Limitations in Matter

From the enthusiasm with which the new ideas are presented in this book, it could easily be inferred that the author believes in a Utopia where there are no conditions and limits to health and well-being here on earth; that everybody should be healthy, wealthy and wise. If some one would lay down definite rules for this purpose and enforce them, it would interfere with the freedom of choice and arouse violent resentment. Even the very purpose of our being here, to learn the lessons of life through resistance in matter, would be frustrated. How can we ordinary mortals learn without the play of opposites and without toys and blocks which tumble and must be built up again? Only those who have risen above the world of opposites in all their conscious functions abide in pure love and bliss, but they are not ordinary mortals.

Rest and peace are possible only in the perfect neuter [neutral] balance existing in the Essence of all things, but not in their appearance as positive forces and negative crystallizations which build these fields of matter. Truly, bliss resides at the very core of perfect equilibrium, out of which the creation was manifested. It is also present at the very core of man's being, like the stillness in the depths of the oceans. For man to reach this state, he must follow the middle way of Truth and rise above these opposites and limitations.

This earth was intended as a "Kindergarten" of experience for all souls inhabiting it. Otherwise, how could they learn their lessons from experiences in contact with solid matter which is definitely conditioned, limited and fixed in its vibratory manifestation. Matter is composed of many parts and particles which have their law of change and mutation and constantly swing from one pole to the other in their spinning variations. Night and day, morning and evening, winter and summer, rain and sunshine, etc. are all necessary in this earth life or we could not exist here as living beings.

Obviously, the learning of lessons through the play of matter is the reason for our being here, and not easy sailing in pleasures without experience and resistance. Only from resistance and the impact of energy upon matter can we learn the nature of these forces when they are slowed down in their vibratory spinning combinations where they appear as solids and semi-solid forms. Freedom of play, of choice, of action and reaction is the only way in which we can enjoy ourselves and learn like all children do. As long as we learn from life and forget ourselves, we are growing and living. But when the mind demands and becomes egotistic in its successful experience at play, when it wishes to set up its own rule and conditions, then it suffers from the impact of cross currents of forces which it opposes by its efforts and plans.

Life is a song. It has its own rhythm of harmony. It is a symphony of all things which exist, in major and minor keys of Polarity. It blends the discords, by opposites, into a harmony which unites the Whole into a grand symphony of life. To learn through experience in this life, to appreciate the symphony and lessons of life and to blend with the Whole, is the object of our being here.

To learn to control our own mind is the real purpose of all experience, because the mind is the neuter [neutral] agent of the very Essence of all matter in motion. All training, all experience, and even the suffering in life, have only one objective and that is to enable us to learn to control the mind substance within ourselves. It is the most subtle and intangible form of matter, like an airy nothing which pervades and rules all things. All conditions and limitations are produced by mind essence and substance. The molds of pleasure and pain, health and sickness, etc. are formed by our own thought patterns of harmony, limitations or discord.