Theos-Talk Archives (February 2001 Message tt00061)

>Well, here's the point , my friend, A master does say:" Love G'D above all
>things , and treat thy neighbor as thyself."

Dear Friend,
That would be:
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

This is interesting because it is stated as a commandment and yet how can
one command love?

>Looking beyond is in the first part(look carefully and you might see it
,but
>, don't go too fast)

We may find retreat in the Eternal and this is healthy, but we live our
lives in the temporal. An abstract concept has no reality in itself. I find
that exponents of the "everything is all the same creed" don't live their
lives like that - they do know the accelerator from the brake, right from
left etc.

The world is not in a state of homeostasis. If it was it would be dead.
There would be no consciousness- consciousness requiring one thing to bang
up against other.

Monism does see everything as part of the All. It may efface the
differences, but not deny them.

On our two-poled Cosmos:
"In a fixed Cosmos there would be no activity. In a non-fixed Cosmos there
would be Chaos in activity. In a two-poled Cosmos there is a happy mix of
reality and possibility. We have been empowered to dwell in the fixed
conditions and effect constant change upon them. The latter determines the
former, whilst the former follows the latter."

>and the "supposed" virtues and vices are inherent in the second part.

To the metaphysical realist, morality - the virtues - exist in a sphere
beyond human reach. They are not a result of the action of the mind of man,
nor are they only concerned with human interrelations. Look at the four
cardinal virtues of the ancients for instance: Justice, Prudence,
Temperance, Fortitude, the whole of human virtue was supposed to revolve
around these, and there is deep meaning in this.

"Activity necessitates further activity, in a two-poled consequence. Each
Heavenly impulse of essential cosmic virtue, has gradients of expression,
whilst also to us, and relative to us, has also its corresponding opposite.
It is paramount to expression that this be so. It is not as simple to say
that what is good in one instance is bad in another or vice versa - it is
not a question of philosophy, but rather a law in which all light has its
shadow. "


"Every quality has opposite poles" is an occult axiom.

Just as there is light and dark, warmth and cold, positive and negative
electricity so too does each Kamic/desire quality have two different
aspects.

"The physical constitution works in this way. One pole receives fixed
matter - we must assimilate, adjust and balance such matter, and discharge
the rest. We breathe in and breathe out. That which we breathe in is fixed,
that which we breathe out is adjusted. If we breath in water, and have not
gills for the required adjusting and cannot balance those needs, we die.
That is reality."

Cheers,
Bruce