If we do not model what we teach, we are teaching something else. Reading helps us grow, head and heart. It gets people ready for school and helps them to do better once they get there. We know that libraries, without education, we cannot have an educated people who will carry on successfully our form of government. Likewise, without a soul that comes from a loving place, people think they are worthless. A caring soul can provide astonishing revelation. A good soul can give a person a chance to feel. If someone believes you think they are worth something, they may start to believe it, too. Good souls put snags in the river of humans passing by, and over the years, they redirect hundreds of lives to God. Those who are frightened away from the Quest by these notes of its dangers are better separated from it. The aspirant who lacks balance is liable to take a misstep at more than one point of one’s path. If an unbalanced dreamer is not brought to actuality and reality by experience, one had better leave the quest alone. This is not to say that one cannot get mystical experiences in plenty, but that they will have little true worth for insight. The uncertainties of the Quest may lead, especially in the neurotic temperament, to a variety of unhappy moods and unhealthy emotions as the years pass by. The student may at such times turn against oneself in morbid masochism, or against the teaching one has been following, or against the personal instructor if one has one. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

The novice too often lives under the delusion that one is following the Quest when one has yet to find the entrance to it. The importance of right direction is such that if the angel of deflection covers a long period, then area of error stretches a wide distance. A self-protective need of the quester is to find and keep both an apparent and a real sanity. The first is needed in defense against the Word, the second against oneself. Sometimes when people apply theory improperly or are over-practised, one of the harmful results will be a gradual slackening of interest in the common activities of humankind. The unfortunate being develops a blurred and vague character. One becomes increasingly unfit to fulfill social obligations or business duties, and tends to become bred with responsibilities. One treats the fate of others with indifference. One does what is inescapable, but one does it in a casual, detached, and uninterested manner. In short, one becomes unfit for everyday practical life. Keep away from psychic practices and occult explorations. They are filled with dangers and pitfalls. First devote your energies to the foundational work of learning philosophy, improving character, disciplining emotion, and cultivating calmness. Only after this work has been well advanced will it ever be safe for you to consider other taboos endeavors. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

A discrepancy may exist between an individual’s virtual and actual identity. This discrepancy, when known about or apparent, spoils one’s social identity; it has the effect of cutting one off from society and from oneself so that one stands a discredited person facing an unaccepting World. In some case, one may continue through life to find that one is the only one of one’s kind and that the World is against one. In most cases, however, one will find that there are sympathetic others who are ready to adopt one’s standpoint in the World and to share with one the feelings that one is human and essentially normal in spite of appearances and in spite of one’s own self-doubt. The first set of sympathetic others is of course those who share one’s stigma. Knowing from their own experience what it is like to have this particular stigma, some of them can provide the individual with instructions in the tricks of the trade and with a circle of lament to which one can withdraw for moral support and for the comfort of feeling at home, at ease, accepted as a person who really is like any other normal person. The existence of a different value system among these persons is evinced by the communality behavior which occurs when people who are not part of the majority group interact amongst themselves. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

Not only when people are with their peer group do they change from unexpressive and confused individuals, as they frequently may appear in larger society, to expressive and understanding persons within their own group, but moreover they express themselves in institutional terms. Among themselves they have a Universe of response. They form and recognize symbols of prestige and disgrace; evaluate relevant situations in terms of their own norms and in their own idiom: and in their interrelations with one another, the mask of accommodative adjustment drops. Among one’s own, an individual can use one’s perceived disadvantage as a basis for organizing life, but one must resign oneself to a half-World to do so. Here on may develop to its fullest one’s endearing tale accounting for one’s possession of this supposed stigma. Once again must a warning be given against the dangers of falling into mere psychism and seeking for phenomena, vision, miracles and other things which are still in the realm of a kind of subtle materialism and are always connected with the personal ego. One may find that the tales of one’s fellow suffers bore one, and that the whole matter of focusing on atrocity tales, on group superiority, on trickster stories, in short, on the problem, is one of the large penalties for having one. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

Behind this focus on the problem is, of course, a perspective not so much different from that of the normal as it is specializes in one sector: We all seem to be inclined to identity people with characteristics which are of importance to us, or which we think must be of general importance. If you asked a person who the late Franklin D. Roosevelt was, one would probably answer that Mr. Roosevelt was the 32^nd president of the Untied States of America, not that he was a man suffering from polio, and when he asked for an invitation to the Winchester mansion, he was refused. Although many persons, of course, would have mentioned his polio as supplementary information, considering it an interesting fact that a man with a physical disability managed to fight his way to the White House. When they hear his named mentioned, people who are disabled, however, would probably think of Mr. Roosevelt’s polio. The true spiritual experience is higher than that, purer than that, and will leave one absolutely calm, whereas the physical phenomena leaves one excited. Every kind of such phenomena involves thought or emotion, whereas the deepest spiritual experience goes beneath thought and emotion and especially beneath the personal ego. Only then does one come in contact with the Infinite life power which is behind everything and which is the true goal of this Quest. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

Those who imagine the Quest to be a spiritual joyride know only a limited phase of it. For along with the joys there are glooms, difficulties, struggles, conflicts, and vacillations. That a proportion of those who are attracted to these subjects are psychopaths, is unfortunately true. They would be far better employed in getting proper treatment for their disordered minds, imaginations, and feelings. Certain studies may easily exaggerate their condition and increase their imbalance. It is the serious duty of every responsible expounder to warn them off this field and to bid them engage in the quest of psychic and bodily healthy before attempting to pursue things they may not understand. We have seen that the driving force behind evil in human affairs stems from human’s paradoxical nature: in the flesh and doomed with it, out of the flesh in the World of symbols and trying to continue on a Heavenly flight. The thing that makes the human the most devastating being that ever stuck one’s neck up into the sky is that one wants a stature and a destiny that is impossible for other beings; one wants an Earth that is not an Earth but a Heaven, and the price for this kind of fantastic ambition is to make the Earth an even more eager graveyard than it naturally is. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

Our great wistfulness about the World of primitive beings is that they managed willy-nilly to blunt the terrible potential destructiveness of the drama of heroism and expiation. One did not have the size, the technological means, or the World view for running amok heroically. Heroism was small scale and more easily controlled: each person, as a contributor to the generative ritual, could be a true cosmic hero who added to the powers of creation. Allied to this cosmic heroism was a kind of warfare that always made military people chuckle. Among the Plains Indians it was a kind of athletic contest in which one scored points by touching the enemy; often it was a kind of disorganized, childish, almost hysterical game in which one went into rapture if one brought back a trophy or a single enemy for torture. Anyone was liable to be snatched out of one’s hut at daybreak, and on mountainous islands like those of Polynesia groups lived in continual fear of those just over the ridge or across the lagoon; no one was every safe from capture and sacrificial slaughter. This is hardly the ideal of altruism, and there are very few today who have a romantic image of primitive human’s peaceful nature; one look at the blunt stone sacrificial slave-killing knives of the Northwest Coast Indians is enough to set the record straight. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

Since we do not experience the terror of the occasional victims of primitive raids, we can look back nostalgically at the small numbers consumed at random, and compare them with those who died in one on 11 September 2001 in New York, Dresden, or one flash at Hiroshima. Wistfully one can observe the comparatively low toll of life that primitive warfare took. Today, the picture looks something like this: that once humankind got the means for large-scale manipulation of the World, the lust for power began to take devastating tolls. This can be seen strikingly at the rise of the great civilizations based on divine kingship. These new states were structures of domination which absorbed the tribal life around them and built up empires. Masses of beings were forged into obedient tools for really large-scale power operations directed by a powerful, exploitative class. It was at this time that people who were used as slaves were firmly compartmentalized into various special skills which the plied monotonously; they become automaton objects of the tyrannical rulers. We still see this degradation of tribal peoples today, when they hire themselves out for money to work monotonously in the mines. Primitive beings could be transformed, in one small step, from a rich creator of meaning in a society of equals to a mechanical thing. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

Something was accomplished by this new organization of labor that primitive beings never dreamed of, a tremendous increase in the size of human operations: huge walled cities, colossal monuments, pyramids, irrigation projects, unprecedented wars of booty and plunder. It was a megamachine. The amalgam of kingship with sacred power, human sacrifice, and military organization unleashed a nightmare megamachine on the World—a nightmare that began at Sumer and that still haunts us today, with our recent history of megamachines in Warsaw, Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, Germany, and Vietnam. This is the colossus of power gone mad, a colossus based on the dehumanization of beings that began, not with the Newtonian materialism, Enlightenment rationalism, or nineteenth-century commercialism, but with the first massive exploitation of beings in the great divine kingship of the ancient World. It was then that beings were thrown out of the mutualities of tribalism into the cauldron of historic alienation. We are still stewing there today because we have not seen that the worship of the demonic megamachine has been our fate, and we have willingly perpetuated it and even aggravated it until it threatens to destroy the very World. This perspective on history attack social evil at its most obvious point. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

