What is the function of the steward in work on ourselves?

Both science and objective wisdom indicate that to restore balance to our shaken “being,” practical work on ourselves is necessary.

Science informs us that our thymus gland is the first thing affected by our emotions. It is responsible for our immune system and the metabolism of  incoming impressions. Further, it is responsible for balancing the male and female principle within us, for the heart rate, for metabolic development, and indirectly, for our psycho-biological health and mental balance.

However, the study of objective wisdom and the Fourth Way indicates ways to regulate our lower centers and correct imbalances. 

Our emotional center energy flows out in a rotating manner at the height of physical heart. Our fifth energy center, the sexual one, does the same at the height of our thyroid gland. Between these two natural organs, the heart and thyroid gland, resides the thymus gland in all its importance. Its name comes from the Greek word “Θυμός” which means anger, soul, will to live and be.

The high speed of our sex center and higher emotional center deliver objective information without hesitation or indecision. Because of this speed, they deliver objective meaning, like the oracles of Pythia, the ancient Greek priestess of Apollo. The male and female principle are two energies in unity which radiate natural pleasure, purity or indifference. Yet we have four other lower centers, too. In their momentum to manifest and prevail, they steal unsuitable energy from each other and, alas, from the sex center, as well. Confusion!

The Function of the Steward as an Awakening Force

So we need the energy of an awakened force capable of coordinating the six natural processes in and outside our body. This force can mature, irregardless of our type, center of gravity and essence. It takes the form of a steward manifesting from the purified intellectual part of our emotional center. 

Fortunately, once the steward awakens, unnecessary energy leaks stop. Our transmutation has begun. Many changes follow in our physical and metaphysical being. The function of the steward helps eliminate the contradictions between our essence and our personalities, for example. Our clubs, swords, diamonds and hearts within us, symbols that represent the instinctive, the moving, and the lower intellectual and emotional centers respectively, can now function normally. As a result, it allows us to taste the abundance of higher consciousness. 

The Disappearing Steward as our Work Matures

The metaphysical force of the steward represents the soul of our perishable body. It functions as the physical thymus gland does. Both energies shrink in maturity, as when a crystalline drop of higher consciousness drips to our lower level of conscience and transform it into a stalagmite of a nobler “Being.”