[split] Mystery Schools and Initiation

[Sacred Fool]

With my own distortions, maybe I can't achieve a 100% perfect idea of what a "deep desire to serve" is, but the notion that I have not considered it, is dismissive and condescending, to say the least. That's the point I keep getting back to. Dismissiveness. Judgment. Condescension. Elitism. Holier than thou attitudes. 

*sigh*

I was trying to be of service by suggesting you aim your energies in what could be a fruitful direction, not suggesting you didn't understand the concept.  In my view, you can't have it both ways.  You can either concentrate your efforts to travel towards love or spin around and around in voluble circles of anger.  Your choice.

By the same token, it's maybe not entirely that simple.  If you're interested, here's the context of your pearls quotation.  That line emphasizes that mean people can do mean things to others, even when you offer them guidance and concern.  Go figure.

Chapter7 

[sup]1 [/sup]Judge not, that ye be not judged.

[sup]2 [/sup]For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

[sup]3 [/sup]And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

[sup]4 [/sup]Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

[sup]5 [/sup]Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

[sup]6 [/sup]Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

[sup]7 [/sup]Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

[sup]8 [/sup]For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

[sup]9 [/sup]Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

[sup]10 [/sup]Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

[sup]11 [/sup]If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

[sup]12 [/sup]Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Yes, it travels both ways...either in beauty or in pettiness.  It's your own choice.  And perhaps you can allow others to make their own choices without drenching them in your sense of distilled entitlement and fear?

If not, that's okay, too.  But, it seems to me that one of these makes the world a slightly better place while the other makes it slightly worse, regardless of who it is that's making these reflected choices at any given time.