The activist cannot be a perfectionist. One has got to be a realist. And one ought to be an idealist. The genius in the arts is probably a specialized “experiencer,” who from time to time attains a unified and turned-on consciousness. This is part of the story of what an artist is—a person with an unreduced consciousness, capable of functioning fully in modes unavailable to the average being, and capable of moments, days, or a lifetime in a unified state of consciousness. A producing artist must also be an honest portrayer of one’s experience—whether it be visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or other kind of experience. One can have an artistic consciousness and be a poor craftsman, unable to transmute a memory, imagination, fantasy, or thought into the possibility of perceptual, recollective, emotional, or imaginative experience in another person. Unless the artist produces, and produces artfully, one is only an artist in one’s consciousness, and artist-for-oneself. One only becomes an artist-for-others when one externalizes one’s experience, embodies it in some idiom—words, paint, clay, sounds, the movements of the dance. The meeting with a great soul is considered to convey some kind of a blessing. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

We now see the scientific grounds for this belief, even though the masses themselves are quite unaware of this fact but feel or have the faith that the blessing is there. Once a person has found one’s way to truth one can speak of it simply, directly, and naturally, without personal pretentiousness or ostentation. Yet those who underestimate the worth of what one has to say would be in error. The insensitive and coarse may not feel it but the others will need much dealing with one to find an air of distinction, not easily explicable. There is power and strangeness in one’s presence, for it brings those who are sensitive enough to feel its quality to confess what they can hardly confess to their intimate friends. One has no desires to satisfy through them, no claims to make upon them. Because they instinctively feel that nothing of the personal self enters into one’s dealings with them, they just as instinctively trust one. One becomes their confessional priest. They bring their secrets, their sins and their confidences to one’s ears. One who has conquered one’s own sorrows and abolished one’s own ignorance will find in time that others will come of their own accord to one. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

One will sit there imperturbable yet sympathetic, inscrutably poised yet gently understanding, while the sorrowful and the aspiring, the World worn and the seeking, pour out their sorrows and aspirations, their sins and ideals as at a priestly confessional—yet without any assumptions of priestly superiority, without any pretense of moral height, and without any quackery of pontifical infallibility. When one speaks, one’s detached, impersonal standpoint will help to reorient their own, will show the truth of a situation and the lesson of an experience as their desire-tossed ego could never show it. And all the while, the impact of one’s aura will gradually strengthen, calm, and uplift them if they are at all sensitive. An artist-for-oneself is one who seeks to produce for one’s reflective awareness a portrayal of one’s imaginative experience of some aspect of the World. Where others only perceive the World in its relevance to their usual concerns, the artist—detached from such concerns—perceives more and different from the average person, receiving more of the possible disclosure of the World. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

And one enriches one’s perception by unifying it with imagination, memory, and passion. One does not perceive only those aspects one can eat, spend, or use to gratify this need or that. One experiences more of the World-for-itself. Sometimes the mere act of confession to an adept brings release to a troubled mind almost instantaneously and seemingly miraculously. Thus a highly placed government official who was troubled for many years with nightmares in which odious retiled played a prominent role, was entirely and permanently freed from them by nothing more than mentioning one’s case to such an adept in whose attainment one believed. Again, an exceedingly busy businessman, who could find no time for prayer or spiritual study and saw no prospect of doing so for many years, became distressed and worried about this situation. He did not want to be submerged by material activities. He asked an adept for advice. He was told to begin each morning with a three-minute prayer and not worry. Since then his anxiety has vanished and he has enjoyed spiritual peace in the very midst of his work. At other times a question or two by the same adept will ferret out secreted episodes that are stifling progress or will bring up subconscious memories that are poisoning character. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

The third group of effects are perhaps the most wonderful of all because they deal with causes that are the most deep-rooted of all. The innate tendencies born of former incarnations may themselves be influenced beneficially by the dealing association of an adept. One may sit quietly and listen very sympathetically to the troubled outpouring of a sufferer. At the end of a single session, the healing vibrations of the adept’s interests may spontaneously effect an apparent miracle. The burden of long-felt grievance may fall away, the pressure of agony be taken away. The sufferer’s inner being will give up its secret sins, expose its hidden ugliness, and surrender its private fears only to have them thrown instantly out of one’s mind and life. Only the sensitive are likely to leave one’s presence uplifted, quieted, and reassured in mind. The others—and they are the majority—come with nothing and leave with nothing. One who sit in meditation with a master may find an inner impetus developing out of the contact. One may never utter aloud any prayer on behalf of others or pronounce any benedictory formula over them. Yet the silent descent of one’s grace may be acutely felt and gratefully received. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

