September 26 1979 Martin & Georgette
Statement of Purpose and
Dealing with Energy - Money
Tonight I want to have a serious talk with you. Let's call it a talk of introduction. As we have newcomers, and as we begin calisthenics, this-means working in a new way, so for a change, lets first read the Statement of Purpose.The Statement of Purpose was written in 1977 -- two years ago -- to tell the purpose of the work that we do. It occurred to me that the term Statement of a Purpose is not very good, because it's not only a purpose, it's what we actually do.
Statement of Purpose
The reason to be of the groups is to participate in the Christ Impulse that was launched into humanity's conscious level about 2,000 years ago. The task is two-fold. One aspect is the adjusting to human level of that part of the Impulse already working on the so-called higher levels and now intended for human expression also. The other aspect is to render this operative within mankind. This implies participation of unseen as well as seen beings, the group being a small but needed part of the whole action.
Within the action of the groups, one can distinguish three aspects:
The Logoic Action, which comprises the sounding of the word the opening of new avenues in the human time/space related life, the generating of the basic directive life energy within which all participants cooperation is taking place.
The Brotherhood aspect that develops the avenues, means and shapes as well as the dynamics which allows the impulse/impulses to be operative within humankind.
The participants aspect whose task it is to operate the action within Humankind. This implies the selfless and still difficult task of incarnating the principle/principles in that specific way that will allow others to follow wherever they are.Depending on Soul maturity, degree of initiation and development, a participant may be engaged in one or two or the three aspects. Which implies the ability to handle more and more responsibilities. It is expected from the prospective participant that she/he feels deeply the hope/need/willingness for service, and that imply readiness for committment . All the action of the groups being a volunteer work, it is expected from the prospective participant that she/he has the maturity for accepting to work with no desire for personal reward of any kind. The she/he has the maturity needed to be work-centered with no thought or desire for self-centered acquisitiveness. This implies the maturity to approach the ongoing action as work to participate in, definitely not as a teaching to be received. Thus the prospective participant will prepare herself/himself to give freely of her/his energies on any level, according to her/his ability to be committed and a code of honor to be respected.
I have just a few comments to make on that last part, you realize is not that easy to accomplish. As we have seen in the past, we can distinguish the aspect of survival when you are on earth from the aspect of your reason to be on earth, or your reason to be incarnated. Survival is linked with acquisitiveness, reckoning and calculations. Your reason to be on earth is always a gift -- always. Without any exception. So it's not an acquisition. It works in another way.
For instance, it is expected from the prospective participant that she/he feels deeply the hope/need/ willingness for service.
Now many people have the feel for service. Few, very few realize what it means. There is that service which is related to acquisitiveness, the art of survival on earth That kind of service is needed. But there is that other service -- your reason to be on earth -- and that's very different. It requires the awakening of that part of your consciousness which is not calculating -- not wanting to grab -- not wanting to reach. Be it wealth -- materially speaking; be it wealth -- spiritually speaking. So it implies a readiness for committment . In your wishes many people are are ready for comitittment -- many, many people. When the action comes, it's another story. Meaning, the committment has to be real, and not only a dream.
It is expected ... that she/he has the maturity for accepting to work with-no desire for personal reward of any kind.
This is one of the greatest stumbling blocks. I would say that one-hundred percent of the particpants that fail to continue fail because they work along the line of acquisitiveness, and feel that they don't receive what they are looking for, or the reverse, they don't perform as they think they ought to, which is a kind of calculation too. Sometimes the fault is on us, sometimes they take it -- In both cases, It's misleading. It means they have failed to realize what is asked for and what is put into action.
It is not the usual consciousness . We do not mean to criticize the usual consciousness. You need it for survival anyway. So you cannot skip it. But there is something else.
That she/he has the maturity needed to be work-centered with no thought or desire of self-centered acquisitiveness.
Imagine , you act for the sake of the action and whatever is involved in it. And you do not ask anything for yourself. Even when you work on yourself , as a sample of mankind. A situation. Not for you. Do you realize the freedom you would live in? Instead of having that constant pressure that you feel in your head or your feelings of wanting to reach, to get this, to get that. And when you get it, it's never sufficient. If some of you still have the dream that one day you will reach it -- well forget it. Of course I say it, I happen to be a little bit older than you, in many ways, not only physically, so I still say forget it. I have gone through it also.
This implies the maturity to approach the on-going work as work to participate in, definitely not as a teaching to be received.
