Reciprocity

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Reciprocity

Uranda   July 10, 1954  Class

“We  accept  for  ourselves  that  which  we  accept  for  others.”

Tonight, I should like to call your attention to a basic truth which is of great importance and significance in relationship to our whole ministry, and in relationship to personal attitudes. We recognize that attitudes determine our course of movement, regardless of what you think you know, regardless of what you think your desire or intent to be. Your attitudes, whatever they may be, will determine your direction and speed of movement. And this particular point—which has to do with attitudes as well as that which makes up the reality of attitudes which we utilize in daily life—is this: We accept for ourselves that which we accept for others. Or we could make it personal: “I accept for myself that which I accept for others.” It is the failure to realize this that tends to destroy the effectiveness of so many lives.

The individual imagines that he can accept something for others without accepting it for himself. But you accept for yourself that which you accept for others. If we give a little thought to this we can see that the individual all too often tends not only to accept for someone else something that is less than that which he would like for himself but he tends to try to impose something on others which he would be inclined to reject for himself. But the attitude of rejecting for oneself that which one seeks to impose upon others does not prevent that which he imposes upon others from coming into his own life. We may say this is a different way to say that whatever we sow we shall surely reap—but it has to do with this Principle of Reciprocity which we have been considering together. And it seems to me that this way of approaching the subject should make it easy for each one to see the vital significance of this particular point as it relates to himself.

Those who tend to have a disregard for the welfare of others, so that they accept without concern the condition which others may experience in life, are actually accepting that same condition for themselves. It may take a little while for it to work out, it may take a little time, but we see it in the world today in the sense of world conditions. If we go back a little in history, we recognize that a little, just a little, real encouragement, a little real help, not necessarily financially, but a little real help given to the German nation when after the so-called First World War it undertook to become a republic, a democracy—a little real help from the United States and Great Britain, and perhaps a few others, a little real encouragement, and that government which was able to exist for only a few months would not have been upset and lost through the activities of Hitler and his gang. The people of the United States and Great Britain, failing to have any appreciation in any deep sense of what was taking place, accepted for the people of Germany this action on the part of Hitler. They let the revolution take place. They had not really given any backing to this young democracy which was established with the intent of taking its place in the family of nations. And because other nations accepted that for the German people, and made no real move to change it, what happened? What did we finally get back ourselves here in the United States and Britain, from Hitler and his program? So many lives lost. So much property damaged. We accepted it, that change, for the German people, without being willing to put forth the effort to help a young democracy. And what followed? It cost us thousands of times more—in life, in energy expended, in money—than it would have if we had just refused to accept for the German people that which was imposed upon them. And it could have been so easily done, a little diplomatic activity. In history we talk about what Hitler did. Well that was bad, yes, but what did we do that let Hitler do it? We could have stopped Hitler before he ever started, and it would have been so easy to do, because Germany had launched forth on a program of democracy that could have avoided the tragedies which followed, the tragedies to the whole world—the tragedies to the Jewish race, the whole thing. And all because we accepted for the German people something which we did not want ourselves, and finally we had to defend ourselves from it.

We could consider the same thing in relationship to Russia. Many people do not realize that the Bolshevist regime which began the program of Red communism didn't overthrow the czarist regime. It didn't. Russia had overthrown the czar, overthrown the old government, and had launched on a program of democracy. The Russian people had thrown off the yoke of the czars and had become determined to enter the family of nations on the pattern of the world democracy. And again, by dastardly action, a small handful of men were allowed to take control, because we, and the others in the world who could have strengthened that young democracy, given it backing, did not. It wanted it, it was asking for it with open arms, and we could have backed up that young democracy, but we accepted for the Russian people the impositions of those who established Red communism in Russia and proceeded to promulgate their doctrines of hate in all the world. Just a little diplomatic action, a little energy, a little real support of a young democracy. If I recall correctly, that democracy was in existence for only about six months. I am not just sure now. But it was not the Red communists who overthrew the czars, as they would want the world to believe. It was already done, and after it was done they stepped in—a small handful of men—and took over. Almost exactly the same kind of pattern as worked out in Germany.

