Honor/Responsibility, Honor/Duty
Each responsibility is an honor; each honor, a responsibility.
Responsibilities and duties are not seen as chores or obligations to which one is shackled. Rather, the seeker has the freedom to both create and accept the responsibility or duty as an honor, and freedom to fulfill the responsibility or duty as a service. It is, for instance, Ra’s honor/responsibility to stay with those of planet Earth to eliminate the distortions given to the Law of One.
Interestingly, the reduction in life span earlier in the third-density cycle is due to the ways of honor/duty not being accepted; that is, not using catalyst and not manifesting the fruits of learning.
Author’s Note: The Honor of Responsibility
The above definition may give the unintended impression that honor/duties are offered to the self by external forces or beings. While this can certainly happen, there is a deeper perspective available.
Everything that unfolds for the self happens as a function of free will, operating on one or multiples levels, inherent in the self. With this understanding we see more clearly that honor/duties are self-created opportunities. The third-density entity programming for the coming incarnation will design particular honor/duties in order to learn certain lessons; for instance, programming to care for a physically limited loved one in order to learn to open the heart or to balance love and wisdom. Honor/duties, or responsibilities, can also be chosen in order to help the self balance past imbalanced actions—which is to say, alleviate karma. For instance, the same scenario above could help foster forgiveness and alleviate accumulated karma between the caregiver and the care receiver.
Each of us creates responsibilities with our free will choices, and those responsibilities become our path, our dharma, and, if forgiveness is needed, our karma. We may freely choose what lessons to learn, what path to walk, how to alleviate that karma, but it is all viewed as an honor by those who seek every opportunity to balance and become One. These responsibilities may be fulfilled in the work of a moment, or they may take many lifetimes to complete.
How honor/duties are viewed on the service-to-self path is not clear.
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