We may borrow inner peace and inner strength by the proximity of such a human. However with its cessation, the peace and strength depart. Without opening one’s lips one communicates a message to every sensitive seek who enters one’s orbit. The effect of this meeting, provided the proper conditions exist, is to give the seeker a powerful psychic and spiritual stimulus. The presence of one human demeans us and makes us seem less than we are, whereas that of another like this adept will dignify us and seem to bring the goal for a while within easy reach. Those who are sensitive to true spirituality will always leave one’s presence feeling of having been greatly benefited. From one’s own unshakable calm, the sensitive draw respite from their troubles. From one’s own unusual experiences, the humble draw priceless counsel. There is danger in the frown of one guided and overshadowed by God, as there is blessing in His favour. To come near God is the path to finding possibility which all possess. One must remain calm amid adversity to a degree so extraordinary that others sharing the same trouble feel less borne down by it and more able to tackle it. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

In one’s presence we are willing to situ without words merely to enjoy the peace which emanates from one. To have sat within the aura of a great soul is a memorable thing, but to have communed silently with one while doing so is to have received a lifelong blessing. In one’s adept’s presence, some people feel as if they underwent a religious conversion—yet there was no particular brand of religion to which it could be referred. And, since one’s capacity for imagining has not been socialized out of one, one can perceive in a way that is unified, fused with imagination, memory, feeling, et cetera. One can have a tasting experience of a vision, a feeling experience of a sound; and one can experience recalled associations and imagine possible variations of what the average being only sees a little of, and calls a woman’s hip. Now, take this artist-for-oneself. Let one present the objectifications of one’s experience in a painting, novel, poem, play, dance, or song. It now becomes a part of the being of the World. It can have a being-for-others, whereas before the disclosure it had a being only for the artist oneself. Since the artist is part of the World for Others, as they are Other to one, one provides the possibility for these others to experience striking change. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Since humans can transmit one’s consciousness to one’s fellows, and since humans seem (unless it is trained out of them) responsive to their fellows as beings like themselves—the disclosure of the artists, which is always metaphor, can affect the consciousness of one’s audience. Consciousness appears to be protean. I can assume an infinite of forms and structures. In principle, I can influence your consciousness of the World. I can clearly influence the ways you construe or name your consciousness of things and people. I can invite you into the imaginative, recollective, or conceptual modes. I may even be able to reintegrate your fragmented consciousness, and trip off a unification that you may experience with explosive force. I may be able to persuade you to suspend your projects, and simply let the being of the World disclose itself to you playfully, pointlessly, so that your perceptual consciousness is expanded, only to shrink when you once more assume your projects. An artist can affect you in these ways. It is because an artist is not entirely socialized that one can experience in modes, channels, and intensities not easily available to one’s fellows. It is because in one’s being one embodies possible modes of being that could be attained by others, that an artist can be an agent of social change and personal growth for others. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Political leaders know tis and seek to annihilate or geld artist whose work is inflammatory, threatening to produce new consciousness in many people, consciousness of themselves and of new possibilities in the World that will produce changed behaviour in the World. The politician wants people to behave in ways that will not rock the boat or the prevailing power structure. Behaviour is mediated by consciousness. They have a vested interest in controlling the consciousness of people, so that behaviour will remain the safe, predictable, controllable range. If the grand and great doctrine of the Church tells us anything, it tells us that whoever you are and however busy you may be (whether U.S. President, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Fortune 5000 business executive, or leader of a parachurch organization), the Church must be at the very center of your life. Church hitchhiking is an aberration! And so is a mild commitment. People, honestly, are you a hitchhiker kind of a “free agent” looking for a tentative place on the roster, here for a season, there for another? #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

