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PERMIT THE CHRIST SPIRIT ENTRANCE
DISTANCE GROUP MEDITATION
– EVERY SUNDAY AT 21.00 –
for invoking Soul Ray of Greece, Nations and One Humanity
Jule 5, 2020
Text read by brother D.M.:
3. The Law of Service
We come now to the
consideration of the third Law of the Soul, which is intended to govern all
soul activity. It is the Law of
Service. However, before we elaborate
this theme, there are three things which I seek to say and which merit our
careful attention.
First, is the fact
that the result of all contact achieved in meditation and the measure of our
success, will be determined by the ensuing service to the race. If there is right understanding, there will
necessarily be right action.
[…]
… The Law of Service
is something which may not be escaped.
Evasion brings its penalties, if that evasion is conscious. Ability to serve marks a definite stage of
advance upon the Path, and until that stage is reached, spontaneous service,
rendered in love and guided by wisdom, cannot be given. What is found up to that time is good
intention, mixed motives, and oft fanaticism.
[…]
… The Law of Service
was expressed for the first time fully by the Christ two thousand years
ago. He was the forerunner of the
Aquarian Age, and hence His constant emphasis upon the fact that He was the
"water of life", the "living water" which men needed. Hence the esoteric name of this law is that
of "water and the fishes." The
Piscean age slowly, very slowly, prepared the way for the divine expression of
service, which will be the glory of the coming centuries. Today, we have a world which is steadily
coming to the realisation that "no man liveth unto himself", and that
only as the love, about which so much has been written and spoken, finds its
outlet in service, can man begin to measure up to his innate capacity.
The sign for the
Aquarian Age is that of a man, carrying on his shoulders a jar of water so full
that it pours over to all and sundry, and yet it diminishes not. The sign for this Law of Service is very
similar, but the difference lies in this; that the man stands, perfectly
balanced in the form of a cross, with arms stretched out and with the water pot
upon his head. In this difference there
lies much of real significance. The jar
of water, posed upon the shoulders, is a sign of the burden of service. It is not easy to serve. Man is today only beginning to learn how to
serve. The jar of water upon the head of
the man, who has been upon the cross of sacrifice for so long a time that the
position has become to him perfectly natural, indicates that the cross, which
has upheld him for so long, has now disappeared. The man with the water jar upon his head
indicates to us poise, equilibrium and balance.
For this balance, the understanding of the Law of Magnetic Impulse has prepared
him. That is the Law of Polar Union and
its symbol is the originator of the zodiacal sign for the constellation
Libra—balance and service. These are the
two expressions of Divinity which are, today, man's next great objective.
Service is usually
interpreted as exceedingly desirable and it is seldom realised how very
difficult service essentially is. It
involves so much sacrifice of time and of interest and of one's own ideas, it
requires exceedingly hard work, because it necessitates deliberate effort,
conscious wisdom, and the ability to work without attachment. These qualities are not easy of attainment by
the average aspirant, and yet today the tendency to serve is an attitude which
is true of a vast majority of the people in the world. Such has been the success of the evolutionary
process.
[…]
How do we define the word "Service"?
The definition of
this word is not easy. There has been
too much attempt to define it from the angle of personality knowledge. Service can be briefly defined as the spontaneous
effect of soul contact. This contact is
so definite and fixed that the life of the soul can pour through into the
instrument which the soul must perforce use upon the physical plane. It is the manner whereby the nature of that
soul can demonstrate in the world of human affairs. Service is not a quality or a performance; it
is not an activity towards which people must strenuously strive, nor is it a
method of world salvage. This
distinction must be clearly grasped, or else our whole attitude to this
momentous demonstration of the success of the evolutionary process in humanity
will be at fault. Service is a life
demonstration. It is a soul urge, and is
as much an evolutionary impetus of the soul as the urge to self-preservation or
to the reproduction of the species is a demonstration of the animal soul. This is a statement of importance. It is a soul instinct, if we may use such an
inadequate expression and is, therefore, innate and peculiar to soul unfoldment. It is the outstanding characteristic of the
soul, just as desire is the outstanding characteristic of the lower
nature. It is group desire, just as in
the lower nature it is personality desire.
It is the urge to group good. It
cannot, therefore, be taught or imposed upon a person as a desirable evidence
of aspiration, functioning from without and based upon a theory of
service. It is simply the first real
effect, evidenced upon the physical plane, of the fact that the soul is
beginning to express itself in outer manifestation.
Neither theory nor
aspiration will or can make a man a real server. How then is it that there is so much activity
in service demonstrating in the world today?
Simply because the
life, words and deeds of the worlds first Great Server, of the One Who came to
make clear to us what service essentially is, has necessarily had an effect,
and men today are earnestly attempting to imitate His example, little realising
that imitation does not net them the true results, but only indicates to them a
growing possibility.
All these laws of the
Soul (and the Law of Service is no exception) manifest inevitably in two
ways. First, there is their effect upon
the individual. This occurs when the
soul has been definitely contacted and the mechanism of the soul begins to
respond. Evidence of this should work
out now among the esoteric students, scattered over the world, for they have
reached a point where the true server can emerge from their ranks, and give
evidence of an established soul contact.
Secondly, these soul laws are beginning to have a group effect in
humanity itself, and to influence the race of men as a whole. This effect is somewhat in the nature of a
reflection in the lower nature of a higher consciousness, and therefore today
we have much running after service, and much philanthropic effort. All of it is, however, deeply coloured by
personality, and it often produces much harm, for people seek to impose their
ideas of service and their personal techniques upon other aspirants. They may have become sensitive to impression,
but they oft-times misinterpret the truth and are biassed by personality
ends. They must learn to lay the
emphasis upon soul contact and upon an active familiarity with the egoic life,
and not upon the form side of service.
May I beg those of you who respond to these ideas and are sensitive to
soul impression (oft-times misinterpreting the truth, being biassed by
personality ends) to lay the emphasis upon soul contact and not upon the form
side of service. Activity of the form
side lays stress upon personality ambition, veiling them with the glamour of
service. If care over the essential of
service—soul contact—is taken, then the service rendered will flow with
spontaneity along the right lines and bear much fruit. Of this, the selfless service and the deep
flow of spiritual life, which have been demonstrated in the world work of late,
is a hopeful indication.
(Alice Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, Vol. II, selection
of texts from pages 118-121 and pp. 124-127)
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