What is Service?

[Tenet Nosce]

service (on the positive path) is a response to a calling.

Is it not also a response to a call by those on the negative path? For example, when humanity began detonating nuclear weapons, didn't that constitute a call for control?

where offering the service was the cause of positivity rather than the actual act itself

That's interesting! So it is something behind the action which constitutes the service...

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It matters in the discernment of that which is being consumed, in that what may be a plate of darkness can be easily deceptively offered as a serving of light.

Yes, but the food is the "end product." Which is why I am prone to suggest that the service really has little to do with what is being offered. Rather- what is the identity behind the offering?

It is not as simple as STO or STS. this is why we see such confusion in trying to establish those definitions as Ra presents them.

But Ra didn't offer those definitions; L/L did. Ra just went along with it.

It is unlikely that there is a more pithy or eloquent description of the polarities of third density than service to others and service to self due to the nature of the mind/body/spirit complexes’ distortions towards perceiving concepts relating to philosophy in terms of ethics or activity

111 Thread Redirect ---> Polarization and Polarity

Then, in an attempt to teach/learn beyond "ethics or activity" Ra offered to consider polarity in terms of a magnet.

As to the widespread confusion you refer to, remember:

There are few who will grasp, without significant distortion, that which we communicate through this connection with this mind/body/spirit complex.

It is a matter of effort, and the consequences of each effort manifests as the All. This is why Ra states that each path leads toward the One.

Yes.

And so, when you are able to understand such divine process, you offer both service to others, as the evolving All, and service to self, as the evolving fragment.

Precisely. So what you are saying here is to include the small, fragmented self, as among the "others" to be served?