What is poise behavior?

The Bit of God in You

The Ego cannot be defined―it could be anywhere in space.

It is the Divine Spark―

It is not in your body, but is connected with it by a very fine thread―or tube.

When the drop of Godforce breaks away from God to come to Earth and animate a human body, part of it remains behind―this part is the Ego―the Reservoir of Divinity.

It is severed from the body at death―never from the spirit―for you are always connected with God—disconnection would mean annihilation.

As you desire to draw from the Godforce, the tube connecting you with that strengthens and enlarges and increases your capacity to receive it.

When the drop of Godforce that makes the spirit of Humanitas separates from God and comes to the world, it divides into halves and goes to two separate mothers―thus a boy and girl are always born from each drop.

In fact―

On the earth plane, things are generally constituted with a counterpart―an opposite―they are male and female―positive and negative.

The union of these creates the proper balance and produces something.

The positive is described as the transmitter―

The negative as the receiver―

Certain plants are positive and negative and it is their union by fertilisation, which produces the fruit―it is the mingling of sun and rain, which makes conditions for the growth and health of vegetation.

If you cultivate mental qualities alone, and neglect your body, you become unhealthy―if you live only in the senses―or physical, you become a clod―you must choose the happy medium between the ideal and the practical.

If you are receptive (by putting yourself in the right condition physically, mentally and spiritually), you expand the channel―or tube that connects you with God―you prepare yourself to receive the power, which is projected down that tube to you. 

If you ptepare yourself to receive it, you can get all you will of God, and you expand like a flower.

Your brain will not hold this thought until it has developed enough to support it―just as a baby's feet have to grow strong enough to support its body before it can walk.

The bit of God in you is im—or rather unpersonal―

It is sent to become personal and to so develop and go back to God impersonal, but no longer unpersonal.

It is a bit of life, but has no individuality—it has to grow and develop here.

It takes a long time to develop a fine, true personality―a whole personality—more than one earth life, as a rule.

Some people have a certain amount of personality, but it is all one-sided―to be complete it must be many-sided.

The word is generally used loosely.

A very aggressive―or irritable person is sometimes described as a strong personality―the person is not so really―the person has merely developed an idiosyncrasy. 

Another person will pose―the person is peculiar, and will also be spoken of as a personality!

A real whole personality is one that is perfectly balanced―or as nearly as possible who is physically, mentally and spiritually in the right proportion.

Many people are imperfectly developed—a genius who is not spiritual―or an idealist who is not practical.

They have each a side missing, and they will not realise the best in life until they cultivate that side.

The soul is like a rough diamond―the beauty of which is concealed until it is cut and polished.

The earth is the workshop in which the cutting and polishing will be done.

It is easier to be good and to know what is right than you realise, for the little bit that connects you with God is always tugging at you, and you do not understand you can get all you want if you will only link up to receive it.

If you persist in living only through your senses―or in the physical, you suffer for it eventually, for the physical turns on itself if expressed too much, and disease results.

The little bit of God tries to work on your soul, your soul to affect your mind, your mind to control your body.

This is a rule―

While in the body you cannot reach the God part of yourself except through these intermediate states―

You cannot touch the Divine without working through the mental and spiritual―these states are dependent on each other.

If you do not make your body good, your hands are going to grasp things, not give them.

If you think rightly, but act wrongly, you have broken―or misused a link of the chain that connects you with God.

Unless you think rightly, your hand cannot act rightly―

When the physical and mental work in harmony, it is a good big step forward―

When the mental and physical work well, there is hope for the spiritual because the spiritual is dependent on unison―it cannot enter into inharmonious conditions.

When the mental is absolutely dominant, you get a selfish, calculating, cold-blooded person―

If the physical dominates the mental, you get sensuality.

When you learn to control and harmonise and balance the two, your spirit gets its opportunity and you have a splendid individual—a whole human.

There is another alternative—

Sometimes the spirit tries to control before this ideal state is reached and then there is a struggle―a dual personality.

At times, the person is spiritual―at others, dominated by the physical.

Occasionally, this accounts for what you call a religious humbug―the person probably is quite in earnest at times when the spirit has the upper hand, and then it loses its hold, and the physical predominates, and the person becomes a different being.

The person does not have the correct poise―or balance.