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Society Demands this as a Kind of Surety–Each Must Stand at One’s Post, here a Cobbler, there a Poet!

EPpwrEwU0AExoozAs children, we gradually and sometimes painfully go through the process of learning “proper” social rituals for interacting with other people. To inhibit yourself is to restrain yourself from behaving in a way that is “natural” for you. For instance, if I feel like sneezing and force myself not to, I am inhibiting the sneeze. Our social self is a product of our awareness of how to present ourselves to other people. As children we soon learn that some behaviour is more socially acceptable and more effective at meeting our needs through others. For example, we rapidly learn the magic of saying “please” when we want a piece of cake and “thank you” when we get it. The social self is the image we think other people have of us, and the way we ourselves present to other people because of this view. One problem is that, in order to project this image, we may sometimes feel compelled to do or say things we do not really feel. This can turn int a sort of game that keeps us from really communicating with people. Some people feel that “polite” or “socially acceptable” behaviour is false, phoney, plastic. And indeed, a gap may exist between how we feel and how we have to present ourselves socially. In theory, we may believe that everyone has the right to express his or her real feelings. However, in practice, we probably all feel many things that we are afraid to express because of the possible consequences. #RandolphHarris 1 of 24

ImageAs we gain more experience with life, we begin to develop an image of what we wish to be (or think we should be): our ideal self. Part of the ideal self is made up of cultural values. Most of us share our culture’s emphasis on such values as truthfulness, honesty, and loyalty, so we would expect our ideal selves to have these characteristics. Our ideal selves also take into account our parents’ values: we want to gain parental approval and live up to what our parents want us to be. The egalitarian conception of society argues for the desirability of bringing into existence a World, once the springs of social wealth flow freely, in which everyone’s needs are as fully satisfied as possible and in which everyone gives according to one’s ability. Which means, among other things, that everyone, according to one’s ability, shares the burdens of society. There is an equal giving and equal responsibility here according to ability. It is here, with respect to giving according to ability with respect to receiving according to need, that complex equality of result, id est, equality of condition, is being advocated by the radical equalitarian. What it comes to is this: each of us, where each is to count for one and none to count for more than one, is to give according to ability and receive according to need. #RandolphHarris 2 of 24

ImageMany people in our culture seem to fear that individuals who do not have to earn a sense of worth, will not strive to succeed. Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties and opportunities (including equal opportunities for meaningful work, for self-determination and political and economic participation) compatible with a similar treatment of all. (This principle gives expression to a commitment to attain and/or sustain equal moral autonomy and equal self-respect.) After provisions are made for common social (community) values, for capital overheard to preserve the society’s productive capacity, allowances made for differing unmanipulated needs and preferences, and due weight is given to the just entitlements of individuals, the income and wealth (the common stock of means) is to be so divided that each person will have a right to an equal shared. The necessary burdens requisite to enhance human well-being are also to be equally shared, subject, of course, to limitations by differing abilities and differing situations. (Here I refer to different natural environments and the like and not to class position and the like.) No person, for any considerable period, can wear once face to oneself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. #RandolphHarris 3 of 24

ImageRisky? Of course. We play games because they are less risky than real communication. We may play them because we are unsure of ourselves, afraid, or too lazy to be real. However, to take risks in human interactions means to have a certain amount of self-confidence and respect for your ability to follow through with whatever might happen in the process. When talking about equality as a right rather than equality as a goal, principles of egalitarianism spell out rights people have and duties they have under conditions of very considerable productive abundance. We have a right to certain basic liberties and opportunities and we have, subject to certain limitations spelled out in the second principle, a right to an equal share of the income and wealth in the World. We also have a duty, again subject to the qualifications mentioned in the principle, to do our equal share in shouldering the burdens necessary to protect us from ills and to enhance our will-being. Sometimes an ideal self can be terribly demanding and unrealistic. Such high expectations can be reinforced by parents, who have equally demanding ideal images. People with demanding ideal self-images may feel they are failures, disappointments to their families, and bad human beings if they fall short of their image. Cultural ideals also form part of the “ideal-self” in each of our heads. #RandolphHarris 4 of 24

