LESSON NUMBER 19 CONTINUING THE MYSTERY OF LIFE AND DEATH¶
During the whole course of these lessons we have endeavored to accentuate the underlying simplicity of Nature and Natural law and constantly repeat and exemplify the fact that every expression of motion in every creating thing is identical.
Not only is every phenomenon of motion identical in principle but in the mechanics of its operation.
The Divine Trinity is never varied in any action-reaction cycle, nor is its one purpose of physical expression ever varied. The purpose of all creative expression is the manifestation of the love principle of balanced giving and regiving. The manifestation of that principle is the very purpose for which God created His universal body.
The measure in which Nature and man balance their givings from one side of any equator to their mates upon the other side of it, is the measure of peace, happiness, power, beauty and orderliness which working knowingly with the law gives to man, instead of the chaos in lives of those who work against it.
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE between all opposite mates. This is God’s three word law for the Cosmic Age of man.
We have exemplified the workings of this law in the unfolding of an oak tree from its seed, the interchange between that part of the tree which belonged to earth and that part which belonged to the heavens until its complete refolding into its seed.
We have shown how absolutely dependent each opposite half is to the other half on the other side of their common equator which divides them from their unity into polarized halves.
We have demonstrated the increasing power to express life through increasing intensity of polarization, as positive and negative electricity gather power to continue to extend in-opposite directions, and the sequential increase of power to express death as depolarization gradually voids both poles by weakening their power to divide.
This process has clarified the fact that the tree could multiply its power only by giving, in order that that which it unfolded would be refolded for repeated giving.
The tree is rooted to the ground but man is, seemingly, not so rooted. The growth of a tree seems to exemplify something quite different in principle than the growth of a man, or a business. In order that such thought will not complex your thinking and lead you away from the simplicity of the identical manner in which The Divine Trinity is expressed in all things, I will give you two more parallel examples at the end of this lesson, that of a man and the growth of a bank. You will see that there is not the slightest variation in either the principle or its mechanics in these two other expressions of idea which are identically repeated in all other expressions.
Before we give these examples, however, I will quote our Father-Mother’s words given in His Cosmic Message to this new age of man now dawning.
From THE BOOK OF DESIRE Chap. II
“Heed thee thy desires lest they be unlawful. Measure ye thy desires carefully against their opposites, lest unbalanced desires breed their unbalanced kind to arise and smite thee.
“For again I say My one principle of My one law is founded upon the solid rock as equal interchange between all pairs of opposite things, opposite conditions or opposite transactions between men.
“My will must prevail on earth as it is in heaven. That which I divide to give to earths and their surrounding heavens is equal.
“That which earths give to their surrounding space balances that which space gives to earths.”
By the word “earths” Our Father means that half of each wave-field which has concentrated light-waves into solid bodies by pulling centripetally inward from within, and by “heavens” He means the other half on the other side of their equator which has decentrated into space surrounding the centering solid.
Our Father-Mother has divided His entire universe into wave-fields within wave-fields, a wave-field for each action in its own measure, and the electric power extended to each wave-field is equally divided between the centering solid and the space which surrounds it.
Each wave-field is a complete storage battery like the one in your car, the only difference being that the negative cells of Nature’s storage batteries are many thousands of times larger than the positive cells.
ILLUSION IN THE MAKING¶
Each wave-field is surrounded, and bounded by six “mirrors” which form a cube of six planes of zero curvature beyond which any action taking place in any wave-field cannot go. Within these cube wave-fields is an entire microcosmic or macrocosmic curved universe of curved pressure gradients which act as lenses to project and retract light-wave actions and reactions which take place within each wave-field. These countless cubes of space are the projection machines which extend the cosmic cinema upon the imagined screen of space.
Each action of each person, planet or atom effects the balanced symmetry of its wave-field. Unbalance distorts the field in the measure of its unbalance. This is not the place to expand this idea here, but the fact of it must be stated here to await its further dynamic expression. We will demonstrate, through chemistry and wave construction, how unbalance and mismatings result in slight to violent distortions from which our explosives emerge.
Each man is forever building his own balanced or distorted wave-field from which he projects his distortions and reflects others.
Every unbalanced projection reflects its discord back to its source to hurt him who projects it. No projected distortion can pass beyond the insulating planes of zero curvature which bound every balanced wave-field, but every distorted projection can, and does reflect its distortions into the distortions of other wave-fields.
