The Sun, Salvation, and the Balance of All Things
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The Sun, Salvation, and The Balance of All Things
"Salvation is a gift, unearned, from the grace of God. Enlightenment is a gift, unearned, from the grace of the Cosmos. Both require a demonstration of commitment and also of honest faith in something beyond oneself.
I have an interesting case for balance including what I just heard on the radio about how plants grow towards the light and if the sun isn't out for long enough plants won't grow but also if you get too much it won't grow because it will die.
The thinking was that the Sun is like God and Jesus and gives us light/vision and life and something else but I think it gives us three more things as well.
I would say that the sun also gives us Heat therefore being the antidote to Dante's archetypical frozen hell and also two more things; it kills disease and shuns things that hate being exposed, enlightened, and love darkness.
In this world, we must give something, some place, some idea, to God the creator, or destroy it and leave it, along with those who cling to it, for the Satan to devour. It is so with all that is. All things are the some things, all places, the some places, and all ideas the same. All is to be made righteous or defeated and expelled.
It is a balance. I see this need for balance and the way to balance, for it is God's gift to me, a talent I acknowledge and praise God for. To be used in service to him and to his children, to guide them.
To have a heart overflowing with love of goodness and Virtue in balance with a heart consumed with a hatred for wickedness. It is this way with all things. Cosmic peace is a harmony of opposites; a tranquil state of discontent; a rage filled hope, a patient thing filled with immediacy."
The Gifts of Grace: Salvation and Enlightenment
Salvation and enlightenment, though seemingly different in spiritual lineage, share an undeniable core: both are gifts, unmerited and freely offered. Salvation, from the grace of God, demands not repayment but faithful commitment—an open, vulnerable turning of the heart toward something infinitely higher than self.
Enlightenment, the bright flash of understanding or transcendence granted by the Cosmos, is no different. It is not seized by cleverness or toil but bestowed upon those who, through a lifetime or a single moment of sincerity, show readiness.
Neither gift tolerates arrogance. Neither gift can be earned by merit alone. Both demand the same initial sacrifice: the surrender of the willful self to the reality of something greater.
The Sun as Icon of the Divine
The natural world, the oldest cathedral, testifies without words. In it, I found a metaphor: the behavior of plants chasing the light. Plants will die if deprived of the sun—but paradoxically, they will also die if exposed to its intensity too long without relief. The lesson is clear: even the good, taken without balance, destroys.
The Sun—eternal symbol of divine illumination—gives us more than vision. It grants us three additional gifts, often overlooked:
Heat: the warmth of life, the energy that rescues the soul from Dante’s frozen hell, where disconnection and coldness are the truest forms of death.
Cleansing: the Sun burns away disease, just as truth, once shone upon corruption, withers it at its root.
Revelation: it forces hidden things into the open, denying sanctuary to evils that prefer the darkness.
Thus the Sun is both gift and judge. It nourishes—but it also demands. It warms—but it also reveals what must not be allowed to remain hidden.
The Law of Consecration or Exile
In the realm of human soul-work, the same principle holds:
"In this world, we must give something, some place, some idea, to God the creator, or destroy it and leave it, along with those who cling to it, for the Satan to devour."
There is no neutral ground.
There is no gray twilight in the end, only the gradual revealing of allegiances.
Every thought, every habit, every relationship must be subjected to judgment:
Is it righteous, able to be dedicated to the Light?
Or must it be cast out, allowed to perish beyond the borders of the sacred?
All things are the some things.
All places are the some places.
All ideas are the same.
There is no minor corner exempt from cosmic reckoning. If we do not actively sanctify, we passively allow decay. There is no third way.
Balance: The Highest Stewardship
Balance is a gift, not an achievement. It is given to those who have been broken enough to understand and strong enough to stand anyway.
To balance:
A heart overflowing with love for the good, the true, and the virtuous.
A heart consumed with hatred for corruption, deceit, and wickedness.
Many modern minds recoil at this dichotomy. They are wrong. The hatred of evil is not sin when rightly placed. It is a virtue.
Scripture does not call us to passivity toward evil, but to war against it—with wisdom, discernment, and fire.
A one-sided heart will either:
Love without discrimination, accepting poison along with nourishment,
Or hate without purpose, destroying all including the good.
But a balanced heart fights for something as fiercely as it fights against what would destroy it.
This is the true warrior's way: the way of Christ, the way of the sun, the way of the fully awakened man.
Cosmic Peace: A Symphony of Opposites
True peace is not sterile. It is not a lukewarm bath of sentimentalism.
It is:
A tranquil state of discontent—satisfied in soul, restless in mission.
A rage-filled hope—burning with the agony of injustice yet shining with invincible joy.
A patient thing filled with immediacy—waiting with endurance, acting without hesitation when the hour strikes.
Cosmic peace is forged by tension.
By living within these dynamic opposites without breaking or hardening, we become the living instruments of divine will.
The Call to the Sons of Light
Thus, the way forward is neither retreat into passive sentimentality nor descent into vengeful brutality.
It is the way of the Sun, the way of the Cross, the way of true balance:
Receive the gifts of Light humbly.
Offer up all that you are.
Sanctify what can be redeemed.
Cast out what must not survive.
Love goodness with abandon.
Hate wickedness with holy fire.
Remain at peace in the middle of chaos.
To grow toward the Light is to embrace both warmth and burning, gentleness and sword, faith and fury.
Those who would stand at the end of days must begin standing today.
Every thought, every place, every idea. Consecrate—or cast out.
This is the Way.
This is the Balance.
This is the sacred duty of the sons of Light.