[R-G] Structure

[Barry Carter]

Dear Gary,

Your point is also supported by the original source of my ideas about 
structure:

"Structure is an organizational factor in the universe, although a 
secondary and derivative one. It is love which first brings order out 
of chaos, but structure implements the durable patterns of orderly 
arrangement. Love built your home; structure holds the walls in 
place. Love built your nation, structure administers it. Love 
determines the parameters of right conduct, structure formulates the 
laws which enforce it. Like the mind, structure is good if it serves, 
and tyrannical if it dominates inflexibly, never submitting to the 
revisions of love.

"Structure represents the predictable, agreed upon patterns of 
existence which start with simple forms and build to complex ones. It 
is the patterning which causes the differences of potential, and 
holds organizational formulas in place. For example, structure is 
what makes the difference between steam, water, and ice even though 
the ingredients are the same. But structure is not the 'will' which 
determines whether H20 will become steam or ice. That is determined 
by harmonic adaptations to the environment (love).

"All structure is derivative summarization, and is subject to 
revision, suspension, or development. You might say that structure is 
the conservational imprint which allows desirable creations to be 
stabilized, retained, and combined into larger aggregates of form and 
matter. Structure is what holds things in place.

"Laid upon this gridwork are many mind-generated patterns and 
structural models used by man for control. There are no 'sacred 
designs' which preceded reality. This idea has been invented to make 
you afraid to revise or to dispense with unworkable structures, and 
to give structures dominance over you."

This definitely comes from a "new age" source: "Love Without End - 
Jesus Speaks" by Glenda Green.

At 05:44 PM 9/9/2010, you wrote:
>This reads like some of the new age stuff I used to be involved 
>with. It may be
>true that structure taken to an extreme is counter productive but 
>structure can
>be a form of efficiency. When you know something works and something else
>doesn't it behooves one to repeat what works rather than keep trying 
>things that
>don't. The problem comes when people get so hung up on repeating the pattern
>they are familiar with that they don't recognize until they get hit over the
>head with reaction, that their pattern or structure is no longer useful.
>
>    I think structure is essential but balance is even more important.

--

With kindest regards,

Barry Carter
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you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good 
or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you 
keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what 
you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more 
such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the 
good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you."
--Emmet Fox from Make Your Life Worthwhile, 1942