truths that agree’  

  Two witnesses are better than one.  Natural things mirror Spiritual things through the characteristics that are shared between the visible and the invisible, or the tangible and the intangible. Our starting point for understanding is not the Spiritual but rather the natural. We begin our trajectory of maturity comprehending the visible things first, and then the invisible. We do not teach infants about hidden mysteries or laws of nature before introducing them first to the tangible, visible world that they can physically see, taste, touch, smell and hear.   

  While there is a natural progression here to move from the natural toward the spiritual, it is also useful to measure the spiritual against the natural. Especially when coming from cultural traditions and religious narratives, we run the potential for an ego packed norm or story line that does not match the message we find in the voice of the natural. Nature has no ego and in many ways is the more trustworthy witness probably because it has the more visceral effect on our physical bodies. The natural, as compared to the spiritual, seems to be what catches our first glance.  However, we need them both and thus the value of two witnesses being better than one.


  • The Principle.
    • Everything in the visible, physical landscape carries an image of the invisible, spiritual landscape.
    • We observe the spiritual through the natural.
    • We observe the invisible through the visible.
    • First comes the natural then comes the Spiritual. (1 Corinthians 15.46) 
    • The principles and patterns in the natural are the same principles and patterns in the spiritual. One realm offers accountability to the other. 
    • The natural and the spiritual are more one than they are separate.
    • We can read the spiritual climate through the natural climate but we influence the natural through the spiritual.   We read the invisible through the visible but we influence the visible through the invisible. 
    • Incoming data is not credible except at the mouth of two or three witnesses
  • The Practice. 
    • We look for correlating narratives between biblical principles, cultural norms, accepted practices and the laws of nature and we structure our farm, family and community accordingly.
    • Where we find agreement, we move forward in confidence. Where the spiritual and natural do not agree we move cautiously and with humility, willing to change direction. 
    • We aim to seek feedback and agreement from multiple bodies of knowledge before implementing or adjusting our actions.  

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