Remember, however, that God will not allow unbalance in His universe. No man can hurt another without the other’s consent. No man can upset the balance of the universe even though extended distortions engulf whole nations with their self-made distortions.
MAN IS ETERNAL¶
Remember, also, that eternal perfect MAN centers man’s bodies and bodies alone are affected by the actions and reactions of motion. MAN the Being, can never be affected, but he can seem to be by the effect of other actions upon his body in the measure of his acceptance other actions or of his power to insulate his body from them as his Being is eternally insulated from them.
What I am trying to tell you is that the eternal YOU dwells in the undivided, unchanging universe, but your body, with which you manifest the eternal YOU, dwells in the divided universe of two unbalanced conditions which must forever change by interchange of one condition with the other to simulate the one from which both extended.
Our Father-Mother’s teachings in His Message so beautifully clarify His principle of balance in respect to our present subject that I will quote them direct. These also are from THE BOOK OF DESIRE Chap. III.
THE WORD¶
“He who discords the patterns of My balanced will discords his very seed. Its rhythms he must make absolute e’en as the disturbed rhythms of earth’s storms must be made absolute. From this, My decree, there is no escape for man, nor star, nor galaxy in My universe which I imagined into seeming Being to manifest Me.
“Balance thy desires and they will bless thee with multiples of their kind. Beware lest thy taking shall outweigh thy giving and gain thee naught.”
Chap. IV
“Consider well My will. Disregard it not, for thou shalt well pay heavily for e’en one whit of its breaching.
“For I am balance. As heavens and earths of My balanced radial body vary not one whit in their rhythmic balance, so shall man vary not one whit.
“Unknowing man unthinkingly counts his own power to set aside My one law to fit the measure of his desires, but, I say, [I] alone hold balance.
“Man walks through his cycles upon a tautened rope. Where’er his foot toucheth I am there, giving him foothold as the fulcrum of his effort.
“From My rest at the fulcrum he taketh the power I give to him to express his desire. Without Me he can do naught.
“And behold Me at each end of the lever of his action to balance his unbalancing in My universe which knows no unbalance.
“Yea, be it known that two eyes of man’s very God watch o’er each action of each man whose body My body is.
“And if man would know where those two eyes of his God are located I say, seek them at each end of his wavering pole which keepeth him upright upon his tautened rope.
“For man cannot be without Me e’en though he deny Me in him.
“Have a care, therefore, that desires of man for things of earth be balanced by desires for heavenly blessings, without which man hath naught.”
Chap. V
“Say to man these very words.
“Behold in Me the fulcrum of My changing universe which but manifests change, though I change not, nor move.
“For I am Rest. In Me alone is Balance.
“He who would find power must know that he extends from Rest in Me, that I am he.
“He who would find Rest must return to Me, be Me, be fulcrum of his own power.”
“Wherefore I say, the burdens of man are made by man in the Image of his unbalanced thinking. Likewise the illnesses of man are fruit of his own making.
“Balanced thinking is an ecstasy which knows no burden, no fatigue nor imperfection.
“From man’s own unbalanced thinking emanates the toxins of fatigue, and divers sicknesses, and fears.
“Wherefore I say, come unto Me, ye self-burdened. Find rest in Me by being Me.”
BALANCE FURTHER EXEMPLIFIED¶
Since it is that balance is the very foundation of the undivided universe of Mind, and divided balance is the foundation of the universe of motion, it is necessary that we continue with enough examples of a varied nature to demonstrate the conspicuous fact that equal division of action and reaction demands equal interchange of giving and regiving to opposite mates by each other.
It is difficult to realize that we are either making happiness or unhappiness for ourselves by our own balanced or unbalanced relations with our close associates. We give too little thought to the things we say and do to our friends and neighbors in our social and business relations.
Humans seem to be almost thoughtless about the little things they do to “kill the thing they love”, by hurting a friend or loved one by careless, or thoughtless speech which may have not the least trace of viciousness in it, or intent to hurt, but which, nevertheless, causes the loss of a friend of long standing.
Many lonely people wonder why they are not loved and respected by their neighbors as John Smith is, across the street. Such lonely ones hardly realize that the accumulated thousands of little unbalanced actions, dealings and thoughtlessly spoken words have repelled people by driving them slowly, but surely away from them.