Believe it or not, (this is for the newcomers) I've said this many times, and we have participants following since, well I don't know, maybe seven or eight years, who still continue to listen as if it were a teaching. Why? Very simple. From childhood on, you learn to follow teachings. You begin with school, and everything depends on that. So you have a really hard time and this can easily be understood. Get rid of the teaching/learning syndrome and start working. Following a teaching is wanting to get something. Of course I tell you, give you some hints on, how to do somethiAng , and I expect you to do them. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Why do them ? Because we have a task to accomplish, and we have something to set into motion, and one of the things is to create a new man. This requires a lot of selflessness, because you are work-centered, and the work is not easy. With all the pressure of civilization around you, based on an old form, and you are on the threshold of something. You have to work for that. It's definitely not easy. Have no illusions. But once you have gotten into the movement, to say that it is not easy is not correct either . You will find that some actions are beautifully easy, and easily beautiful. And, so long as beauty exists. we cannot speak of difficulty, because beauty outweighs difficulty. Difficulty is something to do and we do it. Of course if you start calculating and entering into considerations, then you get lost. Then it is difficult. The main difficulty is to cross over from that acquisitive awareness into your reason to be on earth, which is a gift to mankind.
So the prospective participant will prepare to give himself/herself to give freely of her/his energies on any level, according to her/his ability to be committed and a code of honor to be respected.
A code of honor to be respected -- this is one of the least known aspects. A code of honor to be respected means, in a way, that you have become reliable, fully - completly. If you have some illusions. I have to say there is no possibility of higher spiritual work without being reliable. Just plain none. There is much too much responsibility involved. Now, some people are naturally realiable ; but some people are not, and those who are not have to make an effort. It's very easy to understand why you have to be reliable. I will come back on that later on.
Letter to Participants
This letter was written two years ago too, because we were in a kind of problem. That problem is better, but not yet solved. Still I want to read some parts of it for you because it covers one aspect that is easily forgotten for those who know, and out of reach of the awareness for those who don't. This relates to money:
One of the many energies man is handling is money... but with a little experience and observation one will realize that with money many things can be done and many moves can be made. Thus it has power and therefore is a form of energy, belonging to the vast field of energies.
Please follow.
Whether the form of energy is material or spiritual is irrelevant. This dychotomy in the field of energy exists only in the mind of man lower than a certain degree of development.
Above that degree everyone understands.
... much a product of a past age. If we disregard the skill aspect, the way a person handles a given level of energy reflects the way energy is handled. Energy as a whole. For example, it is our experience that in spiritual action, work not teaching, a person not able to manage himself, to support himself effectively, is of very poor help in the work, or in the service of mankind , if not a drag. That person's energy is unable to go out -- to radiate.
That is not only here in America; I have experienced it everywhere.
In our action, the so-called physical level or thingness level is involved, and so is the thing aspect of the participants. The personalities, the bodies, and directly related to them, that form of energy called money. Well this is reasonably obvious for most of the participants if not fully, but it is distressing to observe that there are a few, still too many, who do not grasp the deeper meaning and implication of that form of participation. Not only for me, us, but for themselves.
It's a tricky thing, I want to make just a small comment on it. There is that old concept that everything that is spiritual is free. So you never pay for a spiritual teaching (speaking of teaching), or if you receive the help of a spiritual man or whatever, you don't pay him because he is spiritual. You cannot set the value of a spiritual gift, So you cannot pay, and so on. You will have heard of that. It's much less vivid in the society than it was, let us say 50 years ago. But I have heard it even now. On the other hand, you know, it reminds me of something amusing : I knew a master in Paris and people I knew were going to visit him, winter was coming and one of the persons was looking for some underwear that would be warm. He, being a Hindu from a warm country, and Paris being pretty cold in winter, that person felt that it could help him. And a friend of that person just could not understand it. He felt; he is a spiritual man, he doesn't need that kind of thing. See? It's kind of amazing. Now especially in America, it's quite a bit different. Because you know that you can do things. And money is needed to do things with money. So you can understand that money is a kind of energy, not just black energy simply energy, And when you handle money you handle energy. And what I want you to understand is not money for money, but money as energy, your ability to handle energy.
Now that form of energy which on the thingness level is experienced as real in the form of money, has its corresponding aspect, real, on all levels of energy pretty much like harmonics in the world of sound. This is one of the least understood aspects.
If you hit a type of energy on one level, you have responses on a series of levels, not just one, And few people are aware of that. If you hit a discordant note, you have a discordant note going all along the way., Not just on one level. And usually we say all the way up; we could also say all the way down. This, in a way, is easily understood once you turn your mind to think of a wholeness in the first place. Instead of adding up things. If you.are wholeness-oriented, possibly simply that you are whole, then you will easily realize that if you strike a note on one level you will have responses on all the levels.