We, the people of the world, accepted for the Russians this pattern of imposition, and at that time I suppose everyone felt quite comfortable and secure: “That's way over there in Russia. What difference does it make? We'll let them do thus and so.” But what has it cost us? What has it cost the world, because in selfishness and self-centeredness, in lethargy, in failing to be alert to what was taking place in the world, we accepted something for the Russians? Who would have thought then that the whole of what we call “the free world” would be in the state it is because of this failure to be alert, because we accepted something for the Russian people? Just a few years, and we find that when we accepted it for them we accepted it for ourselves. Now it is either going to be imposed upon us or we must stop it somewhere, somehow. Even if it does not come within the borders of our land, we have accepted it for ourselves. What do I mean? I mean that that is what is controlling the pattern of our function now. What is the primary concern of our nation, our government, our activities, our whole defense program? The spending of millions of dollars, years out of the lives of millions of young men and women—why? Because actually our pattern is being forced upon us from over there. We don't want it; we don't want what we accepted for the Russian people.

We can see it on a world scale. And what a few years it took for it to come back to us on a world scale. It didn't take nearly that long as far as Hitler was concerned, did it? And then, as soon as Hitler was off the scene, lo and behold, there was something else on the horizon, something we had accepted for the Russian people back in 1917, and there it was. And millions of people have perished because of it, literally millions. In the Ukraine there were several millions of people deliberately starved to death in that program. Millions have been executed in China, Korea, and all the rest of it. We accepted something for the Russian people, and lo, we find we don't want it. But we find we accepted it for ourselves, and now we have to deal with it whether we like it or not. There is no choice but to deal with it.

This same principle works in every human life. You as a person cannot escape from it any more than the nations of the world have escaped from it. Do you think that Great Britain and the United States couldn't escape from it, but you can? You can escape from the working of the Law? No. Whether a person, a group of persons, or a nation, it is absolute. The Principle of Reciprocity is at work, and we accept for ourselves, we'll have to deal with it sometime, what we accept for others. A disregard for the welfare of others. Some people think it is smart to be down on somebody else, to try to belittle somebody else, belittle other people's endeavors. They try to make themselves look smart and big by being down on somebody else, minimizing the efforts of others. And one of the most commonplace of the ugly expressions used in the world is, “Ah, go to hell!”—accepting something for someone else. And the individual imagines that he can accept that for somebody else, or seek to impose it upon him, and not accept it for himself. But it doesn't work. If you accept it for someone else, you accept it for yourselves.

Now there are many things in the world about which we can do nothing in a direct sense at the present time. We cannot go over to China and straighten everything out over there by some arbitrary, external action. It can't be done that way. No. But if in our attitude we accept it for them, we will find that we are accepting for ourselves something that will be devastating to us. It may take a little time to appear, but it will get here. On the other hand, if we waste a lot of time feeling sorry for the poor Chinese on a sympathetic attunement basis, what will we be doing? Will we be helping them? No, we will be accepting for ourselves what we have accepted for them, now. We won't be waiting till some future time. We will be immediately sharing it, vibrationally speaking, and we will be very sad indeed. So that is not the answer. We cannot immediately do something about it in a direct, external sense, but as a basic factor in our attitude individually, we can simply not accept for the Chinese people that which is being imposed upon them, as far as our attitude is concerned. It may be there, but we have not accepted it. If you accept it for others you are accepting it for yourself, and you will have to deal with it. Now, we can turn it around a little bit—if we really see the principle in operation—and see that we do not, in our attitude, have to accept this thing—we won't accept it. And if we do that consistently, rightly, I will show you in a minute what can happen.

We are approaching one of the Great Secrets in successful living. Let us turn this around for a moment. We see that if we accept ill things for others we accept them for ourselves. But the Law works with respect to all things, and if we accept right things for others we are accepting them for ourselves. If we try to accept the right things for ourselves, what we think is good, while we resent the right things coming to others, some particular blessing, we produce a vibrational chaos that will certainly defeat us. Unless you learn to accept blessings for others, without any resentment, you will be refusing to accept your own blessing. It is absolute. If you resent in any way, shape or form the manifestation of any blessing to any person, if you hesitate for even an instant, on the basis of self-centeredness, in accepting a blessing for others and rejoicing in it, you are hesitating in the acceptance of your own blessing. If you resent it you will find yourself so functioning that your own blessings simply do not appear. We learn to accept the good things for others and rejoice genuinely, deep in our hearts, for every blessing that comes to anyone anywhere, so that we feel welling up from the depths of our souls, “Isn't it wonderful”—not just sort of grudgingly. No. If you tear down someone else, or try to, you are tearing yourself down. It will come back in the working of the Principle of Reciprocity, just as surely as the sun rises and sets.