I cannot too often remind you that God gives LOVE alone to all His universe. The more we can learn to give naught but love to our neighbor the more loving, loyal friends we will have, and the more we will prosper, for prosperity is as impossible without friendly good will as happiness is impossible if cultivated with intolerance, cynicism, gossip , or other unkindly actions.
DIVIDED BODIES¶
We whose bodies are divided to manifest our undivided Selves, have never realized that one half of our body is above ground and the other half is below ground, just as the tree is. Neither do we realize that we are constantly interchanging with each half.
Our roots underground are not fastened to us as they are to the tree but the system of interchange from seed to seed is the same. Note the analogy and similarity of process in each.
The seed of all things is planted in the body of the earth–or an extension of it, to act as womb for the beginning of the polarization which divides the thought body, as registered in the seed, into two conditions, one which reaches out toward the heavens to manifest the unfolding process which expresses motherhood, and the other which reaches inward toward gravitative pressures to manifest the refolding process of expressing fatherhood. The surface of the earth is the static equator from which all of its extensions emerge. All creating extensions are likewise divided by an equator which balances the two through interchange.
The entire expression of a whole life cycle deals with what happens to a body after polarization begins, for ALL HAPPENINGS after that which affect growing body pattern are the direct result of whatever interchange takes place between the body of the man–tree–rhinoceros or ant–which is above ground with its own roots underground and the bodies of other extensions of the earth which have also become similarly divided, and especially of our own mate of opposite sex from whom each of us is similarly divided by a dynamic equator.
For many long aeons the interchange is purely physical. It is confined solely to bodies which interchange willingly or otherwise for the self perpetuation of each. After many aeons, however, culture begins in man. He becomes aware of his spiritual nature. He is no longer merely a sensed animal. There comes a time when INTELLIGENCE begins in him… Mental interchange then follows and with it the unfolding of character, culture, morals and the God qualities which man eventually recognizes as the Source of him.
IN RELATION TO MOTION¶
The fact which needs to be impressed upon you is that the motion required for any and all interchange is due to the process of polarization and depolarization only. Thinking Mind concentrates and decentrates. That is what polarization is. That is what electricity is. That is what vibration is–and waves are vibrations. That is what divides the undivided, changes the unchanging–makes measure where no measure is–makes motion where naught but stillness is–makes sound to come out of silence and forms to appear by countless millions from the formlessness of their seed idea.
That M O T I O N needed for interchange between opposites occupies the attention of all people. Motion seemingly is of greatest importance.
Hear me when I now say to you motion is OF THE LEAST IMPORTANCE.
Waves of motion are but the outward bodies, the shells which contain the pearls of great price. They are but the senses which vibrate to give physical form to immortal thoughts. They are but sounds projected to simulate the glory which the Light of God’s kingdom of Mind knowing IS. Motion translates idea into thought bodies, then into material bodies. Motion records its even pulsation forever as memories for eternal repetition.
This important subject will be gradually infiltrated in the lessons as we proceed, for when you fully comprehend God’s bookkeeping system you will then know how all future unfoldings of all idea are built upon MEMORIES of past unfolding-refolding experiences which are recorded in light-wave patterns by Nature.
A full scientific knowledge of God’s electric recording system will dispel the so far insoluble mysteries which lie hidden behind the secrets of instinct, memory, growth, “evolution” (which really means unfolding of that which IS, and not something being added-to that which WAS) reincarnation and that inexplicable idea which the ancient mystics called KARMA.
Philosophers and scientists have long wondered how the salmon finds its birth place to spawn after wandering thousands of miles in trackless oceans, and a thousand other such mysteries. These mysteries are quite simple of comprehension when one fully comprehends how God “knits” all patterned bodies from light-waves with two forever interchanging “knitting needles” for which God has but two names–FATHER and MOTHER.
If you could but visualize the Creator at work, weaving His universe of patterned forms in threads of light of all the colors of the spectrum, as a tapestry weaver works with many colored threads, you would see that God uses two “needles”, both of which are tipped with white golden light of incandescence at the ends where both meet. One of the “needles of light” extends from that golden incandescence into the dark of space through the orange and red side of the spectrum to manifest the fatherhood of Creation, and the other extends through the green and blue side of the spectrum to manifest Creation’s motherhood.
If you will observe the manner in which the Creator holds these “needles” you will see that they converge and diverge radially in the form of a cone and that all of His weavings are spirals which lead toward the apices of cones and away from them toward their bases. In this manner the Creator weaves His patterns of light solids surrounded by dark space forever accompanied by the balanced rhythms of the universal heartbeat.
