{Integration and Balance}[8th September 1988]

[Redbook5:348-349][19880908:1414]{Integration and Balance}[8th September 1988]

19880908.1414

I need to distinguish integration and balance in Individuals.

Integration is the fusing of different qualities or attributes, so that they work in harmony, instead of in a fragmented or distracted way. Balance is the balancing of different qualities or attributes. However, in Circle terms, Balance is itself characteristic {of} one {semicircle}* of the Circle more than the other: from our point of view, the Circle is itself unbalanced. This suggests that while Integration is ultimately Absolute, Balance can only ever be relative – at least in the Individual who is to some extent (as we all are) dis-integrated.

Imbalance is built into the variation of Human Individuals (this is not to be confused with being ‘unbalanced’, a popular term for the mildly insane). Human perfection (in theory) consists of the Integration of {the} Imbalanced Individual.** Divine perfection is the Integration of the Balanced Individual – a condition not achievable within the Circles of the World.***

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*[Substituted for ‘hemisphere’ in ms.]

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***[A phrase probably consciously borrowed from JRR Tolkien as being apposite to this somewhat different context: “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. Farewell!” (From the tale of Aragorn and Arwen in Appendix A, "Annals of the Kings and Rulers" to The Return of the King, the third volume of The Lord of the Rings)]

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