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CHAPTER FIVE
PROFESSIONAL OR WORK LIFE
In Chapter One of this book various spiritual principles that underlie
the proper spiritual life were revealed and briefly described. One of those
principles stated that whoever and whatever is and exists anywhere and
at anytime, is and exists for some beneficial usefulness. The being and
existence of anyone and anything can be justified only by what kind of
use, benefit, and good he/she/it serves to all.
There are many levels and forms of sharing. One of those forms of
sharing, called the all inclusive one, was described in the previous
chapter. But life and sharing or its specific manifestation in the form of
beings and things is not limited or restricted to one or a few levels and
forms of sharing.
As mentioned previously, the Most High creates unique and
unrepeatable intelligent (sentient entities) beings, humans, etc. They are
unique forms or containers of the Most High’s Life Who places in each
and any one form an entirely different content and quality of that life.
The only common denominator of all living people throughout the entire
Creation of the Most High and throughout the entire Zone of
Displacement is that they all have in them life which was placed there by
the Most High. That life is not theirs, but the Most High’s. The reason
being that, as Swedenborg already pointed out, no one can be life in
himself and by himself in any respect. Life is the Most High. The Most
High creates from His/Her own energies various unique and
unrepeatable life forms or recipients or containers of life into which
He/She places or puts that life. But because the Most High is Life in
Himself/Herself and by Himself/Herself, He/She is always present in that
life because it is His/Her own. But, being that the Most High is Absolute,
it is impossible to place in any receptive form of life the absolute content
and quality of that life in its totality. The receptive or the intelligent
form of life, being created from the Absolute Source, cannot be absolute.
Otherwise, it would not be created because it would always be. Therefore,
this being the case, no intelligent or any other receptive form of life is
capable of containing the Absolute Life in its totality.
For this reason, the Most High creates the forms of life which are able
to contain various aspects of that life but not the Absolute Life itself.
But each one aspect of life, by the principle of the hologram, reflects
the total content of the Absolute Life. This is the reason why it is said
that man was created in the likeness and image of God. Man was not
created to be God, or God, but in the likeness and image of God. Man can
never be God as some foolish people believe. But man can be and is the
likeness and image of God. That is to say, man carries within
himself/herself one aspect of life from the Most High, which reflects the
Absolute Nature of the Most High. To reflect something doesn’t mean to
be the same as that which is being reflected.
In order that the all inclusive aspects of the Most High’s life could be
manifested and shared, the Most High created, creates and will create to
eternity, infinite numbers and varieties of life forms into which He/She
puts one aspect. Because God does not repeat Himself/Herself, otherwise
He/She would not be Absolute, He/She never puts exactly the same
aspect into two or more life forms. Therefore, no two life forms are ever
exactly the same as far as the quality and content of their received life is
concerned.
From this follows that the major general purpose and use of anyone’s
life is to be a carrier, container and manifestor of a different, unique and
unrepeatable aspect of the Most High’s life. The more specific but still
quite general purpose and use of such a life is to share it with everyone
else.
This sharing is a fundamental and vital prerequisite of anyone’s
usefulness for being and existence, because no one else in the entire
Creation contains the same aspect of life. No one else can experience life
in the same manner. If that unique life would not be available for
sharing, Creation would be deprived of experiencing some very important
aspects of the Most High’s Nature.
Why is it so important to experience this Nature?
One of the major purposes for which life forms — that is, entities,
beings, humans, etc. — were created was to share what the Most High
has. As mentioned previously, the Nature of the Most High is Absolute
Love and Absolute Wisdom. What is the greatest desire of any love? To
share and to give everything that it has. This desire of love is the major
motivating factor of the Most High for creating His/Her Creation.
The Divine Love wants to give us or to share with us what it has. But
it cannot share its Absolute State with anyone who is not Absolute.
While Divine Love wants to share everything that it has absolutely, the
Divine Wisdom of the Most High moderates that sharing in such a
manner as to not annihilate the forms of life by placing in them the
totality of the Absolute Life. To share the Absolute State absolutely with
someone who is not absolute but relative, results in the total annihilation
of that someone.
