Greetings, my very dearest friends.\u00a0 Blessings for every one of you.\u00a0 With great joy I again dip temporarily into your world and show you another helpful step, if you choose to make it so.\u00a0 This lecture is about balance.\u00a0 Balance is what keeps the universe intact.\u00a0 If there were no balance, no balancing consciousness, no balancing law, everything would disintegrate.\u00a0 All the natural laws that you know, and those you may call “supernatural” because they exist on another level of reality and you do not know them, are laws of balance.\u00a0 They come from balance and lead to balance.\u00a0 Balance is not a cold, mechanical, coincidental factor, but the expression of supreme intelligence and purpose.<\/p>\n
Every aspect of the law of balance is meaningful and has its own consciousness.\u00a0 It is possible to find the law of balance in the physical laws, but only to a degree, because you cannot perceive their connection with levels of reality that you are not aware of.\u00a0 The physical laws could not exist without this connection.\u00a0 Neither could your bodily manifestation exist without the life you have on other levels of reality.\u00a0 This applies to everything, not just to entities, but to universal laws as well.<\/p>\n
All the planetary systems are held together by these meaningful laws.\u00a0 If they were not, they would break apart, the planets would crash into one another and the whole system would disintegrate.\u00a0 The same holds true for the microcosm of the human body.\u00a0 The human body is held together by a supreme law of balance of which you human beings as yet know nothing.\u00a0 If this law did not prevail, all your cells and particles would disintegrate; your physical structure could not hold together.<\/p>\n
All laws of physics, chemistry, biology\u2014of every conceivable science in your physical reality\u2014are governed by the great law of balance.\u00a0 Some of these laws are obvious to your scientists.\u00a0 Others are more intricate and remain unrevealed.\u00a0 Higher mathematics beyond your level of reality contains the key to these laws.\u00a0 Only a few enlightened human beings have sensed the relationship between mathematics and the key to the universe, the key to creation.<\/p>\n
Balance exists on all levels.\u00a0 On the physical level, balance is order and creates order.\u00a0 Imbalance is disorder, but it creates more disorder only temporarily and to a degree because temporary disorder is a step toward an order of a much higher organization.<\/p>\n
On the emotional level balance means harmony\u2014the harmony of feelings.\u00a0 It leads to more harmony.\u00a0 Imbalance, of course, means disharmony, negative feelings.\u00a0 Disharmony must eventually lead to a greater harmony of a higher order.\u00a0 On the mental level, balance means sanity and must lead to more balance and more sanity.\u00a0 Imbalance, on the mental level, means insanity, which again can be only temporary, leading eventually toward the greater sanity of a higher organization.\u00a0 The greatness of divine law is that disintegration is simply a step toward integration.\u00a0 Everything leads inexorably to integration, order, harmony, light, balance, love, intelligence and health.<\/p>\n
The law of balance is therefore always integrating.\u00a0 Balance means “the right measure.”\u00a0 Consider any manifestation in the world of matter that you experience through your bodily senses.\u00a0 On this level of consciousness, divine manifestations appear as opposites, but as I so often mention, are not so in reality.\u00a0 Take for example warmth and cold.\u00a0 In the right measure they are both indispensable for harmonious living.\u00a0 Each has its own purpose, its own function, its own meaning in the greater scheme of things.\u00a0 Both symbolize creative forces and currents indispensable to physical growth and sustenance of life.\u00a0 I am not speaking here of fixed temperatures, for there is no norm applicable to all.\u00a0 What is warm or cold may vary greatly in different cultures and locations where differently organized human beings live.\u00a0 The tropical rain may be as cold as required to balance out the stifling heat of the climate.\u00a0 The mild arctic sunshine may provide the warmth and balance just sufficient to sustain life.<\/p>\n
In imbalance, pleasurable warmth turns into unbearable heat and purifying cold becomes frozen iciness.\u00a0 Both can kill.\u00a0 The same goes for imbalance and exaggeration in every other physical manifestation or, for that matter, emotional or mental manifestations.<\/p>\n
Let us remain for the moment on the physical level.\u00a0 Take light and darkness.\u00a0 The balance between them creates a beautiful harmony and provides humanity with exactly what it needs.\u00a0 But in the dualistic misconception they appear as opposites.\u00a0 Although they are a manifestation of the dualistic state of consciousness, they both form a unitive whole, fulfilling a purpose.\u00a0 In the darkness of night you rest, in the brightness of daylight you become active.\u00a0 This is a symbolic manifestation of the inner level where you need a balance between activity and rest.\u00a0 When either goes out of balance and becomes overemphasized or underemphasized, chaos and temporary disintegration result.<\/p>\n
