Me, Myself & I- 3

We as teachers cannot make you into that which we should wish for you, and were you to work to please the higher order alone, you would not become lastingly in that which you have given over to. This is the covenant of the ego. It is as mysterious and profound as you might expect it to be! How stupendously configured we are! How protected we be, that we may immortalise qualities which we now choose - yet it has to be of our own choosing - deliberate, exact, and of our own.

Many teachings appear to contradict this understandably. It is usually given to be honorable that we should put ourselves last before all others and that we can trust in those who are higher and wiser to know for us, to guide us, and to hopefully, in part, do for us. This is why men will go to professionals for many things, not the least of which we may ask a priest for a blessing and a weatherman for his chart, having more confidence in their expertise and knowledge than our own.

As esotericists we know that there are many good deeds we may become involved in that are also self-serving. As hard as it sounds, we are aware that if we teach well it enhances our own learning, if we nourish we ourselves shall thrive because of it, if we give charity (and charitably into the bargain) we do also have our returns. Therefore, we know, that karmicly, ethically, virtuely and accordingly, we profit by ‘doing good’. However, we do not ‘do good’ for self-serving reasons primarily, we do not even manage them for self-preservation. We engage in them because of the sense of both correctness and joy which follows when our invisible helpers are encouraged by our acts of faith and goodwill.