ImageConfusingly, our cultural seems to advocate two ideals—one loving and sharing, and the other tough and competitive. The first is reflected in such biblical advice as “Love thy neighbour as thyself” and “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” The message is share what you have, develop a conscious concern for your fellow human beings, and be cooperative with others. What is the relation between these rights and the ideal of equality of condition discussed earlier? That is a goal for which we can struggle now to bring about conditions which will some day make its achievement possible, while these rights only become right when the goal is actually achievable. We have no such rights in slave, feudal societies. In that important way they are not natural rights for they depend on certain social conditions and certain social structures to be realizable. What we can say is that it is always desirable that socioeconomic conditions come int being which would make it possible to achieve the goal of equality of conditions so that these right and duties I speak of could obtain. However, that is a far cry from saying we have such rights and duties now. Capitalist societies can satisfy these radical egalitarian principles of justice, for equal liberty, equal opportunity, equal wealth and equal sharing of our burdens. #RandolphHarris 5 of 24

ImageThe social structure of capitalism in America is set up to achieve equality by having law and order to prevent and punish crimes. There are also taxes that help fund entitlement programs and banks that lend money and credit so people who cannot afford houses, cars, and education can achieve the same status as the aristocratic families. There is also require public education. Therefore, we do have rights in place to achieve an egalitarian and harmonious society through these rights and duties. If there were not in place something like the current hybrid blend of capitalism/socialism in America, which is a system of equal basic liberties, and without such there could be no equal life prospects between all people or an equal satisfaction of needs. Furthermore, without the rough equality of access to wealth, there would be disparities in power and self-direction in society which would render impossible an equality of life prospects of the social conditions required for an equal satisfaction of needs. Ans plainly, without a roughly equal share of burdens, there cannot be a situation where everyone has equal life prospects or has the chance equally to satisfy one’s needs. The principles of radical egalitarian justice are implicated in its conception of an ideally adequate equality of condition. #RandolphHarris 6 of 24

ImageYoung people may argue that to achieve the economic ideal of having a high-paying job, accumulating wealth, striving to get ahead, they may have to abandon (or at least not pay much attention to) the love-cooperation-sharing model. And they may have a valid point. The contradiction is one of valuing the concept of competition in the American way of life on the one hand, and of brotherly love and humility on the other. On the one hand, we are supposed to be assertive and aggressive and push all competitors out of the way. On the other hand, clergy-people tells us not to be selfish, that we should be humble, turn the other cheek, and love our neighbour rather than compete with one. The modern manipulator feels this contradiction deeply. In large part, your evaluation of your own self-worth is dependent on how close you come to your ideal self. If you are interested in meeting that image, you will experience high self-esteem (the value you place on yourself)—that is, you will feel good about yourself. If you fail to come close to that image, you will have lower self-esteem. If you consistently fail to reach your ideal goal, you should re-evaluate your image and decide whether it is unrealistic or not. #RandolphHarris 7 of 24

ImageDespite one’s conflicts a neurotic can be contented at times, can enjoy things to which one feels oneself attuned. However, one’s happiness is dependent upon too many conditions for it to be of frequent occurrence. One will not take pleasure in anything unless, for instance, one is alone—or unless one shares it with someone else; unless one is the dominating factor in the situation—or unless one is approved of on all sides. One’s chances are further narrowed by the fact that the conditions for happiness are so often contradictory. One may be glad to have another person take the lead but one may at the same time resent it. A woman may enjoy her husband’s success but she may also envy him for it, vice versa. A spouse may enjoy giving a party but have to have everything so perfect that he or she is exhausted before it begins. And when the neurotic does find temporary happiness, it is all too easily disturbed by one’s manifold vulnerabilities and fears. Moreover, mishaps of the sort that occur in every life assume undue proportions in one’s mind. Any minor failure may plunge one into a depression because it proves one’s general unworthiness—even when it is due to factors beyond one’s control. Any harmless critical remark may set one worrying or brooding, and so on. As a result, one is ordinarily more unhappy and discontented than the circumstances warrant. #RandolphHarris 8 of 24