So, the Divine Wisdom is a moderator of that sharing to such an
extent that one receives at each moment only as much of life as it can
take. However, the Divine Love wants to share everything. In order to
make such sharing possible, the Divine Wisdom from the Divine Love
creates an infinite number and variety of intelligent beings and entities
in whom it places various unique aspects of its Absolute Life in a relative
manner and then interconnects all of them in such a manner that they
are available for sharing with one another or for giving what they have
and receiving what others have.
By this principle of sharing with one another, various other and
different aspects of the Most High’s Life are available to us which are not
the same as we have. By sharing ourselves with others we give them
something which they don’t have.
By the eternal process of this sharing, we acquire and come closer and
closer to giving, receiving and sharing more and more aspects of the Most
High’s Absolute Life. From this process we become more and more
identified with the Most High and fulfill the longing of the Absolute Love
of the Most High more and more to share with us everything that He/She
has in an Absolute sense.
However, because we do not ever reach the condition in which we
become Absolute (after all, we were created and were not always in being
and existence), in which condition we could share Absolutely, the Divine
Wisdom of the Most High assures that our life continues forever so that
such sharing would always be possible to eternity.
Thus, all intelligent beings, entities and humans can never cease to
be and to exist in the form of unique, self-aware, self-perceptive,
self-individualized and self-individuated beings, entities and humans.
They will always live to eternity in order to be able to share themselves
or the unique aspects of the Most High in them with others and others
with them.
This is the major purpose and use of Creation. Thus, we can safely
conclude that we were created for giving, receiving and sharing in our
own unique, different and unrepeatable manner. Such is the essential
and substantial Nature of the Most High and His/Her entire Creation.
But, as mentioned above, the process of this vital sharing is manifold
and multidimensional. Because we carry within ourselves a unique and
different aspect of the Most High’s Absolute Life, without ever being
Gods or the Most High Himself/Herself, we are equipped with different
and unique tools, gifts, talents, abilities and means relevant to the
unique nature of our life. Through them and by them we acquire one of
the most important Divine Attributes — creativity.
The original purpose of creativity was to always create something
new in which a new and different aspect of the Most High’s Absolute Life
could be placed and shared with all others already created and all others
could share themselves with the newly created forms of life. This is one
of the major needs for creativity. After all, how do we share our
uniqueness with others and others with us? Only by talking about it to
them? Talking about it is not sufficient for sharing because we tell about
it but we don’t share it. Talking can be considered only a prelude to the
sharing.
We share ourselves with each other through our creative efforts. We
do some work, utilizing all unique tools, gifts, talents, resources and
abilities available to us which we received from the Most High, and in
that work our unique nature appears. That work brings something new
which was not available before. Even if two people were to perform the
same type of work, the outcome of that performance could never be
totally identical. Each one of them would leave his/her unique stamp on
it, which is perceptible, recognizable, and able to be shared with all
others.
This is the reason why the need to perform some work, to have a
profession, vocation, occupation or to do something useful is inherent in
us. This is the originating meaning of such a set-up. This is how the
concept of “work” is understood and perceived in the positive state of the
Most High’s Creation.
Thus, the ultimate purpose and goal of any work, profession, vocation
or occupation is to share with all others our uniqueness or the unique
aspects of the Most High’s Life in us for mutual benefit, common good
and continuous spiritual growth, progression, and betterment.
This kind of purpose is a self-motivating factor of any work. One
doesn’t seek rewards or remunerations for one’s creative efforts because
it is one’s nature from the Most High to be that way. The reward or
remuneration is found in the fact that one was able to creatively
contribute one’s own sharing for the benefit of all. There is no greater
motivating factor of creativity, work, and life in general than to be useful
and to do something profitable and good for the benefit of all.
