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Student Letter on Maintaining the Positive
Versus Negative
The following is part of a
letter dictated by the Moderator to a student—the one who in the past was old
King Herod I. Such concepts can serve to help any person, thus the inclusion:
The most important problem
confronting the aspiring student of Unarius is self-mastery, and it is
almost needless to point out that until certain definite steps and
accomplishments in this self-mastery have been accomplished the aspirant has no
chance of becoming a better person.
The whole context of the Unariun concept is
based upon this premise: You cannot become a better
person until you have mastered your personal emotions.
You cannot hope to escape the purgatory of karma which you have heaped upon
yourself in your past lives, no more than you can hope to escape present and
future inflictions by indulging yourself in emotionalisms. Therefore, if you
find yourself at any time, now or in the future, emotionally involved with any
person or persons or any set of circumstances, the first step in
self-mastery is to realize that you—and you alone—are to blame and are
responsible for your involvement and for your emotion.
When you have accomplished such real, honest
judgment against yourself and you can judge your position on the basis of all
factors involved in the situation, then you shall find that these emotionalisms
will be discharged; they will lose their power to hold you and your future will
become freer from recurring situations.
Self-mastery does not mean the suppression
of emotion; it means discharging and discarding this unintelligent reaction by a
sequence of logical interpretations which are taught throughout the Unarius
liturgies and are the basic elements of personal psychology. When you
properly understand human nature, without involving your personal ego in this
understanding, you will be able to quickly settle all differences which may
arise in your mind on the basis of logic, reason and understanding,
and when you have learned to understand yourself and others, as well as the
world about you, you will be able to automatically project a strong, positive
vibration or power into everything. People and dogs will like you without the
necessity—as you now think—of trying to impress them with your ability and
your desires.
This strong, positive vibration should not be
misconstrued; it does not come from an egotistical person. Such persons only
incur enmity and dislike. The positive love vibration comes only when you
understand yourself and others and you are interested in them above your own
welfare and regardless of personal benefits.
Therefore, to anyone who would like to live a
better life, who would like to serve mankind and the Infinite Creator, he must
first accomplish this first and all-important step—self-mastery. It is a long
step and perhaps the biggest step you'll ever take, and when you have
accomplished self-mastery you will no longer find yourself emotionally involved
with others. It will not be a question of being welcomed into their homes or in
their company, nor will there be any question of your abilities. All such things
will be automatically adjusted and taken care of beforehand. That is part of the
principle of Infinite Regeneration. As you become wiser and more
understanding, so does the emotional world pass from you in proportion to your
understanding. The degree of your emotional involvement then will always be a
personal yardstick whereby you can constantly measure your success or failure.
If you find yourself in an emotional situation,
just say to yourself, "There is no one else to blame but myself; I have let
myself become emotionally involved and there's only one person who can change it—that's
me," or words along that line. When you can honestly and
objectively analyze, within yourself, that emotionalism is a form of mental
weakness, that emotionalism is indulged in by people in lieu of an intelligent,
understandable way of life, then you will be able to quickly change your
situation.
Remember the old classic quotation, "Evil is
always in the eye of the beholder". An evil circumstance only begets its
own evil progeny, et cetera. Don't blame others—blame yourself for being
ignorant and failing to understand either yourself or them.
Moreover, in your quest of self-mastery, so long
as you are living a mortal life and until you have evolved to a higher plane of
consciousness, you will be to some degree, victimized by the emotional world.
You must not, however, attempt to console yourself by saying that circumstances
were thrust upon you or that others do it, so why can't I, etc.
Living in the material world means
constant involvement in emotionalisms. You will, therefore, be constantly
called upon to exercise the franchise of intelligent, logical analysis. You will
also be constantly called upon to dissolve these negative energies by re-forming
from them constructive thought and putting this constructive thought into action
by understanding other people,
seeing or anticipating their unfulfilled need of such constructive thought, and
by objectifying your own need and lack, as well as that of the others, fill
these voids with this constructive thought which, when properly tuned to
negative situations, will reverse and cancel this negation. These are simple
elemental and scientific astrodynamic principles used by the Infinite Creator in
creating Himself in all things.
If you wish to become a constructive, creative
individual, you must learn to use these principles. If you are negative and
emotional, you will become increasingly so as the years and the lifetimes pass.
There's only one way to reverse degeneration and obliteration; through
constructive self-development, learning to understand yourself as an evolvement
through an emotional world. Your present emotional position must be
changed to a constructive attitude which uses the positive power of
intelligence, logic and understanding.
Learn to be interested in others; be
compassionately minded with their problems. Don't toss your ego around; if you
are something of any value, people will quickly recognize it—you won't have to
tell them. If your life is empty and lax, then fill it by helping to fill the
lives of others—not with your self-importance but rather, with love and
understanding. Never try to inflict yourself upon others; instead, create of
yourself a storehouse, then they will come to you.
Self-mastery does at once accomplish all the best
and creative desires and fulfills the promise of Infinite Creation.
The Unariun life is
lived in peace and complacency; it is lived in harmony with all others and all
things. It is lived without turmoil and strife and constantly is filled and
refilled with an abundance of all virtues.
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