ImageThis situation, bad enough as it stands, is aggravated by a further consideration. Human beings can apparently endure an amazing amount of misery as long as there is hope; but neurotic entanglements invariably generate a measure of hopelessness, and the more severe the entanglements they greater the hopelessness. It may be deeply buried: superficially the neurotic may be preoccupied with imagining or planning conditions that would make things better. If only one were married, had a larger house in Cresleigh Ranch, a different foreman, a different wife or husband; if only she were a man, a little older or younger, a little taller or not so tall—then everything would be all right. And sometime the elimination of certain disquieting factors really does prove helpful. More often, however, such hopes merely externalize inner difficulties and are doomed to disappointment. The neurotic expects a World of good from external changes, but inevitably carries oneself and one’s neurosis into each new situation. Hope that rests on externals is naturally more prevalent among the young; that is one of the reasons why an analysis of a very young person is less simple than one might expect. As people grow older and one hope after another fades, they are more winning to take a good look at themselves as a possible source of distress. #RandolphHarris 9 of 24

ImageThe persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual. That the latter function is superfluous could be maintained only by one who is so identified with one’s persona that one no longer knows oneself; and that the former is unnecessary could only occur to one who is quite unconscious of the true nature of one’s fellows. Society expects, and indeed must expect every individual to play the part assigned to one as perfectly as possible, so that a person who is a parson must not only carry out one’s official functions objectively, but must at all times and in all circumstances play the role of parson in flawless manner. Society demands this as a kind of surety; each must stand at one’s post, here a cobbler, there a poet. To present an unequivocal face to the World is a matter of practical importance: the average person—the only kind society knows anything about—must keep one’s nose to one thing in order to achieve anything worthwhile, two would be too much. Our society is undoubtedly set on such an ideal. It is therefore not surprising that everyone who wants to get on must take these expectations into account. #RandolphHarris 10 of 24

ImageObviously no one could completely submerge one’s individuality in these expectations; hence the construction of an artificial personality becomes an unavoidable necessity. The demands of propriety and good manners are an added inducement to assume a becoming mask. What goes on behind the mask is then called “private life.” This painfully familiar division of consciousness into two figures, often preposterously different, is an incisive psychological operation that is bound to have repercussions on the unconscious. The construction of a collectively suitable persona means a formidable concession to the external World, a genuine self-sacrifice which drives the ego straight into identification with the persona, so that people really do exist who believe they are what they pretend to be. The “soullessness” of such an attitude is, however, only apparent, for under no circumstances will the unconscious tolerate this shifting of the center of gravity. When we examine such cases critically, we find that the excellence of the mask is compensated by the “private life” going on behind it. Bad temper is the vice of the virtuous. Whoever builds up too good a persona for oneself naturally pays for it with irritability. One may have hysterical weeping fits. #RandolphHarris 11 of 24

ImagePeople who put on personas may make others feel a growing ominous inferiority and make one wonder how they may better themselves. However, any person who becomes one with one’s persona can cheerfully let all disturbances manifest themselves through their spouse without his or her noticing it, through the spouse pays for their self-sacrifice with a bad neurosis. These identifications with a social role are a very fruitful source of neuroses. A human cannot get rid of oneself in favour of an artificial personality without punishment. Even the attempt to do so brings on, in all ordinary cases, unconscious reactions in the form of bad moods, affects, phobias, compulsive ideas, backslidings, vices, excreta. The socially strong human is in one’s private life often a mere child where one’s own states of feeling are concerned; one’s public discipline (which one demands quite particularly of others) goes miserable to pieces in private. One’s happiness in one’s work assumes a woeful countenance at home; one’s spotless public morality looks strange indeed behind the mask—we will not mention deeds, but only fantasies, and the spouses of such people would have a pretty tale to tell; as one’s selfless altruism, one’s children has decided views about that. #RandolphHarris 12 of 24