Because everyone else is motivated in the same way, and everyone
else shares unconditionally all of his/her abilities, talents, gifts or
whatever he/she has, there is no lack of anything for anyone. One does
not need to worry that one will run out of food, drink, various needed
supplies, tools, means, etc. of any type of life (spiritual, mental, physical,
bodily, sexual, environmental, etc.). Thus, everyone is constantly
provided for in abundance with absolutely everything that one needs,
wants, desires or wishes, without any tangible payment. The only
payment that is needed is that everyone shares unconditionally what
everyone has in the form of his/her abilities, style, gifts, tools and
creative efforts. The unconditional contribution of all my talents,
abilities, gifts or whatever I have, from the unique source of creative life
in me from the Most High, to the common good and benefit of all, is all
the payment that is needed in return for what I receive.
On this principle the entire positive state of the Most High’s Creation
is built. Failure to actualize this principle in one’s life throws one out of
the true Creation and causes one to fall out into the Zone of
Displacement.
From this we can see what kind of creatures inhabit the Zone of
Displacement.
The creative effort of every human being and intelligent entity is a
gift of God which is bestowed upon everyone of us from the Absolute
Source of the Absolute Creative Effort of the Most High. The only
common denominator that we all have without exception or exclusion is
having this gift. But the quality, content and the type of use that gift has
is different from one person to another. If it were the same, no sharing
would be possible or even necessary. But if this were the case, no
motivation for living and being would remain. We would commit
existential suicide, so to speak. If I cannot share what I have or what is
available to me with others, because they already have it, and if they
cannot share what they have with me, because I already have it, no
tangible meaning and purpose for having it would be discernable. Why
and for what purpose do I have it then? All motivation for having it
would be destroyed by such an arrangement.
This is the reason why the quality, content, and the type of use my
unique life has is always different from anyone else’s so that this
difference could be shared with all others and that motivation for eternal
being and existence could be sustained. In sensing that difference of our
being is the origin and source of our creative effort. We come up with all
kinds of new ideas that may convey that difference in its unique essence
and substance. This gives an opportunity for everyone to learn and to
incorporate that difference in their own lives and, thus, to acquire a
better understanding of the Most High, others, and themselves. By such
acts, the purpose, meaning and usefulness of our lives (anywhere else
and not only on this Earth) is fulfilled.
This is the only possible structure of Creation and its life. This
structure is derived from the true Nature of the Most High because the
Most High put His/Her Nature into His/Her Creation.
If we, for some reason or other, fail to fulfill this purpose of our life,
we automatically expel ourselves from membership in the positive state.
In this case, once again, we fall out into the Zone of Displacement.
Now, the above described arrangement of our need for work, is the
positive one. From such needs and their motivating factors most of the
negative, evil, adverse, bad and egoistic tendencies cannot result. For
that reason, if these requirements and conditions were allowed to
continue everywhere uniformly, no negative state could ever be activated
and put into dominance. No other so-called alternative meaning and
sense of life would come to its fruition. No life without the true God and
His/Her spiritual principles could be instituted.
Therefore, it was necessary to alter or deviate from this condition in
such a manner as to establish a different style of life opposing anything
in the positive state.
The major step which was necessary to accomplish in this endeavor
was to curb the inherent creative effort of our spirit and soul and its
proper manifestation in our physical body. Because of this, it was
necessary to fabricate a different type of spirituality and mentality that
would oppose the original Godly spirituality and mentality and their
physical forms of impression and expression. For this purpose, the
pseudo-creators, through mysterious genetic alterations and engineering,
fabricated an animalistic type of body with an animalistic type of
pseudo-spirit and pseudo-soul by which they encapsulated in an ironclad
manner the original spirit, soul and their relevant body.
By this act, the flow of the creative effort of our true spirit and our
true soul from the Most High and their influence on our life was
drastically reduced, cut off and limited to minimal proportions, related to
the care of our own everyday personal needs. Some degree of creative
effort was necessary to preserve in order to motivate people to take care
of their everyday survival needs. Otherwise, they would perish and the
experiment in negativity would fail totally.
