It seems to me that the soul stands, above all, for the enlightened and rational notion that human beings are improved by the acquisition of knowledge and information and that no desire should be placed in it way, for the soul stores the energy that fuels life. It opens up the windows to the World and inspires us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. A belief in God can change lives for the better. Though the increasing complexity of the World, with burdensome social issues and shifting economic demands makes the work more difficult than ever before, for those like you who choose to hold steadfast in your faith and dedicates yourself to doing it well, the rewards make the journey worthwhile. You quietly get the job done, and you do it with incredible dedication, perseverance, and dignity in an environment of steadily diminishing resources and escalating criticism of humanity. Why do you keep trying? I believe the answer is very simple. You love the community. You want to help give others the best possible opportunity at life. The task of the enlightened is to balance the difficult juggling act of becoming vitally, vigorously, creatively, energetically, and inspiringly successful. One is wide enough in one’s outlook to look a contradictory ideas and things with equal calm. For they all melt in the Pure Mind. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

It should already be obvious that sacrifice and scapegoating are taking immense areas in human relations; when we think in these terms, we already feel quickened in our thoughts and our pulse—we know we are onto something big. I have lingered on guilt, sacrifice, heroism, and immortality because they are the key concepts for the science of humans in society that is emerging in our time. And the keys works for these concepts have already been written, which is good news in the life of any aspiring science; they only rub is that the scientific community itself has not realized this good news, and so we have been painfully slow in forging an agreed science of humans. The application of the ideas of guilt and sacrifice to modern sociology has been done largely by a few beings—notably Kenneth Burke and Hugh Dalziel Duncan. Let us dwell on this critical chapter in the evolution of an authentic science of beings. One can recognize that guilt and expiation are fundamental categories of sociological explanation, and it is reasonable to propose a simple formula: guilt must be canceled in society, and it is absolved by “victimage.” So universal and regular is the dynamic that one many wonder whether human society could possibly cohere without symbolic victims which the individual members of the group share in common. We can witness the civic enactment of redemption through the sacrificial victim, as the center of human’s social motivation. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

We are led to the central idea of victimage and redemption through Greek tragedy and Christianity; we see that this fundamentally religious notion is a basic characteristic of any social order. Again we are brought back to the idea that all culture is in essence sacred—supernatural. The miraculousness of creation is after all magnified in social life; it is contained in person and given color, form, drama. The natural mystery of birth, growth, consciousness, and death is taken over by society; and this interweaving of social form and natural terror becomes an inextricable mystification; the individual can only gape in awe and guilt. This religious guilt, then, is also a characteristic of so-called secular societies; and anyone who would lead a society must provide for some form of sacred absolution, regardless of the particular historical disguise that this absolution may wear. Otherwise society is not possible. Above all Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and Obama understood this and acted on it. If there is one thing that the tragic wars of our time have taught us, it is that the enemy has a ritual role to play, by means of which evil is redeemed. All wars are conducted as holy wars in a double sense then—as a revelation of fate, a testing of divine favor, and as a means of purging evil from the World at the same time. This explains why we are dedicated to war precisely in its most horrifying aspects: it is a passion of human purgation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

Whoever is dissatisfied with oneself is always ready to revenge oneself therefore; we others will be their victims. However, the irony is that beings are always dissatisfied and guilty in small and large ways, and this is what drives them to a search for purity where all dissatisfaction can come to a head and be wiped away. Beings try to qualify for eternalization by being clean and by cleansing the World around them of the evil, the dirty; in this way they show that they are on the side of purity, even if they themselves are impure. The striving for perfection reflects being’s effort to get some human grip on one’s eligibility for immortality. And one can only know if one is good if the authorities tell one so; this is why it is so vital for one emotionally to know whether one is liked or disliked, why one will do anything the group wants in order to meet its standards of “good”: one’s eternal life depends on it. Good and bad relate to strength and weakness, to self-perpetuation, to indefinite duration. And so we can understand that all ideology is about one’s qualification for eternity; and so are all disputes about who really is dirty. The target of one’s righteous hatred is always called “dirt”; in our day the short-hairs call the long-hairs “filthy” and are called in turn “pigs.” Since everyone feels dissatisfied with oneself (dirty), victimage is a universal human need. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

 And the highest heroism is the stamping out of those who are tainted. The logic is terrifying. The psychoanalytic group of guilt, anality, and sadism is translatable in this way to the highest levels of human striving and to the age-old problem of good and evil. From which we have to conclude that humans have been the midwives of horror on this planet because this horror alone gave them peace of mind, made them “right” with the World. No wonder Nietzsche would talk about “the disease of the World called humans.” It seems perverse when we put it so blatantly, yet here is a being who needs the spectacle of death in order to pen oneself to love. As humans wound and kill their enemy in the field and slaughter their women and children in their homes, our love for each other deepens. We become comrades in arms; our hatred of each other is being purged in the sufferings of our enemy. And even more relentlessly: We need to socialize in hate and death, as well as in joy and love. We do not know how to have friends without, at the same time, creating victims whom we must wound, torture, and kill. Our love rests on hate. If we talk again and shockingly about human baseness, it is not out of cynicism; it is only to better get some kind of factual purchase on our fate. However, it is only an illusion that we have to fear; and we have to take a full look at the worst in order to begin to get rid of illusions. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

