POLARITY

POLARITY THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT Around the Year with Emmet Fox August 5 “Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:12 We should respect our parents just because they are our parents, but that teaching is just the very outer layer of this commandment. Underneath, it is instruction in divine metaphysics because your real father and mother is God. When this commandment says, "Honor thy father and thy mother," it brings in the two poles, the male and the female, and, of course, polarity is the motive power of the universe. In the Bible, mother means the feeling nature, and the father is the knowledge nature. Most people have one side or the other more developed. When our prayers fail and we do not demonstrate, we fail because we are not honoring our father and our mother.