A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form for us before light fell on them. The individual differentiated itself out of the infinite ocean of Mind into a distinct individuality after a long development through the diverse kingdoms of Nature. Having thus arrived at consciousness of what it is, having travelled the spiral of growth from germ to human, the result of all this effort is certainly not gained only to be throw away. Were this to happen then the entire history of the human race would be a meaningless one, its entire travail a resultless one, its entire aspiration a valueless one. If evolution were merely the complementary return journey of an involuntary process, if the evolving entity arrived only at its starting point for all its pains, then the whole plan would be a senseless one. If the journey of humans consisted of nothing more than treading a circle from the time of one’s emergence from the Divine Essence to the time of one’s mergence back into it, it would be a vain and useless activity. It would be a stupendous adventure but also an unenlightened one. There is something more than that in one’s movement. Expect in the speculations of certain theorists, it simply does not happen. #RandolphHarris 1 of 25

The self-consciousness thus developed will not be dissolved, extinguished, or re-absorbed into the Whole again, leaving not a trace behind. Rather will it begin a new spiral of evolution towards higher altitudes of consciousness and diviner levels of being, in which it will co-operate as harmoniously with the universal existence as formerly it collided against it. It will not separate its own goo from the general good. Here is part of the answer to this question: What are the ultimate reasons for human wanderings through the World-process? That life matters, that the Universe possesses meaning, and that the evolutionary agonies are leading to something worthwhile—these are beliefs we are entitled to hold. If the cosmos is a wheel which turns and turns endlessly, it does not turn aimlessly. Evolution does not return us to the starting point as we were. The ascent is not a circle but a spiral. Evolution presupposes that its own possibility has always been latent within the evolving entities. Hence the highest form is hidden away in the lowest one. There is development from the blindly instinctive life of animals to the consciously thinking life of humans. The blind instinctive struggles of the plant to sustain itself are displaced in the evolutionary process by the self-conscious efforts of the human. #RandolphHarris 2 of 25

The blind instinctive struggles of the planet to sustain itself are displaced in the evolutionary process by the intelligent self-conscious efforts of the human being. Everywhere we find that evolution produces variety. There are myriads of individual entities, but each possesses some quality of uniqueness which distinguishes it from all others. Life ma be one but is multitudinous expressions do differ, as thought difference were inherent in such expression. Evolution as mentalistically defined by philosophy is not quite the same as evolution as materialistically defined by Dr. Darwin. With us it is simply the mode of striving, through rhythmic rise and fall, for an ever fuller expansion of the individual unit’s consciousness. However, the ego already possesses all such possibilities latently. Consequently the whole process, although apparently an ascending one, is really an unfolding one. Narcissism can be described as a state of experience in which only the person oneself, one’s body, one’s needs, one’s feelings, one’s thoughts, one’s property, everything and everybody pertaining to one are experienced as fully real, while everybody and everything that does not form part of the person or is not an object of one’s needs is not interest, is not fully real, is perceived only by intellectual recognition, while affectively without weight and colour. #RandolphHarris 3 of 25

A person, to the extent to which one is narcissistic to one has significance, while the rest of the World is more or less weightless or colorless, and because of this double standard the narcissistic persons shows severe defects in judgment and lacks the capacity for objectivity. Often the narcissistic person achieves a sense of security in one’s own entirely subjective conviction of one’s perfection, one superiority over others, one’s extraordinary qualities, and not through being related to others or through any real work or achievement of one’s own. One needs to hold on to one’s narcissistic self-image, since one’s sense of worth as well as one’s sense of identity are based on it. If one’s narcissism is threated, one is threatened in a vitally important area. When others wound one’s narcissism by slighting one, criticizing one, showing up when one has said something wrong, defeating one in a game or on numerous other occasions, a narcissistic person usually reacts with intense anger or rage, whether or not one shows it or is even aware of it. The intensity of this aggressive reaction can often be seen in the fact that such a person will never forgive someone who has wounded one’s narcissism and often feels a desire for vengeance which would be less if one’s body or one’s property had been attacked. #RandolphHarris 4 of 25