Realism, even brutal, is not cynicism. We cannot become humane until we understand our need to visit suffering and death on others. The sociology of our time must begin in [such an] anguished awareness. From the point of view of such a sociology, the great scientific problems of our time have been the successful and grand social cohesions, especially of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Today we still gape in unbelief that the holocaust was possible in our civilized World, refusing to see how true it was to human’s nature and to their ambitions to transcend that nature. Hitler’s rise to power was based on one’s understanding of what people wanted and needed most of all, and so one promised them, above everything else, heroic victory over evil; and one gave them the living possibility of ridding themselves temporarily of their real guilt. As many die-hard rightists in the United States of America today realize better than anyone else, the tragedy of the lack of affordable housing and homelessness had loaded the Americans with a huge burden of unresolvable guilt and it as not been an easy truth to bare. The nation that represents victory and immortality or it has no mandate to exist. It must give tangible, straightforward victories of its credit is dissipated in the hearts of all its citizens. Yet, there is no immortality without guiltless victory. On these matters, rightists have always been a candid barometer of basic human urges. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

It took Stalin’s purge trials to show us that the highest humanistic ideals of socialist revolutionaries also have to be played out in a religious drama of victimage and redemption—if one is t have a pure and cohesive socialists society at all. The Russians exiled religious expiation but could not exile their own human nature, and so they had to conjure up a secular caricature of religious expiation. And they are still doing it: the magician-priests who give absolution to the clean communist masses now wear the white coats of hospital psychiatrist who transform dirty dissident victims with the latest techniques of “secular” science. It is grotesque, but we are warned always to watch for the “secular equivalents” of the theological formula of victimage and redemption; the scapegoat is not a “necessary illusion of savages, children, and the masses,” but now an achievement of the most advanced socialist society. China is reliving the idea of the primitive group soul which is a sacred fount of regeneration on which the whole community can draw so long as it remains pure. If one imagines these analogies far-fetched, one see how firmly they rest on a now well-founded tradition of social and psychological analysis. Persons who have a particular stigma tend to have similar learning experiences regarding their plight, and similar changes in conception of self—a similar moral career that is both cause and effect of commitment to a similar sequence of personal adjustments. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

One phase of this socialization process is that through which the stigmatized person learns and incorporates the standpoint of the normal, acquiring thereby the identity beliefs of the wider society and a general idea of what it would be like to possess a particular stigma. Another phase is that through which one learns that one possesses a particular stigma and, this time in detail, the consequences of possessing it. The timing and interplay of these two initial phases of the moral career from important patterns, establishing the foundation for later development, and providing a means of distinguishing among the moral careers available to the stigmatized. Four such patterns may be mentioned. One pattern involves those with an inborn stigma who become socialized into their disadvantageous situation even while they are learning and incorporating the standards against which they fall short. For example, an orphan learns that children naturally and normally have parents, even while one is learning what it means not to have any. After spending the first sixteen years of one’s life in the institution, one can still feel that one naturally knows how to be a father to his son. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

A second pattern derives from the capacity of a family, and to a much lesser extent a local neighborhood, to constitute itself a protective capsule for its young. Within such a capsule a congenitally stigmatized child can be carefully sustained by means of information control. Self-belittling definition of one are prevented from entering the charmed circle, while broad access is given to other conceptions held in the wider society, ones that lead the encapsulated child to see oneself as a fully qualified ordinary human being, of normal identity in terms of such basic matters as age and gender. The point in the protected individual’s life when the domestic circle can no longer protect one will vary by social class, place of residence, and type of stigma, but in each case will give rise to a moral experience when it occurs. Thus, public school entrance is often reported as the occasion of stigma learning, the experience sometimes coming very precipitously on the first day of school, with taunts, teasing, ostracism, and fights. Interestingly, the more the child is disabled the more likely one is to be sent to a special school for persons of his or her kind, and the more abruptly one will have to face the view which the public at large takes of one. One will be told that one will have an easier time of it among one’s own, and this learn that the own one thought he or she possessed was the wrong one, and that this lesser own is really his or hers. #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

