Sanctuary Discourse - Shamballa, L. I., New York

Lady Minerva

December 1988

Beloved seekers after the Flame of Illumed Wisdom, who walk through the world of duality, I gently reach out my hand to guide you steadily back to the Oneness of All Life.

In the world of duality in which you abide, the key to self-mastery is BALANCE, and this BALANCE leads you to self-realization of the self within and the SELF WITHOUT. It is essential that you come to know SELF completely, so that you may come to know the Truth the SELF is One with God, and One with All Life, and you will finally reach the shore of the Ultimate Truth. That Truth is one which cannot be fully spoken.

To follow the Flame of Illumined Wisdom you need BALANCE in your physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies. A man who is one-sided is limited. Na matter how advanced he may appear to be, he will not reach the Shore of the Ultimate Truth with such a limitation. Man needs balance between the head and the heart... balance between power and wisdom... balance between activity and rest. A man without such balance can enter a spiritual path, but can never proceed along it. The center of all life is rhythm, and rhythm creates balance.

In coming to know the Self Without, you need all the worldly wisdom you have acquired over the years. This wisdom is not a wisdom learned from the written word, but it is a wisdom learned from observing the book of life written in the eyes of every child, every leaf on a tree, in every star in the sky, and in every sunbeam... written clearly in all that is.

But what of total INNOCENCE? You may take your wisdom to the world without, to your universe, but do not try to present this wisdom before God!

When you kneel before God at the altar in your heart, kneel there in INNOCENCE. Leave your wisdom outside, and kneel in emptiness, that you may become the Holy Grail. Unlearn all that the world has taught you, and let go of the personal ego altogether. Kneel there, in your heart, ...with no motive, no expression, in total INNOCENCE, that God may fill your Being with the Peace that passes the understanding of the human mind.

In the outer world do everything with wisdom, but before God you kneel in Innocence. This is the Balance of the Ultimate Truth.

MINERVA