It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is part of nature. Progressive people cannot help having detractors, for people can see only what one permits them to see. And if that small part is misread by them, one has to remain silent. One will not force an affinity where it does not exist. They may have visited one and talked with one, not once but several times; they may think they know one well, yet in reality they have not met one and do not know one at all! Only the real pilgrims, who some with the correct mental attitude, have done so, and only they have been blessed by one’s grace and prized their good fortune at its correct value. One must be prepared to find that others, because of their limitations—not necessarily or at all because they are evil—may seriously misunderstand one, misread one’s actions, and misinterpret one’s words. If one were not ardently happy to share it with others, if one were not ever ready to help them attain it too, whoever has attained this blessed state would not be true to oneself. And this desire extends universally to all without exception. One excludes none—how could one if the compassion which one feels be the real thing that comes with the realized unity of God, and merely a temporary emotional masquerader! #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

One could have written those noble words which Saint Paul wrote more than one in his epistles: “In Him there cannot be Jew or Greek, Barbarian, Scythian, but all are one man in Christ Jesus.” Despite this, one soon finds that iron fetters have been placed on one’s feet. One finds, first, that only the few who are themselves seekers are at all interested; second, that even among this small number there are those who, because of personal dislikes, racial prejudice, social snobbery, or family antagonism, are unwilling to approach one; and third, that the mischievous agencies from occult spheres, through false reports and stimulated malice, delude a part of those who remain into creating an evil mental picture of one which is utterly unlike the actuality. For when such a being really begins to become an effective worker in this sacred cause, the evil forces begin their endeavours to pull one down and thus stop one. They may inspire human instruments with fierce jealousy or personal hatred of one, or they may try other ways. It is their task to destroy the little good that one has done or to prevent whatever good one may yet do. It is an unfortunate but historic fact that many an aspirant is carried away by the false suggestions emanating from such poisoned sources. The true Prophet does not wear a single rag of the cloak pretense. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

Therefore, one makes an easy mark for the poisoned arrows of one’s traducers. For the World does not willingly believe that a being can exist who tries to live one’s life literally on the principles of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. It prefers to believe that one has some hidden motive, that one lives a life of secret evil. Those who do not know what the inward life means and consequently do not understand such a being—walking mantled in unique serenity as one does—often mistakenly regard one, if they themselves are of a markedly emotional temperament, as being cold and aloof, and reserved. Another common mistake is to believe a self-actualized person to be less divine because one is more human then preconceived notions had imagined one to be. The self-actualized are not creatures of sentimentalism. They do not love their neighbour in a gushy emotional way. How could they, when one expresses only one’s lower human nature or one’s beastly animal self? Not only do they not love humanity individually, they do not even love it in the mass. Those who have malignantly attacked the person or injured the work of such a being through whom the divine forces are working for the enlightenment of humankind, create for themselves a terrible karma which accumulates and strikes them down in time. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

One will endeavour to protect one’s work by appropriate means, one being temporarily to withdraw one’s love from them for the rest of one’s incarnation until their dying moments. Then one will extend it again with full force and appear to them as in a vision, full of forgiveness, blessing, and comfort. Can those born blind be made to understand the difference between colours? The difficulty is insuperable. Realizing this, every person’s words, who speak from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. There is a warmth, an intimacy in the Personal God, the Personal Master, which does not seem to exist in the impersonal ones. Nevertheless it would be highly erroneous to believe that they are cold and unresponsive, lifeless and stonelike. There is feeling but it is pure, refined, delicate, and flowerlike. If conditions a, b, c exist or are established in a group, then there is a high probability that these conditions will be followed by behaviours x, y, and z. We know how to provide conditions in a work group, whether in industry or in education, which will be followed by increased productivity, originality, and morale. Studies show in general that when workers in industry participate in planning and in decisions, when supervisors or authoritarian, production and morale increase. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

Conversely we know how to provide the conditions which lead to low productivity and low morale, since the reverse conditions produce a reverse effect. We know how to establish, in any group, the conditions of leadership which will be followed by personality development in the members of the group, as well as by increased productivity and originality, and improved group spirit. In groups as diverse as a brief university workshop and an industrial plant making castings, we have seen that where the leader or leaders hold attitudes customarily thought of as therapeutic, the results are good. In other words if the leader is acceptant, both of the feelings of group members and of one’s own feelings; if one is understanding of others in a sensitively empathic way; if one permits and encourages free discussion; if one places responsibility with the group; then there is evidence of personality growth in the members of the group, and the group functions more effectively, with greater creativity and better spirit. We know how to establish conditions which will result in increased psychological rigidity in members of a group. In a careful study, two matched groups of students were taken and measured were several aspects of their abilities, particularly abstract reasoning. Each of the students in one group was then given an analysis of one’s personality based upon the Rorschach test. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

