balance10: Labor, cooperation, community must be voluntary.

Monday, April 9, 2018

Labor, cooperation, community must be voluntary.

at Harbin, China ice/snow festival

9. Labor must be voluntary. Cooperation must be voluntary. Community must be voluntary. Labor must not be enslaved by force. The condition of voluntary agreement must be laid into the foundation of advancement. No one may bring dissolution into the new house. Workers, builders, creators can be likened to high-soaring eagles. Only in a broad flight does the dust and rubbish of decay fall away.

22. One may reach us only in harmonious agreement….A flickering lamp is unbearable for prolonged work. The same laws apply in everything, and according to the law of justice a flickering lamp injures itself. -M: Community 1926

331. Without culture there can be no international agreement or mutual understanding. Without culture people's understanding cannot embrace all needs of evolution….When countries are on the way to destruction then even those who are spiritually depleted must understand in what the ascent consists. Verily salvation lies in culture. -M: Hierarchy 1931 (culture = cultivation of ur)

121. it is first of all necessary to have an agreement over the understanding of many concepts. Is it at all possible to call gluttony or depravity or theft or betrayal worldly matters? They are even beneath the actions of animals. Animals know the measure of need, but if man has forgotten the measure of justice it is only because he has abandoned (caring for) the world and has fallen into darkness. Whoever does not reflect more worthily about the world is not able to distinguish right from wrong. How could he comprehend the blessed Fire? -M: Fiery World 1934

290. No forcible, conventionally accelerated movement toward a display of the heart's action will be useful. The heart is a most independent organ; it may be set free toward good, and it will hasten to be filled with energy. Likewise only in friendly communion is it possible to secure the fruits of unified energy; however for this it is indispensable to understand what harmonious agreement is.

338. When concordance is based not on conventional agreement but on heart cooperation, the manifestation of thought is especially intelligible and authoritative. One need not be surprised that the concept of brotherhood requires so many consonances. These vibrations are joyful ones.

591. We advise having several tasks on hand in order the more easily to bring them into agreement with the inner state of consciousness. A better quality will be attained by such a method. It is too bad if a man begins to detest his work because of transitory currents. -M: Brotherhood 1937

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289. What can be worse than a mob of people who understand the rhythmic power of words and numbers but cannot agree about life's fundamental principles? We put particular stress upon the understanding of these foundations, for without it knowledge itself is not only useless but even harmful…Actions taken simultaneously do not necessarily signify unity, and without inner harmony such actions will only cause disturbances of the atmosphere.