“Splitting an object” refers to what happens when a person experiences more than one object where other people may be sure that there is only one. For instance, I might have split my experiences in which a way that I sometimes relate to a perfectly good mother, and sometimes bad. Where the point of a sentence is that a person’s experience of something or someone is not being shared by other people, is called a phantasy object or inner object. Phantasy, in psychodynamics, is also called expectancy. We may think of a person as passively undergoing experiences over which one has little control. However, from the experience of some regularly recurring routines, one will come to expect that the first stages of such a routine lead to the rest of a sequence. This is one way in which an organization of memory-traces becomes a dynamic structure. The experience of many individuals is that the emergence of a need—say, hunger—will lead to an expectation or an imaginative anticipation or a phantasy of something or someone coming to gratify that need: a complex concept of a gratifying person or a gratifying thing. This phantasy, once it is constructed, remains. The memory-traces persist. Even when the satisfaction does not come, the concept—the phantasy—is not wiped out. #RandolphHarris 5 of 25

   So one can keep thinking about this phantasy, making up stories about it, and so on. This does not depend directly on how often the god thing actually happens. If it does not happen so very regularly, the individual can build up two phantasies of a significant object (person)—of one who is good and satisfying, and of one who is uncontrollable and is sometimes satisfying and sometimes not. The fact that the latter is sometime satisfying, helps to maintain the phantasy of a satisfying good object, and the fact that the object sometime does not being satisfaction helps to maintain the phantasy of a bad object. It, too, persists Once a nasty or frightening concept has been established, it can keep alive and dynamic, independent of whatever good experiences may also be taking place. Objects are bad by virtue of having been experienced as painful, or as not-there when they should have been there, or as there when they were not wanted, or generally causing too much tension. If an individual is not frustrated, they will register what is going on. If the transition from feeling a need to having it met was smooth and without pain, the individual may not register it, at least in the very early stages of psychic development. #RandolphHarris 6 of 25

Howling, it seems clear to me that people do register pleasant sequences of exactment and gratification as well as unpleasant ones of excitement and gratification as well as unpleasant ones of excitement and frustration. I believe these pleasant sequences to be important in the development of a strong, realistically trusting and optimistic personality. However, in most cases bad objects are the first to be internalized. Still instincts are the motivating power because they have built-in drives toward objectives. The super-ego is a parental image created by a mixture of the individual’s experience of one’s own anxieties and one’s experience of one’s parents’ prohibitions and threats. The super-ego is a motivating power in so far as the individual took over the parental threats and prohibitions as part of its imagery (internalization). This made the super-ego an inner object with motivating power because the individual’s instinctual drive is thought to be directed to what the parent had; the energy of this drive, should not reach its target, was thought somehow to be diverted and deflected back to the individual. Thereafter the energy was available to the individual and reinforced the individual’s acceptance of parental prohibitions and threat. #RandolphHarris 7 of 25

The super-ego is the limbo of abandoned object-cathexes’, that is a collection of instinctive energies which had not been expended in gratification, because they had not reached the object(ive) to which they had been directed. Most persons are not aware of their own narcissism, but only of those of its manifestations which do not overtly reveal it. Thus, for instance, they will feel an inordinate admiration for their parents or for their children, and they have no difficulty in expressing these feelings because such behaviour is usually judged optimistically as filial piety, parental affection, or loyalty; but if they were to express their feelings about their own person, such as “I am the most wonderful person in the World,” “I am better than anyone else,” et cetera, they would be suspected not only of being extraordinarily vain, but perhaps even of not being quite sane. On the other hand, if a person has achieved something that finds recognition in the field of art, science, sports, business, or politics, one’s narcissistic attitude appears not only to be realistic and rational, but is also constantly fed by the admiration of others. In these cases one can give full rein to one’s narcissism because it has been socially sanctioned and confirmed. #RandolphHarris 8 of 25

