Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class A/V Seminar 29, which will soon be published in Volume 13 of The Living Light Dialogue. This quote is a rather extended exchange between a student and the teacher, in which the teacher goes to great lengths to help a student understand the relationship between contradiction and control. Words spoken by the teacher are in roman font, while the words spoken by the student are italicized.
"Well, you have to understand that which contradicts controls. [After a short pause, the teacher continues.] No, you don’t understand. You don’t understand. You know what contradiction, what I mean by contradiction.
Yes.
That which is contrary. That which is discordant. That which is not unified. That which is not harmonious.
Right.
Pardon?
Yes, I do.
All right. Now if you walk into a room and everyone seems to be happy and very pleased, and you come in and you speak to someone and you establish a law of contradiction, you soon have the opposite of the harmony of the people that are in the room. Would you not agree to that?
Yes.
Have you not had that experience in life? Yes. All right. So through the contradiction, the Law of Contradiction, there is a change with all of the subjects that are in the room. Is that not correct?
Correct.
Usually with most all of them, if not all of them.
Right.
Is that not correct?
Correct.
Now what happens within the room once you establish the Law of Contradiction? [The teacher continues after a short pause.] There is a change, isn’t there?
Yes.
Who’s responsible for the change?
I would be.
You were the one that established the Law of Contradiction.
Yes.
Yes. That puts you, then, in control. Now you understand the Law of Contradiction and the Law of Control. That’s how the mind is controlled by the Law of Contradiction. Not by the Law of Acceptance. Not by the Law of Harmony. But by the Law of Contradiction, you see.
OK.
You see, if a wife wants to control her husband, what does she usually do with him? She makes sure that she contradicts him so that she can change him, and vice versa. It is a rare person who involves themselves with another person who doesn’t make great effort to make a clone. Pardon?
That’s true.
Yes. We’re speaking, of course, of a mental world. As a mother tries to make her child a clone of herself, a father, a husband tries to make his wife, and a wife tries to make [her] husband. And so they have control through the Law of Contradiction. Because that’s how they are controlled inside of themselves. Do you understand that?
Yes.
You see.
Yes.
You see, you will find it usually with little children, you know, little children that are used to having their own way. And if two or three children are playing with a toy and the little child that’s used to having its own way comes in and he sees he’s not getting the attention, he very quickly, very quickly establishes the Law of Contradiction, becomes in control, and now he feels better."
Besides the insight and understanding offered by these teachings to our spiritual duties and responsibilities, an aspect of these teachings that has always appealed to me is the understanding that it offers to many of my own personal experiences and many of the interactions that I witness in the world. And I feel that this quote is a beautiful example of that. I see this type of interaction so often in the world. Perhaps the next time I find myself in that situation I will more graciously accept the divine right of all to express.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
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