Now, with this step, several important things were accomplished. The
interest for sharing with others what we have for the sake of others was
lost. The love to perform useful activities for the sake of mutual benefit,
common good and sharing was repressed. The self-centeredness, egoism,
and concern only for our own needs was firmly established. The
separation and isolation from all others and their needs was made
possible. Boredom, laziness, idleness and dormancy started to flourish.
The only motivating factors for doing anything was some kind of personal
gain. This led to the necessity of the establishment of a reward system in
the form of transient, useless and meaningless valuables, such as, for
example, money, possessions, offices of fame and glory, recognition,
reputation, attention of others, social positions, power hunger and
similar atrocities and abominations of the negative state.
In other words, the motivating factor of the human activities became
a slogan in the form of “what’s in it for me?” “For me” or for my own and
not for anyone else, unless they are supporting “my own,” became
another major, driving force of human activities and efforts.
Thus, whatever we do, we do it not for the sake of unconditional
mutual benefit, common good, and sharing, but only because our survival
depends on it (meaning from paycheck to paycheck) or because there is
some personal gain in it exclusively for us.
This situation, of course, contributes toward the firm establishment of
ambitiousness, competitiveness, aggressiveness, wars, crimes, envy,
hate, greed, uniformity (if he has it, then I must have it too), conformity,
fears, anxieties, worries, artificial and imposed needs (need for a better
car, a bigger home, a higher paying job, a more prestigious position, etc.),
disregard for others, cruelty, dominance, ruling over others, depriving
others of their needs, jealousy for what others have, etc. Again, a list of
these kinds of atrocities and abominations of the negative state could be
endless.
Such is the outcome of all human activities, if they don’t stem from
spiritual and mental sources and from the purpose for which the Most
High created us.
In order to elaborate further on our professional or work life, let us
consider the following points:
1. Our earthly life in the majority of all cases consists of constant
unceasing activities. In most instances, these activities take the form of
some kind of work, profession, vocation or occupation. The specificity and
uniqueness of these activities is determined by the specificity and
uniqueness of our abilities, talents, gifts and the degree of creativity that
leaks through from our genuine spirit and soul. As we can see, the
genuine source of all our activities is always spiritual and mental
regardless of whether such activities are spiritual, mental or physical
themselves. Without the influence and inspiration of our true spirit and
soul, which is available to us in the 5% of its original capacity, we could
not move as much as our little finger. Thus, no matter what the
motivating and intentional factors of any type of our activities, they stem
from the existence and being of our spirit and soul in us and,
particularly, from the presence of the Most High in us. Without that
presence, no initiation of any activities could be possible because we are
not life in ourselves but only recipients of life from the Most High. If that
flow of life were to cease, all activities would stop permanently.
From this fact it is obvious that the major rule that we need to
recognize in this, as well as in any other respect, is that all our activities
are connected to and initiated from the spiritual states and conditions
through the mental states and conditions into the physical states and
conditions.
The major purpose of these activities is the justification of our being
and existence. We cannot live unless we perform some use, that is, unless
we do something useful.
On this planet, because of the activated negative state, the form of
this usefulness can sometimes take a very peculiar role. For example,
what is the usefulness of the being and existence of a habitual criminal
or a vegetating idiot who is totally dependent on care by others? The
usefulness of these kinds of occurrences is in the example or vivid
illustrations of the true nature of the negative state that they are able to
perform. Everyone in the true Creation learns what the results of the
activated negative state are. But, most importantly, everyone can learn
what not to choose. In non-choosing, the choice illustrated by such grave
examples, is their useful spiritual value. Everyone learns what and how
not to be. If one does not have that knowledge, one doesn’t know what to
choose properly.
Thus, from this statement, it is obvious that people on this earth, by
their various activities, work, professions, occupations, vocations, or
whatever they have, regardless of their personal motivating and
intentional factors (no matter how selfish or altruistic they are), serve a
very important purpose and use for the entire Creation. They either
illustrate what not to choose or how to overcome the negative state or
what not to be, or any other similar matters. In this purpose of our
earthly life is our true spiritual value.
