Saturday, April 6, 2019
Hanns-Oskar Porr contacted Hegel – and was contacted by James Joyce – and of course wonders if it is out of his subconscious mind or is a real contact. I have hope that others will begin to do the same. This could become something, if we could develop a community of people doing it and submitting it for each other’s consideration, humbly and in a spirit of joint exploration. Friends? Any comment?
The potential for such a community is even larger than you can envisage. It could provide a breakthrough for those who participate, and, through them individually and collaboratively, for the human race. The ultimate effect of individuals’ and groups’ efforts can be far greater, more far-reaching over time, than seems probable. St. Francis of Assisi, after listening, created the Franciscan order that arguably prevented the Catholic Church (which in those days meant Western Christendom) from decaying into irrelevance. One person listening to a voice that he might have dismissed as imaginary resulted in major unsuspected results echoing first among a few, then within an institution, then more generally within society. Francis was not responsible for the distant effects of his efforts, but he did affect contemporary society, and any of you may be called to do the same thing. See that you do not dismiss such a call out of a false sense of unworth. It is not a question of worth, but of willingness.
I know you do not mean for us to become inflated, however.
What good could that do anyone? Nietzsche, Hitler, televangelists, so many possible examples, will show you how initial good intentions may be wrecked by an individual’s inability to deal with the temptations that accompany profound contact with non-3D power and with the resultant distorting effect it may have in terms of other people. Humility is the essential prophylactic antidote. It is difficult to become humble. Much easier to remain so. But it requires attention, for these temptations are not trivial, and no one is immune. However, bearing that in mind, there remains the opposite error of the fallacy of insignificance. Ideally, one would say something like, “In myself I am nothing, but I am capable of being used, and willing to do so.”
“I still serve Ra.”
That’s the idea. And you’d better have a good idea, going into it, just what values you will serve, because you won’t know, really, who you are dealing with. You may assume, you may conclude on the basis of evidence, but how can you ever know you are not in error, or are not being deceived by the other side (which, remember, is always a possibility), or are not fantasizing for whatever reason?
“Test the spirits,” we are told.
Exactly. Don’t believe everything you hear, and don’t automatically disbelieve, either. Weigh what you hear – and, to do that, it helps to have simple permanent touchstones. Values. The values you want to uphold. In case this point is obscure, let us underline it. You said as an example serving Ra. You will not wind up serving a personage, but the values you imagine that personage as supporting. You couldn’t very well follow Francis of Assisi while amassing wealth for whatever ostensible purpose.
To return to the point, it would be possible to spark a voluntary community of ordinary people who made a practice of extraordinary connection, and shared the results of such communication in the spirit of humility. Rather than attempting to lay down the law (“This was X who spoke. This is exactly what X meant,” etc. ) they would say, “This is what I got; take it for what it’s worth. What does it spark in you?” No ultimate authority, you see. No false certainty. No psychic inflation. And at the same time, no working in oppressive secretive isolation, no fears for one’s mental stability.
It is an attractive vision.
And available today. Your own efforts, which began in private obscurity, have been gently guided by events and by your own inclinations (which in a way is saying the same thing twice) and by the response of those who have felt called at least to listen if not to contribute. So, that groundwork has been done. Now it is to the point where, with a little organizational preparation, one man’s work can be handed off smoothly to a more enduring form and a more significant community.