...to link and to bind...


The Web is full of "spiritual" messages channeled by many well-intentioned but often deluded workers. Authors enjoy the freedom to present their views without any editorial review or censorship. This is a good exercise of freedom of expression and provides a most useful test of discernment among the viewers and consumers of these channeled messages. However, only experienced souls are able to fully discern the true facts in the midst of glamorous claims and misrepresentations of the Good, the Beautiful and the True. To guide us all in the art and science of spiritual discernment, the following practices are suggested (adapted from --Esoteric Psychology II, pp. 572-73):

There are many sources of these messages: 85% emanate from the relatively nice, well-trained subconscious nature of the recipient; 8% are impressions from the soul, which are translated into concepts and written down by the personality; 5% are teachings given by a senior or more advanced disciple on the inner planes to a disciple under training (the criterion here is that nothing, literally NOTHING, will concern the recipient's personality, nor will they contain platitudes of the recipient's religious background); and 2% are true communications from a Master to disciples (Telepathy, pp.75-77).

In summary, "a true contact with the Hierarchy and the true accolade of service carries with it the conviction of the existence of the many servers in the one Service, of the many messengers carrying the one message, of the many teachers of the many aspects of the one Truth, and of the many and various ways back to the Heart of God."


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About Groups...

A group is mathematically defined as a set of elements (i.e., individuals) joined by an associative binary operation (i.e., love) such that:

The binary operation which defines a group is associative when the order of the elements in any interaction, as in service, is irrelevant to the group purpose (as long as the group purpose is attained, of course). This associative attribute adds a functional egalitarian quality to balance the inherently hierarchical structure of group formation. This associative attribute is also the basis for shared leadership in a group once stifling tridimensional concepts of time-and-space "order", of "greater and lesser" have been transcended.


THOTh, last revised 15FEB98