It should be added that where the infantilely stigmatized manages to get through one’s early school years with some illusions left, the onset of dating or job-getting will often introduce the moment of truth. In some cases, merely an increased likelihood of incidental disclosure is involved. “I think the first realization of my situation, and the first intense grief resulting from this realization, came one day, very casually, when a group of us in our early teens had gone to the beach for the day. I was lying on the sand, and I guess the fellows and girls thought I was asleep. One of the fellows said, ‘I like Domenica very much, but I would never go out with a blind girl.’ I cannot think of any prejudice which so completely rejects you.” In other cases, something close to a systematic exposure is involved, as a cerebral palsy victim suggests: “With one extremely painful exception, as long as I was in the protective custody of family life or college schedules and lived without exercising my rights as an adult citizen, the forces of society were kindly and unruffling. It was after college, business school, and innumerable stretches as a volunteer worker on community projects that I was often bogged down by the medieval prejudices and superstitions of the business World. Looking for a job was like standing before a firing squad. Employers were shocked that I had the gall to apply for a job.” #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

A third pattern of socialization is illustrated by one who becomes stigmatized late in life, or learns late in life that one has always been discreditable—the first involving no radical reorganization of one’s view of one’s past, the second involving this factor. Such an individual has thoroughly learned about the normal and the stigmatized long before one must see oneself as deficient. Presumably one will have a special problem in reidentifying oneself, and a special likelihood of developing disapproval of self: “When I smelled the odor on the bus or subway before the colostomy I used to feel very annoyed. I would think that the people were awful, that they did not take a bath or that they should have gone to the bathroom before traveling. I used to think that they might have odors from what they ate. I used to be terribly annoyed; to me it seemed that they were filthy, dirty. Of course, at least opportunity I used to change my seat and if I could not it used to go against my grain. So naturally, I believed the young people feel the same way about me if I smell.” While there are certainly cases of individuals discovering only in adult life that they belong to a stigmatized tribal group or that their parents have a contagious moral blemish, the usual case here is that of physical handicaps that strike late in life. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

“But suddenly I woke up one morning, and found that I could not stand. I had had polio, and polio was as simple as that. I was like a very young child who had been dropped into a big, black hole, and the only thing I was certain of was that I could not get out unless someone helped me. The education, the lectures, and the parental training which I had received for twenty-four years did not seem to make me the person who could do anything for me now. I was like everyone else—normal, quarrelsome, gay, full of plans, and all of a sudden something happened! Something happened and I became a stranger. I was a greater stranger to myself than to anyone. Even my dreams did not know me. They did not know what they ought to let me do—and when I went to dances or to parties in them, there was always an odd provision or limitation—bot spoken of or mentioned, but there just the same. I suddenly had the very confusing mental and emotional conflict of a lady leading a double life. It was unreal and it puzzled me, and I could not help dwelling on it.” Here the medical profession is likely to have the special job of informing the infirm who one is going to have to be. A fourth pattern is illustrated by those who are initially socialized in an alien community, whether inside or outside the geographical boundaries of the normal society, and who then must learn a second way of being that is felt by those around them to be the real and valid one. #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

It should be added that when an individual acquires a new stigmatized self late in life, the uneasiness one feels about new associates may slowly give way to uneasiness felt concerning old ones. Post-stigma acquaintances may see one simply as a faulted person; pre-stigma acquaintances, being attached to a conception of what one once was, may be unable to treat one either with formal tact or with familiar full acceptance. “My task [as a blind writer interviewing prospective clients for his literary product] was to put the men I had come to see at their ease—the reverse of the usual situation. Curiously, I found it much easier to do with me I had never met before. Perhaps this was because with strangers there was no body of reminiscences to cover before business could be gotten down to and so there was no unpleasant contrast with the present.” Regardless of which general pattern the moral career of the stigmatized individual illustrates, the phase of experience during which one learns that one possesses a stigma will be especially interesting, for at this time one is likely to be thrown into a new relationship to others who possess the stigma too. In some cases, the only contact the individual will have with one’s own is a fleeting one, but sufficient nonetheless to show one that others like oneself exist. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

“When Tommy came to the clinic for the first time, there were two other little boys there, each with a congenital absence of an ear. When Tommy saw them, one’s right hand went slowly to one’s own defective ear, and he turned with wide eyes to his father and said, ‘There is another boy with an ear like mine.’” In the case of the individual who has recently become physically disabled, fellow-sufferers more advanced than oneself in dealing with the failing are likely to make one a special series of visits to welcome one to the club and to instruct one in how to manage oneself physically and psychically: “Almost my first awareness that there are mechanics of adjustment came to me with the comparison of two fellow patients I had at the Eye and Ear Infirmary. They used to visit me as I lay abed and I came to know them fairly well. Both had been blind for seven years. They were about the same age—a little past thirty—and both had college educations.” When we interact with other people, there is generally an authentic way, where one has been genuine in one’s transactions with people and true to one’s projects; and the counterfeit way, which seems to be the common, or all-American, way. And we can speak of the involved way—as in the case of one deeply committed to various projects—and the detached, uninvolved way. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