2. In view of the above facts the usefulness of any type of activity we
engage in is obvious. It doesn’t matter whether you are an executive, or a
janitor or an unskilled laborer, because in all those positions we
contribute something which makes it possible for us to be and to exist. As
long as there is this fundamental contribution, everyone is as important,
as needed, as valuable, as special and so on, as anyone else. This is true
regardless of how we value such positions and works — either in the
form of salaries paid or in the form of our attitude (respect, disrespect,
admiration, contempt, etc.). People who don’t work formally perform a
different type of use. They illustrate the futility of life without a
contribution of something consciously useful. By their unique coping,
reactions, responses, behaviors and attitudes about their situation, they
contribute to the overall knowledge about the specific nature of the
negative state. They are living lessons of evil incarnate.
Thus, all our activities and inactivities, no matter what they are,
have some spiritual value. By having this spiritual value, our being and
existence is tolerated and justified. Without this, we could never live.
This is the spiritual motivating factor of being and existence. It doesn’t
make any difference that, in most instances, we consciously don’t
perceive this value and our consideration is in only making a living and
paying our bills. That is to say, we work not because this is the way life is
supposed to be, but we work to pay our bills and to maintain our
standard of living or to have various sensory pleasures. Even if we
consciously do not see any spiritual value in our activities, our true spirit
and soul know and work towards such a purpose without our conscious
awareness, of course.
3. In the positive state of the Most High’s Creation the meaning of
everyone’s life is determined by everyone’s ability to perform some useful
activities to the fullest of one’s potential and capacity without expecting
anything in return. One doesn’t do something for the sake of being
rewarded or praised or promoted because of those activities. One does it
because it is a delight and pleasure of one’s life to do something from
which everyone can benefit.
Now, in such an attitude is the true meaning of any work, profession,
vocation, occupation and/or business. No matter what one does, no
matter in what position, office, or role one is, one feels competent, happy,
content and satisfied because one is enabled to be oneself and to give to
others what one has and not what someone expects or anticipates from
him/her.
In the positive state no expectations and anticipations to perform this
way or that way, to be this way or that way, or to do this or that, are
projected or even conceived. It simply doesn’t come into their minds.
Everyone naturally does what he/she is best equipped to do and everyone
performs in accordance with one’s best abilities, to the fullest of one’s
potentials and capacities without ever holding anything back or
performing less than one’s capacities. There is no deceptive mode of
acting or thinking possible in the positive state. Because of this, no
expectations and anticipations or projections are possible because
everyone knows very well that he/she does his/her very best.
In the positive state no one is forced to do anything one doesn’t wish
to or is not equipped to do or has little or no ability to do. Therefore,
everyone is fully satisfied with what one does and is. No feelings of envy,
jealousy, competitiveness, or ambitiousness ever come into anyone’s
mind or behavior and everyone respects and values everyone as someone
who is a carrier of specific aspects of the Most High’s Life.
Under such conditions, to do any work at all is a great delight,
pleasure, joy, gladness, peace, serenity and tranquility. Because one is
allowed to fully flourish in one’s creative effort, reflected in one’s specific
and unique activities, no boredom, routine, automatization, habituation,
or ritualization of any work is possible. It is always fresh, unique,
exhilarating and exciting. There is always something new to be
discovered about oneself and about one’s work and to share with all
others.
Such an attitude and lifestyle is one of the major purposes for which
work activities were established by the Most High.
4. Because of the above arrangement of the positive state, the concept
of discrimination, partiality, and preferential treatment of one over
another is an utter impossibility. Everyone respects everybody equally
and one is promoted to the higher level not because one strives for it but
because in the higher level one has an opportunity to be even more useful
than before. The purpose of striving in one’s work, no matter what it is,
is not to be promoted, rewarded or praised but to exhaust one’s
usefulness in each work as much as possible. If one is promoted and
rewarded for it, it is an acknowledgement that one truly put maximum
effort and all one’s abilities into it, and, therefore, one can move on to the
higher position where one can be even more useful. The happiness of
being promoted doesn’t stem from the promotion itself, but from the
awareness that one reached the point where one is capable of becoming
more useful than was previously the case.