Following this both groups were re-tested as to their abilities. The group which had been given an evaluation of their personalities showed a decrease in flexibility, and a significant decrease in ability to carry on abstract reasoning. They became more rigid, anxious, and disorganized in their thinking, in contrast to the control group. It would be tempting to note that this evaluation—experience by the group as somewhat threatening—seems very similar to many evaluations made in our schools and universities under the guise of education. All we are concerned with at the moment is that we do not know how to establish the conditions which makes for less effective functioning on complex intellectual tasks. We know a great deal about how to establish conditions which will influence consumer responses and/or public opinion. I think this need not be documented with research studies. I refer you to the advertisements in any magazine, to the beguilements of TV programs and their Trendex ratings, to the firms of public relations experts, and to the upward trend of sales by any corporation which put on a well-panned series of ads. We know how to influence the buying behaviour of individuals by setting up conditions which provide satisfaction for needs of which they are unconscious, but which we have been able to determine. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

It has been shown that some women who do not buy instant coffee because of “a dislike for its flavour” actually dislike it at a subconscious level because it is associated with being a poor housekeeper—with laziness and spendthrift qualities. This type of study, based on the use of projective techniques and “depth” interviews, has led to sales campaigns built upon appeals to the unconscious motives of the individual—one’s unknow pleasures of the flesh, aggressive, or dependent desires, or as in this instance, the desire for approval. These illustrative studies indicate something of our potential ability to influence or control the behaviour of groups. If we have the power or authority to establish the necessary condition, the predicted behaviours will follow. There is no doubt that both the studies and the methods are, at the present time crude, but more refined ones are sure to develop. It is well appreciated that in small, long-standing social circles each member comes to be known to the others as a “unique” person. The term unique is subject to pressure by maiden social scientists who would make something warm and creative out of it, a something no to be further broken down, at least by sociologists; nonetheless, the term does involve some relevant ideas. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

 One idea involved in the notion of “uniqueness” of an individual is that of a beneficial mark or identity peg, for example, the photographic image of the individual in others’ minds, or the knowledge of one’s special place in an articular kinship network. An interesting comparative case is that of the Tuareg of West Africa whose males cover their faces leaving only a small slit to see of out; here, apparently, the face as an anchorage for personal identification is replaced by body appearance and physical style. Only one person at a time can be fitted to the image I am here discussing, and one who qualified in the past is the self-same person who qualifies in the present and will do so in the future. Note that items such as fingerprints which are the most effective means of rendering individuals identifiably different are also items in terms of which they are essentially similar. A second idea is that, while most particular facts about an individual will be true of others too, the full set of facts known about an intimate is not found to old, as a combination, for any other person in the World, this adding a means by which one can be absolutely distinguished from everyone else. Sometimes this complex of information is name-bound, as in the case of a police dossier; sometimes it is body-bound, as when we come to know the pattern of behaviour of someone whose face we know but whose name we do not know; often the information is bound both to name and body. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

A third idea is that what distinguishes an individual from all others is the core of one’s being, a general and central aspect of one, making one different through and through, not merely identifiably different, from those who are most like one. By personal identity, I have in mind only the first two ideas—absolute marks or identity pegs, and the unique combination of life history items that comes to be attached to the individual with the help of these pegs for one’s identity. Personal identity, then, has to do with the assumption that the individual can be differentiated from all others and that around this means of differentiation a single continuous record of social facts can be attached, entangled, like candy floss, becoming then the sticky substance to which still other biographical facts can be attached. What is difficult to appreciate is that personal identity can and does play a structured, routine, standardized role in social organization just because of its one-of-a-kind quality. If one takes as a point of reference not a small group but a large impersonal organization, such as the state government, the process of personal identification can be seen at work clearly. It is now standard organizational practice that a means of absolute identification for every individual to be dealt with is officially recorded, that is, a set of marks is used that distinguishes the person so marked from all other individuals. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

As suggested, the choice of mark is itself quite standard: unchanging biological attributes such as handwriting or photographically attested appearance; permanently recordable items such as birth certificate, name, and serial number. Recently, through the use of computer analysis, experimental progress has been made in using speech and handwriting qualities as identity pegs, thus exploiting a minor expressive feature of behaviour much as specialist do in “authenticating” paintings. More important, the Social Security Act of 1935 in America ensures that almost every employee will have a unique registration number to which can be affixed a lifelong record of employment, a scheme of identification which has already worked considerable hardship on criminal classes. In any case, once an identity peg has been made ready, material, if an when available, can be hung on it; a dossier can be developed, usually contained and filed in a manila folder. One can expect that personal identification of its citizens by the state can expect that personal identification of its citizens by the state will increase, even as devices are refined for making the record of a particular individual more easily available to authorized persons and more inclusive of social facts concerning one, for example, receipt of dividend payments. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

