Sometimes a Longer Term Contrast is Needed - (2835)

We are a Cross

The human being is so many things.

Of the many things that we are, we are a cross. Extend your arms and put your feet together and we are a cross.

The cross universally symbolizes the balancing and contrast of two opposite qualities which naturally leads us to the supreme value of the cross which is sacrifice.

Where the classical opposite qualities are spirit and matter, light and darkness, male and female, solar and lunar...

When we voluntarily contrast the two opposite experiences we produce a contrast which strikes our consciousness. This then produces creative understanding, and understanding produces changes.

Sometimes though just a practice of contrast may not yield the changes we wish for. But a long term contrast is needed.

A Long Term Contrast

A long term contrast is needed to reach our consciousness at times.

This is because we we need the effects of the spirit or of the light to accumulate in us until we can tangibly see the results or effects of the light.

We should not lose heart becasue things to work within us take time.

After we learn the lesson of contrasting we are able to sacrifice the now understood inferior value.

End (2835).