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Balance - Harmony of the Middle Way
Beloved Lord Gautama
August 18, 1981
Beloved co-servers presently in embodiment, I offer you my compassionate heart born of Buddhic Consciousness.
We, who guard the Three-fold Flame of Life on a Cosmic Level, as well as your own Holy Christ Selves who do so on a personal level for each of you, are not allowed to release the knowledge, experience and Reality of Love or of Wisdom or of Power to you until there is little chance of it being misused for carnal or personality level affairs. Christ said "Do not throw your pearls to swine" (human consciousness).
If then you feel you do not yet know the Reality of Christ Love, Christ Wisdom or Christ Power in your lives, look to turning away from the carnal or personality self. Detach yourself from these things of a material or personal nature that draw you away from your Spirit self. As you build a momentum of truly allowing Spirit Freedom, you will at some point experience a new found Peace and feel you have finally "arrived". Yet even on top of that experience can we then begin to release the Reality of Christ Love, Wisdom and Power, the Reality of you, through you.
My teachings of the Middle Way are sometimes misunderstood. It was never intended to allow the student or chela to balance doing something good by doing something not good; that somehow because you have practiced a discipline of mind, body or feeling for a while that you should take a holiday and flirt with the human realm "for the sake of balance". The Middle Way of Balance has nothing to do with the ways of human, carnal or personality affairs, except in how to turn away from them. My entire last embodiment was dedicated to finding a middle way of balanced God Qualities in turning away from lower self (and suffering) back to the freedom of Spirit (and finding Peace).
Balance comes with the discernment of finding what in your environment really is, for you, a drawing away from God and what isn't. There are many things on the physical plane of Earth in the affairs of humanity that are supportive of your selfless service to life (Spirit). Balance comes with choosing what to actively let go of and what not to, so there is still a sense of the harmony of the Middle Way and not the fanaticism of letting go all at once, or simply letting go too much. Discern what in your environment and life supports your Spirit Freedom and selfless service to life and what detracts from it. This includes the initiation of "Self Honesty".
Which leads us back to my first thoughts this morning. The cells in the Group Avatar, individually and as a church body, need to be freer of the carnal or personality self so that we who guard the Cosmic Love, Wisdom and Power may release these gifts in fuller expression on this planet. This is what the Godhead was able to do through beloved Master Jesus when he, in a supremely balanced way, turned down the lower self, in the so-called small, day to day affairs of humanity and gave freedom only to Spirit. This process, which he exampled so perfectly, is the true savior of the world of humankind. This same process we must now accomplish through this Group Avatar - the chosen avenue to express Christ in the New Age on a world-wide level.
There is a further Balance on a personal level between turning away from the lower nature of self and actively pursuing the higher nature of God. There must be both; and one will facilitate the other. In letting go of the human self, if you meet with great resistance, stop at that point; for again "what you resist will persist". Instead, turn to the other side of the Balance and actively pursue God in some aspect of service or even in quiet contemplation. However, when you have met a great resistance in the lower self, active service (in the sense of "doing something") is often more effective at that point than quiet meditation. Service to be done is all around you. In the tradition of Saint Francis, you could lose yourself in SERVICE. And, of course, meditation and prayer is important in balancing active spiritual service.
The reverse can also be true as when your pursuit of God seems blocked. Look then towards letting go of some aspect of the lower self, which is also all around you. Choose some human habit and actively root it out of your life. I think you sense the balance here. One approach can release the blockage of the other. Practice of this balance will finally result in the more continual experience of God and a certain irrelevance of the lower self. For in the face of full Christ Love, Christ Wisdom and Christ Power, the lower self is certainly irrelevant.
Let go and let God. With the Law of Forgiveness and the Violet Fire, turn away from the lower nature and actively pursue the Freedom of your God Self in selfless service. In the supreme discernment of Balance, create for us the perfect avenue for the Reality of God Perfection in this planet. You have my entire momentum of doing so at your call and with it, all my deepest Love and sustained Peace.
Lord Gautama
Lord of the World