If so, you will never attain to your full spiritual humanhood, nor will your family reach its spiritual maturity. People, at the end of the twentieth century both the Church and the lost World need humans who practice the discipline of Church. As part of this matter, you need to commit yourself to regularly attend the worship services of your church. Your schedule ought to bow to your commitment. The constant character of the will apart from God is duplicity—or, more accurately, fragmentation and multiplicity. It wills many things and they cannot be reconciled with each other. Turned away from God, thought and feeling fall into chaos, and the will, for reasons given above, cannot but follow. There is nothing outside it that can pull or push it right. However, this conflicted complexity may go unrecognized or unacknowledged. The will sees very simple when we first reflect upon it. We decide to go to the grocery, for example, to buy milk and bread. We decide to tell the truth (or not) in a difficult situation. The decision or choice seems as simple as a puff of wind on our cheek. However, this is only because it is a nonphysical act or event, which we must strongly exert ourselves to grasp. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

 Who can distinguish darkness from the soul? Compared to a reading lamp or ballpoint pen, for example, its parts do not leap out at us. When we come to reflect more deeply, however, we suddenly realize that a choice or act of will is not simple at all. The understandings, feelings, and purposes that enter into it may be highly complicated, as are the degrees of strength with which it is taken, as well as the other motivations and actions and choices to which it is related. It is rich field for the play of good or evil. In a condition of alienation from God, the complexity of the human will moves irresistibly toward duplicity, not just in the harmless sense of “doubleness,” but in the sense of deception. This is the result of pretending to feel and think one way while acting in another. Often the deception involved is self-deception. Our pride will constantly trap us between desire and fear. Rather than surrender our desire, we will do what we want but conceal it because of fear of the consequences of being known. And perhaps then will also try to conceal our fear because of our pride. We will try to pretend that there is “nothing going on” at all.  #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

Accordingly, the natural and proper complexity of the will lead those thus living as their own god in their World into ever-deeper layers of deception, and then into darkness, where they cannot even understand themselves and why they do what they do. Adults who in their childhood had to hold the lives of addicted parents and their family together may be among the clearest illustrations of this heartbreaking condition, but in some degree everyone is subject to it. The existentialist portrayal of sincerity as always bogus is in fact a correct picture of the will apart from God, and its emphasis upon the natural complexity of human will is correct and helpful. That natural complexity is good and God-given. It is an essential part of human greatness. However, the deceitfulness and darkness of the heart apart from God is inevitable to those who trust only themselves and so must try to take charge of their life and their World. Then, as we have quoted previously, “the heart is devious above all else; it is perverse—who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17.9). And the answer to that question is, as the prophet continues in the very next verse to say: “I think LORD test the mind and search the heart, to give to all their according ways.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

To God the amazing duplicity of the human heart is totally transparent. Sad to say, we live in a World where others, including our loved ones as well as the institutions of society and government (and those running them) are with distressing regularity engaged in duplicity, deceitfulness, and darkness. It is a rare individual who does not have people around one who cannot be trusted to do what is right when something hey desire or fear is involved. How often we have to deal with someone whom we know at the moment to be simply working out how one is going to mislead us. Perhaps very few of us could honestly say we are untouched in some way by our own duplicity. Few of us could honestly say that we do not sometimes have to struggle to overcome deceit and darkness, within ourselves as well as around us. Our only hope if to entirely place our confidence in the God and Father of Jesus Christ, who is willing to enter the duplicity of our heart and bring it wholly to himself if we earnestly invite him. He is “greater than our heart, and knows all things,” reports 1 John 3.20. “And it came to pass that he commanded the multitude that they should cease to pray, and also his disciples. And he commanded them that they should not cease to pray in their hearts. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

“And he commanded them that they should arise and stand upon their feet. And they arose up and stood upon their feet. And it came to pass that he brake bread again and blessed it, and gave to the disciples to eat. And when they had eaten he commanded them that they should break bread, and give unto the multitude. And when they had given unto the multitude he also gave them wine to drink, and commanded them that they should give unto the multitude. Now, there had been no bread, neither wine, brought by the disciples, neither by the multitude; but he truly gave unto them to bread to eat, and also wine to drink. And he said unto them: He that eateth this bread eateth of my body to his soul; and he that drinketh of this wine drinketh of my blood to his soul; and his soul shall never hunger nor thirst, but shall be filled. Now, when the multitude had all eaten and drunk, behold, they were filled with the Spirit; and they did cry out with one voice, and gave glory to Jesus, whom they both saw and heard. And it came to pass that when they had all given glory unto Jesus, he said unto them: Behold now I finish the commandment which the Father hath commanded me concerning this people, who are a remnant of the house of Israel. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

