Questions and Meditations

12 The role of disorder

Just as, amongst our billions of bodies and personalities co-existing upon this Earth riches are unequally shared or distributed – whether it be intellectual, vital and physical gifts, talents and capacities or material possessions and money -, so it is as regards Consciousness. For, although the Presence supports and sustains all that is and inhabits the flower and the star as the lioness and the elderly man seated on the bench, Consciousness does not move evenly in all forms and instruments. Its increase proceeds at the rhythm and pace of the incarnated inner experience. This process depends neither on outer circumstances, nor on education, age, social position, comfort, blood, kind or race. This growth is akin to that of a fragile spark that becomes, through the vicissitudes of numerous lifetimes, a great and puissant flame that quietly radiates. It is only when the individual ego draws near to the inner discovery that an attentive, consecrated and integral education and a harmonious environment serving the awakening of the whole being become major assets, aids and agents of conscious evolution. For it is only then that the habitual equilibrium ruled by the ego begins to give way to the progressive unification of the entire being around the conscious experience.

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Thus it is that in every country of the world are living individuals who are conscious – of the Real, of the Presence, of That, of the Divine, words matter not. And yet, which people is seeking them out within its bosom to hand them the means of serving the Good and the True?

All our systems only reflect the images of our insufficiencies, fissures and contradictions.

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