There is the personal way of the person of the being who enters into dialogue with one’s fellows; and there is the anonymous way of the one who neither knows, nor is ever known by, any single human being. All these ways are possible, and each can be viewed as a response to an invitation, a response that yields consequences for well or ill. A neurotic person, for example, may be seen as one who has chosen a rigid, encapsulated existence. It is safe, but it happens also to be suffocating. One chose to be this way, not only to feel safe, but also to hang on to the love of one’s parents or spouse. However, one pays a price for one’s choice. Of a sexually impotent person, we may say his mother invited him by word or gesture to follow the eunuchoid way. He accepted the invitations, and was rewarded with his mother’s approval. Some reward! Some price! But one must pay for everything in this World. If a person’s present being is the outcome of one’s acceptance of an invitation to be in some way, we can ask, “What do we know about invitation? Under what conditions is an invitation accepted or declined? Who extends the effective invitations? And who are the ones who respond to them?” We actually know a great deal about invitation, though the knowledge appears under other rubrics. We know a great deal about the psychology of suggestion, or persuasion, of hypnosis, and of leadership. Anything written under those headings seems to be relevant to a psychology of invitation. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

A good psychotherapist or a good nurse, teacher, leader, or hypnotist—even a good sales person—all these are experts at extending invitations or challenges that will be accepted. An invitation to someone carries with it the implication that the other has the power to carry it out. It is a form of the attribution of power. The successful inviters invite others to change some aspects of their being. They invite a person to change one’s ways of valuing, construing, striving, behaving, or buying; and the person accepts the invitation. The therapist invites one’s pupil to abandon ignorance, one’s present ways of thinking and believing, and to expose oneself to new experiences. The leader invites or challenges one’s follower to carry out a mission that the follower never imagined one could accomplish. The hypnotist invites one’s subject to recover previously inaccessible memories, and the subject does. The nurse or doctor invited a patient to take a pill or an operation, and the patient does. Therefore, remember the teachers who see something special in you and make a connection, those who plant those cherished memories and good feelings that continue to live within you wherever you are or whatever you have become. The Spirit of God now calls his people to live from an adequate basis for character transformation, resulting in obedience to and abundance in Christ. This really is something different. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

The present moment is not an occasion to keep on doing the same things Christians have been doing in the recent past—except now really meaning it. It is time to change our focus, individually and in our Christian groupings. If we as Christ’s people genuinely enter Christ’s Way of the Heart, individuals will find a sure path toward becoming the persons they were meant to be: thoroughly good and godly persons, yet purged of arrogance, insensitivity, and self-sufficiency. Christian assemblies will become what they have been in many periods of the past and what the World desperately calls for today: incomparable schools of life-life that is eternal in quality now, as well as unending in quantity. This is possible because the spirit and inner being of the human, as well as the process of its renovation in Christ, is an orderly realm where, even in the disorder of its brokenness, God has provided a methodical path of recovery. Grace does not rule out method, nor method grace. Grace thrives on method and method on grace. Spiritual formation in Christ is therefore not a mysterious, irrational—possibly hysterical—process: something that strikes like lightening, whenever and wherever it will, if at all. Or something that is magically conferred upon us as we dwell in the midst of curious rituals and antique practices. Spiritual experiences do not constitute spiritual formation, tough they could be a meaningful part therefor and sometimes are. #RandolphHarris 17 of 18

This, I freely admit, is contrary to a view of grace as passivity that is widely held now. However, the God-ordained order of the soul under grace must be discovered, respected, and cooperated with, if its God-intended results for spiritual growth are to be attained. Spiritual formation is something we human beings can and must undertake—as individuals and in fellowship with other apprentices of Jesus. While I is simultaneously a profound manifestation of God’s gracious action through his Word and Spirit, it is also something we are responsible for before God and can set about achieving in a sensible, systematic manner. Grant, we beseech Thee, O our God that Thy family, which has been saved by the Nativity of Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ, may also quietly repose on Him as a perpetual Redeemer, Who with Thee gives correct teachings about the quest and necessary warnings about its pitfalls, and teaches us how to live life with proper care and respect. Almighty and everlasting God, Who by Thine Only-begotten Son hast made us to be a new creation for Thyself, preserve the works of Thy mercy, and cleanse us from all our ancient stains; that by the assistance of Thy grace we may be found in His form, in Whom in our substance dwells with Thee, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. “We know that they are blessed, for they have gone to dwell with their God,” Alma 24.22. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