We may say here is one of the Secrets of Service, the attitude of one who serves. If you are genuinely working for the benefit of others, then your heart is thrilled to see the joy, the fulfilment, the blessing for this person over here. Now if we have seen clearly that this works all the way around, with respect to everything—blessings are included—we learn to joyously, selflessly bless. Not thinking about oneself; just a pure, holy, wholesome, genuine joy that you have the privilege of accepting a blessing for someone else. And what begins to happen? You are not thinking about it, but you have accepted a blessing for yourself. Who knows what it is? You don't need to. All right, here we have an opportunity to begin to see something if we will. This principle works with respect to external things in the realm of form, but oh how it works in the invisible realm with respect to vibrational factors!

We were talking about China, or we could take any other seemingly faraway problem. Take someone out here somewhere, whom you know, where there is something wrong, some ill condition. Are you going to resent the ill condition? If you do you are accepting it. Do you know that you accept whatever you resent? I don't care what it is, if you resent anything you are accepting it. Remember that. Whatever you resent you are accepting. So resentment is a devastating thing. We cannot resent something without accepting it. Now there's a little distinction that is vitally important here if you are going to share movement into a higher realm of being—something tremendously significant and important.

You learn not to accept something, without in the slightest degree resenting it. Very easily done, a very simple procedure, to refuse to accept something without resenting it, no matter how bad it is. For if you imagine that because it is bad you are justified in resenting it you will destroy yourself. You will destroy your ability to help or correct the ill situation. But out here there is something we do not accept. I could point to most any of you here and say, “For you there was some condition, some situation, that I did not accept for you.” You were probably already accepting it, and other people were accepting it for you too, but I just simply refused to accept it for you, that is all. As far as I was concerned it was not acceptable. And that gave you your start; it gave you your chance. If that which you tended to accept, and others were accepting for you, worked out, it meant that your meaningfulness, your effectiveness, in the higher sphere at least, was just being washed out. It was going, just like down the drain. But I refused to accept it for you. I refused to believe that this thing, this ill condition, this situation, whatever it was, was sufficiently big or sufficiently powerful to maintain dominion over you. I refused to accept it for you.

In those cases where individuals had accepted it for themselves to such an extent that they went out of this service and were gone, no longer in the sphere of my influence—and very often they did something to try to hurt me when they went out; they said and did things that were very wrong in some respects—still, even then, I refused to accept for them that which they accepted for themselves. And not once did I say, “Well that serves them right,” or something. I refused to accept for them that which they accepted for themselves. Well if they accept it for themselves and go that way, and insist on going that way, perhaps there is nothing I can do about it, but I still refuse to accept it for them. I will not be a party to it. I don't care what they do or don't do, I will not be a party to it. I do not accept it for them, regardless.

The fact that where there is something which, if you continue to accept it, is going to nullify your real effectiveness in life, and the tendency is in that direction—perhaps it is a habit, perhaps it is an attitude, a limited pattern of function in the mind or emotional realm, or something else—the fact that there is at least one person on earth who simply refuses to accept it for you is giving you a chance. Now to whatever degree the rest of you function correctly with me, that opportunity is enlarged. Some of you have been doing fairly well with it and others have done it just a little bit, part of the time, and then it was erratic. There was a tendency to revert to an old pattern, which I didn't accept for you. Whether you insist on accepting it or not, I don't. I will not be a party to it, for you or anyone else. Now if you look back along the way, in relationship to your experience with me, there was something perhaps you couldn't quite put your finger on—“What is it?”—something elusive, and yet something exclusive without being aloof, something that you could not quite maybe figure out or touch somehow. This is at least part of it, because it seemed to you that this condition was and you just had to accept it, and you couldn't perhaps understand my attitude because, whether it was put in words or got clear into your consciousness or not, you sensed somehow that I just didn't accept it. Some of you have tried to persuade me to accept something with respect to yourselves, and because I didn't accept it you thought I didn't understand you. I could name some names right here where that still exists, where it still hasn't cleared. You insisted on accepting something for yourself, and you felt that I just did not understand you because I would not accept it for you. Well I won't be a party to it. If you insist, you will have to go it alone, or with whatever help you can gather up around. You can usually get somebody to agree with you and share accepting any unreal thing. You know, it is quite easy to get a partner on that kind of a deal—quite easy usually. But to find someone who will not accept it for you, or with you, that is a different thing.