Man has so many other names for God’s instruments of Creation that their real meaning is lost in the confusion of so many tongues. The scientist calls them GRAVITATION and RADIATION, not even knowing their Father-Mother connotation. The engineer calls them COMPRESSION and EXPANSION–the thinker names them CONCENTRATION and DECENTRATION while the world still continues to call them LIFE and DEATH.
The two-way motion which begins to manifest the oak tree, when the seed thought body of the oak expresses its desire to make a body for itself, could never have begun without the desire, and the patterned concept, which extends from the seed as two-way motion.
The idea and the desire are of first importance. The only thing of importance to you about motion is WHAT YOU DO WITH IT. Do you do with it what Nature does with it? Nature “remembers” it, adds “improvements” to it and repeats it forever by countless millions of repeated unfoldings and refoldings.
Or do you go your own way without considering what control God has over what you are doing? Do you remember your experiences in the use of motion and profit by them as Nature does to improve its unfolding ideas, or do you ignore them and pay heavily for it–AND THEN WONDER WHY YOU PAY?
If you desire to clean your room, write a book or operate a bank, you can express that desire only through motion. The resultant effect is an exact record of what you yourself are and that patterned picture of you is recorded in space forever for endless repetition.
The seed pattern of you is forever existent. In it is the measure of your love, your knowing, your character and your achievements as a Being. You yourself form the pattern of your own seed, and you, yourself, repolarize it with desire which is also in your seed. This you cannot avoid doing and whatever you do can be expressed only by two-way motion extending from your centering will.
All motion of God’s thinking expresses but one thing–LOVE. To the extent that YOUR thinking manifests love you are nearing the kingdom of heaven where all things else will be added unto you.
What you are depends upon what you KNOW. What the world knows of you depends upon what you do with what you know. You can be a world genius without the world knowing anything about it until you express your genius through motion.
What you KNOW and what you ARE can become a part of Creation by dividing what you know and what you are into invisible thought bodies for your own unfolding and then giving those thought bodies to the world by polarizing them from their seed in you.
Through motion alone we can extend ourselves from our seed to make a body, and from that body we can extend our knowing to all the world, but motion is only our servant, it does nothing of itself. Our use of it, however, in balance or out of balance, can uplift us to the highest pinnacles of earth or plunge us into the deepest abyss.
It should be our greatest desire to learn how to divide our actions in such a manner that the half which belongs to heaven is equal to that half which is given to earth.
Our happiness and prosperity in life depends absolutely upon how we divide our actions in respect to God’s universe and to our fellow man, for in rhythmic balanced interchange between all opposites in every transaction in Nature lies the secret of maximum perfection in any of its manifestations.
CONCLUSION¶
Figures 38 to 47 depict the physical growth of a tree. In them the manifestation of balance in the division of the physical body is exemplified by equal polarization to that half of the body which earth extended to the heavens and that half which it retained for earth.
The perfection of either half depends upon equality with the giving of each half to the other. If the roots deny moisture to the leaves and branches and the tree becomes stunted or malformed because of that denial, the roots themselves become stunted by the reaction of that denial from the branches, for their inability to drink in the sunshine from the heavens has been proportionately lessened. Equal interchange between roots and tree would insure maximum perfection of a material body for the tree.
If we apply exactly the same principle to the physical body of a man as we do to the tree the perfection of his physical body will be maximum. We must not think of man as being separated from the earths just because he is not directly rooted to it and can walk the earth while the tree cannot.
The body of the polarized seed of man extends from the womb of earth as surely as the tree extends from it for his mother’s womb is but an extension of earth. Polarization is a two-way, two-directional extension. The body of the man is always as much under the earth from which it was borrowed as the body of the tree is.
Man cannot continue to be an extension of earth without drawing sustenance from his own roots which extend beneath the earth. Upon that continued interchange–and upon the balance which the earth and heaven halves of man continue to regive to each other, depends the balanced perfection of the physical body of man. The very “sap” of man’s body comes from the waters of earth as the fibres of it come from fibre of earth.
That is one reason why it is becoming more and more necessary to consider the lack of balance in earth’s giving to man because of the use of mineral fertilizers and other damaging practices of agriculture. Our bodies are deficient to the extent that earth’s giving to them is deficient.
The reaction of deficient giving to man by earth lessens the ability of man to regive to earth. This law of equal interchange works both ways.