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We are looking into another World and another life. It is a divine World and a divine life. It is the kingdom of the Heavens. If knowledge is to grow and behavior is to be rational, people ought to use their brains. We live from our heart. God made the soul so that people did not have any excuse to be stupid. The soul is the door to many lives—its is where they greatest of human dramas unfold, the drama of igniting the human spirit, ennobling the human heart, and enriching the human experience. Good teaching comes from behind the heart. It begins with the physical basis of beings and proceeds to the higher mental processes; the knowledge ascends from bodily, sensory behavior to intellectual behavior. Those who search for secrets must do more than direct their understanding and reason to what humans have preserved in language, and do more than spin out new designs from the familiar fabric of a traditional mind. The part of us that drives and organizes our life is not the physical. It is a World and a life that ordinary people have entered and are entering now. It is a World that seems open to us and beckons us to enter. We feel its call. We live from depths—most of which we do not understand. “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life,” reports Proverbs 4.23. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

Through the divine spirit of the soul we learn by revelation of things divine. From the human soul and its treasures, all other doctrines are derived. If you possess knowledge which you are not using, it may be called potential, actual only when you are using it. The savior is the conqueror of the evil one and his powers. No one has used this image more impressively than Paul in his great song of triumph in the eighth chapter of Romans, when he says that none of the demonic powers which govern this World can separate us from the love of God. Saving is healing from sickness and saving is delivering from servitude; and the two are the same. Let me give you an example of their unity. We consider the neurotic or psychotic person who cannot face life as sick. However, if we describe one’s infirmary, we find that one is under the power of compulsions from which one cannot extricate oneself. One is, as the New Testament expressed it, demonically possessed. In one, disease and servitude are the same; and we ask whether, in some degree, this is not true of all of us. In which sense, we ask, do we need healing? in which sense liberation? What should salvation mean to us? Eternal life is beyond past, present, and future: we come from it, we live in its presence, we return to it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

Eternal life is never absent—it is the divine life in which we are rooted and in which we are destined to participate in freedom—for God alone has eternity. Humans should not boast of having an immortal soul as one’s possession for, as the letter to Timothy says: God alone has immortality. We are mortal like every creature, mortal with our whole being—body and soul—but we are also kept in the eternal life before we lived on Earth, while we are living in time and after our time has come to an end. If it is our destiny to participate in freedom in the divine life here and now, in and above time, we can say that the evil one is he from whom we pray to be delivered: It is the enslaving power which presents us from fulfilling our human destiny; it is the wall that separates us from the eternal life to which we belong; and it is the sickness of our being and that of our World caused by this separation. Salvation happens whenever the enslaving power is conquered, whenever the wall is broken through, whenever thee sickness is healed. One who can do this is called the savior. Nobody except God can do this. Those who are in chains cannot liberate themselves, and those who are sick cannot heal themselves. All liberating, all healing power comes from the other side of the wall which separates us from eternal life. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

Whenever this liberating and healing power appears, it is a manifestation of eternal, divine life in our temporal and mortal existence. All liberator, all healers are sent by God; they liberate and heal through the power of the eternal given to them. Who are those healers? Where are these saviours? Each of you has liberating and healing power over someone to whom you are a priest. Well all are called to be priests to each other; and if priests, also physicians. And if physicians, also counsellors. And if counsellors, also liberators. There are innumerable degrees and kinds of saving grace. There are many people who the evil one has enslaved so mightily that the saving power which may work through them has almost disappeared. One the other hand, there are the great saviour figures in whom large parts of humankind have experienced a lasting power of liberating and healing from generation to generation. Most of us are in between. And there is the one saviour in whom Christianity sees the one saviour in whom Christianity sees the saving grace without limits, the decisive victory over the demonic powers, the tearing down of the wall of guilt which separates us from the eternal, the healer who brings light a new reality in humans and one’s World. However, if we call him the saviour we must remember that God is the saviour through him and that there is a host of liberators and healers, including ourselves, through whom the divine salvation works in humankind. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

God does not leave the World at any place, in any time, without saviours—without healing power. In today’s World, famine, war, and epidemic are almost totally the outcome of human choices, which are expression of the human spirit. Individual disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our spiritual side. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?” “Seek first the kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all else shall be provided to you,” reports Matthew 6.33. And “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise being who built one’s house upon rock. The rain fell and the streams rose and the winds blew and beat upon the house. But it did not collapse, for it was built on rock,” reports Matthew 7.24-25. Accordingly, the greatest need you and I have—the greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our heart. The spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a World away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity is possessed in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

Thus in humans the body is the potential or material principle, and the soul the actualizing, vivifying, formal principle. The spirit is dynamic and is never at rest as long as there is life. If the soul requires an instrument or organ when it function, manifestations of its activity must reflect a dynamic state of affairs although these are not available to sense perception. Rational life, then, does not reflect static entities. Rational life involves movement, and its faculties and powers involve movement. Consequently, understanding, reason, imagination, memory, and will are names that designate types or classes of the soul’s activity. There is nothing static about human beings and their powers. Humans are a vibrant, dynamic mechanism. And these powers are innate and inherent in the soul. The object of logical behavior is to produce true knowledge and information rather than false, the object of ethical behavior to secure good actions rather evil. To accomplish such objects, logical behavior uses the understanding and reason, and the science of logic treats of these faculties. Ethical behaviour utilizes the will, appetite, and affections, and the science of ethics handles these faculties. Both provinces, the judicial and the ministerial, use the imagination and memory to make one stand out in moral grandeur. One’s voice seems to speak not merely with utter conviction but with absolute authority. One’s knowledge seems to come from a very deep level. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