There is considerable popular interest in the efforts of harried persons to acquire a personal identity not of their “own” or to disengage themselves from the one that was originally theirs, as in efforts to scar finger tips or to destroy public birth certificate records. In actual cases, personal name is usually the issue, because of all identity pegs it seems to be the one most generally employed and at the same time the one that is in certain ways easiest to tamper with. The respectable and legally advisable way of changing one’s name is by a documented act, the record of which is available in a public file. A single continuity is thus preserved in spite of apparent diversity. This is the case, for example, when a woman changes her last name through the act of marriage. In the entertainment World it is common for a performer to change one’s name, but here, too, a record of the previous name is likely to be available, and even widely known, as is also the case with pen-named authors. Occupations where a change in the name can occur without being officially recorded, such as those of comfort women and men, criminal, and revolutionary, are not “legitimate” trades. A remaining case is that of the Catholic clerical orders. Whenever an occupation carries with it a change in name, recorded or not, one can be sure that an important breach is involved between the individual and one’s old World. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

It should be stated that some name changes, such as those employed by draft dodgers and motels guests, are specifically oriented to the legal aspects of personal identification, while other changes, such as ones employed by ethnics, are oriented to the issues of social identity. One student implies that some professional entertainers have the distinction of qualifying on both counts: The average chorus girl changes her name almost as frequently as her coiffure to accord with current theatrical popularity, showbusiness superstitions, or, in some cases, to avoid payment of Equity dues. I might add that professional criminals employ two special types of re-naming: aliases, used very temporarily, although often repeatedly, to avoid personal identification; “monikers,” namely, nicknames given in the criminal community and retained for life, but used only by and to members of the community or the wise. A name, then, is very common but not very reliable way of fixing identity. When a court of law must deal with someone who has every motivation to misrepresent oneself, it is understandable that other absolute marks will be sought. Personal identity is proved in courts of law, not by reference to names, not even mainly by direct testimony, but “presumptively” by evidence of similarities or differences in personal characteristics. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

The question of social information must now be raised again. The embodied signs previously considered, whether of prestige or stigma, pertain to social identity. Clearly all of these must be distinguished from the documentation that individuals carry around with them purportedly establishing personal identity. These documents have come to e widely used in Britain and America by natives as well as foreigners. Registration cards and drivers’ licenses (containing fingerprints, signatures, and sometimes photographs) are felt to be necessary. Along with these self-identifications, the individual may carry documents of age (in the case of youths who wish to frequent gambling establishments or to be served liquor), a license to engage in protected or dangerous trades, permission to be away from barracks, and so forth. This information is often supplemented by family pictures, evidence of past military service, and even photostatic copies of college certificates. Recently, information about the bearer’s medical status has also appeared, and its general use advocated: Medical identity cards for all are being considered by the Ministry of Health. People would be asked to carry them always. The card would contain details such as vaccinations, owner’s blood group, and of any disease, such as hemophilia, that should be known immediately if the person is involved in an accident. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

One of the aims is to help quick treatment in an emergency and to avoid the dangers of injecting people with vaccine to which they might be allergic. It may be added that there appears to be an increasing number of work establishments which require the individual to wear, and if not wear then possess on person, employee identification cards with photographs. The whole point of these various identification devices is, of course, that they allow no innocent error or ambiguity, transforming what would be merely a questionable use of socially informing symbols into clear-cut forgery or illegal possession; therefore the term identity document might be more accurate than identity symbol. (Compare, for example, the relatively loose basis for identification of Jewish identity through appearance, gesture, and voice.) Incidentally, this documentation and the social facts attached thereto are often presented only in special situations to those specially authorized to check up on identity, unlike prestige and stigma symbols, which are more likely to be available to the public at large. Because information about personal identity often is of the kind that can be strictly documented, it can be used to safeguard against potential misrepresentation of social identity. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

Thus, army personnel may be required to carry identity documents validating the potentially false claims of their uniform and its insignia. The student’s personal identification card assures that librarian that one is vested with the right to borrow library boos or to enter the stacks, just as one’s driver’s license can attest that one is of legal age for drinking in commercial establishments. So, too, credit cards attest on the surface to personal identity, useful in deciding whether to give or to withhold credit, but in addition attest to the individual’s being of a social category to warrant such accrediting. A being proves one is Dr. Thomas Hiram to prove one is a doctor, perhaps rarely showing one is a doctor to prove one is Thomas Hiram. Similarly, individuals excluded from some hotels on the basis of their ethnicity may have been ethically identified through their names, so that here, too, an item of personal biography is exploited for categoric reasons. In general, then, biography attached to documented identity can place clear limitations on the way in which an individual can elect to present oneself; the situation of some British ex-mental patients who cannot pass as ordinary job applicants at the Employment Exchange  because their National Insurance cards have unstamped gaps, provides an illustration. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

I might add that the act of concealing personal identity can itself carry implications regarding social category: the sun gases that celebrities employ to conceal their personal identity presumably reveal, or did for a time, a social categorization of someone who wants to be incognito and would otherwise be recognized. Once the different between social symbols and identity documents is perceived, one can go on to look at the special position of oral statements which attest linguistically, not merely expressively, to social and personal identity. Where an individual has insufficient documentation to receive a desired service, one can be seen to attempt use of oral testament in its place. Groups and societies differ, of course, in their beliefs as to how much identity testament is appropriate in roughly equivalent social situations. In our society a person is always what one’s designation makes one, therefore we are very punctilious in giving it. At parties in Delhi I see people adding it themselves when the introducers omit to announce it. One day, at the house of a foreign diplomat in Delhi, a young man was introduced to me without his official position being mentioned. He immediately bowed and added, “Of the X-Ministry, and what Department are you from?” When I replied that I belonged to none, he seemed to be as much surprised by the fact that I had been invited thee at all as by my not having a designation. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

There have always been two fundamentally different views of human nature. One has claimed that humans are evil and destructive by nature. That is why war is inevitable, and that is why we have to have strict authorities over us. Human beings have to be kept under control. We have to protect them from their own aggressiveness. The other view says that humans are basically good, that it is only adverse social conditions that make them bad. If we change those conditions, then we can reduce the evil the aggressiveness in humans, or possibly even rid ourselves of it altogether. Those views represent extremes that both miss the mark. People who propound the natural, innate aggressiveness of humans are inclined to overlook those many historical epoch, those many cultures, and those many individuals that have displayed a minimum of aggressiveness. If aggression were innate, such examples would never exist. On the other side of the fence, the optimists who are against war and for peace and social justice have often been inclined to at least underestimate the significance and strength of human aggressiveness, if not deny it altogether. “And now, my beloved brethren, if this be the case that these things are true which I have spoken unto you, and God will show unto you, with power and great glory at the last day, that they are true, and if they are true has the say of miracles ceased? #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

“Or have Angels ceased to appear unto the children of humans? Or has one withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them? Or will one, so long as time shall last, or the Earth shall stand, or there shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved? Behold I say unto you, Nay; for it is by faith the miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that Angels appear and minister unto humans; wherefore, if these things have ceased wo be unto the children of human, for it is because of unbelief, and all is vain,” reports Moroni 7.33-37. We beseech Thine Omnipotence, Holy God, Father Almighty, that Thou wouldest fill us with the gift of Thine Only-begotten Son, and the ineffable blessing, visitation, and life-giving power of Thine and His Holy Spirit; whereby Thy Church, enkindled with His fire, may hold the true faith in Him from Whom she receives all truth. Thou God of all grace, thou hast given me a saviour, produce in me a faith to live by him, to make him all my desire, all my hope, all my glory. May I enter him as my refuge, build on him as my foundation, walk in him as my way, follow him as my guide, conform to him as my example, receive his instructions as my prophet, rely on his intercessions as my high priest, obey him as my kind. May I never be shamed of him or his words, but joyfully bear his reproach, never displease him by unholy or imprudent conduct, never count it a glory if I take it patiently when buffeted for a fault, never make the multitude my model, never delay when thy words invites me to advance. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

May thy dear Son preserve me from this present evil World, so that it smiles never allure, not its frowns terrify, nor its vices defile, nor its errors delude me. May I feel that I am a stranger and a pilgrim on Earth, declaring plainly that I seek a country, my title to it becoming daily more clear, my meetness for it more perfect, my foretastes of it more abundant; and whatsoever I do may it be done in the Saviour’s name. Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, and the brightness of Thy Spirit illumine our inward souls; that He may kindle our cold hearts and light up our morbid minds, Who abideth evermore with Thee in glory. O Holy Spirit, Who prceedest from the Father and the Son, teach us to do the truth, that Thou mayest unite us in a mysterious bond of love to the Father and Son, from Whom Thou proceedest so ineffably. Let Thy Spirit, O Lord, come into the midst of us, and washing us with the pure water of repentance, prepare us to be always a living sacrifice unto Thee. Heavenly King, Paraclete, Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere present and fillest all things, the Treasury of good things and the Bestower of life, come and dwell in us, and purify us from every stain, and save our souls, in Thy goodness. O Lord, Father Almighty, bless and protect, through Thine only Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit, Thy servants who are obedient to Thy majesty; that being free from free of all enemies, they may continually rejoice in praising Thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

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