04-14-2009, 01:39 PM
Quantum Wrote:The supposition above holds that if one is not 51% positive in STO that one then is ipso facto STS as a result?
Hi Q. I was actually wondering when someone would comment on my statement. In point of fact, the way I read the LOO, all human motivations and associated actions can be categorized as either STS or STO. This is not to say that all people that are not yet harvestable STO are polarized STS. Rather, that each person's "grade" if you will, can be expressed in terms of either their orientation toward service to others or service to self, and the other "grade" is simply the difference between 100% and the orientation expressed. Note the following exchange between dona Don Ra:
Ra, Book I, Session 17 Wrote:Questioner:In the book Oahspe it states that if an entity goes over fifty one percent service to others and is less than fifty percent service to self, then that entity is harvestable. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct if the harvesting is to be for the positive fourth dimensional level.
Questioner: What is to be the entity’s percentage if he is to be harvested for the negative?
Ra: I am Ra. The entity who wishes to pursue the path of service to self must attain a grade of five, that is five percent service to others, ninety-five percent service to self. It must approach totality. The negative path is quite difficult to attain harvestability upon and requires great dedication.
Questioner: Why is the negative path so much more difficult to attain harvestability upon than the positive?
Ra: I am Ra. This is due to a distortion of the Law of One which indicates that the gateway to intelligent infinity be a gateway at the end of a straight and narrow path as you may call it. To attain fifty-one percent dedication to the welfare of other-selves is as difficult as attaining a grade of five percent dedication to otherselves. The, shall we say, sinkhole of indifference is between those two.
Questioner: Then if an entity is harvested into the fourth density with a grade of fifty-one percent for others and forty-nine percent for self, what level of the fourth density would he go into? I am assuming that there are different levels of the fourth density.
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. Each enters that sub-density which vibrates in accordance with the entity’s understanding.
I will grant you that I extrapolated from these statements to the conclusion that there are only two motivations for every action/thought/etc, but I profess that this concept is very aesthetic to me: If an action that you take is not motivated toward serving others, then it is oriented toward serving yourself (and vice versa).
Is it possible that there is a third category of motivation and thought or action? One of neutrality? Service to no one, so to speak? Perhaps, but that seems to me as more a convenience to allow one to fool oneself about their underlying motivations.
Do note, however, that I never said that people that are less than 51% STO are following the STS path. Here I make the distinction between STO/STS actions/motivations and the underlying STO/STS polarization. Clearly, many are polarized toward STO and are working hard to achieve the 51% grade, but are not there yet. Others are polarized STS and working to achieve their 95% grade. Somewhere in between 49% and 5% STO lies the "sinkhole of indifference" that Ra refers to. Is the indifference between 40% and 15% for example, or is it 35% and 20%, who knows, but wherever it is, that is the realm of unpolarized people still waiting to "choose".
My real point, though was that given that all motivations are either STO or STS (and clearly this is the case if we were to exclude any "neutral" motivations that may exist), then even almost harvestable STO entities still exhibit a greater number of STS actions and motivations than they do STO actions and motivations. So bear in mind that service to self is a vital part (as much as 49%) of those harvestable STO, just as service to others is a vital part (as mush as 5%) of those harvestable service to self. Indeed, I feel comfortable saying that one exhibiting 40% STO are probably polarized STO and may yet achieve a harvestable grade (given a few well placed catalysts, as it were). But note, that if they exhibit 40% STO motivations, then by definition, they also exhibit 60% STS motivations.
That said, I will now bow out of this discussion and leave it everyone to explore for themselves whether or not it's worth achieving a better understanding of STS. As I've said before, it works for me.
Love and Light,
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