From the very beginning the ravages of large-scale warfare were partly a function of the new structure of domination called the state; the state was an instrument of dictatorship that had come into being artificially through the conquest, and with it began humankind’s real woes. The new class society of conquerors and slaves right away had its own internal frictions; what better way to siphon them off than by directing the energies of the masses outward toward an alien enemy? The state had its own built-in wisdom: it solved its ponderous internal problems of social justice by making justice a matter of triumph over an external enemy. This was the start of the large-scale scapegoating that has consumed such mountains of lives down through history and continues to do so today, right up to Vietnam and Bangladesh: what better way forge a nation into unity, to take everyone’s eyes off the frightening state of domestic affairs, than by focusing on a heroic foreign cause? Here is the psychology of this new scapegoating of the state: Hence the sense of joyful release that so often has accompanied the outbreak of war…popular hatred for the ruling classes was cleverly diverted into a happy occasion to mutilate or terminate foreign enemies. In short, the oppressor and the oppressed, instead of fighting it out within the [ancient] city, directed their aggression toward a common goal—and attack on the rival city. Thus, the greater the tensions and the harsher the daily repressions of civilization, the more useful war became as a safety valve. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

The new structure of the conquest state forced an increased butchery of war. The invention of the military machine made way necessary, and even desirable. With the advent of the megamachines, power simply got out of hand—or rather, got pressed into service of a few hands—and instead of isolated and random sacrifices on behalf of a fearful tribe, ever larger numbers of people were deliberately and methodically drawn into a dreadful ceremony on behalf of the few. So that the ability to wage war and to impose collective human sacrifice had remained the identifying mark of all sovereign power throughout history. Little does it matter that modern public relations and the appearance of bureaucratic neutrality and efficiency disguise better than ever both the sacrifice and the blatant central power of the state; the chief of the U.S. Selective Service (the public relations euphemism) may sit around and logically explain one’s function and the fairness of the selective process to young high school students, but the bare fact is that they are obliged by the state’s power to offer their lives for its own diversionary ceremony, just as were the ancient Egyptians who were enslaved. If there is anything new in all this, it is that the young are beginning to understand what is really happening. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

Why has humankind remained locked into such a demonism of power all through history? It is not simply because enslaved beings have not had the power to throw off their chains; or, simply because being have forgotten how it was in the beginning before the state stepped on their necks. The demonism remains because it was fed by its own irrationality. It is based on a continuation of the anxiety of primitive beings in the face of one’s overwhelming World; the megamachine tries to generate enough power to overcome basic human helplessness. However, now we see the costs of the lie: the users of the megamachine are led into a megalomaniac and paranoid distortion of reality. Once you start an arms race, you are consumed by it. This is the tragic fatality of power, that it leads to a fundamental distortion of the reality of human’s relationship to nature—and so can undermine one’s own well-being. To protect oneself with one’s megamachines, beings are willing to sacrifice almost everything. This is why the megamachine represents the major historical challenge facing western and others around the globe; to see through it and get control of it is the focal problem of human survival in our time. The wise being will not be an adherent of martyristic ideology. One will make no pretense and set up no pose of exaggerated altruism. One will do what needs to be done for one’s own self. #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

However, at the same time one will also do what needs to be done for others. It is not altruistic folly but altruistic wisdom that one seeks to practise. Hence, one prefers to be a live servant of the good in humankind than a dead martyr to the evil in humankind. One will not swing from the extreme of utter selfishness to the extreme of unbalanced selfishness. One will not ignore one’s own needs or fail to work for one’s own betterment event while one is attending to the needs of others and working for their betterment. One can well serve individual ends alongside one’s service of social ones. One does not dwell in one’s own heart on one’s spiritual usefulness to other people. If ever one were to do so that would only be the ego wallowing in its vanity. And it is precisely because one’s ego has been cast down that one has such usefulness. If others do not care for one’s own road but set their feet on other roads to the soul’s finding, one will feel no disappointment and express no criticism. Rather will one rejoice that they have entered on the quest, even though it be in a different way from one’s. One is too large in mind and heart to wish that it were otherwise. One does not need to ask others for help of any kind for they usually offer it spontaneously and unasked. There is some quality in one which arouses in them the strong desire to serve one. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

One will not seek any public acknowledgement for one’s services. If it does come, one will not be unduly elated; if it does not come, one will not be particularly discontented. When such a being hears from time to time of the far-reaching results of his or her work, the individual feels afresh the need of a great humility. For if it has achieved anything at all, it has not been achieved by any other power than that of Grace—which moves so mysteriously and so silently and so effectively. One’s is a disciplined freedom, without hardness of the rigid moralist or the license of the flabby hedonist. Whatever sin is committed against one, or wrong done to one, one’s forgiveness is available to the sinner immediately and completely. This is not an attitude one has to being oneself to create but ne which is natural and easy. The master is free, totally free, from the greeds and lusts of ordinary beings. In this one is a forerunner of the beings who are to appear later. One need to assume no oracular air, no conceited manner. The simple expression of what one is suffices to impress others of its own accord. In one, perception and volition are fused and not, as in ordinary beings, separated and discordant. That which one sees ought to be done, is accepted and executed by the will. Such a being will spontaneously love the Ideal, practise virtue, and promote the spread of Truth. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

Nothing can replace that special relationship that gifted beings develop with others. Popular culture has long celebrated other heroes—the athlete, the adventurer, the statesman—spiritual healers have not been celebrated in the same way. And the soul has rarely been identified as the place where the greatest of human dramas unfold—the drama of igniting the human spirit, ennobling the human heart, and enriching the human experience. The glowing warmth of an enlightened individual’s goodwill is natural, sincere. The practise of goodness is as natural with such a being as the act of breathing. A heart filled with peace and love will be felt through a radiant countenance and poised bearing. One will always show forth a curtesy that comes from the dictates of formality. If the adepts appear to stand aloof, it is not because they feel proudly superior but because they feel humbly incapable of bettering the work being done on humanity by Nature (God) in her long-range evolutionary plan. If they had held illusions of personal grandeur, they could never have become what they are. One makes no pretense of omniscience. He simple and modest outward bearing of an illuminate frequently belies the infinite subtlety of one’s intelligence. Through the presence of his kingdom, Jesus answers the deepest needs of personality for righteousness, provision, and purpose. If we set him aside, we still face the unavoidable questions: What makes our lives go as they do? #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

What could make our lives go as they ought? Inability to find adequate answers leaves us rudderless in the flood of events around us and at the mercy of whatever ideas and forces come to bear upon us. And that, basically, is the human situation. You can see it day by day all around you. However, thoughtful people through the ages have tried to answer these questions, and they have with one accord found, as already stated, that what matters most for how life goes and out to go is what we are on the inside. Things good and bad will happen to us, of course. But what our life amounts to, at least for these who reach full age, is largely, if not entirely, a matter of what we become within. Within is the arena of spiritual formation and, later, transformation. When people pay no heed to the warnings of prophets and the counsel of elders, and are still too ungrown to pick one’s steps correctly, one inevitable loses one’s ways. He awakening of inner forces ought not be attempted without an accompanying attempt to fortify character and guard against weakness. In the case of mentally disturbed or emotionally unbalanced persons, trust in their own ego may easily be misread as trust in God—with correspondingly lamentable results. The danger is that one may get lost in the mazes of one’s own mind. Those who suffer from such psychic maladjustments cannot find trust but only its distortions. They have fallen into a mental quagmire. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

Let one not deceive oneself. Few have ever really entered that exquisite awareness and remained there. Others seem to have done so but the fact is that they merely touched its outer most fringe for a few moments and then passed into an egoistic conceited state which has trapped them. Certain psychic experiences may arise, the pattern of which is familiar, having been observed in both the writer’s own experience and numerous other cases. Between the ordinary state of undeveloped humanity and the truly spiritual state attained by highly advanced individuals, there is a psychic region conducive to mediumship and other pitfalls and dangers which have to be crossed. One is indeed fortunate to come through this safely within our thoughts, feelings, intentions—and their deeper sources, whatever those may be. The life we live out in our moments, hours, days, and years wells up from a hidden depth. The illuminate being is at peace within oneself, able to stand emotionally aside from one’s affairs but unable to surrender to transient defeats. One knows when one is defeated; one never knows such a thing as failure. One’s life is a consecrated one. It has an impressive value. There is a timeless flavour about it. That is why one can work quietly not only for the immediate moment but even for results which one knows one will not live to witness. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

What is in our heart matters more than anything else for who we become and what becomes of us. “You are here in my arms,” the old song says, “but where is your heart?” That is what really matters, not just for individual relationships, but also for life as a whole. The flamelike material of the spirits accounts in part for motion that is imperceptible to us. The spirit literally swelled and pushed out the particles of natural things into the shapes and figures we see, to form a particular person, a tree, a flower, a stone. Incline, O Lord Thy merciful ears to our voice, and illuminate the darkness of our hearts by the light of Thy visitations; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, World without end. Make us, O Lord, to abhor our own evils with our whole heart; that at the Coming of Thy Son our Lord, we may be enabled to receive His good things, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Mercifully hear, O Lord, the prayers of Thy people; that as they rejoice in the Advent of Thine only-begotten Son according to the flesh, so when He cometh a second time in His Majesty, they may receive the reward of eternal life; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. “Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? Know ye not that he hath all power, and at his great command the Earth shall be rolled together like a scroll? Therefore, repent ye, and humble yourselves before him, lest he shall come out in justice against you,” reports Mormon 5.23-23. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

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