There is the supreme relaxation of one who keeps certain resources—the most hidden, the most powerful—always in reserve. One is not good because of imposed rules or prescribed regulations. One is good because it is impossible for one to be anything else. One will find one’s proper place in the cosmic order, neither too low nor too high, and know one’s proper relationship to the divine intelligence behind that order, the World-Mind (God). The enlightened being can establish truth gleaned by insight, not put together by intellect through any organized institution or printed publication. A being who is in this state automatically repels negative thoughts and effortlessly wards off destructive ones. They cannot live in one’s atmosphere. The serenity is not something which has been added to one. It has been integrated as a part of one’s being. Although one is forced, like all humans, to take cognizance of the Word around one, of its horrors and squalors, its evils and vilenesses, the gate leading out of it all can be opened at will, and quickly. The way back into the ethereal World, with its beauty and peace, is always existent for one. The certitude which some to one is not merely the kind which opposes the meaning of hesitance, but also the kind which is the opposite of mere belief, which is born of complete understanding, perfect knowledge, and direct experience. To the extent that this person is open to all of one’s experience, one has access to all the available data in the situation, on which to base one’s behaviour. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Enlightened individuals have knowledge of their own feelings and impulses, which are often complex and contradictory. One is freely able to sense the social demands, from the relatively rigid social laws to the desires of friends and family. One has access to one’s memories of similar situations. He has a relatively accurate perception of this external situation in all of its complexity. One is better able to permit one’s total organism, one’s conscious thought participating, to consider, weigh and balance each stimulus, need, and demand, and its relative weight and intensity. Out of this complex weighing and balancing one is able to discover that course of action which seems to come closest to satisfying all one’s needs in the situation, long-range as well as immediate needs. In such a weighing and balancing of all the components of a given life choice, one’s organism would not by any means be infallible. Mistaken choices might be made. However, because one tends to be open to one’s experience, there is a greater and more immediate awareness of unsatisfying consequences, a quicker correction of choices which are in error. It may help to realize that in most of the defects which interfere with this weighing and balancing are that we include things that are not a part of our experience, and exclude elements which are. Thus the individual may persist in the concept that “I can eat pie,” when openness to one’s past experience would indicate this is so. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

The person of enlightened mind knows not the conflict of contemplation and non-contemplation, good and evil. One abides, as it were, in the state of Absoluteness. Devoid of the feeling of “mine-ness” and “I-ness”, knowing for certain that nothing is, and with al one’s desires set at rest within, the being of knowledge does not act through one may be acting. The adept is marked off from one’s fellows by the aura of controlled emotion and calm sureness which one carries with one. One does not fear one’s fellow beings however evil they be, for one does not depend upon one’s own personal strength alone but upon the Higher Self and its boundless power. One feels that such an adept is in mind the oldest human one knows and yet in heart the youngest. These beings are not less practical for all one’s transcendental consciousness and spiritual experience. One understands as well as any cynic the low depths on which so many human relations functions. One sees quite clearly the greeds, the pettinesses, and the rancours that fill the air of human society. However, one also sees beyond and above them. In general then, it appears to be true that when one is open to one’s experience, one comes to find one’s organism more trustworthy. One feels less fear or the emotional reactions one has. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

Where one is alone in the privacy of one’s room or in public being watched by others, whether performing routine actions or entirely new ones, one will attain unified conduct because one has attained conscious unity of being. There is a gradual growth of trust in, and even affection for the complex, rich, varied assortment of feelings and tendencies which exist in one at the organic level. Do not be deceived by one’s modesty, one’s freedom from any of the varied forms of personal vanity, for beneath the surface there is ironclad assurance. A being of one’s status is able to scatter light in so many different types of mind because one is free from inflexible standpoints. So completely one freed oneself from the tyrannic sway of egoism that one can enter, though emotive thought, into another being’s personality, however offensive or antipathetic that being might ordinarily be to one. Consciousness, instead of being the watchman over a dangerous and unpredictable lot of impulses, of which few can be permitted to see the light of day, becomes comfortable inhabitant of a society of impulses and feelings and thoughts, which are discovered to be very satisfactorily self-governing when not fearfully guarded. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Generally let this be a rule that all divisions of knowledge be accepted and used rather for lines to mark or distinguish, than sections to divine and separate them; in order that the continuance and entireness of knowledge be preserved. The goal is eventually to bring all of human life on Earth under the direction of wisdom, goodness, and power, as part of God’s eternal plan for the Universe. In thus sending out his Angel’s, God set afoot a perpetual World of revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God’s will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven. As this revolution culminates, all the forces of evil known to humankind will be defeated and the goodness of God will be known, accepted, joyously confirmed to in every aspect of human life. “The whole Earth is full of God’s glory,” reports Isaiah 6.3. However, the day is yet to come when the Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart and spirit. This is a revolution of character, which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layers of their soul. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