The problem pf narcissism and creativity is a very complex one. In present-day Wester society there is a peculiar interconnection between the narcissism of the celebrity and the needs of the public. The latter wants to be in touch with famous people because the life of the average person is empty and boring. The mass media live from selling fame, and thus everybody is satisfied: the narcissistic performer, the public, and the fame merchants. Among political leaders a high degree of narcissism is very frequent; it may be considered an occupational illness—or asset—especially among those who owe their power to their influence over mass audiences. If the leader is convinced of one’s extraordinary gifts and of one’s mission, it will be easier to convince the larger audiences who are attracted by humans who appear to be so absolutely certain. However, the narcissistic leader does not use one’s narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; one needs success and applause for the sake of one’s own mental equilibrium. The idea of one’s greatness and infallibility is essentially based on one’s narcissistic grandiosity, not on one’s real achievements as a human being. #RandolphHarris 9 of 25

However, that does not mean one is nothing but a bluff; this is true frequently enough, but not always. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, for instance, were very narcissistic persons, yet they did no lack in important political achievements. However, these achievements were not such as to justify their feeling of self-assurance and unquestionable rightness often manifested in arrogance; at the same time, their narcissism was limited in comparison with that of others. When he lost the election of 1948, that explains why Churchill did not suffer from severe mental consequences. If Roosevelt had experienced defeat, I assume the same would have been the case, although the fact must not be ignored that even after political defeat, they would have retained a great number of admirers. Wilson’s case may be somewhat different; it would be a subject for study whether his political defeat did not create serious psychic problems that interacted with one’s physical illness. Some leaders prefer to die rather than to face defeat. And yet some can do without the narcissistic inflation because of their human core—conviction, conscience, love, and faith—is not very developed. #RandolphHarris 10 of 25

Extremely narcissistic persons are often forced to become famous, since otherwise they might become depressed or insane. However, it takes much talent—and appropriate opportunities—to influence others to such a degree that their applause validates these narcissistic dreams. Even when such people succeed, they are driven to seek further success, since for them failure carries the danger of collapse. Popular success is, as it were, their self-therapy against depression and madness. In fighting for their aims, they are really fighting for their sanity. The precept that there is no offense without a law (Nullum crimen sine lege), and the requirements it implies, also follow from the idea of a legal system. This precept demand that laws be known and expressly promulgated, that their meaning be clearly defined, that statutes be general both in statement and intent and not be used as a way  of harming particular individuals who may be expressly named (bills of attainder), that least the more severe offenses be strictly construed, and that penal laws should not be retroactive to the disadvantaged of those to whim they apply. These requirements are implicit in the notion of regulating behaviour by public rules. #RandolphHarris 11 of 25

For if, say, statues are not clear in what they enjoin and forbid, the citizen does not know how one is to behave. Moreover, while there may be occasional bills of attainder and retroactive enactments, these cannot be pervasive or characteristic features of the system, else it must have another purpose. A tyrant might change laws without notice, and punish (if that is the right word) one’s subjects accordingly, because one take pleasure in seeing how long it takes them to figure out what the new rules are from observing the penalties one inflicts.  However, these rules would not be a legal system, since they would not serve to organize social behaviour by providing a basis for legitimate expectations. Finally, there are those precepts defining the notion of natural justice. These are guidelines intended to preserve the integrity of the judicial process. If laws are directives addressed to rational persons for their guidance, courts must be concerned to apply and to enforce these rules in an appropriate way. A conscientious effort must be made to determine whether an infraction has taken place and to impose the correct penalty. Thus a legal system must make provisions for conducting orderly trails and hearings; it must contain rules of evidence that guarantee rational procedures of inquiry. #RandolphHarris 12 of 25