The balancing factor reveals the richness, the beauty, the wisdom and the love of the Creator.\u00a0 Each living entity contains within itself the intuitive ability to discover the balance that holds everything together.\u00a0 As the creative light moves onward in the evolutionary urge to fill the void, consciousness and energy particles lose themselves and seem to separate themselves from the whole.\u00a0 In the attempt to penetrate and fill the void, the temporary, illusory separation fulfills its task, spiritualizing the void and bringing light into it.\u00a0 Gradually, the ever-onward movement fills in the gaps of consciousness, and the original oneness is eventually reestablished.<\/p>\n
The whole sea of divinity is spreading on and on.\u00a0 In this process, the forerunners separate.\u00a0 As the movement continues they reunite, filling the void more and more.\u00a0 In saying this, I must use such terms as “later” and “after.”\u00a0 These are of course illusory, for the whole concept of time is illusory anyway.\u00a0 But to squeeze these ideas into your human understanding, where your consciousness is focused at the moment, I have to speak in terms of time.\u00a0 Eventually, these particles reunite with the forward-moving divine substance, discovering their original connectedness with the whole.\u00a0 The temporary, illusory disconnection must also create a temporary, illusory imbalance, leading to chaos and disintegration.\u00a0 But because the whole movement has an all-encompassing meaning and purpose, the chaos and disintegration are only temporary.\u00a0 The imbalance that the onward movement of the light causes as it penetrates the void creates the illusion of separateness.\u00a0 In separateness itself there must also be imbalance.\u00a0 But such imbalance is simply a step toward a greater balance.<\/p>\n
It is very important for you to understand this, my friends.\u00a0 But this cannot be done merely on the intellectual level.\u00a0 You are all capable of opening an inner channel, an intuitive channel, and connecting with what I am saying here.\u00a0 Perhaps you can best do this when you feel the areas in you that are out of balance.<\/p>\n
The purification process of this path is, of course, an expedient way of reestablishing balance.\u00a0 You find the measure intuitively.\u00a0 Look for an intuitive measure of how to balance certain expressions: how and when to be outgoing and to what extent; when to hold yourself together and gather your forces; when to be active and when to be receptive and quiet.\u00a0 You all grope in these and many other areas to find the equilibrium where you will know spontaneously when to express yourself in one way and when in another, when to assert yourself and when to be flexible and give in.<\/p>\n
Human beings have always sought refuge in hard and fast rules that can be accepted without thinking and without feeling into the deepest processes of their inner light.\u00a0 These are illusory shortcuts meant to avoid finding the spontaneous functioning of your Godself, which knows your right measure in any given situation.\u00a0 You must consciously desire this understanding without directly forcing it, knowing that it is a possibility that can be realized.<\/p>\n
If you seek the right directive merely with the outer mind you will tend to lean on rules, on pat truisms that may be valid as far as they go, but may not be applicable to every situation.\u00a0 But even if they are, if they come from the outer level they are stilted.\u00a0 When you try to establish the longed-for balance with the surface personality, the result will be a flat, unsatisfying gesture rather than a meaningful action stemming from the divine center.<\/p>\n
A truly satisfying and fulfilling inner balance comes only through the arduous path of self-purification.\u00a0 Then it comes as a gratuitous byproduct.\u00a0 It seems to happen to you from within, just as love seems to happen to you from within.\u00a0 Yes, you must be willing to love, to be in truth and in balance.\u00a0 Nevertheless you cannot will them directly.\u00a0 They manifest when the inner key unlocks your wisdom as a result of effort and sincerity in being in truth with yourself.<\/p>\n
Balance can never be forced from outside.\u00a0 Neither can love or wisdom or enlightenment or peace.\u00a0 Balance is a divine and spontaneous manifestation.\u00a0 Balance is sanity.\u00a0 Within every particle of your being\u2014the physical as well as the energy body\u2014you need balance to be healthy.\u00a0 Illness of any kind is the result of imbalance.\u00a0 The healthy body keeps itself balanced.<\/p>\n
The consciousness that perpetuates and nurtures the healthy body will make sure that you lead a balanced life, partly through intelligence, partly through intuition, and certainly always through a positive will.\u00a0 True, deep, meaningful personal balance cannot be measured with figures and equations of the mathematics you know.\u00a0 It is not a fifty-fifty proposition.<\/p>\n
