2023-05-04

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of balancing:

Balancing Exercises

To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.

The second mental discipline is acceptance of the completeness within your consciousness. It is not for a being of polarity in the physical consciousness to pick and choose among attributes, thus building the roles that cause blockages and confusions in the already-distorted mind complex. Each acceptance smooths part of the many distortions that the faculty you call judgment engenders.

The third discipline of the mind is a repetition of the first but with the gaze outward towards the fellow entities that it meets. In each entity there exists completeness. Thus, the ability to understand each balance is necessary. When you view patience, you are responsible for mirroring in your mental understanding patience/impatience. When you view impatience, it is necessary for your mental configuration of understanding to be impatience/patience. We use this as a simple example. Most configurations of mind have many facets, and understanding of either self polarities, or what you would call other-self polarities, can and must be understood as subtle work.

The next step is the acceptance of the other-self polarities, which mirrors the second step.[1]

In this third-density illusion we grow spiritually by processing catalyst that we perceive on a daily basis and by doing so become more and more able to be of service to others. One efficient way to process catalyst, according to Ra, is by the use of a balancing technique. The following is my personal interpretation of Ra’s guidance. 

The whole process begins with the realization that each of us contains the complete universe of thoughts and feelings within our being. Most of us have preferences as to which qualities we want to express and which ones we would rather forget about. Ra suggested that it is not wise to pick and choose which attributes to accept and which to deny because that just confuses the situation of our being whole and complete. We need to recognize that completeness of our natural selves in order to eventually become a being so balanced that no catalyst throws us off of our center of love and understanding. Ra made this very clear in their answers to Don’s two questions:

Questioner: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

Questioner: In the illusion that we now experience it is difficult to maintain this response especially if the entity’s attack results in physical pain, but I assume that this response should be maintained even through physical loss of life or extreme pain. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and further is of a major or principal importance in understanding, shall we say, the principle of balance. Balance is not indifference but rather the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation but rather fully imbued with love. (42.4-.5)

At the end of each day, we can take time to review how our day went. As we look back over our day we note each time that any experience made either a positive or negative impression on our minds and/or emotions that was not in total alignment with unconditional love. Then we can use a meditative or contemplative state to relive that experience in as much detail as we can remember. Next, we can mentally enhance that emotion or quality until it is very magnified within our being. At this point Ra suggested that we visualize the opposite quality of our experience but said that we should not create it. Then we wait, meditatively, for the opposite emotion or quality to arise within us to extent that it, too, is just as exaggerated as the original feeling. The last step is for us to accept ourselves for having both of these emotions/qualities as a portion of the total being that we are.

As an example, let’s say that at one point during the day you were talking to your neighbor about where the boundary line was between your properties. He says it is two feet farther over on your side, and you say it is two feet over towards his side. You argue with him and get angry. You stalk off in a huff and refuse to talk any further.

That evening you sit in meditation and relive that argument, remembering each detail of how the argument began and how it escalated into anger. When you are once again feeling angry, you sit with that feeling and allow yourself to experience its full intensity. After that you visualize the opposite of anger which might be acceptance. Then you meditate and allow the quality of acceptance to increase within your inner field of vision until it is equally as large as the anger. In this way, you show yourself that you are capable of having both these feelings or qualities within your being. Your other self, or neighbor in this case, has mirrored back to you the emotion of anger that you can process into acceptance. The final step is to accept this experience as evidence that you are more than what you seem. This is one technique by which we can allow ourselves to feel and process our difficulties, while also discovering more of our true nature.

This balancing process has as its foundation this statement from Ra: “It is the way of distortion that in order to balance a distortion one must accentuate it.”[2]We seek to balance both the positive and the negative experiences with their opposites so that slowly, over many years of continuing this practice, we realize more of our completeness as 360-degree beings, which is another way of describing the Creator. This is how Ra described this process:

Questioner: Now, what I am trying to get at is how these disciplines affect the energy centers and the power, shall I say, of the white magician. Could you, will you tell me how that works?

Ra: I am Ra. The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold. One, know yourself. Two, accept yourself. Three, become the Creator.

The third step is that step which, when accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves. In relation to the pursuit of the magical working the continuing discipline of the personality involves the adept in knowing itself, accepting itself, and thus clearing the path towards the great indigo gateway to the Creator. To become the Creator is to become all that there is. There is then no personality in the sense with which the adept begins its learn/teaching. As the consciousness of the indigo ray becomes more crystalline, more work may be done; more may be expressed from intelligent infinity
.[3]

Here our natural self is able to further its ability to increase its service to others by balancing and clearing the energy body so that eventually we may become that which we have sought for so many years and lifetimes: the One Infinite Creator.

This morning, in preparation for a pond service fellow who was coming to clean my fish pond, I pumped out enough water so that he could see where the is a patch over what was a leak in the pond liner a few years ago. I wanted to be able to show it to him so that he didn’t use is power sprayer on it as he was cleaning the rest of the pond liner, or the power sprayer might tear the patch off the liner. While he was here I used my big mower to mow the grass in the front, side, and back yards.

This afternoon I went back to Thieneman’s Nursery to buy seven bushes that I need to replace three Firelight hydrangea that died in my front yard and four butterfly bushes that died beside the fish pond.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

May 4

The Wellspring Of Life

I am the spirit of the living Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of love.

The living wellspring of life comes to each and yet awaits the asking, just as water remains in the pipe until the faucet is turned.

The holy city of God stands with plain streets and glass stones until the seeker within its gates opens those gates to let in that vivifying spirit which turns glass to gem and plain streets to crystal seas and golden portals.

Each seeker already stands at the wellspring of life within the city of God. Yet until the call goes out in full sincerity from the heart of the pilgrim, the manifestation of joy and wholeness cannot be felt.

We stand waiting without the gates for the principle of the full consciousness of love to be asked to enter. We await each call in perfect confidence of the glorious outcome. For all consciousness shall see Christ.

We leave you in peace, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.


[1] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 5.2.

[2] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 104.2.

[3] The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, 74.11.