“Ye remember that I spake unto you, and said that when the words of Isaiah should be fulfilled—behold they are written, ye have them before you, therefore search them—and verily, verily, I say unto you, that when they shall be fulfilled then is the fulfilling of the convent which the Father hath made unto his people, O house of Israel. And then shall the remnants, which shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth, be gathered in from the east and from the west, and from the south and from the north; and they shall be brought to knowledge of the Lord their God, who hath redeemed them. And the Father hath commanded me that I should give unto you this land, for your inheritance. And I say unto you, that if the Gentiles do not repent after the blessings which they hall receive, after they have scattered my people—then shall ye, who are a remnant of the house of Jacob, go forth among them; and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many; and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beast of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in piences, and none can deliver. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

“Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thing adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. And I will gather my people together as a man gathereth his sheaves into the floor. For I will make my people with whom the Father hath covenanted, yea, I will make thy hoofs brass. And thou shalt beat in pieces many people; and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substances unto the Lord of the whole Earth. And behold, I am he wo doeth it. And it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that the sword of my justice shall hang over them at that day; and except they repent it shall fall upon them, saith the Father, yea, even upon all the nations of the Gentiles. And it shall come to pass that I will establish my people, O house of Israel. And behold, this people will I establish in this land, unto the fulfilling of the covenant which I made with your father Jacob; and it shall be a New Jerusalem. And the powers of Heaven shall be in the midst of this people; yea, even I will be in the midst of you. Behold, I am he of whom Moses spake, saying: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

“Verily I say unto you, yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have testified on me. And behold, ye are the children of the prophets; and ye are of the house of Israel; and ye are the covenant which the Father made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the Earth be blessed. The Father having raised me up unto you first, and sent me to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities; and this because ye are the children of the covenant—and after that ye were blessed then fulfilleth the Father the covenant which he made with Abraham, saying: In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the Earth be blessed—unto the pouring out of the Holy Ghost through me upon the Gentiles, which blessing upon the Gentiles shall make them mighty above all, unto the scattering of my people, O house of Israel. And they shall be a scourge unto the people of this land. Nevertheless, when they shall have received the fulness of my gospel, then if they shall harden their hearts against me I will return their iniquities upon their own heads, saith the Father. And I will remember the covenant which I have made wit my people; and I have covenanted with them that I would gather them together in mine own due time, that would give unto them again the land of their fathers for their inheritance, which is the promised land unto them forever, saith the Father. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

“And it shall come to pass that the time cometh, when the fullness of my gospel shall be preached unto them; and they shall believe in me, that I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and shall pray unto the Father in my name. Then shall their watchmen lift up their voice, and with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye. Then will the Father gather them together again, and give unto them Jerusalem for the land of their inheritance. Then shall they break forth into joy—Sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Father hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The Father hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of the Father; and the Father and I are one. And then shall be brought to pass that which is written: Awake, awake again, and put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

“Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus saith the Lord: Ye have sold yourselves for naught, and ye shall be redeemed without money. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that my people shall know my name; yea, in that day they shall know hat I am he that doth speak. And then shall they say: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of one that bringeth good tidings unto them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion: Thy God reigneth! And then shall a cry go forth: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel shall be your rearward. Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. As many were astonished at thee—his visage was so marred, more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—so shall he sprinkle man nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him, for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, all these things shall surely come, even as the Father hath commanded me. Then shall this covenant which the Father hat covenanted with his people be fulfilled; and then shall Jerusalem be inhabited again with my people, and it shall be the land of their inheritance,” reports 3 Nephi 20.1-46. With the day over, let me rest, Holy Ones. I have earned this quiet time by my day’s labours. Please come and share my ease, please come and rest wit me. Please surround me and support me, be my rest, my peace, my home. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast made a distinction between the sacred and the secular, between light and darkness, between Israel and the heathens, between the seventh day of rest and the six days of work. Thou hast set a distinction between the higher sanctity of the Sabbath and the lesser sanctity of the Festival, and hast hallowed the Sabbath above the six days of work. Thus Thou hast sanctified Israel by Thy holiness. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who distinguishest between the Sabbath and the Festivals. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast kept us in life, and hast preserved us and enabled us to reach this season. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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