Take for example the balance between rest and wakefulness.\u00a0 The proper personal balance may vary from individual to individual, but nobody needs equal hours of rest and wakefulness.\u00a0 From an outer point of view balance is lacking when you sleep eight hours and are active sixteen hours.\u00a0 Yet in terms of inner balance this may be exactly the right measurement for you.\u00a0 And so it is in many cases.\u00a0 My point is that outer measurements do not necessarily express the inner measure of right balance.<\/p>\n
This principle becomes more apparent when we try to apply it to inner attitudes.\u00a0 It would be as completely absurd to make rules about how much time everybody should spend being assertive or in a state of being as to claim that the spiritual person must never be aggressive or that the strong person must never be receptive and soft.\u00a0 The balancing measurement is beyond your intellectual calculations.\u00a0 You must feel it; you must look for it within.<\/p>\n
The inner balance comes from a different mathematics, a measurement that comes from wisdom on a level that is as yet inaccessible to your conscious perception.\u00a0 But it manifests indirectly.\u00a0 In the apparent unevenness of the inner reality lies the real balance.\u00a0 There you will discover a completely different way of seeing what is even and what is uneven.\u00a0 In other words, the balance of the inner reality is not stilted or mechanical.\u00a0 There is a meaning behind it.\u00a0 Finding your way into this inner rhythm of life is the purpose of a path that leads inward.<\/p>\n
The person who is completely disconnected from the inner dimension needs to delegate all rhythm, all balance, all measurements to the outer mind.\u00a0 This often becomes meaningless, stilted and self-defeating.\u00a0 It breaks the real balance.\u00a0 The measurements of the outer mind are contrary to the true proportions.\u00a0 But as you find your inner being, with its vibrant intelligence and wisdom that truly surpasses the outer mind, you experience the incredible beauty of being held together and carried by a balancing system of such grandeur, of such purpose, that it can never be expressed in words.\u00a0 You learn to trust this, you learn to go with it.\u00a0 You learn to deliberately consult the balancing system which is always available to those who seek it, who make themselves open to it, who make their outer being compatible with it through an attitude of wakefulness.<\/p>\n
As you listen to the rhythmic balancing factors, you will discern that your own inner system is an integral part of a whole so finely woven together that it defies human understanding.\u00a0 It is of a grandeur that cannot yet be encompassed by your mind.\u00a0 But you can indeed sense it if you make yourself part of it.\u00a0 That always means giving up the temptation of staying in the temporary smaller order of your little mind and trusting that you will find the larger order of your greater mind.<\/p>\n
This new consciousness can sustain you when things go wrong on your outer level of existence, when everything in you rebels against the disharmony and the imbalance that have been temporarily created by factors as yet unknown to your conscious mind.\u00a0 Your instinct is to battle against disorder and imbalance.\u00a0 Yet it is precisely this disorder and imbalance that affords you the opportunity to give up the outer battle, the outer insistence, and to go into an inner order and balance.\u00a0 Make room for it, have faith in it, and wait for it to manifest.<\/p>\n
What I have said to you here is very important, my friends.\u00a0 Now the new Christ consciousness is breaking through into human consciousness on an inner level of reality.\u00a0 It must therefore destroy the old order\u2014the old balance system and its obsolete measurements\u2014as it also destroys old, outworn attitudes, feelings, values and concepts.\u00a0 The destruction can happen in the very mundane “little” matters of your life.\u00a0 But only when you have the willingness and openness to discover the inner meaning of the temporary disorder will you find the new order.\u00a0 Only when you consider the momentary discomfort of the temporary imbalance in this light will you find a truer balance that is much more profound and meaningful than what you have known and established on a superficial level of being.\u00a0 You may have outgrown that more superficial level without being aware of it.\u00a0 You now are ready to expand farther outward and deeper inward into the real universe and adopt a new balancing structure that may manifest at first as imbalance simply because you obstruct the movement and fight against it.<\/p>\n
Do you have any questions pertaining to this topic?<\/p>\n
QUESTION:\u00a0 Is what you call the “balancing factor,” for instance in the aggressive and receptive principles, a third force?<\/p>\n
