Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife

Now, allow me to use a comparison. You have two opposite states. Imagine a scale with the right and left beams held in the hypomochlion: you have equilibrium when the weight on one side is equal to the weight on the other. Whenever you increase the weight on one side of the scale, you must also increase it on the other side so that the beam remains horizontal. But there is one point that is not affected by this: the point where the beam is suspended. You can move the scale around anywhere as long as you hold it at the point where the beam is supported. You can see everywhere how the left side depends on the right and vice versa, but this suspension point doesn't care about that at all. Everything is in balance, and whatever happens on the two scales is completely independent of what is happening at that one point on the scale. If you are skilled enough, you can make a movement like this, or you can make a movement like this with the suspension point: this has nothing to do with what is happening on the scale, on the right and left sides of the balance beam. It is the same with human beings, only there is no suspension point, but a state of equilibrium between what they are as nervous beings and what they become on earth. These two things are related to each other in a way that can be investigated. In a person who has strong thoughts on the one hand, these are expressed in a strong decision of the will. If a person has strong muscles, they also have different thoughts about their will. But between these two there is a state of equilibrium. This state of equilibrium does not lie in the head as the representative of the nervous human being, nor in the limbs as the representative of the blood human being. It lies between them, it is something like a hypomochlion, which is the state of equilibrium between the two.