No other source of true satisfaction and happiness than being more
useful for the benefit of all is ever possible or ever existed in the positive
state. Everything is done only from this perspective. This is the love of
one’s life. This is what everyone lives for. In such a life is its wisdom.
What can be more valuable than to serve others with love and wisdom,
and, thus, the Most High? After all, how do we serve the Most High? By
serving others because the Most High is present in others. No other
motivating factors for such services are needed or required.
Unconditional love toward God and others is the essence of positive
people’s lives, and performing service to the Most High and others in
wisdom is the substance of their lives. In such a life they find everything
that they need and that sustains their excitement, exhilaration, delight
and always new forms of spiritual progression, growth, and betterment.
5. In choosing or applying for any new position, job, office or work,
people in the positive state have no selfish or egoistic considerations.
Such feelings are unknown to them. They are not after that job because
it would bring them greater honors, recognition, reputation or power,
etc., (which many jobs in the heavens do). They submit themselves for
thorough spiritual, mental, physical and vocational examination in which
all factors for that job are determined. Many people apply for such a job
but only that one is selected who shows the best overall abilities for that
job and for performing it with utmost productiveness, constructiveness,
creativeness and usefulness for the benefit of all.
If one is turned down for that job, one doesn’t feel any hurt or harm or
any feelings of inferiority or inadequacy or any other bad feelings of envy
or jealousy. Just the opposite takes place. One rejoices immensely when
one learns that someone was selected and appointed for that job who can
perform much better than he/she could.
In the positive state, there is no greater delight than to learn that a
person was promoted who was the most suitable for any particular job,
and in it, can perform greater use than anyone else.
The reason people apply for any job is because they want to be more
useful for the benefit of all. If they were to get a job, and it would be
established that someone more suitable was by-passed (which in the
positive state is an utter impossibility), it would make them very
unhappy and they would instantaneously resign their position to vacate
it for the most suitable person.
After all, everyone in the positive state is motivated by the degree,
intensity, quality, specificity and extensiveness of one’s usefulness for
others. If one would have a job that doesn’t match this condition, one
would be depriving others and oneself from a greater possibility of
sharing through such useful activities as related to that specific job.
Such is the nature, structure and dynamics of the positive state.
6. Of course, the situation in the Zone of Displacement and on this
planet is entirely different. In fact, it is just the opposite of what was
indicated above. How many people on this Earth in their earthly
activities and jobs don’t have any ulterior considerations? The whole
negative state is built on these ulterior considerations.
The result of this opposite nature of the state of affairs in the
negative world is that, very often, people are forced to do or to choose to
do something for which they are either totally unqualified or have only
limited qualifications. Many of us do our work only because it is a living.
Either nothing else is available or what is available doesn’t give us the
necessary material means to maintain or to improve our standard of
living.
Only external and ulterior factors determine what kind of career or
activities we choose to pursue. Very little or no spiritual factors are taken
into consideration. Because of this disconnectedness from our spirit and
soul, we end up dissatisfied, unhappy, unfulfilled, bored and chronically
tired of our job and activities. This leads to many crises, breakdowns,
errors, bad judgments, mistreatment of others, tensions, high blood
pressure, heart ailments, pains and many other miserable states and
conditions.
Because of the external considerations only, we tend to choose our job
and activities which are usually inconsistent with our true nature and in
which we can never function properly to our fullest capacity and
potentialities. If our job is inconsistent with our true nature, it cannot
trigger the proper motivation in us and creative effort to put our heart
into it, so to speak. Thus, we end up inappropriately utilized, or
underutilized, or overutilized. In either case, it brings us nothing but
unfulfillment, a sense of lacking something, restlessness and the feeling
of chronic exhaustion, with various physical symptoms, such as
insomnia, disorders of the digestive system, tensions, pressures, stresses,
and constant worries. The outcome of this condition is unhappiness and a
sense of futility.
