Selfishness of STO

[anagogy]

On contrary, I think that true STO would mean that you are helping and giving to others just because you want to help them expecting nothing in return (even not expecting to positively polarize or graduate as a result of your actions). You just consciously self-sacrifice yourself for the sake of others, not expecting to graduate or not graduate just live the life helping others for the sake of helping. You shouldn't even need to be aware of LOO or polarization to follow true path and in fact I think this is how positive polarization is truly meant to work.

I think you're predominantly correct right here. This is how positive polarity looks when it is more or less "pure". However, bear in mind, in 3rd density it is not going to be completely pure, so there will be distortions toward selfishness even on the STO path. It would be extremely difficult to continue to "pretend to be STO" (just to graduate or "get into heaven") and actually develop any degree of significant positivity. The lack of will powering such a futile pursuit would become apparent to all but the most slow witted observers. So they would either give up and return to their indifferent behavior, or they would develop some real empathy which would inevitably lead to positive service. Sometimes the initial religious threat of not making it into heaven, or ending up in hell, just starts people down the spiritual path (a fearful path, but a path nonetheless), which eventually leads to them finding real positively polarized motivations for continuing to pursue such a path of what we might be termed benevolence.

For example, some person might volunteer to help the sick to "score brownie points with god", and come to feel a real genuine sense of concern for the people they are working with. Their initial motivation, while not wholly positive in nature, lead to the path of polarity. So, while its tempting to scoff at religion and its crippled means of seeking oneness or the creator, I think they probably provide value in a lot of circumstances (though they cause a lot of problems too, but that's another discussion).

Anyway, I think the same applies to somebody who is doing good to try to graduate to fourth density. Same concept basically. The initial motivations might be somewhat negatively (selfishly) polarized, but helping others has a way of changing people. It tends to rapidly raise ones vibration out of the orange/yellow zone into green vibratory experiences.