| Subject: Re: From Spirit Prof. Huxley: EGOTISM |
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Date Posted: 16:13:13 07/01/08 Tue
In reply to:
Maryse
's message, "Re: From Spirit Michael FARADAY: SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND" on 16:06:57 07/01/08 Tue
LXXIX
EGOTISM
By PROF. HUXLEY
Egotism is a quality that has so largely enveloped the world of humanity that its grasp at the light of truth in any form has been overshadowed in their eyes. Have you of this circle ever witnessed individuals who were so constantly thrusting their ideas and opinions on others, trying to show the world the only way to do things?
Many of the great reformers lost the heart of their God-given mission by being overtaken by egotism, that fire of selfishness which consumes and scorches to death all whom it touches. Some of the brightest brains on your earth have been so dwarfed and cramped by this monster that their owners but appeared as insipid and non-progressive barnacles that are always found clinging so closely around the same old log, that people lose sight of them altogether after a while.
These people sometimes get great conceptions and many true conceptions: but valuing these conceptions so highly, they after a while get to believing that they are the sole possessors of them, and so they go out to teach the ignorant in a majesty of spiteful impatience at those who do not listen, and think them so very dull of comprehension that they are unable to see the wonderful points of scientific truths that they are trying so hard to put before them, when the real reason is that many times their listeners have not been overtaken with the disease of egotism, and have progressed so much farther along the same lines than their would-be instructor, that the lessons so long ago learned become irksome to listen to, over so many times again.
You must all learn that each individual in life is but a student, and must learn the best lessons of life through his own personal experience, who is his wisest tutor at all times and in all places, and that as each personal being has different qualities and methods of understanding, that it becomes highly necessary for each one to learn the lesson, the same identical lesson in his own particular way. This you cannot change, and you can no more alter any of these laws than you can alter the great dome of Heaven. And the liberal minded will agree that as all personal beings being organized just a little differently, will naturally see scientific problems or any other matters both great and small, through glasses of a little different shade. But what matters it if we all love and reverence the same God if we chance to see Him differently and call him by different names?
Our methods of understanding literally amount to nothing so long as we are hand in hand with the truth of God.
But the unwearied attempts of so many so-called great thinkers who are only endeavoring to make the people see a truth through their eyes and positively no others, are the egotists who will always have the same complaint, that the people are turning from their teaching instead of drawing near to it.
If there is one thing more than another, that will keep the ignorant in darkness, it is the persistent preaching of the wordy egotist! In all things, and to all people, teach your hearts to be merciful, kind and true!
There is always a great deal more accomplished by the gentle and patient teaching of the real reformers who are willing to set a personal example of near perfection in place of so much wordy and worthless preaching. Whenever an individual thinks to turn all the people's minds in the channel of his own way of thinking simply by telling them repeatedly that they must believe as he does or they will believe wrong, he is not only disgusting them and hurting the much needed progression, but he is so dwarfing his own powers of intelligence and attraction that after a little while the people get to know him and shun him as a real bore.
God has given these bright minds inspiration and steady brilliance and also guards them daily with glorious bands of spirit messengers, to help them carry on a much needed reform and teaching, and not indeed to waste their precious gifts in the ingression of vulgar selfhood. In all things be generous; it will not cost you any more, but will eternally build for you in the heavens.
The man who is selfish never enjoys his gains although he may make money in a material way, for he is never satiated, and gaining becomes as a fever, a mania, and he loses all that he really has. He has never gained enough but will keep right on gaining until he falls to his death, a worthless egotist who has just by a hair, missed passing through that awful of all deaths, the soul's death. The soul can never die, but it can suffer such shocks and tortures that it were worse than death, for it is still barely alive and can feel even though its feeling is that of a sickly invalid. All egotists have the same disease, no matter in what lines or what phases of life their egotism may plant them. We want you to so forget self in the making of others' happiness that you will, so truly find your own as to be forever contented, and live daily with the dove of peace on your faces, the milk of human kindness in your smile and the God-given generosity in your purses and ready for those in need.
In this line of development you will possess a certain unfoldment that will give you the dignity of bearing, the righteous appreciation of self and the true justice of thought towards your fellow men. Ah, there are flowers blooming all along the way of this road of perfect peace where no malice is, neither is there hate. Where the interests are not contained in the mere satisfaction of personal self-hood, but where the hearts of humanity beat as one mighty vibration, all in all, and together.
This situation will come to your world, but you yourselves will have to be the instruments through which it will be positively manifested. In all things be generous and know once and for all that your brother and sister mortals possess some little intellectuality as well as you.
PROF. HUXLEY
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