While there are variations in these procedures, the rule of law requires some form of due process: that is, a process reasonably designed to ascertain the truth, in ways consistent with the other ends of the legal system, as to whether a violation has taken place and under what circumstances. For example, judges must be independent and impartial, and no human may judge one’s own case. The mayor, senator, governor, or majority owner of a sports team cannot influence a judge’s ruling. Trials must be fair and open, but not prejudices by public clamour. The precepts of natural justice are to insure that the legal order will be impartially and regularly maintained. Now the connection of the rule of law with liberty is clear enough. Liberty is a complex of rights and duties defined by institutions. The various liberties specify things that we may choose to do, if we wish, and in regard to which, when the nature of the liberty makes it appropriate, others have a duty not to interfere. However, if the precept of no crime without a law is violated, say by statues, being vague and imprecise, what we are at liberty to do is likewise vague and imprecise. The boundaries of our liberty are uncertain. And to the extent that this is so, liberty is restricted by a reasonable fear of its exercise. #RandolphHarris 13 of 25

The same sort of consequences follow if similar cases are not treated similarly, if the judicial process lacks its essential integrity, if the law does not recognize impossibility of performance as a defense, and so on. The principle of legality has a firm foundation, then, in the agreement of rational persons to establish for themselves the greatest equal liberty. To be confident in the possession and exercise of these freedoms, the citizens of a well-0rdered society will normally want the rule of law maintained. We can arrive at the same conclusion in a slightly different way. It is reasonable to assume that even in a well-ordered society the coercive powers of government are to some degree necessary for the stability of social cooperation. For although humans know that they share a common sense of justice and that each wants to adhere to the existing arrangements, they may nevertheless lack full confidence in one another. They may suspect that some are not doing their part, and so they may be tempted not to do theirs. The general awareness of these temptations may eventually cause the scheme to break down. #RandolphHarris 14 of 25

The suspicion that others are not honouring their duties and obligations is increased by the fact that in the absence of the authoritative interpretation and enforcement of the rules, it is particularly easy to find excuses for breaking them. Thus even under reasonably ideal conditions, it is hard to imagine, for example, a successful income tax scheme on a voluntary basis. Such an arrangement is unstable. The role of an authorized public interpretation of rules supported by collective sanctions is precisely to overcome this instability. By enforcing a public system of penalties government removes the grounds for think that others are not complying with the rules. For this reason alone, a coercive sovereign is presumably always necessary, even though in a well-ordered society sanctions are not severe and many never need to be imposed. Rather, the existence of effective penal machinery serves as human’s security to one another. Knowing what things the law penalizes and knowing that these are within their power to do or not to do, citizens can draw up their plans accordingly. One who complies with the announced rules need never fear an infringement of one’s liberty. #RandolphHarris 15 of 25

Unless citizens are able to know what the law is and are given a fair opportunity to take its directive into account, penal sanction should not apply to them. This principle is simply the consequence of regarding a legal system as an order of public rules addressed to rational persons in order to regulate their cooperation, and of giving the appropriate weight to liberty. I believe that is view of responsibility enables us to explain most of the excuses and defenses recognized by the criminal law under the heading of mens rea and that it can be serves as a guide to legal reform. The ideal theory requires an account of penal sanctions as a stabilizing device and indicates the manner in which this part of partial compliance theory should be worked out. In particular, the principle of liberty lead to the principle of responsibility. The moral dilemmas that arise in partial compliance theory are also to be viewed with the priority of liberty in mind. Thus we can imagine situations of an unhappy sort in which it may be permissible to insist less strongly on the precepts of the rule of law being followed. Any injustice in the social order is bund to take its toll; it is impossible that its consequences should be entirely canceled out. #RandolphHarris 16 of 25

In applying the principle of legality we must keep in mind the totality of rights and duties that defines the liberties and adjust its claims accordingly. If we are to mitigate the loss of freedom from social evils that cannot be removed, and to aim for the least injustice that conditions allow, sometimes we may be forced to allow certain breached. Now, it is always true from the beginning to the end of the Bible, as well as of human history, that human deliverance comes from a personal relationship with God established in God’s gracious love and power. However, the law is an essential part of that relationship. The inadequacy of human effort taken by itself is simply assumed. Still, the law was given as an essential meeting place between God and human beings in covenant relationship with him, where the sincere heart would be received, instructed, and enabled by God to walk in his ways. God is the only restorer of souls. When those walking in personal relationship with God take one’s law into their heart, that law, as a living principle, quickens and restores connection and order to the flagging soul. However, that never happens in the absence of the personal presence and gracious action of God with the person involved. #RandolphHarris 17 of 25

