Service to others: Doing and Being

[Steppingfeet]

Dear Ned,

As to the content of your treatise, I have a few comments to offer if I may.

I think that you make significant headway in capturing the essence of these two basic, seemingly different schools of thought when you say, “…on the one hand, accepting whatever comes is really important as part of following the right-hand (positive, service-to-others) path; on the other hand, standing by while entire populations are enslaved and the biosphere destroyed is not always and necessarily the best way to be of service to others.”

This basic question has been a part of my own process as well. I consider the ideas captured so succinctly in these quotes in juxtaposition to the idea contained in your statement above, that being that unconditional acceptance is that which is appropriate for the right hand path.

Martin Luther King:
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Edmund Burke
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

I am always attempting to find the balance between accepting what’s seemingly “wrong” with the world and taking action to change what is happening. In that pursuit, while I do not have a definitive solution, there are a couple of passages within the Law of One material that have been helpful to me. I would recommend them for your consideration:

Session #34
RA: I am Ra. The unmanifested self may find its lessons those which develop any of the energy influx centers of the mind/body/spirit complex. The societal and self interactions most often concentrate upon the second and third energy centers. Thus those most active in attempting to remake or alter the society are those working from feelings of being correct personally or of having answers which will put power in a more correct configuration. This may be seen to be of a full travel from negative to positive in orientation. Either will activate these energy ray centers.

There are some few whose desires to aid society are of a green ray nature or above. These entities, however, are few due to the understanding, may we say, of fourth ray that universal love freely given is more to be desired than principalities or even the rearrangement of peoples or political structures.

Session 17
“QUESTIONER: Is it possible by the use of some technique or other to help an entity to reach fourth-density level in these last days?
RA: I am Ra. It is impossible to help another being directly. It is only possible to make catalyst available in whatever form, the most important being the radiation of realization of oneness with the Creator from the self, less important being information such as we share with you.

Ra: “The best way of service to others is the constant attempt to seek to share the love of the Creator as it is known to the inner self. This involves self knowledge and the ability to open the self to the other-self without hesitation. This involves, shall we say, radiating that which is the essence or the heart of the mind/body/spirit complex.”

Passages such as these, along with information I have encountered elsewhere in my spiritual study, lead me to believe that silence in the face of service-to-self activity need not be a weak, passive, and ineffectual strategy. While – depending on the orientation and evolutionary position of the entity – it certainly can be, it also can be a position of incredible metaphysical power for the entity aware of the self as Creator and the unity which binds all things. From this standpoint, the entity may indeed effect profound and fundamental change without opening the mouth or lifting a finger.

However, as you say, this is a zone of free will within which we all have the privilege and the responsibility to creatively add our input towards an outcome beyond our control. As such, the service of communicating our truth via blue ray expression can be a helpful concomitant of the service of being.

This is not to minimize or dismiss your efforts as unworthy! On the contrary I do think it necessary that people speak up. My only point is to emphasize that, in my humble opinion, between being and doing, the service of being is by far the more powerful and potent of the two, though being is also the most invisible of the two.
Speaking and agitating for change on behalf of that which is perceived to be service to others is needed on this planet. I only advocate that ones energies and focus be given first to the development of being -- with the service of doing seen only as an extension of the primary service.

In terms of those who have effected great societal change in this world. Gandhi and MLK are two of my personally esteemed models for taking service-to-others oriented action on the physical plane.
Alas, please feel free to disregard these thoughts if they are unhelpful, for I am simply figuring it out as I go along. : )

Love/Light,
GLB