External, social arrangements may be useful to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means. On the other hand, from those divinely renovated depths of the person, social structures will naturally be transformed so that justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Such streams cannot flow through corrupted souls. Conversely, a renovated within will not cooperate with public streams of unrighteousness. It will block them—or die trying. It is the only thing that can do. Another trend which is evident in this process of becoming a person relates to the source or locus of choices and decisions, or evaluative judgments. The beings increasingly comes to feel that this locus of evaluation is possessed within oneself. Less and less does one look to others for approval or disapproval; for the standards to live by; for decisions and choices. One recognizes that it rests within oneself to choose; that the only question which matters is, “Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?” This I think is perhaps the most important question for the creative individual. One woman who was really confused about life had been contemplating suicide. She wanted to be dependent, and just let someone take over her life. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Gradually, however, she realized that a sense of freedom was frightening to her. She felt something powerful within her, but was afraid to cut loose from her support. It takes strength to be a unique person, responsible for oneself, and also there is some uneasiness that accompanies this assumption of responsibility. To recognize that “I am he one who chooses” and “I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me” is both an invigorating and frightening realization. It is exciting, sometimes upsetting, but deeply encouraging to feel yourself in action, apparently knowing where you are going even though you do not always consciously know where that is. One can see here both the expression of trust in the organism, and also the realization of self as a process. The whole train of experiencing, and the meanings that one has thus far discovered in it, seem to launch one on a process which is both fascinating and at times a little frightening. It seems to mean letting one’s experiences carry one on, in direction which appears to be forward, towards goals that one can but dimly define, as one tries to understand at least the current meaning of that experience. The sensation is that of floating with a complex stream of experience, with the fascinating possibility of trying to comprehend its every-changing complexity. A soul is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

Those who receive Jesus Christ as their living Lord and constant instructor will be God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, and will learn how to be blameless and harmless, children of God, faultless in the midst of a twisted and misguided generation, from which they shine as lights in the World, lifting up a word of life. This is an ongoing process. The relationship of body and mind entails an antistrophe. The humours and temperament of the body alter and work upon the mind, and the passions and apprehensions of the mind alter and work upon the body. As for the first: physicians prescribe drugs to heal mental diseases, as in the treatment of phrensy and melancholy; and pretend also to exhibit medicines to exhilarate the mind, to fortify the heart and thereby confirm the courage, to clarify the wits, to corroborate the memory, and the like. The root and life of all which prescripts consist in the sympathy of the mind with the state and disposition of the body. As for mental and emotional sates directly working upon bodily states, there is no physician of any skill who does not attend to the accidents of the mind, as a thing most material towards recoveries, and of the greatest force to further or hinder other remedies. Images have the power of working on the body of the imaginant and they also have the power of affecting the body of another. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

The apparent interplay of mental and physical conditions implicate that the mental events might be physiological in character and may be localized within the body. In some degree, the brain is a castle, and a considerable degree, both intellectual and emotional behavior depend upon bodily functions. Beings are something that live and can maintain life. Their vitality and sentience are evident in movement and in patterns of movement whose necessary and material basis is spirit. Such a complex of organized movement has the name of soul. God gave this ability, this soul, to humans. Humans uses their distinctive ability to produce knowledge and opinion and to communicate them. By it they make their philosophy and science, their history, and their poetry. One can project one’s empathic imagination into another person’s mind to such a degree that one can identify oneself with that person. The Sphinx is a perfect image of the adept in whom the being controls the terrestrial spirit. The attainment is a rare one—too many are satisfied to remain hardly more than a terrestrial spirit, with a few Godly traits. There is no patronizing condescension in one’s attitude toward those who are less evolved, no spiritual snobbery towards the masses. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