7. Now, this outcome is exactly what the activators of the negative
state wanted to accomplish. When we establish within ourselves the
feeling of futility, a sense that no matter what we do leads to
disappointment and unhappiness, we gradually lose any motivation to do
anything useful or to perform any job. We acquire the habit of doing it
only because it is a grave necessity, a condition of earthly life, a forcefully
imposed arrangement that makes us do some work only for one purpose
— to make enough money to maintain the desirable standard of living.
With this kind of attitude any spiritual, deeper, inner, mystical
connotation of any profession, work, vocation, occupation or activity is
wiped out and primarily replaced with materialistic or external
considerations. Work becomes a drag, a bore, a duty and an obligation
which must be done if one is to fulfill one’s daily living needs or to be
promoted or to gain some power or position or control or whatever one is
after.
Very little, if any, consideration for mutual benefit, common good,
and sharing is taken or ever thought about. The purpose of work is not
use and benefit of all but reward itself (whatever form that reward
takes). One works to be rewarded and not to be useful; hence, the ulterior
motivation for most of our activities. In order to be rewarded, we learn to
pretend that we do it for other people’s sake. Thus, a deceptive mode of
our activities comes to its fruition.
In this manner the goal of the activated negative state is
accomplished and the end becomes a means, while the means becomes
the end. Such is the true nature of the negative state.
8. The feelings of futility and ulterior motivation of our work effort
create a condition in which people learn and subsequently adopt an
attitude of doing as little as possible for as much as possible. This
diminishes our work efforts to the level of a joke. Work becomes a joke,
something to be laughed at, to be scorned, or to be taken as a sport or
bait to see how much we can get paid for doing less and less or doing
nothing at all. All incentives for work and productivity of work become
regulated by this philosophy. This is especially true with people in
Communist countries where no one is allowed to truly be oneself.
In most countries, this situation allows an appearance of a special
breed of people that feed on these policies, becoming parasites of society.
They stop working completely and go on welfare. Whole generations of
the same family come into a being and existence that become welfare
recipients without ever doing anything objectively useful. These people
place themselves in a condition which makes it impossible for them to
find any work or to acquire any vocation or skills in order to justify their
not working. In many instances, this is done without any conscious
awareness on their parts. Other people go through life begging from
others. Others, by doing as little as possible. Still others go through their
earthly lives by cheating, stealing, deceiving, robbing, burglarizing and
defrauding others.
This is the outcome of any situation when all proper spiritual
considerations are disregarded and not applied properly. Such is the true
nature of the negative state.
9. Deprivation and suffocation of the spiritual principles leads toward
the establishment of a society that is built on material considerations
only. If we are constantly forced to be outside of ourselves, we become
habituated to our external life’s conditions. This becomes a way of life.
For many people it becomes the only way of life. To make it more
attractive to be in these externals and to keep people as far as possible
away from spiritual considerations and pleasures, the negative state
developed all kinds of material goods, trappings, consumers’ delights, etc.
They are all materially related, of course. People are constantly
bombarded with invitations to have those goods. We are constantly being
persuaded and brainwashed into believing that we need this or that and
that we cannot live without such goods. Thus, we begin to believe that
our lives depend upon those external goods.
This set up accomplishes two major goals for the negative state:
people need to work in order to buy those goods. The purpose of work, or
making a living, thus, becomes having and possessing more and more
such goods. In this manner, we do not work to be useful or for the benefit
of all but in order to have more of those goods. Thus, we do it purely for
selfish reasons and purposes. In this manner, work becomes a means
toward something of questionable value and not a major motivating
factor of being more useful with regards to mutual benefit, common good
and sharing with everyone.
