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brrgilbert
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In referencing the Three Degrees illustration, please note the following:
1.) Recognition, 2.) Association and 3.) Emulation - in other words and the "vernacular of light": absorb and comprehend, reflect and understand and finally, radiate and become. (The Sun radiates, the Moon reflects and the Stars are absorbed in the background of space.)
The very process of creation involves the application of the following principles:
1.) Comprehension: This is a recognition of contrast involving light and darkness. Of necessity, it involves the ability to compare in order to distinguish. It is of the MIND; involving perception
2.) Understanding: This is an association and experiencing of "like things" determining if they are appealing, harmonious, and resonant or repelling, dissonant, and uncomfortable. It is of the HEART; involving feeling.
3.) Realization: This is the act of making something created "spiritually" within, manifest in the real world. It involves the sum total of the previous two and what one is: mind, heart,and soul (body and spirit,) and is properly referred to as "all" your heart, might, mind and strength.
Concepts are created in the MIND, as the framework about which to build structure. The HEART adds detail to make that which is "sterile" into something desirable. The accumulation and cooperation of the "internal" is brought to fruition by exertion in the physical world; an execution of the "plan"
The mind operates via the "illumination" of light and the heart operates via the "comfort" of light. (The Compound of One.)
By virtue of symmetry; that of associating the first thing in one list with the first thing in another list, illustrates this principle in the following way:
Knowledge is gained by diligence. Intelligence is gained by obedience. Intelligence is the "proper" application of knowledge. Without "proper application," knowledge is useless, it is only theory. "To know and not to do is the same as not knowing."
"I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
The Little Prince by St. Exupery
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