ImageTo the degree that the World invites the individual to identify with the mask, one is delivered over to influences from within. High rests on low. An opposite forces its way up from inside; it is exactly as though the unconscious suppressed the ego with the very same power which drew the ego into the persona. The absence of resistance outwardly against the lure of the persona means a similar weakness inwardly against the influence of the unconscious. Outwardly an effective and powerful role is played, while inwardly an effeminate weakness develops in face of every influence coming from the unconscious. Moods, vagaries, timidity, even limp pleasures of the flesh (culminating in impotence), gradually gain the upper hand. The persona, the ideal picture of a human as one should be, is inwardly compensated by feminine weakness, and as the individual outwardly plays the strong human, so one becomes inwardly more feminine, id est, the anima, for it is the anima that reacts to the persona. However, because the inner World is dark and invisible to the extraverted consciousness, and becomes a human is all the less capable of conceiving one’s weaknesses the more one is identified with the persona, the person’s counterpart, the anima, remains completely in the dark and is at once projected, so that our hero comes under the heels of one’s spouse’s slipper. #RandolphHarris 13 of 24

ImageIf the result of being under the control of one’s spouse experiences a considerable increase in power, the controlling spouse will acquit oneself none too well. One becomes inferior, thus providing the spouse who is supposed to be naturally dominant with the welcome proof that it is not one, the hero, who is inferior in private, but the spouse who is supposed to be naturally submissive who is. In return the spouse of is supposed to be naturally submissive can cherish the illusion, so attractive to many, that at least one has married a hero, unperturbed by one’s own uselessness. This little game of illusion is often taken to be the whole meaning of life. However, the true meaning of life is to love and better know the beauty and intricacy of all things. Nonetheless, the ideal individual, one might postulate, would be consistently the same whatever the circumstances. In practice, most human  beings adopt attitudes in public which are different from their attitudes in private. There is a dissociation of personality into “outer” and “inner”; into “mask” and “soul.” In men, the inner personality or soul is feminine, and represented as such by female figures in dreams and fantasies; whereas the opposite is true for women. #RandolphHarris 14 of 24

ImageEven when a general feeling of hopelessness is unconscious, its existence and its strength can be inferred from sundry indications. There may be episodes in the life history that show the person’s reaction to disappointments to have been of an intensity and duration wholly disproportionate to the provocation. Thus one may encounter a complete hopelessness resulting apparently from unrequited love in adolescence, from betrayal by a friend, unjust dismissal from a job, failure in examinations. Naturally one would first try to fathom whatever special reasons there might be for so profound a reaction. However, over and above any special reasons, it will usually be found that the unfortunate experience drains a much deeper well of hopelessness. Similarly, a preoccupation with death or the ready emergence of suicidal thoughts—with or without affect—point to a pervasive hopelessness, even though the person presents a façade of optimism. A general flippancy, a refusal to take anything seriously—whether in the analytical situation or outside it—is another indication, as is easy discouragement in the face of difficulty. Much of what Dr. Freud has defined as negative therapeutic reaction belongs here. A new insight which, though it may be painful, offers a way out may only provoke discouragement and an unwillingness to go through the hardship of again working though a new problem. #RandolphHarris 15 of 24

ImageSometimes this looks as though the patient did not trust oneself to overcome the particular difficulty; but in reality it expresses one’s lack of hope of ever being able to gain by it. Under these conditions it is only logical for one to complain that the particular insight hurts or frightens one and to resent being upset by the analyst. A preoccupation with foreseeing or foretelling the future is also a sign of hopelessness. Although on the surface this looks like an anxiety about life in general, about being caught unawares, about making mistakes, it will be observed that in such cases the outlook is invariably tinged with pessimism. Like Cassandra, many neurotics foresee largely evil rarely good. This focusing on the morbid side of life rather than on the bright should make one suspect a deep personal hopelessness, no matter how intelligently it is rationalized. Finally, there is the chronic depressed condition, which can be so hidden and insidious that it does not strike one as depression. Persons so afflicted may function fairly well. They can be pleasant and have a good time, but it may take them hours to rouse themselves in the morning, to come to life, as it were, to put up with life again. Life is so permanent a burden that they hardly feel it as such and do not complain about it. However, their spirits are permanently at low ebb. #RandolphHarris 16 of 24

