Applying Principles

2000-9-13 10:31:00

Benjamin writes:
"On the natural level, I have the river flowing nearby, the wind in the trees, the coyotes singing at night, the young golden eagle I saw perched nearby recently, the stars sparkling in the heavens...there is no way I can ever feel lonely in the midst of all this!"

Sounds great! Where is this natural paradise located?

That's an interesting web page on future space transport, Samu. That may be one way to create a community 1,500 miles above the earth. You always come up with good cutting edge stuff in science.

The assignment was to name a person or group who is not an extremist from the midway point and to this Maryellen responds:

"Not 'well known' yet, but here we are...................... the Keysters hovering near mid point and of course we are each often seen by the masses as extreme. Our kind of thinking is considered out of the norm and extremely eccentric!! "

Good answer Maryellen. We are not perfect, but this group as a whole is much more centered at the midway point than most. As evidence of this, just look at its unusual composition. We have new agers, standard Christians, non-standard Christians, druids, Wiccans and others. Many discussion groups draw people from one general line of thinking, but because this one is quite synthetic, it indicates that we are not headed to the extreme position relative to the midway point.

Lee asks:
"OK Since I'm new here, I guess I missed that. Could you state the principle, or tell me where I can find it, so I can get up to speed?"

JJ
We have been discussing the pendulum principle.

I have written and taught quite a bit about principles and what they are and I would suggest that new people go to the the Search Archives feature at my website (www.freeread.com) and type the word "principle" in the search engine and see what you come up with.

I will repeat several things for the benefit of new people.

A fact is a piece of data, but a principle reveals the underlying meaning behind all facts. It takes a thousand facts to understand one principle, but one principle can reveal thousands of facts.

A few of the principles we have discussed in the past have been the intuitive principle, the oneness principle, the snowflake principle, the gathering principle, the Law of Correspondences, and currently we are discussing the principles that relate to the discovery of truth. Within this set of principles we are now involved with the principle of the pendulum.

Communion through the soul is done through the transmission of principles which always leads to pure knowledge. On the other hand, communion through the astral body, the emotional nature, the lower mind and lower psychism always deals with facts which may or may not be correct.

You will notice that astral psychics always try and relate facts to the customer such as: "I see that you are close to someone whose name begins with B." Or "You have been married more than once." Or: "You will soon travel abroad." All of this type of material comes through the astral body and is filtered through an upside down illusionary principle and is rarely to be trusted.

The higher psychics deal with principles through the soul. Some facts will come through, but when they do, they are related to a principle in the mind of the adept or seer. The higher psychic will always understand why he is saying what he is saying because he gets revelation in association with principles which he understands.

There will be times; however, that someone will receive hints from his inner teacher that he is supposed to solve through the understanding of a principle. For instance he may awake in the morning hearing some words such as "the fifth feeds on the fourth." At first he may ask himself, "What in the world does that mean?" Then later, he will realize this is a hint that he must solve through the intuitive principle; as he studies and contemplates, the truth will be revealed.

When the adept teaches others, he will always teach from the vantage point of understanding rather than pulling things out of the air and teaching what he himself does not understand.

Now back to the principle of the pendulum. The reason I asked for a famous name as an example of one who is not an extremist is because we know nothing of the unknown ordinary people as good hearted as they may be. A known group or person is an example we can discuss as a group with some intelligence.

The only name you brought up whose background I am familiar with is Mother Teresa. So what does the group think? Has this saintly lady found the Middle Way or did she cruise past the midway point to an extreme?