Agree With This Plea? Be Anti-Anti, and Pro-Pro Only.
DriftingByTheStorm
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Just got to this part in the book ... probably the least nonsensical and most succinct point she makes thus far in my reading. Curious about opinions over here on the Grooving Train.
This quote lies in the middle of a confusing-esoteric-sandwich but I pulled out the coherent section, and I think it stands on it's own fairly well.
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I ask you to drop your antagonisms and your antipathies, your hatreds and your racial differences, and
attempt to think in terms of the one family, the one life, and the one humanity. I ask for no sentimental
or devotional response to this challenge. I would remind you that hatred and separateness have brought
humanity to the present sad condition. I would add to that reminder, however, the fact that there is in
the world today a large enough number of liberated men to produce a change in the attitudes of
mankind and in public opinion, if they measure up by an act of the will to what they know and believe.
I challenge you also to make sacrifices; to give yourself and your time and your money and your
interest to carry these ideas to those around you in your own environment and to the group in which
you find yourself, thus awakening your associates. I call you to a united effort to inculcate anew the
ideas of brotherhood and of unity. I ask you to recognise your fellow workers in all the groups and to
strengthen their hands. I ask you to seal your lips to words of hatred and of criticism, and to talk in
terms of brotherhood and of group relationships. I beg of you to see to it that every day is for you a
new day, in which you face new opportunity. Lose sight of your own affairs, your petty sorrows,
worries and suspicions, in the urgency of the task to be done, and spread the cult of unity, of love and
of harmlessness.
I ask you also to sever your connection with all groups which are seeking to destroy and to attack, no
matter how sincere their motive. Range yourself on the side of the workers for constructive ends, who
are fighting no other groups or organisations and who have eliminated the word "anti" out of their
vocabulary. Stand on the side of those who are silently and steadily building for the new order—an
order which is founded on love, which builds under the impulse of brotherhood, and which possesses a
realisation of a brotherhood which is based on the knowledge that we are each and all, no matter what
our race, the children of the One Father, and who have come to the realisation that the old ways of
working must go and the newer methods must be given a chance.
If you cannot yourself teach or preach or write, give of your thought and of your money so that others
can. Give of your hours and minutes of leisure so as to set others free to serve the Plan; give of your
money so that the work of those associated with the New Group of World Servers may go forward with
rapidity. Much time you waste on non-essentials. Many of you give little or nothing of time. The
same is the case with money. Give as never before, and so make the physical aspects of the work
possible. Some give of their very need, and the power they thereby release is great. Those on the inner side are grateful for the giving by those who can give only at great personal cost. Others give of what they can spare and only when it needs no sacrifice to give. Let that condition also end, and give to the limit, with justice and understanding, so that the age of love and light may be more rapidly ushered in. I care not where or to whom you give, only that you give,—little if you have but little of time or money, much if you have much. Work and give, love and think, and aid those groups who are building and not destroying, loving and not attacking, lifting and not tearing down. Be not taken in by the specious argument that destruction is needed. It has been needed, no doubt; but the cycle of destruction is practically over, could you but realise it, and the builders must now get busy.
I challenge you above all to a deeper life, and I implore you for the sake of your fellow men to
strengthen your contact with your own soul so that you will have done your share in making revelation
possible; so that you will have served your part in bringing in the light, and will therefore be in a
position to take advantage of that new light and new information, and so be better able to point the way and clear the path for the bewildered seeker at that time.
This quote lies in the middle of a confusing-esoteric-sandwich but I pulled out the coherent section, and I think it stands on it's own fairly well.
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If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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If you're "anti" something, that's not a bad thing, but make sure you have a "pro", or a positive that replaces the "anti" when that's taken away. E.g. I'm sure most of us and anti-violence, but what are 'pro'? If you take away the violence, what replaces it? Do and be what you identify as the replacement.
Godfather.
I think she is speaking of a higher "synthesis" of both the communist and free-market capitalist systems. Given my understanding that the Unites States was set up as a Thesis and then, later, the USSR set up as the Antithesis in order to drive the two together in Hegelian Synthesis ... and that this was done deliberately by some "illumined" minds ... that would make sense.
Notice she still talks about "money" and of "giving FREELY". This isn't compulsion just wise\right use of tongue, pocket book, and time.
Going from this to looking at how she has been pigeon holed in the past, Bailey (as well as Blavatsky and all of the "Theosophists") was derided by her more "Western" esoteric "opposition" (the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, The Order of the Golden Dawn, and then Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis) as being renegade from the "true" parent Order (whatever it is claimed to be), and of having fallen to "Esoteric Buddhism". However, I fail to see any of her teachings which stink of sectarian "Buddhist" dogma, any more so than a lot of the HBL documents stink of scientifically disprovable "Western" esoteric dogma. If anything, her actual stated cosmogony\cosmology is far less scrutable, and often so thickly veiled as to defy being disproved simply because one can hardly comprehend the logical implications of her statements. Sometimes she evenly blatantly states that she KNOWS this to be the case (ie. she knows you can't possibly understand what she is saying).
Anyhow, one can step back with a skeptical scrutiny and decry that this is "dream world" stuff, and that it can "never happen". I would actually argue that it IS currently happening, and that it is how the "globalization" push that has been underway for the last 50-100 years (remember the failed League of Nations?) has continued with such momentum in such a relatively short amount of time.
Although he certainly isn't a perfect president, and even only in the context of what we are here discussing still not perfect, Barack Obama represents a still valid (arguably "good") example of Bailey's above "treatise". In his prepared speeches (though not always in his off-the-cuff remarks) BHO comes off as pointedly non-confrontational, and words his statements so as to try and "bridge gaps" of understanding between conflicting parties\ideologies. When orating, he seldom has laid divisive blame, and I think he (and his handlers) probably try consciously to avoid such negative speech - not by happenstance - but deliberately in commitment to the above code. (also, remember, every one voted for "change", but he didn't really destroy any of those things people may have suspected he would ... instead he supported the current economic system, big banks and all, as well as huge chunks of the "Bush Doctrine" on wartime behavior).
I think that is why the elite are constantly going to these super secret gatherings ... not to fight or tear down each other's ideas or ideologies, but to continuously strive for that common understanding that "gets things done". They are constructively working on policy agendas in secret ... not by fighting it out, but by intelligently and respectfully searching together for the "right" course of action. Some of their functions obviously have a much greater policy bent (Bilderberg, CFR) and others are more focused on personal camaraderie and relationship building (Bohemian Grove) with the intent of tearing down egoistic walls which may otherwise crop up to interfere with the "Pro-Pro Only" mindset.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
i dunno.
so much vitriolic animosity being spewed ... kat closing down threads frequently these days ... just thought this was worth a bump.
also, may be slightly intoxi-mated.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
And, I too am tired of the bile shot from all sides. Labels. Stereotypes. Blinders.
"You're this!"
"Oh yeah? Well you're THIS!"
Closed minds do nothing for constructive discussion.
I want to learn about other issues, understand as many points of view as I can, but when they begin with bias or the kind of anger that clouds reason, it just makes me wanna say fuck it. And that's too bad...for me.
Maybe for others as well.
(also to Beavers, I liked this - "Do things that take you out of your ego." A-fucking-men.)
Hope you're not hungover this morning, Driftin.
i'm not sure that obstacle could be overcome ... particularly with so much ignorance and indoctrination going on ...
I fear it is alive and well
Of course, I type this tonight and tomorrow India invades Pakistan, N. Korea fires a dirty rocket over the border, and China invades Mexico for the cheap labor...
edit: oh, and Hedonist, you are sooo this. Take that.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
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