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Lessons from Around the Home Part II - (2279)

Introduction

Someone wrote in saying that they quite liked a previous post that described how interesting bits of wisdom can be learned from observing things in one’s home.
We can see many laws and principles at work and these laws and principles also are at work within us here and now.
So for that person, here is another post with two lessons.

Exaggeration Destroys the Virtue

Balance is always best.
We sometimes think that a lot of a good thing is always good. But it certainly is not. Just look at the piano top in the photo below. Beautiful, elegant and expensive statues they are, but there are too many of them, so much so, that the whole piano top just looks tacky.

The beauty and elegance of the statues and piano is all but gone and one gets an overcrowded, 'just too much' kind of a feeling.
We Gnostics can make this mistake psychologically in our dealings with other people. We can be just too nice that it rightfully so shows up as fake, and that displeases many people (just like the piano top) or we can be too agreeable, that we do things that are not good for us, and we do not help those others very much either.
This saying: “Exaggeration destroys the virtue” comes from the axiom of card 14 of the Tarot. See the book “Tarot and Kabbalah” by Master Samael Aun Weor.
This is particularly good to have present in our system when we deal with others.

Maintenance is a Law

At home there is no such thing as a one off cleaning.

If you clean the place perfectly, and you hermetically close off that house, and come back a few months later it won’t be as clean as when you closed it off and left it. Dust and dirt will be everywhere.

Dust always accumulates in a house, and so it does in our mind.
In our case it is the dust of untransformed impressions and concepts that collect. This psychological dust is
swept away by the river of our consciousness active in the now.
Everything in creation needs some kind of maintenance. Some things of course require more maintenance than others, especially when those things are placed in an environment adversely different to their origin. Such as an iron ship whose base material was mined from the Earth, is placed in sea water. If this iron ship is not maintained regularly it will rust and sink.

This law applies to our psyche or essence as well. If we clean our psychological house it won’t stay clean. We have to constantly clean it and be vigilant observing how it is at all times. This is just a law of creation.

If we connect to our Being, that connection will weaken if we don’t strengthen or revisit it often. If a friendship is not revisited and strengthened it also fades.

The law of maintenance is another name for the law of universal nourishment of all things, where everything requires nourishment.

End (2279).

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