If a woman hits a man is the man allowed to hit back?

[David_1]

   Notice that Ra says “the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane.” So, I think Ra is saying it’s OK to think whatever you wish.  But in the case where an action would violate someone else’s free will, it is not OK to carry out the action.
   It seems to me Ra is suggesting that self-control is a quality worthy of trying to develop.  Perhaps the “balance” comes in noticing I can have all kinds of thoughts, but I will “balance” my actions by selecting what leads to service-to-others.  Is that why Ra closes the quote “with compassion for self and for other-self?”