ANSWER:\u00a0 No, the balancing factor is the cohesive force that underlies the manifestations that appear as opposites.\u00a0 The balancing factor is the cohesion, the bridge, if you will.\u00a0 The active and receptive principles are just two of many other universal laws in the creative scheme.\u00a0 But let us now stay with this example\u2014the active and receptive principles.\u00a0 The balance is not a third factor, but the conciliation of these two principles, that creates a oneness in which these expressions exist in a meaningful way.\u00a0 I have mentioned before that the active principle must contain within itself the receptive, just as the receptive state must contain the active.\u00a0 Otherwise there is imbalance.<\/p>\n
A person cannot truly be active unless that activity contains also the receptive state of mind; the still, harmonious state of being.\u00a0 Then the active movement becomes what I sometimes term “effortless effort.”\u00a0 It is not a strained effort.\u00a0 Activity is strained, tiring and effortful only if it does not contain the receptive principle within it.<\/p>\n
It is precisely because human beings cannot perceive receptive quietude within active movement that they shy away from movement, from becoming, from effort.\u00a0 They tend toward stagnancy because their effort is so strained.\u00a0 But if they could think of effort in this effortless way, coming through the cohesion and conciliation with the receptive principle, then growing, active outward movement\u2014becoming\u2014would not be feared.<\/p>\n
By the same token, if the receptive principle does not contain within itself the active principle, it creates a stagnant deadening state.\u00a0 The activity and movement contained within the receptive state makes it as alert, wakeful and alive as the active state is.<\/p>\n
If you think of the qualities contained in the active and passive principles, you see the following\u2014I oversimplify here for the purpose of illustration:\u00a0 The active principle is movement and action.\u00a0 The receptive principle is the state of being, quietude.\u00a0 The active state gives out.\u00a0 The receptive state takes in.\u00a0 The active state is a tensing of energies; the receptive state relaxes them.\u00a0 If you combine the two in proper balance, then you have action and effort that are relaxed, effortless and calm.\u00a0 And you have receptivity that is alive and vibrant.\u00a0 In both states you have all the qualities present, only in different proportions.<\/p>\n
So it is not a third force, it is the proportion that keeps the balance.<\/p>\n
QUESTION:\u00a0 I have a personal question that is very much related to the lecture tonight.\u00a0 I realize now the pain of the imbalance in my life.\u00a0 I realize that there is a lot of vanity and pride related to my outer will that forces me from the one extreme of overindulgence to the other extreme of deprivation.\u00a0 This applies to a lot of simple parts of my life\u2014sleeping, eating, loving, all kinds of things.\u00a0 I’d like some help in understanding why this is so.\u00a0 It almost seems as if I’m using it as an identifying characteristic of “specialness,” to go from one extreme to the other and deny myself a sense of harmony.<\/p>\n
ANSWER:\u00a0 There are several levels to this answer.\u00a0 For example, on one level\u2014the lower self\u2014the imbalance is deliberately sought in order to prove, as it were, “it does not work, nothing works.”\u00a0 You get confirmation that nothing works, whatever you do is wrong, life is no good, you may just as well capitulate.\u00a0 That is the case the lower self makes.\u00a0 It is very important that you be aware of this, that you confront it and do not allow it to take control.\u00a0 As you make yourself aware of it, you can identify this voice.\u00a0 Then you can open your heart and mind to your higher self and request guidance for the balance.\u00a0 As I said in the lecture, this cannot come through an intellectual determination alone; the intellect must be directed toward meaningful inner guidance.<\/p>\n
On another level, the imbalance is due to ignorance of the reality and importance of balance.\u00a0 Perhaps we can combine these two levels:\u00a0 The lower self can create imbalance out of ignorance that both rest and work, for example, have their place in life.\u00a0 The same principle applies to everything else.\u00a0 Without some measure of abstinence, fulfillment becomes shallow and is therefore no longer fulfilling.\u00a0 This is what I meant by saying that imbalance defeats itself.<\/p>\n
You need to conceive of yourself as being able to give to yourself so much and then stop.\u00a0 You need to take in the possibility that a force exists in you that knows when and how much to give, and you need to call upon this force.\u00a0 You need to cultivate in your awareness, in your thought processes, the concept of balance, of manifesting both sides of what now appear as opposites.\u00a0 As your understanding of this concept ripens, your lower self will no longer get away with its game, because you will meet it with truth.<\/p>\n
Love and blessings go into every one of you and merge with the love and blessings that come from your innermost higher self.\u00a0 The truth of being, the beauty of life, the strength of your real self are all emerging more and more and make your life a blessed glory.\u00a0 Peace and love to all of you.\u00a0 Be blessed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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