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The reversal of the heart lotus and its upward unfolding is due to the following factors:
response to Spiritual will.
There are other factors but these are the ones you will most easily understand if you will regard them as symbolic and not too literally. Eventually, at the close of the next root race, you will have the full expression of love and the lotuses up the spine will appear—all five of them—differing only in the number of petals found in each. Finally at the close of the great world cycle when all the lotuses have reversed themselves, all will be opening and presenting free channels for the inflow and the transmission of the three major divine energies and the four lesser forces.
To this constant movement of the centers and to the constant inflow of energies we can trace much of the discomfort of humanity in its various bodies; it is the inability of the centers to respond or to unfold which in many cases produces disease and difficulty; it is the unbalanced unfoldment of the centers, their arrested development and their lack of response which creates problems in other cases; it is their premature unfoldment and their overactivity which in other cases brings about danger; it is the failure of the physical mechanism to measure up to the inner unfoldment which causes so much trouble. Thus again you can see the complexity of the subject.
The stage of theory is a simple one, except in so far as it sets forces in motion which eventually lead to difficulty. The stage of reaction to response and of adjustment to the theory also institutes a cycle of intense difficulty and complexity, because it leads to a cycle of experiment and experience during which the disciple learns much and suffers much. Then as experience is gained, the stage of Spiritual expression supervenes and freedom from danger and emancipation from difficulty and liberation from disease takes place. Simplicity is restored.
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