(06-18-2011, 02:06 PM)Icaro Wrote: There certainly is a prerequisite, but it is more of a simultaneous thing, that being that you can't point the finger without (literally) pointing your finger at the self also.
the magical side of this is, regardless of the pointed fingers, law of responsibility still acts indiscriminately.
the one pointing finger or the one pointed at - these dont make any difference.
Quote:I've seen you defend money being unnecessary, to which I agree, yet you participate in and perpetuate the system and now (apparently), are saying one act of accepting money is better than the other.
There is no excuse as to why you should be able to work for money and those that do spiritual work shouldn't. There may be a higher effect, it's possible, but it is moot in the end. In essence, neither should be charging. Everything should be devoted towards serving others and therefore be considered spiritual. Everything should be freely given, because no one owns anything and your line of work is not an exception. So the point is, we acknowledge that we are in an unfortunate position and do what we have to to survive and progress. Ideally, someone doing spiritual work could lessen the impurity of directly charging for their spiritual work and support themselves with side-tasks, but that isn't always the case.
We are essentially caught in a philosophical divide here on the nature of criticism, not about the specifics of money and spirituality. I think it is more important to call attention to the character and intention of who is being criticized. I would say it is more worthwhile to make a distinction between those who seek great profit and those who are really trying to make a difference. In this way there isn't a debate about participation in different levels of a system as somehow being better than the other (spiritual vs. 'non-spiritual'), rather, we focus on the intention behind the participation as what is ultimately important. If any participation in the system is ultimately bad, then it is essentially the character/intention behind it that the distinction lies.
I question the difference of impurity however, as it relates to intention. If your intentions are good, it may offset some of the impurity, and therefore the effort could be considered worthwhile. We can't know the specifics on a metaphysical level. It is best to work towards purity as you say.
it isnt that complicated. its actually quite simple :
it does matter that you dont charge for spiritual information, but garden work, because of magical/spiritual principles :
the money system, trade and all that brings are related to first 3 centers at most. at best. it is actually, due to ownership concept in this society, more related to orange than yellow. whereas spiritual information/higher vibrations are related to higher rays. ranges from green to white.
when you charge for lawn work, you are tying one red/orange/yellow act and energies (with yellow being rather small in the equation) with the orange/yellow tenets of the money/trade system.
when you charge for spiritual work, you are tying green/blue/indigo/violet/white act and energies, with the same orange/yellow tenets of the money/trade system.
in a way, the higher energies you bring, are put at the whim of an orange blockage/yellow sts social interaction. you give these energies if you are supplied with the requirement of self-serving demand of orange/yellow money system, and you dont, if you dont.
even if green ray can tolerate this, at the minimum this breaks at the blue ray of the equation, which requires and demands to be free and flow freely. (in retrospect, blue is also the ray which facilitates understanding of one's own spirit and spiritual influxes - which would naturally lead to muddying/compromise of the channel). not to mention that, the manifestation of these rays, require open red/orange/yellow at the minimum, as opposed to a system that requires blockage of orange ray and negative yellow ray.
so in short, green, blue, indigo, violet, white, becomes made subject to whims of orange/yellow, negative.
the magical implications of these would be endless to discuss. but then again, it is quite easy to see, what it ends up in, if we look at spiritual literature.
that is why it is important to avoid to charge for spiritual information.
on a footnote ; law of responsibility doesnt discriminate even for intention - if intention caused evasion of responsibility, ra wouldnt be incarnated on this planet to the numbers of ~ 60 million in order to amend the effects of what they have done.