How many are there in the world who know how to function in relationship to this Principle of Reciprocity, to give you an open door out of the realm of the ill condition? I refused to accept it for you, and I, by my attitude, action, words, encouraged you not to accept it for yourself. And the moment you reached a point of agreeing with me—in actual fact, not just with the lips—the moment you reached a point of actually agreeing with me and holding true to that agreement, so-called miracles began to happen. Now here is the foundation of miracles, the beginning of miracles, the beginning of great and wonderful things, under the principle of reciprocity. It is remarkable what can happen for those who really will do it. Of course it takes time for human beings to reach a point where they have enough vision, enough trust, enough confidence, but here it is.

Now this is the starting point for an understanding of working in the vibrational field in relationship to Heavenly Magic, things that from an outer or human standpoint seem to be utterly impossible, something that can be done in far places if we have the right machinery, the right agreement, the right understanding, the right patterns of function. Several times I have prepared an approach pattern for those who were here on Sunrise Ranch to move into this field, set the stage so we could move into that field, and do you know what has happened? Every time we have gotten close to it the people living on Sunrise Ranch veered away from it. They did not want to. Well some of them may have said with their lips they would like to, but they didn't. They veered away from it. That is one field we have never really entered. We could have, and maybe we will someday. Here is another opportunity to get a little closer anyway, if you will use it. But in any case, this establishes us at a point of orientation where we can move in a number of different directions.

A tremendous field opens before us. We could consider this point in relationship to attunements as such, or attunement technique, for instance, or in any field, with respect to any situation, any condition.

How do we learn to not accept without resentment and without the feeling of the necessity of fighting, without fear; for if we have fear we are having faith in the things we say we do not want to accept, aren't we? Then if we have faith in it, enough to be fearful, we are having more faith in it than we have in what presumably could prevent it, or we would not be afraid of it. So if we fear it we have accepted it, period, regardless of any of the twistings and turnings and beliefs and ideas and concepts of the human mind. Now we may take a specific course of action for a specific reason, which may look to someone else as if we were acting on a basis of fear. No, we are just simply acting on the basis of intelligence, of a right course of action. But if we are acting on a basis of fear we are going to be wrong—fear of any kind. Fear of personal failure, fear that we are not going to be able to do it, fear that this is going to happen, fear that that is going to happen, fear that..., fear that..., fear that..., and we have accepted ill conditions. Just for ourselves? Oh no. If you accept an ill condition for yourself you accept it for all others. As far as you are concerned it is an attitude of saying, “I'm going to hell and you go too!” If you accept an ill condition for yourself you are accepting it for others, even if you think you aren't.

Sometimes the human mind gets away from it by saying, “Well now, I'll accept this ill condition for myself but I'll get out of the way so it won't be imposed upon others.” Such foolishness! such foolishness! If you accept it for yourself, as far as you are concerned it is accepted for others. You have accepted it for others before you accepted it for yourself, really. You think you accepted it for yourself before you accepted it for someone else? No, you are just deluding yourself, because you had to violate your sense of responsibility for others before you could accept it for yourself. You just didn't acknowledge it until you had accepted it for yourself, and then, by some twists and turns of the human imagination, you assume that you are not accepting it for others? You already have, whether you like it or not, because you cannot accept it for yourself until you have accepted it for others. And that is the way it is. You may try, but anything, in any direction, good, bad or indifferent, in any level of life, in any circumstance anywhere, under the Principle of Reciprocity, you cannot accept it for yourself until you have accepted it for others. And if you think you simply accepted it for yourself and not for others, you are just deluding yourself, because you could not accept an ill thing for yourself without first violating your responsibility to others. Therefore it meant that you had accepted it for others, whether you had ever thought about it or not. What you accept for others you accept for yourself.

Now if we begin to really clear the attitude here, really begin to see something so basic and vitally important, really begin to think about it, we are about to be in position to do some of the most wonderful things, some of the things you have dreamed about being done someday—someday. Now, of course, it will not be because I accept or select you and you and you to share it. You will have to accept it for yourselves. Your own outworking in life will show whether you are going to accept it or not. But this is the starting point to which anyone and everyone must come if he or she is to share in the greater works.

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