By this attitude, the second purpose is accomplished: all spiritual
considerations, understandings and fulfillment of work life is
successfully and effectively suffocated or entirely killed.
And, thus, we effectively lose the true perspective, meaning,
understanding and fulfillment of our work life.
This is the outcome of cutting off our work life from our spiritual and
mental life as the only source of everything positive and good. Again,
such is the true nature of the negative state. This is what the negative
state is all about.
In order to overcome this curse of the negative state, and reestablish
a proper understanding and fulfillment of our earthly life in its
professional, vocational, occupational and work aspects and activities in
general, we are advised to do the following daily exercises.
EXERCISES RELATED TO OUR PROFESSIONAL, OCCUPATIONAL AND WORK LIFE
1. When you are on your spiritual mountaintop in a very relaxed
condition, and when you complete your security checks and all exercises
as prescribed in the previous four Chapters, explore, examine and search
yourself regarding your situation and the type of activities and work you
have (even if you are unemployed or a housewife). Make yourself aware
of everything in this respect.
2. Ask the Most High in you to bring to your attention any possible
problems, shortcomings and restrictions that you might have regarding
your work. Explore the source of those problems. Ask that this source is
vividly brought to your attention. Consider the nature of that source and
how it influences your work life.
3. When you recognize the problems and their source, request that
they be gradually removed from your life. Utilize the white lights for
thorough purification, cleansing, repudiation and fumigation of all
sources and their problems that relate to your work life. Ask for mercy
and forgiveness for neglecting your work life and for allowing these
problems and their sources to dominate you.
4. Meditate on the content of this chapter and its nine points and
request the Most High to give you the proper understanding of how all
that is contained in this chapter is related to your personal work life.
What are the true motivating factors of your work or job activities? Why
did you choose to do this or that particular job?
5. Request that the Most High reveal to you what the true nature of
your specific gifts, talents, abilities, tools and creative endowments are
for the purpose of learning how to utilize them to the fullest of your
potential without allowing any of them to be dormant, idle, lazy, or
underutilized, not utilized or overutilized. Ask if the work or job that you
are engaged in is really what you should be doing. If not, request a
revelation about what type of work you should be engaged in, in order to
satisfactorily fulfill your purpose of being on this Earth.
6. Ask the Most High to introduce you to your new Spiritual Advisor
who is to represent and to advise you on your creative, work, or
job-related activities. Confirm with your new Spiritual Advisor and
discuss with him/her the true role that you agreed to play on this Earth.
7. Ask the Most High and your work Spiritual Advisor to illustrate to
you in some vivid manner your place, position and type of work that you
can do most appropriately, usefully, effectively and beneficially for all.
8. Request the Most High and your new Advisor to acquire a new,
properly spiritual type of motivation for all your activities and job-related
work and to totally eliminate from you any ulterior, selfish or egoistic
motivations or considerations.
9. Request the Most High to reconnect your work life to your true
spirit and soul so that you are able to derive everything from the genuine
spiritual Source. Give hearty thanks for the help, advice or any learning
that you had in your session. Ask if there are any other issues related to
your work life or anything else that need to be brought to your attention
in today’s session. If yes, have them discuss it with you until they are
fully resolved, incorporated and absorbed. In all respects, follow their
good and positive advice (checking it out with your intuition as always)
and then finish your session.
In the process of these exercises make sure to always be mobile,
flexible, open, diverse and versatile so that you always bring some
novelty into your exercises in order to avoid the habituation,
externalization, automatization or ritualization of your valuable
exercises.
If we faithfully do these or similar kinds of exercises on a daily basis,
we most certainly will learn how to live, understand and properly fulfill
our professional, vocational, occupational and work life to our fullest
satisfaction and to the satisfaction of the Most High. In this way we will
be able to eliminate the negative state from our earthly life or to limit its
dominance considerably and to abolish the power that it has had over us
up to this point.
Source: UNDERSTANDING AND FULFILLMENT OF OUR EARTHLY LIFE