Thus some of the greatest assurances of God’s personal presence are found in the Old Testament. In the book of Isaiah, for example: “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land fountains of water…that they may see and recognize, and consider and gain insight as well, that the hand of the Lord has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it,” reports Isaiah 41.10, 18, 20. Spirit, covenant, and law always go hand in hand within the path of spiritual formation, for it is the path of one who walks with God. Rational creatures are masters of their own acts; and for this reason certain special expressions of the divine will are assigned to their acts, inasmuch as God ordains rational creatures to act voluntarily and of themselves. Other creatures act only as moved by the divine operation; therefore only operation and permission are concerned with these. #RandolphHarris 18 of 25

All evil of sin, though happening in many ways, agrees in being out of harmony with the divine will. Hence with regard to evil, only one expression is assigned, that of probation. On the other hand, good stands in various relations to the divine goodness, since there are good deeds without which we cannot attain to the fruition of that goodness, and these are the subject of precept; and there are others by which we attain to it more perfectly, and these are the subject of counsel. Or it may be said that counsel is not only concerned with the obtaining of greater good; but also with the avoiding of lesser evils. Although the possibility of this discovery and awareness of God and establishment in it has always been with every human at every moment, the possibility is not. For one has to develop the equipment for maturing from the terrestrial being through human’s gathers experience to this full establishment in full union with one’s highest being. The savage may get the glimpse, and does, but this is only a beginning, not an end. We came from God and shall return to God, but that is an oversimplification which generally leads to misunderstanding. #RandolphHarris 19 of 25

If not on our part then on God’s if that is the case, then all this long pilgrimage with all its sufferings becomes a senseless waste of time and an idiotic expenditure of energy. It is like banging one’s head against a wall in order to enjoy the relief which follows when the actions ends. The Infinite Being, whose Consciousness and Power is behind the Universe of history, can itself have no history, for it is beyond time, evolution, change, development, can have no purpose which is gainful to itself, cannot be made the object of human thought correctly because it utterly transcends the limitations of such thought. However, all this is not to say that the World-Mind’s activity is meaningless, Idea-less, and fruitless. The very contrary is the case. However, because the causation is shown to be illusory, and the cosmos uncreated and unending, this does not mean that our cosmology denies the truth of evolution. It denies only the conventional attitude towards evolution. For it takes all change and hence all progress out of the realm of ultimate reality and relegated them to where they belong, to the realm of immediate appearance. Just as there have been misconceptions about the role played by the personal ego and the physical ego in the life of humankind—misconceptions which have arisen by holding on to ideas which are out of their time and place. #RandolphHarris 20 of 25

So the question must be asked, did these egos come by a process which launched them on a path where, the dew-drop slips into the shining sea, where the ego is utterly annihilated, where the personal self is completely dissolved in a sort of mass-consciousness, where all that it has gained from experience, all that it has learned from intelligence, is to be dissolved and thrown away as futile and useless although the ages upon ages have been taken for the process? Or will there unfold a higher type of individuality, one that is free because it has earned its freedom; free to exist in harmony with the universal harmony, with the Universal Mind. If anyone finds anything in this Universe which to complain, if one criticizes its defects and deficiencies, its evils and imperfections, let one remember that a Universe which is perfect in the sense that one means does not and could not exist. Only God is perfect. Anything else, even any Universe, being distinct from God, cannot also be perfect as Go without becoming God—when it would itself vanish. Nevertheless, even if they never attain it, its divine origin and sustenance are revealed in the fact that all things and all beings in its strive for perfection. #RandolphHarris 21 of 25

