Limitations in Matter

If we cannot learn the lessons of life from our play with gross matter and its conditions, how are we going to control our thinking which shapes and forms this subtle essence into living conditions and surroundings? Is the Creator cruel or kind when He endeavors to teach us the Universal Harmony of Life and relationship of things by giving us free choice? We either learn and go on fulfilling our destiny in this "School of Experience" or we stand still and bemoan our fate while life passes by. We either face facts in Truth and Reality on the mount of wisdom through devotion, love and understanding, or we behold only a rear view of Life after it has passed. The latter is what happens most frequently and gives rise to the saying, "If our foresight were only as good as our hindsight" we could really do things and progress.

How true this is we can see in our daily life. Because we have self will and desires which are out of tune with Life and its Grand Symphony, we cannot see or perceive these lessons at once. Only after many trials and errors do we realize the foolishness of our own will and ways which attract more than we can balance, and bind us to our limitation of thinking and the accumulations which worry us. If we could impartially observe how Life is manifested by the Creator and why, we would see that all things are done for us, like in any kindergarten, to furnish the material which helps to bring out and express the latent quality in the children.

Jesus taught this Grand Symphony of Life in lessons of Love and the renunciation of the self. It is our self-will and ego, with its desires and cravings for its own selfish purpose of sense enjoyment, greed, fame, etc. which causes so much suffering - physically, mentally and emotionally - because it is opposed to the laws of balance in creation and the provisions laid down by the Creator. Self-will and mere sense pleasure will end in suffering through bitter experience in this Kindergarten of Life.

Only on this earth is the fullness of experience possible, because all phases of matter - subtle and gross - are represented here, plus the emotions and the mind to act and react in those fields. When we experience the results of some of our desires, let us not feel sorry for ourselves in suffering nor forget the grand opportunity thus presented to learn our lessons here. Rather let us benefit thereby and find the Path of Liberation from all this limitation of mind and matter in the depths of our being.

The triune Polarity Principle is an active factor in the very process of creation. Even in the ideal conditions of Paradise there were created a tree of Life, a tree of Knowledge of good and evil and the snake as the tempter. The negative pole is ever a temptation to the positive pole to flow downward, into the negative field of expression and experience. The reflection or image draws on the Reality for its support. The eternal Sound and Light currents support and sustain all creation. When these are consciously reflected upward in man's subtle energy essence, then starts the Ideal Path of Understanding, Illumination and the Homeward flight of the Soul.

The Three Bodies of Man as the Basis of Polarity Principles in Action

That man has a physical body of solid and semi-solid matter is well accepted, analyzed and represented by physiological, structural, mechanical, chemical, thermal, electrical, psychological and bacteriological fields of science and their tests. If this were all that man consisted of then no unknown problems and factors of health and dis-ease [disease] would torment mankind and the good doctors who try to solve such problems daily.