ImageWithout correct information, our ability to think has nothing to work on. Indeed, without the requisite information, we may be afraid of thinking at all, or simply be incapable of thinking straight. The hymn of Charles Wesley is true to the human situation: “Long my imprisoned spirit lay, fast bound in sin and Nature’s night.” (But then comes the galvanizing good news of the gospel.) “Thine eyes diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light: my chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth and followed Thee.” Lack of information results in everything from unpleasant burdens to stark tragedies, across the entire range of human life. Not knowing about resources at a public library or on the Internet may mean that a scholar or writer or other professional person is deprived of needed materials or at least must obtain them at considerable effort or personal expense. In the past, doctors with unwashed hands unwittingly carried deadly germs, which causes the deaths of humans of thousands of women from “child-bed fever.” Failure to know what God is really like and what his law requires destroys the soul, ruins society, and leaves people to eternal ruin: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” reports Hosea 4.6, and “A people without understanding come to ruin,” reports Hosea 4.14. #RandolphHarris 17 of 24

ImageThe tragic condition in the New World today is so many people are without correct information, and they have put away the information about God that God himself has made available. Accordingly, the first task of Jesus in his Earthly ministry was to proclaim God: to inform those around him of the availability of eternal life from God through himself. He made it clear that by placing their confidence in himself, “believing on him,” they could immediately enter into the eternal life enjoyed by those in the “kingdom of the Heavens.” This is basic information for human life. It was then and is now. Jesus had to combat much false information about the Father and bring to light the correct Father facts. “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him,” reports Matthew 11.27. “No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father,” reports John 6.46. Jesus Christ showed the many ways in which God is love. This he did by proclaiming the immediate availably of the kingdom of God from the surrounding Heavens, by manifesting its presence through the use of its power to help people, and by teaching in various ways its exact nature. “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people,” reports Matthew 4.23. #RandolphHarris 18 of 24

Image“Jesus wen through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness,” reports Matthew 9.35. On the evening before his death, his teaching ministry finished, Jesus said to his Father in prayer: “I manifested Thy name to the humans whom Thou gavest Me,” reports John 17.6. That is, “I have made them understand what You are really like.” His death was understood by his early disciples to be an ultimate revelation of the Father heart of God: “God proves his love for us,” Paul wrote, “in that while we were still rebelling against him, Christ died for us,” reports Romans 5.8. That is, his death was a revelation of the nature of basic reality. Without knowledge of it and its meaning, we are desperately ignorant of reality, and therefore all our thinking can only result in monstrous falsehoods. The saying, “Garbage in, garbage out” nowhere has greater force then in spiritual life. “And now behold, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you; for I, Nephi, would not suffer that ye should suppose that ye are more righteous than the Gentiles shall be. For behold, except ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall all likewise perish; and because of the words which have spoke ye need not suppose that the Gentiles are utterly destroyed. #RandolphHarris 19 of 24

Image“For behold, I say unto you that as many of the Gentiles as will repent are the covenant people of the Lord; and as many of the Jews as will not repent shall be cast off; for the Lord covenanteth with none save it be with them that repent and believe in his Son, who is the Holy One of Israel. And now, I would prophesy somewhat more concerning the Jews and the Gentiles. For after the book which I have spoken shall come forth, and be written unto the Gentiles, and sealed up again unto the Lord, there shall be many which shall believe the words which are written; and they shall carry them forth unto the remnant of our seed. And then shall the remnant of our seed know concerning us, how that we came out from Jerusalem, and that they are descendants of the Jews. And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared among them; wherefore, they shall be restored unto the knowledge of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which was had among their fathers. And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be pure and a delightsome people. And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered also shall begin to believe in Christ; and they shall begin to gather in upon the face of the land; and as many as shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people. #RandolphHarris 20 of 24

