“There is no evil strength. What is bad is the lowest degree of strength. And the lowest degree of strength is power. [..] The confusion between strenngth and power is ruinous because power always separates the people who are subject to it from what they can. ”
Gilles Deleuze
Power and might are two sides of the same coin, which would be called strength and influence. But these two faces are of opposite polarities:
– power is the exploitation of others for one’s own profit. This locks up the relationship, diminishes freedom and free will, blocks any possibility of evolution.
– might is being of service to help others. This opens to freedom, to the unity of existence, increases free will and generates harmony and abundance.
Power is the logic of magnetism and control to serve the personality and mark the separations between the predators in power and the dominated prey. Might is the path of radiance and gift of the heart. Being of service means co-creating with life and celebrating unity between beings.
Power leads to tyranny, crystallization and the building of the Tower of Babel. The greater the power, the greater will be its fragility. From its greatest strength comes its greatest weakness. Might leads to harmonious and enlightened governance, not based on control but on freedom and evolution.
Power is the easy path of ego and the thirst for conquest, but it will always end collapsed like the Tower of Babel. The work of conscience is therefore to move from power to might, from the desire for control and exploitation to its renunciation. From its renunciation can be born a form of force more aligned with the higher divine principles. But we are all a mixture of power and might, an ever-shifting palette that can swing from one side to the other. Renouncing our own will to power is opening ourselves to the divine force that can flow through us. But it is an impersonal path.