Well Anakin was prophecized as the one to bring balance to the force. He did it through his children Luke who dove in to being a Jedi once his Aunt and Uncle were dead. But in response to the ?. Luke found balance in the force through deealing with his father and knowing that he had to embrace the dark side to bring his father back from the dark side. Now on the other hand Leia refused to use her power because she was terrified of becoming like her father. Do you suppose she knew that she could'nt control her emotions enough to stay the path of the Jedi? Or perhaps she thought that she could'nt control the power that she had?What do you think?

Though Anakin was doing alot of things that he though were right his perspective had been skewed by Palpatine since he was young. Anakin even admits this to Palpatine in AOTC, when Palpatine says "Your patience has paid off" "Your guidance more than anything". That is exactly how Palpatine gets him.

You know come to think of it, when Vader?Anakin killed the Emperor and caused his own death, in a way he did balance the force. After that, the only trained Jedi was pretty balanced between Dark and Light. Luckily he did not give in to the dark impulses he obviously had.

I should read the books though, I'd like to keep exploring.

The Word Jedi is a play on the word Djed of the Djedhi, which refers to an Egyptian Priesthood . . .

From my site : www.spirit-of-yggdrasil.com

The records of our world have hidden the fact that our world civilisation is built upon the foundations of an ancient and extensive Serpent culture that spanned every continent of the old Earth. It was this culture that built the pyramids in Egypt, China and South America. It was this culture that left the Stone Circles and Oak Groves around Europe. All were built on Dragon Lairs, power places where the Earth Fire of the Goddess is strongest.

The names of the ancient Serpent Priest/Priestess all share a common relationship:

In the old British Isles, especially Ireland, the Druids were known as the Adders (Serpents).
In Egypt the Serpent Priests were called the Djedhi, they wore a headdress with a golden ASP (Serpent) over the forehead.
In China they Wise were known as the Lung (Dragons), symbolised by an azure-coloured dragon.
In Peru they were known as the Amarus (Serpents).
The Dragon Kings of the Mayans were called Quetzalcoatls (Plumed Serpents).
In India the Gurus are named Nagas (Serpents).
The Chaldeans of Mesopotamia were called Nargals, akin to the Nagas of India.
South American Shaman are called Naguals. (There are over 8000 miles between Mesopotamia and South America!)
Often these orders of Serpents were assocaited with the hard sound of the letter 'K':- Christ, Kumara, Quetzalcoatl, Quan Yin and Melchizedek.

Everywhere there are stories of the Serpent. All refer to the Primal Dragon of Wisdom who called existence into being and to the Earth Serpent whose creative fire rises in the human body. Both the Earth Fire and the Cosmic Fire of the Primal Dragon is known as the Goddess Kundalini, life force. When the Earth Fire rises to the Crown chakra permanently and the Cosmic Fire has settled in the Root chakra, having enlightened all the other chakras first, one becomes a Serpent of Wisdom, a Dragon Lord/Lady, an Ascended Master. This is the collective destiny of humanity that the Double Rainbow radiates; we are once again becoming a race of Dragons/Quetzalcoatls, masters of the Serpent Fires and Keepers of the Gnosis.

For an in-depth appreciation of our ancient world wide Serpent Culture read ‘The Return of The Serpents of Wisdom’ by Mark Amaru Pinkham

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Perhaps the word balance here can be read to mean a forwarding of 'the cycle' that has been arrested in the current universe-situation at the time of the beginning of Episode I.

It struck me as ironic and more than a little telling that the Jedi choose to make their headquarters on such a twisted, incestuous, labyrinthian tangle of technological entropy. And this is the heart of the Republic! A place where all food/ resources have to be imported from other worlds, trash is shot into the sun via giant, freighter-sized cannon-slugs, and all but the upper-most (surface) levels of the planet are breeding-pools of crime and misanthropy.

And the Jedi sit, quite literally, in an ivory tower above it all, wondering why their powers of prognostication are starting to fail them.

At such a point, the karmic debt of such a socio-political environment might be-exactly-tyranny. The Republic is corrupt, and most of all ineffectual. Despite the fact that Sidious inspired the Clone Army attack, it remains true that the Republic were capable of being locked up in debate about whether or not it was okay that the Federation landed a Droid Army on somebody else's world! I am strongly reminded of Europe's attitude of appeasement towards Germany just prior to World War II.

So yeah. I think Anakin's presence, and what he represents (an end of the universe-order that enables the situations I've described) is a kind of balance, in that Tyranny will be welcomed for its efficiency in a system which harms people with its lassaiz-faire (I have no idea how to spell that) policies.

Anakin had to be realized before the New Republic could be forged. The evils of a lax attitude toward justice had to be countered with the evils of the opposite mistake (the 'iron fist of justice'), before a true balance with the forces of the light could even be approached.

Thats what came to mind, anyway. :)