Image“And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall commence his work among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, to bring about the restoration of his people upon the Earth. And with righteousness shall the Lord God judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the Earth. And he shall smite the Earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people, and the wicked will he destroy; and he will spare his people, yea, even if it so be that he must destroy the wicked by fire. Ans righteousness shall be the gridle of his loin, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. And then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling, together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hands on the cockatrice’s den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Wherefore, the things of all nations shall be made known; yea, all things shall be made known unto the children. #RandolphHarris 21 of 24

Image“There is nothing which is secret save it shall be revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon the Earth save it shall be loosed. Wherefore, all things which have been revealed unto the children of humans shall at that say be revealed; and Satan shall have power over the hearts of the children of humans no more, for a long time. And now, my beloved brethren, I make an end of my sayings. O God the Father, of Heaven, have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Redeemer of the World; O God the Holy Spirit; Holy Trinity, One God; please help us, O God our Saviour; from the dominion of all vices; O Lord deliver us. From blindness of heart; from all evil; we sinners, do beseech Thee to hear us. That Thou spare us; we beseech Thee to hear us. That Thou give us a sure hope; that Thou vouchsafe us a right faith; that Thou bestow on us perfect love; that Thou mortify in us the loathsome forms of all vices; that Thou quicken us with the excellency  of all virtues; that by Thine Incarnation Thou wouldest open for us an entrance into the Holy of Holies; that by this most holy Mystery Thou wouldest renew our souls and bodies; that by it Thou wouldest purify our consciences; that Thou suffer not this tremendous Mystery to be our condemnation. #RandolphHarris 22 of 24

ImageO God the Father, of Heaven, please deliver us that we may handle with pure hands this ineffable Sacrament; that we may receive it with pure minds; that by it we may obtain pardon of all sins; that by it we may be able evermore to cleave unto Thee; that by it we may be thought worthy to have Thee dwelling in us, and ourselves to dwell in Thee; that it may please Thee to pour into our hearts the grace of the Holy Spirit; that it may please Thee to preserve the Christian people who have been redeemed by Thy most precious Blood; that thou vouchsafe us a place of repentance. Remember, O my soul, it is Thy duty and privilege to rejoice in God: He requires it of thee for all his favours of grace. Rejoice then in the giver and his goodness, be happy in him, O my heart, and in nothing but God, for whatever humans trust in, from that one expects happiness. One who is the ground of thy faith should be the substance of thy joy. Whence then comes heaviness and dejection, when joy is sown in thee, promised by the Father, bestowed by the Son, inwrought by the Holy spirit, thine by grace, thy birthright in believing? Art thou seeking to rejoice in thyself from an evil motive of pride and self-reputation?  Thou has nothing of thine own but sin, nothing to move God to be gracious or to continue his grace towards thee. If thou forget this thou wilt lose thy joy. Art thou grieving under a sense of indwelling sins? #RandolphHarris 23 of 24

ImageLet Godly sorrow work repentance, as the true spirit which the Lord blesses, and which creates fullest joy; sorrow for self opens rejoicing in God, self-loathing draws down divine delights. Hast thou sought joys in some creature comfort? Look not below God for happiness; falls not asleep in Delilah’s lap. Let God be all in all to thee, and joy in the fountain that is always full. The truth flows from people of God all the time and not only when one speaks or writes. It flows silently. However, whereas anyone can hear one’s spoken words or read one’s printed ones, not many can receive this voiceless and inkless message. If one must lead humans, one prefers to do so indirectly; if one is to serve them, one prefers to serve them unobtrusively; and if one needs to work among them, one seeks to do it self-effacingly. It is only in the deepest possible sense that it may be said one is all things to all people, a spiritual opportunist who meets each person on one’s own level. However, this is not to be taken to imply any desertion of principle. Tradition tells us, and history confirms, that before passing away the illuminated human many preach the truth or write a record or communicate one’s knowledge to at least one other persons. In this state of direct relation with the soul’s power, one feels and knows that one’s thoughts and prayers are directed toward the good of others can help them. #RandolphHarris 24 of 24Image

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