Man is continually borrowing his body from earth and is just as continually returning his borrowings by the continual ejection of parts of it which are forever dying as new parts are borning.
Your dog can follow your path for days because of the millions of dead cells which you have thrown off. That “odor” of you is a part of your ever dying body just as the perfume of a flower is a part of the dying flower.
All eliminations of bodies are given back to earth for continuous repetition of givings and regivings. Earth is the positive cell of a battery and space is the negative cell. When earth gives half of a body to space earth charges space and discharges itself equally. As space regives to the other half of the body it recharges earth and discharges space.
Perfection in the manifestation of any idea depends upon keeping this interchange in balance. Deficient interchange unbalances both, resulting in a less fertile earth and a less vital body of man.
It is time that this matter became a major project in the practice of agriculture, else the human race will pay heavily for it.
Unlike the tree man has a spiritual existence as well as a physical one. His spiritual interchange in his human relations must equally obey the law of rhythmic balanced interchange else his spiritual unfoldment will suffer vitally from the accumulating residues of unbalance which lodge in him by every unbalanced mental transaction of his life.
The tree has only its physical body to interchange with, but man has both physical and mental, and mental unbalance in dealings reacts upon the physical by developing toxic poisonings which the balanced givings of earth to bodies could never offset.
A perfect diet by man will not keep him from hurting his own body by an unkind word given to hurt another, or by an unloving action of any nature whatsoever.
That is why it is so much more difficult for man to live more healthily and happily than animals. And that is also why life is hard to live for all men who do not walk and talk with God.
This is a universe of rest from which motion springs, but there is no rest for any man whose interchange with other men is unbalanced. The life of such a man is hard in the measure of his unbalanced interchange. Conversely, the life of any man who works knowingly with God and balances his mental and physical interchange is relatively easy, for such a man will forever know rest and peace, and the world will glorify him the more he reflects the Light of love in his actions.
As a final example we will consider this law of equal interchange in a business transaction between men who operate a bank.
Again I say that every diagram from 38 to 47 which applies to the growing tree also applies to the operation and growth of a bank. The bank idea is a part of the whole idea of Creation, just as the oak tree is another idea. The plan and pattern of the bank idea is in its seed.
The bank begins to grow from its seed by dividing its substance into its two polar conditions just as the tree begins to grow. So long as its capital is static in its seed the bank cannot grow. In order to grow it must become dynamic by extending in opposite directions from its equator–and those extensions must be equal.
The growth of the bank begins when it extends credit to a borrower to make a body for the borrower’s idea just as the oak tree makes a body for its idea by borrowing it from below its equator.
If the extended credit above the equator is $100,000 a simultaneous debit of $100,000 is recorded below the equator. That interchange is equal and opposite and is always kept in balance. Every reduction or increase on the credit side of the equator is balanced on its debit side.
Suppose, however, that the creditor failed, after repaying $40,000. There would then remain a deficit of $60,000 which illustrates what we mean by a “residue of unbalance”.
One such failure upon the part of the bank to give more care to investigation of the borrower, or one such accidental failure on the part of a sound borrower, would not destroy the bank for it is too small a thing to hurt a strong bank. The accumulation of very many such unbalanced residues would, however, temporarily weaken it by hurting its growth and prestige, and would eventually destroy it unless the rhythmic balance of credits and debits was restored.
If you would take this example to yourself and apply it all down the line to your interchanging with material bodies of earth and spiritual interchanging, with thought bodies of heaven you would find that seemingly insurmountable hurdles of life would be but mole hills for your joyous overcoming, and ills of the body would not touch you. And if they did you would know that you yourself caused them by little unnoticed accumulations of unbalanced residues. Knowing that you would talk to God about it in your meditations and thus take on His rest and peace which would soon normalize your balance and attune it to the rhythms of God’s heartbeat.
I say to you, therefore, that knowledge of your physical and spiritual relationship to God and His universe gives you a power to meet the many great problems of life, to face its many hurdles fearlessly, and find your path upward to your own desired mountain top unerringly, that is denied to those of lesser knowing.
Find, therefore, within yourself, the fulcrum of your own power. Find it by seeking deeper knowing. All knowledge exists. It is yours for the desiring.
Likewise all power exists. It is also yours for the asking. There is naught but GOOD in all God’s universe. If you find other than good anywhere you have made it yourself. God did not make it, or give it to you. God is LOVE and He gives naught but love to you.