This is what evolution means and this is the secret spring being it—the quest for perfection. For in seeking to return to their source, they are compelled to seek its perfection too. That is, they are compelled to evolve from lower to higher states and forms, from evil conditions and characteristics to ideal ones. It is not a game of hide-and-seek that God is playing with humans, not a sport for God’s own amusement as some believe, but a process of evolvement intended to give humans insight into the Real and power for co-operative participation. It is a treasure-hunt through many Earthly lives. We murmur against the World’s obstructiveness to our aspirations: the body is our stumbling-block. Yet if we had to live always as disembodies spirits, our spiritual development would need an immeasurably longer time to accomplish itself. The sharper focus of physical consciousness quickens our pace. Humans, in their earlier phases of being, were connected with God and aware of it. However, this connection lacked one’s own control. Eventually, to fulfil the purpose of evolution, they lost this connection and reawaken this awareness by their own efforts and out of one’s own inner activity, through one’s own desiring and one’s own individual freedom. #RandolphHarris 22 of 25

What has one gained by this change to compensate the loss? One’s consciousness has become more sharply focused and consequently more clearly aware. Our source is in God; our growth is but a return to God, made fully conscious as we were not before. The immediate purpose of human incarnation and evolution is to develop a true and full self-consciousness at all levels from the lowest to the highest. The human who does not know oneself beyond the physical intellectual ego is still only half-conscious. As a human truly evolves, one is more guided more and more by intelligence and consciousness. It is a false evolvement which guides one into cunning and selfishness. The idea of human perfection would mean the attainment of a static condition, but nowhere in nature do we find such condition. Every thing is in a state of becoming. Reality is motion. Becoming and motion are processes, but Being, pure consciousness, is not. In the experience of a glimpse we discover this fact, Being transcends becoming, but it is only God who lives on the plane of Being; we humans many visit it, even for long periods, but we must return.  What a happy people we should be with the knowledge we have that this Earthly probation is not to prepare us to die, but to live; that the Father’s desire for us is that we may avoid every error and receive every truth. #RandolphHarris 23 of 25

By applying truth in out lives we become more like God, and become worthy to dwell with Him. We should think of it seriously because this is a serious matter. We must look into our own lives, not the lives of others, but out own lives and discover if we are prepared for the great future life, if we were called hence tomorrow whether we would be prepared to given an account for our Earthly deeds. Remember that it is the intelligence that you acquire that is eternal, the truth which you learn here and apply in your lives, the knowledge and experience you gain and profit by—these you will take with you when you go home. The thing that God has given to you that is worth more than all the rest is and the opportunity to obtain eternal life in the celestial kingdom and a gift far greater than silver and gold. God is not only of bliss, but of faithful and dedicated love, and may He be our model and our guide in our lives. Because of Jesus Christ’s righteous life, the Saviour is the perfect example to all, and His resurrection is the first assurance to humanity that, we, too, shall come forth from the tomb. At the end of my life, I put my trust in God. Ancient Wise Father, please cover me with your cloak as I walk in this valley that leads to you land. #RandolphHarris 24 of 25

Lord of Heaven, I greet you with arms wide open in trust as I learn to serve you in this realm. I will enter the World beyond Worlds with my eyes open and my head lifted, ready to experience its unique wonder, no loess beautiful than in this World I have known. I will go to your Land of Youth, to rest in your halls, O God of my people, to commune with the spirits of those who have gone this and who wait for me, there on the other side. The Lord has established His throne in the Heavens; and His kingdom rules over all. Let the Heavens be glad, and let the Earth rejoice; and let them say among the nations: “The Lord reigns.” The Lord is King, the Lord was King, the Lord shall be King forever and ever. The Lord is King for ever and ever; the heathens are perished out of His land. The Lord brings the design of the heathens to naught; He makes their thoughts of no effect. Many are the thoughts in a human’s heart; but it is the Lord’s counsel that shall stand. The counsels of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations. For God spoke, and the World came into being; God commanded, and it stood firm. For the Lord hath chosen America; He has desired it for His habitation. #RandolphHarris 25 of 25

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