04-25-2017, 01:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2017, 01:30 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
(04-24-2017, 09:00 PM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: If a negative entity teaches sts polarity, is this not a service to another and a decrease in negative polarity?
Ra touches on this at various points, it's one of the key clues that polarity is a distortion. From an objective point of view, service to any is service to all. Largely, the polarity of any given action is based solely in the participants' view of that action. Nearly any activity which could be undertaken could be either STO or STS, just depending on who's doing it and why.
Teaching with the intent of enslaving is a fine example of this. Going back to Ayn Rand, it's true that on one level she seemed to legitimately believe hers was the better path and was attempting to spread knowledge of her self-based philosophies to those who were prepared to learn them. However, from there, she took her most promising students and organized them into a cult-like community in which her word was law and members could be excommunicated for even the slightest of offenses against her. And she (claiming it was ironic) called this group The Collective.
So it starts getting very fuzzy, trying to determine the extent to which she was "legitimately" teaching vs how much of it was specifically so that she could attempt to enslave those who followed her teachings.
And as far as negatives and their polarity go, Ra mentions at various points (such as 7.15 and 87.14) that negative entities, particularly S-M-Cs, tend to suffer from a "spiritual entropy" which is a direct result of the tension between their attempts to work together and their need\desire to remain separate and controlling. As I interpret it, basically, they end up spending a huge amount of energy on seemingly-pointless internal bickering and infighting specifically to keep their polarity levels high, which ends up reducing their ability to work towards common goals.
(Just think of any large corporation with a "toxic" internal culture where workers backstabbing each other or sabotaging each others' projects is common.)