Everyone who joins in the volunteer work of our activity agrees implicitly to put at the disposal of the action a certain amount of energy which involves supporting financial (real) energy no less than a given amount. This is, among other aspects, what participation implies. The degree of involvement showing the amount of Energy, the whole world of energies that participant involved. This is an agreement. As I said it is distressing to see how this agreement is easily and too often broken and broken one-sidedly.
Now I don't want to be a blackbird. Those who break the agreement one-sidedly know about karma. Now that's a word that makes everybody uneasy, because they don't like it but they believe in it. And that's the trouble. If they didn't believe in it, it would be simpler, except that after a few years of experience and observation you might realize that it is just plain normal that something hit back. If you generate a wave, that wave is going to come back. Please understand , I'm not speaking for myself. The drama is not that big. I'm speaking for those who break that kind of agreement one-sidedly. Because the drama is there.
Much of the problem arises not because of an individual mistake, but because of the kind of past, our civilization has had, for instance, the material/financial dichotomy. Meditation is spiritual, money is material; they have nothing to do with each other. Until you begin to know a bit about, let us say, physics, and you realize that energy is simply energy. Call it what you want on one level or the other, it's still energy, and all energies are related.
I remember in Switzerland having a young Frenchman, who lived on the other side of the border, and came to my classes for four years. The classes were free, that means based on gifts. During four years he was just about the only one who didn't make one step of progress, just none. I tell this as demonstration of what I'm saying. When you feel stuck, look how you deal with energy. -- All the way around not just one energy. Physically as well as spiritually.
Concrete as well as abstract. How do you handle it, for instance, when something goes wrong in your spiritual progress ? How do you handle situations in your everyday life ? How is the energy going. Where do you make the mistake ? What do you let pass that you shouldn't? Or, what kind of system are you using? For instance one of the many often used systems, is to say, as I said before : this is my material life, this is my spiritual life. It means you make compartments.
In your material life you have these and these compartments. And in your spiritual life you have other compartments, that have a kind of priority if you want. How will you ever live a whole or be whole in this condition? Because you think that the sum of compartments is going to make the whole. So my idea of telling about this is to make you realize that, including money, all that you do is related with energies, and all energies are interrelated. You cannot separate. If you fail in one domain you will certainly fail in others too. Sometimes the failure in one domain that is conscious is due to the failure on a more subtle domain that is not fully conscious or seldom conscious. Simply they are related, so you see the effect. All these problems would be solved if you could be work-oriented, instead of self- oriented because the importance of your problems when you are self-oriented make you more and more self-oriented. And the problems become more and more important. But your reason to be on Earthis not you,it is the function/ the deeds you have to do. And that changes the perspective completely. If you put that into action all the problems will be gone. Most of them are simply a matter of organization. But if you want to work you will be able to, the ideas will come, the creativity will come out.
A broken agreement on any level is a serious matter. on any level. It is surprising to observe how few people realize that what is true on one level of energy is true in related ways on other levels even if much more abstract. It is surprising also to see how little these people realize that they activate a path or enlarge it for others to follow.
Now I spoke about karmic responsibility. You cannot live a private life without affecting the surroundings. When you want to radiate it might not work but when you don't want to radiate you radiate anyway -- all the time. That means your private life is affecting the whole surrounding . So if you practice a given path others may have followed it, that means you don't create a new one, but you might enlarge or strengthen an existing one, in a way that you dont really want. And you are affecting other people. If you do it the way you want and it is helpful, it works the same way, but then it is helpful.
It is surprising to see them think in solitary terms.
Meaning on themselves alone. Not realizing there is the whole society around. surprising to see them skipping the responsibility with little or no awareness that others will have to step in to compensate....
In the instance of the group, for instance, other members of the group. And there goes the strength of the group action. When some members fail to be reliable, the group is not solid.
This last point.I have observed many times and I have to say that it is very often that I have wondered at the narrowness of minds who think only of themselves and not of what they do to the surroundings. And these very same people speak of service, service to mankind. These very same people. Now in these meetings we are supposed to do spiritual work and a serious one, so please, face it with maturity, and stop the childish play. If you are here on earth to do something, for heaven sake, and that's the true wording -- do it -- and stop beating yourself or thinking of yourself as of having to do this or that first.
For those who are not aware of the oneness of life it is a standing discovery to see that the way one handles the financial contribution reflects clearly and quite closely the way one handles your spiritual contribution. Contribution/contribution: that's linked on all levels.