One cannot possibly suffer from the gloomy disappointment which those suffer who, believe that they have a clear mission in life, sadly find that they cannot establish their ideas or gather a following. Either they have not freed themselves sufficiently from clinging emotional desires—whether to be applauded by others or to reform them—or they have not freed themselves from identification with the personal ego. It is not only a matter of having more goodness than ordinary people that distinguishes one. It is primarily one’s contact with a higher dimension of being altogether. The enlightened individual has achieved perfect obedience to this fundamental Law of Balance in oneself, in one’s life, and in the Universe. The nature of the spirit is that it is the master-wheel which turns the other wheels in the body of beings. It is a particle that might be thought of like an atom, and spirits are essential to all kinds of change and movement in both inanimate and animate things. They are never at rest. The aspirant may have already discovered for oneself some of the inner benefits of the spirit. Once God has been experiences as a felt living presence in the heart, it loosens the grip of egoistic desires—together with their emotional changes of mood—on one’s consciousness and lifts it to a higher level, where one will soon become aware of a wonderful inner satisfaction which remains calm and unruffled despite outward circumstances to the contrary. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Ultimately, the aspirant has to rise into that pure atmosphere whence one can survey one’s personal life as a thing apart. Still more difficult is it for one to live on that level while expressing the wisdom and goodness known to one. It is, however, almost beyond human strength to achieve the second part of such a program. Therefore, one has first to establish the connection with God so that his strength and understanding will then rule one effortlessly. The moment this connection is established, the aspirant will become aware of results from the descent of Divine Grace upon one’s personality. Such a moment is unpredictable, but, for the individual who stick to the Quest of Truth, its arrival is sure. Out of these intense struggles with one’s thoughts and emotions, these repeated meditations and altruistic actions, these constant self-analyses and ardent yearnings, one will eventually get something which words can hardly describe. It will be a new sense of sacredness, an enlightened awareness of a deeper self, a blessed loving serenity. In prayer, spiritual studies, and right conduct we have the triune path which brings satisfaction, peace, wisdom, and true prosperity. We are all children of God. It is our Father’s business to look after his children. Despite the tragedy and horror of our times, those who have eyes to see can still see the divine arms enfolding us. Despite the presence of monstrosities in the World, there is also the presence of God—beautiful, radiant, graceful, an indestructible. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

Intelligence exercised constantly in musing upon the nature of life, the movements of the Universe, the psychology of beings, and the mystery of God—if exercised in calmness, intuitive balance, and depth—leads to the opening up of the soul. If one lets this purpose penetrate one’s entire life, one will soon joyously feel that one is part of the eternal structure of the Universe, that one fits into the Idea of it at some point, and that with such a high relationship all things must work together for one’s ultimate good. Our whole soul has a great war of ideas, and we are the arms dealers distributing the sublime influence of God to the World. However, now I must repeat a question asked before. What does all this mean for our lives? When and where do we, ourselves, experience such saving power? When and where are we liberated, healed? It is one of the most memorable facts in the Biblical stories about Jesus that a large part of them are healing stories. There are three types: those in which people are sick of body are directly healed; those in which people are sick of body are forgiven and healed; and those in which people sick of mind are delivered from what was called demonic possession. It is regrettable that most preaching emphasizes the miraculous character of these stories, often using a poor, superstitious notion of miracles instead of showing the profound insight they betray into infirmary, healthy, and healing—the inseparable unity of body and mind. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

They are stories of salvation, preformed by Him who was called the Saviour. In them, it is visible that saving is healing. Make us, we beseech Thee, O Lord our God, watchful and heedful in awaiting the Coming of Thy Son Christ our Lord; that when He shall come and knock, He may find us not sleeping in sins, but awake, and rejoicing in His praises; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. We beseech Thee, Almighty God, let our souls enjoy this their desire, to be enkindled by Thy Spirit; that being filled, as lamps, by the Divine gift, we may shine like blazing lights before the presence of Thy Son Christ at His Coming; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. We beseech Thee, O Lord our God, let us all rejoice with upright hearts, being gathered together in the unity of faith; that at the Coming of Thy Son our Saviour, we may go forth undefiled to meet Him, in the company of His Saints; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. We beseech Thee, Almighty God, to behold our prayers, and to pour out upon us Thy loving tenderness; that we who are afflicted by reason of our sins may be refreshed by the Advent of our Saviour; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. “Therefore they did watch over their people, and did nourish them with things pertaining to righteousness,” reports Mosiah 23.18. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

You have joined together in good-will and love, rejoice in your children and expect to go on rejoicing in them. That is your personal affair and concerns your personal happiness. Within the course of this happy process you have given birth to new human beings. A time will come when these beings will cease to be solely the instruments of your happiness, and will step forth as independent members of society. For society, it is by no means a mater of indifference what kind of people they will become. In delegating to you a certain measure of societal authority, the Church of Jesus Christ demands from you the correct upbringing of its future citizens. Particularly it relies on you to provide conditions arising naturally out of your union; namely, your parental love. If you wish to give birth to a citizen while dispensing with parental love, then be so kind as to warn society that you intend to do such a filthy thing. Human beings who are brought up without parental love are often deformed beings. We beseech Thee, O Lord our God, to gird up the loins of our mind by Thy Divine power; that at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, we may be found worthy of the banquet of eternal life; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, this grace unto Thy people, to wait with all vigilance for the Coming of Thine Only-begotten Son; that as He, the Author of our salvation, taught us, we may prepare our souls like blazing lamps to meet Him, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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