remember, not only the leap but also the retention of the new ground

149, 201.  Maintain a correlation between expansion and strengthening; remember, not only the leap but also the retention of the new ground.  Many examples may be cited wherein expansion resulted in no possibilities.  Naturally we must understand expansion in regard to the consciousness.  If a victory of the consciousness be not consolidated technically, then instead of an even light the consciousness will become filled with sharp, painful sparks.... Through inexperience people often begin to be alarmed by a temporary silence of the consciousness, but such a consolidation leads to the next leap....
It may seem that one is deprived of all co-workers while obliged to try to take up the burden, and he who knows will say "Maya, begone!  I know that true co-workers are scattered over the face of the Earth!"               -Morya:  Community 1926

4.  The seed of labor withers without the moisture of reciprocity.      -M:  Community 1926
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            Reciprocity--give and take--is the concept of unity and friendship in the (Master's) community.
            Let us not look backward too much.  Looking backward is looking back to old human ties, which cannot endure in the community.  I think this is one of the most difficult parts of the path for many people.  Fortunate are you if you are not in this position.  Many people have difficult decisions to make about the worth of associations that cannot survive in a community setting.     -Messenger ECP:  Community, 2002, pp. 12-3.            
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  Mankind have circumvented the mind of God by their rebellion against His light, His Eternal Son incarnate.  Therefore there exists a warp in this civilization....
  And is not Camelot a world of your creation as the co-workers of God and the Brotherhood?  Is it not the work of sons and daughters of light ascended and unascended?  See then how you will live to behold the handiwork of God in you....        -Elohim Apollo:  10-7-1977 at Pasadena via Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet