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Chapter Two
Polarity and the Choice

Polarity on the Gameboard

Ethical actions are those taken with consideration and compassion for others. The Golden Rule of ethics appears in all religions:

The seeker’s use of the concept of polarity in making choices in everyday life is what transforms the lower-case “game of life” into the upper-case, spiritually alive “Game of Life.”

It is the single most crucial detail discussed by the Confederation concerning how the Gameboard works.

It is the key to winning the Game of Life.

Let’s look at this concept from the most basic level.

What is polarity? In the study of magnets, which is where I first became familiar with the concept of polarity in school, I found that in nature, iron is generally not magnetized. Iron ore naturally contains many magnetic “crystallites”—tiny crystalline bodies within the rock whose magnetic moments, or tendencies to produce spin around an axis, almost always tend to cancel each other out.

However, if the iron comes in contact with an already polarized magnet of sufficient strength, the magnet causes those moments in the raw ore to line up so that they are all spinning in the same direction. That piece of iron is now magnetized.

This magnet has a dynamic nature. One end of it, the “north pole,” is positively polarized. The other end of the magnetized iron, its “south pole,” is negatively polarized. This magnet now has the power to do a certain kind of work, which is to magnetize other lumps of iron by coming into contact with them, or to act as a compass which will point to magnetic north when floated in water or balanced on a pivot, allowing it to swing freely.

The “crystallites” in our human “ore” are ethical choices. In the usual run of behavior, we make choices at random with respect to ethics. We are not born as naturally ethical beings, any more than iron ore is naturally created as a magnet. Until we understand right from wrong in some way, we will make choices which seem useful to us at the time but which have no overall consistency and follow no coherent plan.

So we as human beings do not develop any polarity or power to do work until we undertake our own ethical training and discipline.

When we begin to make consistent ethical choices, we line up the crystallites in our human ore and begin to develop the characteristics of a magnet, able to do work within our consciousnesses as we line up more and more of our personality along one consistent line of seeking.

As we consistently make ethical choices along one line of intent, we also begin to radiate a metaphysical energy or power which expresses our ethical point of view. We can then, by our very being, act as a kind of magnet which helps others to become magnetized and polarized to make ethical choices also.

Another example of power being developed is seen in an automobile engine. Before you start your car, the car is immobile. When you turn the ignition key, the engine comes to life. Its internal combustion engine fires up. Air and fuel are sparked into tiny, controlled explosions within the cylinders of your car’s engine. The power generated by these explosions is directed to the crankshaft, which develops torque, or the tendency to cause rotation. The crankshaft begins to turn. The crankshaft transfers those moments of rotation to the axles to which it is connected. The turning motion is transferred through the axles to the wheels. The wheels turn and the car rolls forward. The car is now able to do work and get you where you want to go.

In terms of comparing ourselves to the way an automobile engine develops power, we can say that real-life situations which call for ethical choices are the fuel going into our engine. Our calling upon the higher ethical principles of the Gameboard supplies the air needed for combustion. An ethical response to an incoming situation fires up our engines. We develop personal power. As we make ethical choices consistently, we gather momentum along one line of service and increase our polarity.

Our human systems are like engines in that if we do not use the concept of polarity—of right and wrong—to fuel our choices, our choices will not produce any torque and, metaphysically speaking, we will not develop the power to roll our wheels forward. Making choices without using the principle of polarity leaves our engine’s cylinders sitting in a gravity well, dead and still. No progress can be made under these conditions.

Our parents and teachers believe that they have already taught us how to make the proper ethical choices. However, rather than get at the basic principles of ethical choice-making, they have tended to give us seemingly arbitrary sets of rules to follow. The Ten Commandments are a good example of such a code of behavior. Its instructions are:

  1. Don’t worship any Gods but Yahweh.
  2. Don’t worship idols.
  3. Don’t take insincere oaths or make false promises.
  4. Don’t work on the Sabbath.
  5. Don’t disrespect your parents.
  6. Don’t kill anyone.
  7. Don’t canoodle with anyone except your mate.
  8. Don’t steal.
  9. Don’t tell a lie about anyone.
  10. Don’t wish you have what someone else has.

This list of things not to do leaves a whole lot of ethical territory uncovered. The first two instructions and the fourth one also are about treating Yahweh right—their version of the Creator. The fifth instruction is about treating your parents rightly. The third instruction and the rest of the list are about treating other people right. There is no attempt to explain why these points of behavior are appropriate. They are given as rules to follow blindly.

The Lord’s Prayer comes a bit closer to having an ethical center of instruction that is logical. The basic thrust is that it is desirable for those on Earth to behave as though we were already in heaven, where God’s will is done. What is God’s will? It is that we treat each other as we would wish to be treated. We forgive other people’s faults, offences and other misbehaviors as we hope other people will forgive our own errors.

When we come to the Golden Rule, found in the Holy Bible in Matthew 7:12, we find a succinct version of this ethical principle of reciprocity. My King James Version of this quotation reads this way: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

It is a simple concept! Treat people the way you would like to be treated. This principle of ethics echoes throughout all world religions. And it can be extrapolated to adapt to new situations and new choices. The principle of having compassion and consideration for others, just as you have compassion and consideration for yourself, is a solid tool to use in making ethical choices.

When you treat someone the way you want to be treated, you are beginning to do ethically oriented work. You are polarizing towards the positive pole of your human ore which you want to magnetize. You are aligning with an ethical ideal, which is service to others.

The reason that this choice kicks your engine over is that you are seeing the other person as equal to you. You are giving the other person the same entitlement to respect, honor and decent treatment as you give to yourself. You are invoking the unitary nature of the Gameboard and lifting yourself off the flat gameboard.

This action takes discipline and conscious choice. It is often not an easy choice. It often costs us something to consider the needs of others with compassion and respond to them as though they were our own needs.

Such action is the essence of ethical behavior. When human beings decide to become ethical beings, and start making choices based on principles such as the Golden Rule, they become Players of the Game of Life.

The Service-to-Others Path of Polarity

What you have, in terms of your ability to serve at this time, is primarily your own deepening awareness of what it is to choose; what it is to choose so deeply that the rest of your life becomes a joy; what it is to choose so completely that there is no longer the need to spend time questioning whether faith is the answer, whether service is the answer or whether one particular kind of service is better than another.

When the choice for service to others has been made absolutely, there is a knowing that comes. It is a knowing that transcends planning. It is a knowing that includes the awareness that you really do not have control over anything but your own desires, your own will and your own persistence.22

Magnets have a north or positive pole and a south or negative pole. We as human beings have the same metaphysical set-up, according to the Confederation. They call the north or positive pole the service-to-others polarity. They call the south or negative pole the service-to-self polarity. Interestingly, light moves from the south to the north pole: The south pole “attracts” it via gravitation or attempted absorption and the north pole receives and radiates it.

We can find instruction in pursuing the service-to-self polarity by studying the literature on so-called black magic. According to the Confederation, choosing and following either path of seeking—the positive or the negative path—to increase one’s polarity will work for graduation from planet Earth’s Density of Choice. The only gambit which does not lead to graduation is not to choose either polarity to pursue.

The Confederation is a group of beings which are of service-to-others polarity. I am also of service-to-others. Therefore, if you happen to want to polarize in service to self, you shall need to look elsewhere for insight as to how to proceed.

If you are interested in following the path of service to others, read on!

Religions generally teach us to choose the service-to-others polarity. However, the symbol of a crucified savior does not inspire in most people the desire to go and do likewise. While the Christ’s example of unconditional love to the point of death makes an excellent symbol for the concept of unconditional love, it is hard to translate into our actions and choices in everyday life.

The Confederation describes the path of service to others as a path of forming and maintaining a positive attitude which informs all our decisions. The heart of this attitude is the awareness that the universe is an entirely unified, interactive and living being made of absolute love, of which each of us is a part.

As we weave our way through the decisions of our day, our attitude is oriented to seeing as broad a view of situations as possible, so that we can more accurately evaluate whether or not ethical principles need to be involved in our choices.

We have chances to make such choices every day. When we are on the road, if we see that someone needs to enter the stream of traffic and we brake a bit and gesture the person in, we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being. This is a service-to-others choice.

When we are in the store with a big cart full of groceries and we see someone with two items in their hands and wave them on ahead of us in line to pay, we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being. This is a positively polarized choice.

When we are at our dinner table and there is only one roll left in the basket, and we hand it around the table instead of grabbing it for ourselves, we know as we watch someone else take that roll that we have just put ourselves out in order to be kind to another human being.

Being of service to others can be tricky. Take the example I offered just now about letting someone in, in traffic. It is not black and white. A savvy driver does not let anyone into the stream of traffic if the light ahead is green and there is a solid line of traffic behind him, as it will make too many people behind him on the road miss that green light. However when the light ahead is red, there is no way those behind you can move ahead anyway, so it is fine to let in other people.

Here is another tricky situation. Your mother-in-law has asked you if her hat is pretty on her. It is, in fact, a bad choice. If she will wear that hat no matter what you say, the kind action is to make some vague compliment that ignores the fact that the hat looks unfortunate on her. You can say, “It is a lovely hat!” You thereby avoid an outright lie. The hat is fine. It simply does not flatter your mother-in-law. However, if there is a chance that she will heed you, and if she has another hat that will work better, then you may share your true opinion and possibly be of more service to her than if you evaded the question.

One of the trickiest of all service-to-others moments, at least for me, involves those times when a friend or family member shares with me a difficulty he or she is having. I am a solution-oriented person and my tendency is to go to work to solve the perceived problem. However there are many times when friends want only a listening ear. Sympathy alone is what is asked. Listen carefully, when this situation arises, and do not share your advice unless you hear a specific request to do so. If you are asked for your opinion, on the other hand, your service to others is to share your opinion and advice with an open heart, finding the most compassionate way to share information.

An interesting feature of taking either path of increasing polarization is the cornerstone importance of the First Choice for service to others or service to self which you make with full awareness of the significance of such a Choice. If you have put your whole self behind this First Choice, it is as though you had dug out and leveled the base of your metaphysical “house,” made the forms and poured the concrete for its foundation.

Now that your foundation Choice has been made to be of service to others, you have made your first move in the Game of Life. The remainder of the incarnation is your allotted time to continue to play this Game of Life you have begun.

Each consecutive service-to-others ethical decision which you make doubles your positive polarity. If you falter and make a service-to-self choice, you have to begin another series of consistently love-filled choices in order to polarize further.

The title of this book is Living the Law of One – 101: The Choice and this cornerstone or First Choice of how you wish to serve is the Choice to which the title refers. In making this Choice for the first time, you are not only choosing to be of service to another in that particular instance. You are choosing how you want to approach life for the rest of your time here on Earth.

This First Choice is to spiritual seekers what Baptism is within the Christian church. You are dedicating the rest of your life to following the path of positive polarity.

A lot of preparation for this First Choice is mental and emotional. There will always be some inner resistance to each service-to-others choice which you make. There will always be some reason why such a choice is not convenient for you. In order to tackle each choice of an ethical nature with a feeling of “this is the right thing for me to do” you will need to go through the process of coming to see the bigger picture, that picture which is at the level of an overview of your life here on Earth. It is the overview belonging to the Gameboard.

When you see your life as a whole from beginning to end, as you would a symphony or a poem, you become able to get outside of the constant stream of daily details that take up your mind’s attention. You become able to see the point to choosing, in general, how you want to behave during this lifetime. You can then set a rule or ethical standard of life for yourself which is like the compass within, steering you through the chaotic seas of everyday life.

I was lucky in my early childhood to have an unusual relationship with Jesus the Christ. He was not some mythical Sunday School figure to me but a part of the entities living in my “magic forest,” a place where I could go inside my mind as a very small child. It was a real place to me.

Jesus never said a word to me in my magic forest. He would sit next to me and hold my hand. I would look into his eyes and know what unconditional love really is. It was all there in his golden gaze.

In church I received information about what this man had supposedly preached during his short ministry so long ago. His message is the same as the Confederation message: to love and to forgive. I have wanted to follow Him from my earliest memory.

Consequently, for me, service to others has always been a joy and a privilege. Even as a toddler, I was serious and thought about ethical choices. I looked for the high road. As I have continued polarizing, I have found my life turning sweeter and deeper. The joy I feel from day to day is my subjective proof that living by my Choice has been the key to a more abundant and fulfilling life.

However I am aware that there is a weakness in this part of the report. Despite my own choice of service to others, I do not wish to persuade you to follow this path or indeed to do anything. And therefore I cannot begin to overcome any resistance you may have to making the Choice. This matter is entirely up to you. My job is to make a report on these Confederation principles. The benefits of making your cornerstone Choice and creating a contract with yourself to continue to polarize with each succeeding choice are not obvious at the beginning. I hope you may acquire a taste for it as you experiment with these ideas.

One thing that is very attractive to me about living consciously in a service-to-others manner is the amount of clutter such an approach removes from my thinking. When my mind is full of situations and conversations, lists of things to do and people to chauffeur, meet or handle, I can be trapped in shallow waters indeed and can quickly find myself bored and weary.

When I move my point of view to the consideration of service to others and being kind and compassionate, my world enlarges and shifts rather substantially. The things of this world fall away and I know why I am doing the things I am doing. I like that a lot.

This Choice is the whole point of this density, in general, and of our Earthly life in particular. If you look at the evolution of mind, body and spirit, you can see that we begin this life as small and helpless animals. We are then tamed and trained in the course of childhood.

As we enter our teenage years, we have already made many choices and had many evolutionary experiences. No longer are we animals. We have become human beings, although not necessarily ethical human beings. Without some realization of the central importance of seeing ourselves as ethical beings, there is likely to be minimal progress made during our lifetime.

In making this Choice, and in continuing to choose lovingly, we are not only creating an acceleration of the pace of our spiritual evolution. We are also preparing ourselves for the Graduation Day that will come when you die a natural death.

Would you rather graduate, at the end of this lifetime, and move on to the Density of Love? Or would you rather spend 76,000 or so more years having one incarnation after another in another earth-like environment while working with these same lessons and playing this same game? Most of us would choose to graduate. The key to graduating is to achieve sufficient polarity to move on.

Let’s put this in numbers. According to the Ra group, graduation in positive polarity is achieved when we have a score of 51% service to others or higher. In other words, if we are thinking about serving others more than half of the time, we have made a score that allows graduation in positive polarity.

To graduate in negative polarity, the requirement is that we have a score of 5% service to others, or 95% service to self. It is quite a bit harder to graduate in service to self, since our love of self and concern for the self must be so pure.

Those who will not graduate at all have scores of somewhere between 6% and 50% service to others. It is the easiest thing in this world to stay within those percentages. To score 51% or higher or to score 5% or less takes an awareness of the Game and the decision to play this Game which creates a rule of life or contract with yourself that will boost your score to over 51% or under 5%.

Because we are at the very end of this Density of Choice, our time to become aware and make our decision to polarize is limited. We have until the winter solstice of 2012 to do so. It is not only the Confederation that offers this date as the time of the dawn of the New Age but also sources as varied as classical Western astrology and the Mayan calendar. Edgar Cayce also predicted this shift, but he offered the date of 1998 for a pole shift and a gradual end to Earth as we know it thereafter.

I take this date seriously. I do not believe our world will end in the twinkling of an eye at the winter solstice of 2012, as do many. I do believe that the conditions are gradually changing on Planet Earth as the time of third density wanes and the energies of the next density interpenetrate our earth world. For a time—the Confederation suggested perhaps hundreds of years—there will still be souls living on Earth in third-density type bodies. However, those people will also have their fourth-density bodies activated so that they can enjoy the fourth-density energies that more and more will be a part of this environment on Earth.

After 2012, those who live here on Earth in third density will be focusing on the stewardship of the planet, working to repair the damage we have done here on Earth in the past 200 years or so. The time of the Choice will be gone.

Indeed, many of those living on Earth today are recent graduates of Earth’s Density of Choice. They are pioneers of fourth density now, having chosen to come back and help their home planet heal, as their first service-to-others action within the Density of Love. Psychologists and psychics alike have called these children such names as Indigo Children and Crystal Children. More and more, these dual-activated persons will be the population of Earth.

There is a hymn from my childhood which catches the situation well. It opens with these words:

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood
For the good or evil side
Some great cause, God’s new messiah
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.23

Lowell’s words are Christian in tone, which is unfortunate for the purposes of this report, but if you substitute “unconditional love” for “God’s new messiah,” one loses that Christian bias and the message becomes crystal clear. To choose the truth, the good, the bloom and the light seems an excellent decision!

The Service-to-Self Path of Polarity

Just as there are those whose path is service to others, there are those whose path is service to self and control over others. Each who sits in this circle of seeking knows those whose delight is in controlling. Those who have truly moved along the path of negativity or, as it is sometimes called, “the path of that which is not” or the path of separation, control strictly for their own benefit.24

 

A great virtue of the Game rules is that the main metaphysical job of all service-to-others polarizing people is simply to seek ever more deeply to know themselves and to be themselves. Knowing that they are parts of a unitary creation made entirely of love, they know that at base, they are worthy. Therefore they can explore their consciousness in a direct and truthful way which is not full of fear as to what the seeker will find. It is a way in which judgment and appearances have no part. It is a forthright, radiant, generous polarity. It radiates unconditional love and compassion, both for the self and for others.

The service-to-self polarity, on the other hand, is contracted in energy and “magnetic” rather than radiant in energy, as its habit is to pull things to the self so as to arrange them in the way which is desired by the plans of the self, rather than enjoying things as they are and finding ways to flow cooperatively with their circumstances.

A service-to-self polarizing person will likely have much more control over what he says and does than will a positively polarizing person. He will be attentive to details which might gain him an advantage or give him ways to control others’ thoughts or actions more efficiently. You can label such people as evil, but all that does is embroil you in the lower-case gameboard, which loves to judge and make differences between oneself and others which make the self look “better than.”

When you try to use the words, “good and evil” in looking at polarity’s dynamic opposites, you may find that those words carry too much emotional charge to be useful for investigation. It is better for the purposes of thinking about these concepts to use the terms positive and negative, as with magnetic poles. Then there is no emotional judgment rendered while discussing these concepts.

I am not suggesting that you need to embrace what you consider evil in the pursuit of unbiased thinking. I am only suggesting that, in thinking about polarity, it helps to use the neutral terms of positive and negative rather than good and evil or right and wrong. Those two sets of dynamics—good and evil and right and wrong—are relative terms. Different things are good, proper or right to different people and groups of people. The terms, positive and negative, being linked to the nature of a polarized magnet, afford us more nearly objective terms.

In a unitary universe, each of us has all of the positive and all of the negative attributes and characteristics within us. In fact, we have the whole creation within us, wrapped in the inner folds of our consciousness. There is no judgment in assigning a value of service-to-self to someone whom we see, either in our personal life or in watching the march of public events on the news, as long as we assign that same value to ourselves and hunt it up from the shadow side of our nature in order to face it squarely within ourselves.

When we have a reaction of disgust or judgment to the action of another person or group, we are using another person or group as a mirror to look at our own nature. When we do not like what we see in that mirror, the best thing for us to do is to spend some time contemplating where the seeds of this seeming fault we saw outside of ourselves lie within our own inner nature.

So as I write about service to self, I do not judge it. I am simply trying to describe it and to help you to understand it, so as to avoid being controlled or enslaved by it.

The essence of the service-to-self approach to life is control over both the self and others. The service-to-self polarizing person does not agree that all is one. He is Number One. He does not see his neighbor as himself. He is operating out of what psychologists call his ego. The operant word for the ego is “mine.” He sees the world as something which he shall use to benefit himself. If he wants something, he will make it “mine.”

Naturally, the service-to-self polarizing person must identify himself by what is “mine.” He has denied his own true nature, which is unconditional love. He cannot look to his heart, which he refuses to open. In a world in which all is one, we are all in this together. That whole concept is useless from a service-to-self point of view. That view is committed to the path of that which is not—the path of the self alone against the world.

And so the service-to-self polarizing person identifies himself with his ideas, intents and goals, his possessions and the people and things he controls. Lost in his ego, he cannot let go of these identifying features, as he has no entry into investigating the path of what IS—the path to the opening of his heart. So his hold on what he controls is tenacious, for what he holds as his defines him to himself.

Do you remember the bully on your grade school playground? He would pick his targets from among those without the ability to defend themselves and systematically steal their lunch money or demand some other payment, day by miserable day. To the bully, other people are not people. They are sub-human. They are either potential victims or potentially useful allies.

When we grow up, we continue to see bullies on the playground of everyday life. As we drive, the road is always rich in bullies. On the way to where we are going, we shall probably be cut off by such a driver. On a recent drive into town, potting along a rural road early in the morning with almost no traffic and no car behind me at all as far as the eye could see, I had to brake four different times before I hit the interstate, because, even though mine was the only car on the road, the cars entering the roadway needed to be in front of me.

Here is another everyday example of service-to-self thinking. There are two four-way stop signs at intersections close to my home, these being the only two ways out of our little village to the east, south and west. Each time I drive out, I pass through one or the other intersection and observe the four-way stop sign. I have often been in the process of braking to a full stop and then driving on when an oncoming car sees that I am obeying the law and cannot possibly accelerate fast enough through the intersection to ram him. So he does not brake at all but sails through the intersection ahead of me, ignoring the stop sign.

Why does he do this? Because he can. And because, as he is following the path of that which is not, he has no reason to see me as someone to whom he should give respect. My car is just an object he can drive past, due to my foolish obeying of the rules of the road. If he thinks about the person in the car at all, he thinks of a “sucker,” not a person. As a person service-to-self polarized in nature, he can disregard all rules except those that suit him.

There are strong aspects of service to self in the structure of any organized religion which demands strict obedience to the specific tenets of a belief system. History provides us with numerous examples of “holy” wars. What a contradiction in terms! Clearly a Creator whose nature is unconditional love does not sanction wars.

However, any people whose identity has come to be based on “my” dogma and “my” religion tend to come to the conclusion that theirs is the only way to believe, and all those who do not so believe are in need of being persuaded to join the ranks of true believers or to be eliminated; consigned to Hell after this life and to a state of not-belonging during this life.

The various Roman Catholic Inquisitions are another good example of service-to-self thinking. The Roman Catholic Church was enough disposed towards control of others “for their own good” that it tortured many people to death, trying to get them to confess their assumed sins. Their thinking was that the body had to die so that the confessed soul would not have to go to Hell.

Many innocents were condemned to torture and death because they picked herbs for healing and thusly were accused of witchcraft. Many more died for having an inconvenient opinion. Galileo Galilei, for example, was forced by the Inquisition to renounce Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun instead of the other way around. The ancient view of the world was that it was a flat place, the center of the universe, around which the Sun and all the stars and planets moved. Galileo was convinced that Copernicus was right. He is said to have muttered at the time, “Nevertheless, the Earth moves!” Fortunately, his persecutors apparently did not have hearing as acute as his biographer’s.

As you gaze upon the world scene today, perhaps you may find examples of such religious fanaticism. It seems that the Christian, the Moslem and the Jewish worlds have within them factions which are yearning for Armageddon.

Within each of our societies, the armed services of the country, region, state, county or city in which we live have a predominantly service-to-self polarity. The rules of the U. S. Army, as an example, are hierarchical. What the privates do gives credit or blame to the sergeants. What the non-commissioned officers do gives credit or blame to the lieutenants. What the lieutenants do gives credit or blame to the captains. This goes on up through the ranks to the generals, who are given credit or blame for their entire army.

The ranks of officers in other armed forces, such as the Navy, the Air Force, the Coast Guard and police or sheriff’s departments, have different names and the progression of ranks is different. However the collecting of credit or blame for the work done up to the man in charge is the same. The top brass in an army, for instance, has no trouble ordering men into a battle even if they know ahead of time that the odds are that they will all be killed. Their aims are political, economic, corporate and ideological. The living beings in the army who carry out their policies and orders are considered pawns on their gameboard or to use slang terms, cannon fodder. “One fodder unit” or OFU is supposedly the term used for “an average citizen” by some of our leaders.

An example of this on the news recently was when a very senior official was televised while giving a speech in a town where a woman was being honored who had lost her husband and two of her sons to American wars since 2003. She and her remaining family were front and center in the audience.

The official received a question from a reporter which was directed to the mother being honored. The reporter asked him to ask the mother if she felt that her sacrifice was worthwhile. However the official immediately answered for her, saying he was sure she would say yes. He went on to say that if more of her sons died fighting, she would be equally proud of them, and that the battle victims would be proud and happy to die for their country. What better death could they have?

I wish you could have seen the look on that mother’s face! It was an expression of utter horror. However the official’s answer showed, in a way which most leaders are too sophisticated to display, that when ideologically motivated people are in charge of policy, they do not even for a moment consider that the loss of life in their battle ranks is a problem. It is simply what soldiers do. The men are not important. The policies are important.

Please understand that I am not judging ideologues such as that official. This report singles out no person or country. I am using this person as an example of the military way of looking at other selves. That official is no better or worse than many other leaders around our weary world who routinely use war as a policy rather than taking the time and compassion to seek for peace and collaboration among nations by diplomatic routes.

It is good to look carefully at this televised moment in order to understand the service-to-self polarity. Service-to-self persons, for the most part, honestly do not consider that they are doing anything “wrong” or “evil.” And in fact our current government has a careful rationale in place which explains each decision to pursue aggressive policies. There is no acknowledgement whatever of the losses of those who fall in battle except to call them heroes and remember them on Memorial Day.

Another source of this same service-to-self thinking is seen in corporations. Like the military, all credit is given upwards, eventually to the chief executives of the corporation. Like the military, extreme measures are considered to be acceptable in the pursuit of winning. The assassin hired to remove a dangerous competitor has no anger at the executive or scientist whom he kills for a price. The assassination is just a job. When an underworld corporation breaks a man’s legs for reneging on a gambling wager, it is not personal. It is “just business.” This de-personalization of people is at the heart of service-to-self thinking.

Many other non-lethal service-to-self actions by companies are seen in everyday life. Some companies have a policy, whether publicly acknowledged or not, of firing good, experienced people who are nearing retirement age in order to save the cost of their pensions and high salaries. They replace such people with younger and less experienced people whom they can hire for much less money and to whom they may not offer a pension at all.

Another example of corporate service-to-self thinking is found in those companies which have a policy of hiring only part-time clerical help. They do this so that they are not required by law to give them any benefits, thereby conserving the corporation’s profits for compensation to the top corporate executives.

As a direct consequence, the United States has a substantial number of working people who have no place to live and no health insurance, because no matter how many hours they work, or at how many jobs, they cannot make enough money to afford what many people take for granted—a roof over their heads and the ability to care for family members who become ill and need medical services.

Perhaps the darkest of service-to-self thinking occurs when the military, the religious, and the corporate forces of a nation combine in various ways to get what they want. We are seeing the effects of the mixing of governmental and religious forces in many places in the world today. An example of this is when the preachers of large congregations tell their congregation to vote for a certain man or party. It is one thing to argue topical issues from Biblical texts and quite another to tell people how to vote, suggesting that it is a matter of faith. Indeed, our own country’s beginnings were rooted in the people’s desire to have freedom to believe and practice their faith without restrictions from the government.

We may also see how corporate goals can become military policy, as when the Dole Company responded to the efforts of Queen Lili’uokulani in 1893 to make a new constitution for Hawaii. This was her right as head of state. She was responding to foreign actions by the U. S. government which in 1887 had forced a “Bayonet Constitution” on her people which severely limited the sovereign nation of Hawaii’s rights to operate.

The McKinley Tariff, also imposed on Hawaii in 1890, withdrew the safeguards insuring a mainland market for Hawaii’s sugar independent of any corporation. The Dole group wanted the Queen to assign all sugar crops to them. However, the Queen was trying to regain Hawaii’s sovereign power to do business for the benefit of Hawaiians rather than for the benefit of Mr. Dole and his company. This was not considered acceptable by American corporate interests. They sought relief from the government at high-level meetings and as a direct result the Marines invaded Hawaii, dethroned the Queen and annexed Hawaii as a Republic in 1894, with Samuel Dole named as its President.

An interesting book, Overthrow 25, published in 2005, offers many other such well-documented and on-the-record instances where the United States has done the work which large corporations have asked it to do in order to achieve a better deal for American corporations doing business in foreign lands. Noam Chomsky’s book, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance: The American Empire Project, is also eye-opening in this regard.

To a service-to-self polarizer, it is he against the world. Or, if he is identifying a group as “mine,” it is we against them. That attitude is at the heart of the service-to-self polarity. It is why the Confederation sources often call this path of service to self the “path of that which is not.” Because it cannot, metaphysically speaking, be one man or one group against the rest of the world. “We ARE the world.” 26

It is easy to make service-to-self decisions in daily life. For instance, again using the flow of traffic as an example, I often need to take the ramp from one expressway to another as I go to an appointment. This particular ramp has a merging lane that ends about halfway along the ramp’s soaring arc through the ethers before descending to the second interstate.

Usually I am a “good girl” and get in line in the left lane that continues through to the second road. Occasionally, however, I am late to an appointment and then I use the merging lane, thereby inconveniencing the person who must brake to let me in as well as slowing down the ride for everyone behind him. My rationale is my lateness. However in taking the merging lane I am consciously putting others out. This sounds tiny, but such tiny choices, and the awareness of them which allows us to consider them, are what constitute our work on the Gameboard

Here’s another example of service-to-self moments of choice in everyday life: You break a sandwich in two and one half is larger than the other. If you keep the larger part for yourself and hand the smaller part to your friend, that is a service to self act in that it puts your needs or desires ahead of another’s. This cuts into the positive polarizing you are already doing by sharing your food.

Or say you have been sitting in an uncomfortable chair in a meeting. Another member of the group leaves the room temporarily. You move to his more comfortable chair, explaining to yourself that you have a bad back and need a good seat more than he does. That is a service-to-self act in that you are putting your own needs ahead of another’s.

Now, if you go the route of conversing with the person who has the comfortable chair, explaining that you have a bad back, and asking him to change seats with you, you are giving the other self honor, seeing him as equal to you, and asking for his help. You thereby remain service-to-others in polarity. The difference is the difference between taking and asking.

Parents are the original exemplars of service-to-self choices, to their baby. Their baby is helpless at birth and the parents absolutely must be in total control of that infant’s life in order to preserve it. For many years, through grade school, middle school and high school, our culture assumes that parents retain this right of control over their child, excepting physical abuse.

When the child is a full-grown adult, we all know parents who have expectations of continuing to control their children’s lives. A parent’s manipulations on his adult child, his mate and his children can be very painful for the adult child and his family to experience, whether or not they allow the parent to control them. Such a parent will gladly explain that all the control is for the child’s own good.

Reacting to this type of thought by resisting it only makes it stronger. It is far better to recognize it and, without making a point of it to parents and others in the outer world, simply take that enhanced awareness of polarity and use that knowledge to make better ethical choices within our own, appropriate sphere of action.

A service-to-others Game player’s only work is on himself. As he makes ethical decisions and works on himself, there may indeed be consequences in the outer world. He may receive thanks, credit and honor. Or his actions may not seem appropriate to others, and he may receive condemnation and dismissal.

However, the service-to-self polarizing person will keep his eye on the present moment, not concerned with others’ opinions. Rather than depending upon the opinion of others for justification, he will consult his own interests.

We all start out life as service-to-self oriented people. As babies we cry for food and attention and we do not stop until we have been served. Our first brush with service-to-others thinking is likely to be the parental suggestion that we share our toys. From this first contact with ethics, we wend our way through our maturing years, balancing what is helpful to us and what is helpful to others in choosing how to behave.

Since every situation is complex in our society and many shades of gray for the most part replace anything of a black-and-white obviousness in determining where service to others lies, the challenge is to find our way to our own ethical choices with a clear mind and a remembrance of the nature of polarity.

The Choice

QUESTIONER: What I am really attempting to understand is why this choice is so important, why the Logos seems to put so much emphasis on this choice, and what function this choice of polarity has, precisely, in the evolution or the experience of that which is created by the Logos?

RA: I am Ra. The polarization or choosing of each mind/body/spirit is necessary for harvestability from third density. The higher densities do their work due to the polarity gained in this choice.27

People sometimes say that they achieve immortality in the form of their children and their children’s children. There is a certain validity to that at the level of DNA. Their contributions to the gene pool are forever appreciated, as are those of all the donors since the first Type-O great apes descended permanently from trees and became our human forebears.

There is a degree of immortality for people who have created works of art or inspiration, or who have acted as images for the fantasies of the public. Leonardo da Vinci retains his fame 500 years after he flourished and even has a recent mystery novel written using his name in the title. William Shakespeare is still a man whose verse is on every schoolchild’s lips and whose “to be or not to be” expresses the heart of every person’s dark night of the soul. Joan of Arc stands for her Lord, and Jesus of Nazareth rises to heaven from an empty grave in the minds of all of those who live in the culture of our times. And Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis Presley and all of their kind still whisper to us of youth, beauty and stardust, long after their time has passed.

Yet in the end, change is inevitable and on-going. This world and all of its seeming treasure is but an illusion and shall vanish eventually. We must look elsewhere than this physical world for real immortality.

And we have no further to look than our inner beings. Our essential selves are immortal. We as individuals in this life all are a part of something the Confederation calls our soul streams. Each of our lifetimes has added to the content of our own soul stream. When we rejoin our soul stream after this life is over, we shall re-meet our whole self, that self that is not the personality shell but the essence of the self that has gone through all these lifetimes.

When we do meet that soul stream again after our deaths, it is very likely that we will either have just graduated from third density or just been slotted for another cycle of 76,000-plus years in another third-density environment, on another earth-like world.

It is in this context that I ask you to consider what you hope for when you come to that moment? Do you hope to have graduated? If so, the way of doing that is simple and straightforward. Make the First Choice. Make it with all of your heart. Decide that in this lifetime you will stand for love. You will be an agent of the love of the infinite Creator. When you fall down and make errors, you will pick yourself up and start over.

If you can make that simple commitment to intending with all of your heart to be an ethical being, by your very intention you have just reached a service-to-others polarity that will allow you to graduate. The change in vibration is instantaneous.

Please do not be discouraged when you fail to keep this promise to yourself on occasion or fall down in some way, according to your own judgment, after you make this promise to yourself. Humans err. Remember the old adage, “To err is human; to forgive; divine.” Make it a point to forgive yourself, even as you vow not to make the same mistake again.

Sometimes it helps to create an image of yourself that expresses this view of the self over a whole lifetime. A handy image of this kind is the image of knighthood. Knights are persons of honor who vow loyalty to the Creator and to some person, such as their King, or some ideal, such as service to others. See yourself as a Polarity Knight on the eternal quest for the Holy Grail of truth, self-knowledge and increased polarity.

The Choice is where the rubber hits the road, not just for this lifetime but for all of the lifetimes we shall enjoy for the next three densities. The work we do here in third density achieves a certain purity of polarity. It is from that point of achieved polarity that we will refine our Choice in higher densities and other classrooms for many lifetimes to come.

This is our last chance for this Choice while we remain on our Earth home. This is our last third-density lifetime here before Graduation Day. This motivates me to do my absolute best. It gives me the grit to get a grip when things get tough! It helps me to remember who I am and why I am here. Knowing that this is my last lifetime here as a third-density human; knowing that each day is precious, sweetens my taste for life and presses me to do my best to polarize.

Examples of Positive Polarity

Jesus the Christ

We would ask you to think about who the self is in relation to the teacher known to you as Jesus. This entity’s sense of self was such that when the entity was but a child it studied and learned from its teachers. By the time it was a teenager, as this instrument would say, it was already considered a teacher.

This entity had a sense of self that enabled it simply to do what it must, even when those about him did not understand. That sense of self carried this entity through a wandering ministry that was remarkable for the purity of its teaching.

And yet when the one known as Jesus was asked to describe the self, he said that “He who sees me sees not me but the Father.” This entity had learned subtraction as well as addition and he was content to be impersonal and to relinquish much of the Earthly personality. Yet there can be no more sure-footed identity than that attitude which the one known as Jesus had.28

In thinking about positively polarized people with whom we are familiar here on Earth, the first person who comes to my mind is Jesus the Christ. There is a problem with that! There is a huge amount of confusion surrounding this man. This is due to the way religions have tended to co-opt the image of Jesus. The negative and exclusionary words and intentions they sometimes put into His mouth do not match what His intentions may be inferred to be if we read His words carefully.

Thomas Jefferson once created a kind of Bible for his own study made up only of the sayings of Jesus, as found in the Holy Bible. Jefferson presented his selections in Greek, Latin, French and English, side by side. He did this to remove the influences of anyone but Jesus Himself.

I also have this bias, as a mystical Christian. When someone asks me how to learn more about Jesus, I tell them to get a Bible with Jesus’ words in red print. Many editions of the New Testament put all the words which Jesus himself said in red print. Reading only the red print cuts out the clutter of other voices. One loses a lot of narrative, reading only the red print, but one gains a lot of clarity in seeing exactly what Jesus offered of his love and wisdom, as reported by witnesses and storytellers. The Jefferson Bible is available in paperback these days.

Jesus’ name in Aramaic is Jehoshua. His nickname was Yeshua. I think He’d appreciate people knowing His actual name.

Jehoshua/Jeshua/Jesus was the son of a carpenter and undoubtedly learned that trade at his father’s side. However he was also allowed to study the religion of his fathers and, by the age of 13, was able to discuss the learned texts with rabbis and hold his own ground. His adult ministry is marked by debates with the Jewish authority figures who felt that he had become a dangerous man. They felt He should respect all the ancient laws literally, while Jesus said that to love the Lord and to love one’s neighbor as oneself was the whole of the law and the prophets, by which he meant the Old Testament’s first five books known as the Torah, plus the prophetic books of the Old Testament.

Jesus was a rebel but still he always seemed to win these debates with authority, until the last one, of course. Jesus was caught at last in a web of church and state politics. A political hot potato, he was abandoned to the cross in a fixed one-on-one contest—one man goes free, the other dies by crucifixion. The voice vote was offered by a bribed crowd and Jesus walked to Golgotha and the cross while a murderer walked free.

Jesus’ service was informed by wisdom and intellectual exactitude. However his teaching sprang from the open heart and depended primarily upon insight and inner understanding. He was an itinerant preacher for the last three years of his life. It is only in these three years that he emerges into history.

He began his active ministry by joining his cousin, John the Baptist, in the desert, where John was preaching repentance and new life, and baptizing those who came to him in the wilderness as a symbol of that new life. John protested that Jesus should be baptizing him, but Jesus paid no attention and was baptized into new life by John. John’s message was as harsh as his desert: repent or the end is near. This is a feature of Jesus’ ministry as well, that urgency for turning people on to the immediate rewards of repenting and returning to the Lord.

From this time forward until His death, Jesus was on the road, talking to all who would listen and healing the sick. He wanted to alert everyone to the vision he had of an apocalypse coming soon. His message was gentle, simple and revolutionary.

Jesus’ message is unconditional love. He asked people to love their neighbors as themselves. When asked who their neighbor was, Jesus told the story of a man of low estate who found an ailing stranger on the road and took him to a nearby inn where he paid for medical assistance and for the man to stay until he had recovered.

In another parable, Jesus talks again about how he sees the world. This time he’s telling a story of Judgment Day. He says that the righteous will be sitting at Jesus’ right hand, and then He will say, “Come, O blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed Me, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.” 29

In his story, the righteous are stumped. They say, “Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? And when did we see You a stranger and welcome You, or naked and clothe You? And when did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?”

Jesus says, “As long as you do it to one of the least of these, you did it to Me.”

We are all One. We need to take care of us. Let us be a community of love. This is the basic message. Whatever the truth of His life, and its details are only half in focus at the best of times, the consciousness that is the essence of Jesus the Christ has touched and opened people’s hearts for over two thousand years.

Peace Pilgrim

Of course I love everyone I meet. How could I fail to? Within everyone is the spark of God. I am not concerned with racial or ethnic background or the color of one’s skin; all people look to me like shining lights! 30

 

Like Jesus, Peace Pilgrim’s early life is relatively unknown. Her first name was Mildred. She went to school and worked, got married and enjoyed her extended family until 1938, when she had the profound realization that she wanted to give her life to service.

Mildred REALLY made The Choice. For the next 15 years, her marriage having been dissolved, she pressed forward in giving away her possessions and living ever more simply. Her most passionate interest was world peace. She did volunteer work for organizations such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, for whom she was a Washington, DC legislative lobbyist. A friend of those years remembers that she had only two dresses. For a busy Washington lobbyist, that really is a starvation wardrobe! But she wanted only what she needed, so as not to take more than her share of this earth’s riches, not while so many did without.

Her spiritual work, as she described it, was to encourage her “God-centered nature.” She said,

The body, mind and emotions are instruments which can be used by either the self-centered nature or the God-centered nature. The self centered nature uses these instruments, yet it is never fully able to control them, so there is a constant struggle. They can only be fully controlled by the God-centered nature. When the God-centered nature takes over, you have found inner peace. The self-centered nature is a very formidable enemy and it struggles fiercely to retain its identity. It defends itself in a cunning manner and should not be regarded lightly. It knows the weakest spots in your armor. During these periods of attack, maintain a humble stature and be intimate with none but the guiding whisper of your higher self. 31

After the dissolution of her marriage, Mildred developed increasingly reclusive habits and spent a lot of time walking alone. On one of these contemplative walks, she had a further realization. She says,

I was out walking in the early morning. All of a sudden I felt very uplifted, more uplifted than I had ever been. I remember I knew timelessness and spacelessness and lightness. I did not seem to be walking on the earth There were no people, or even animals around, but every flower, every bush, every tree seemed to wear a halo. There was a light emanation around everything and flecks of gold fell like slanted rain through the air.

The most important part was not the phenomena: the important part of it was the realization of the oneness of all creation. 32

She came away from this experience with a vision and a mission. She had seen a map of the United States and her route across it while in the altered state. She made herself a smock-vest, sleeveless and hip length, the kind of garment my grandmother wore as an apron. On it she embroidered the legend, “PEACE PILGRIM.” On the back she embroidered the legend, “WALKING COAST TO COAST FOR PEACE,” and later, “25,000 MILES ON FOOT FOR PEACE.” She possessed now only one outfit—a navy blue shirt and pants, the tunic vest and socks and sneakers. When she could, she washed the garments. All her remaining possessions were in her pockets and consisted of a pen and some paper on which to write, as she was constantly receiving letters, even though she had no address!

She began her pilgrimage at the head of the Rose Bowl Parade in 1953, heading east and carrying petitions for peace which she delivered to the White House 11 months later when she reached the east coast. However she did not stop walking. She walked and talked for the rest of her life, crossing the United States six times and giving speeches to all who asked. After the first 25.000 miles, she stopped counting the miles!

At the end of her life, she remarked that fame had been helpful for her cause, but because people started wanting her to speak here and there, she found herself being put on airplanes and sent to gatherings and she was not able to walk very much at all. She said she missed it.

Peace Pilgrim carried no money and would not accept donations. She ate only when someone offered her food. She was, in a word, fearless. And we should not find this surprising. After all, to her, people were lights. She saw them at the soul level. They were all one with her. And in all her miles of solitary walking, she was never once treated with roughness or incivility. People who knew her said that there was something about her that protected her. Peace Pilgrim said she just looked everyone in the eye and loved them.

She was once asked why her message was special and she replied that there was nothing new or special in her message of peace except her practice of it. She walked her talk, literally, for 28 years. She passed from this life in 1981.

Martin Luther King

This entity, Martin, dealt in a great degree with rather negative orange ray and yellow ray vibratory patterns. However, this entity was able to keep open the green-ray energy and due to the severity of its testing, if anything, this entity may be seen to have polarized more towards the positive due to its fidelity to service to others in the face of great catalyst.33

 

Martin Luther King was born Michael but changed his name to Martin as a young man. He grew up the son of a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia. His father and his grandfather had both been pastors before him. In 1953, at the age of 24, he became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks went to his church and in 1955, when she declined to give up her seat—in the rear of the bus by the way; she was sitting in the proper area for people of color; the gentlemen asking her to leave her seat simply wanted to give her trouble—King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, an action which lasted over a year, at the end of which the Supreme Court issued a ruling outlawing racial segregation on all public transport.

During this campaign, King’s house was bombed and he was arrested as well as being verbally abused. However, this only strengthened the resolve of himself and that of his growing family—he and his wife, Coretta, had four children. In 1957 he reached out to the community and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a clearing-house group organizing civil rights protests, marches and other actions.

King went wherever he felt he was directed in order to lead protests against unfair and unjust practices, whether the issue was jobs, schooling or peace. At one point he and his family moved into the slums of Chicago for a year because they felt that, as middle-class people, they had not experienced either the depths of prejudice or the impact of true poverty. He and his family were committed to doing whatever it took to serve the hopes and needs of all people of color here in the United States. His children continue his work in the present day.

King’s credo was Christian but his mentor was Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu. Nevertheless, their aims and attitudes were similar. Gandhi had led the Indian nation in a successful campaign to remove the British Raj from India. It took him all his life, and he was gunned down by an assassin, as was King. Gandhi’s activities were focused on passive resistance.

King loved Gandhi’s creativity with ways of protesting peacefully and his dedication to non-violence. King insisted that his marches and protests be non-violent and if he found ahead of time that violence was planned, he called off marches to save the people.

He worked in all cases to make agreements with the governmental forces wherever he led actions. Indeed, he took criticism from impatient members of the SCLC constantly because of his earnest attempts to retain total non-violence. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over 6,000,000 miles and spoke to over 2,500 audiences.

People who stand up and speak out, in any culture, run the risk of making enemies. King was no exception. The FBI openly tapped his telephone. King was assaulted five times, put in jail numerous times and more and more distrusted by southern segregationists. Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work; despite an avalanche of public recognition in the form of honorary degrees and awards for service, he was shot to death by an assassin in Memphis in 1968. He was in that city to help the striking sanitation workers receive a fair wage.

As a direct outgrowth of his life’s work, a legislation package covering civil rights in education and jobs was passed in 1964. Much still needs to be done to bring people of color into a true equality in America, but the worst of abuse due to racial prejudice has been reined in by legislation. We still have not seen King’s Promised Land of true justice, fairness and equality. We can, however, see significant progress, thanks to him and to those whom he inspired.

In his famous speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, he said,

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place, but I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain! And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.

I marched when I was a college student, in 1964, for equal job rights here in Kentucky. I was a part of that heady time when students and citizens of all ages banded together to call for justice. That cause is still just. And King’s words still urge us all onward to do the right thing.

Examples of Negative Polarity

Genghis Khan

Meritocracy is used to describe competitive societies that accept large inequalities of income, wealth and status amongst the population as a function of perceived talent, merit, competence, motivation and effort. Meritocracies reject the ideology of equality whilst embracing the doctrine of equal opportunity.34

 

Genghis Khan was called Temujin at his birth in Mongolia around 1162. He grew up poor and on the road, a nomad, like all of his tribe. The Mongolian Nations occupied land sandwiched between what we think of as the southern part of Russia and the lands south of Russia such as Nepal and India.

The Mongol Nations had warred with each other ceaselessly for centuries. As a young man Genghis Khan united them, ruthlessly and mercilessly eliminating his challengers among the tribes.

He then took his united tribes into a wider campaign of conquest and after fifty years of continuous battle had created the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire ever held by one ruler in the known history of Earth. It encompassed territory from Southeast Asia to the middle of Europe. The period of his Empire is from 1206 to 1405. He himself did not expand the empire to its largest. This was done by his descendents. He also enabled the Mongol Nations to defend themselves successfully against the Chinese dynasties of those times. The Mongol Empire was the most powerful “superpower” of the Middle Ages.

Trade along the Silk Road, with safe travel along its length made possible on account of the intimidation of the vast Empire by the Mongols, created a connection between the Orient and the Western world. Cultural exchanges created a growing richness of civilization for both east and west, as well as providing a handy route for the spread of the Plague from Europe eastward into the Orient in the fifteenth century.

Perhaps 30,000,000 people were killed by Genghis Khan’s forces during the fifty years of his continuous campaign. During that time the population of China was cut in half. He found mass extermination of cities to be his favorite tactic for taking over nations. Since few cities enjoy the prospect of surrender, most cities he challenged were utterly destroyed. Those who did surrender were left alive, but made into vassals and slaves.

The Mongols prided themselves on their iron constitutions, and fought in winter by preference because most other armies found winter’s extremities of weather difficult. All males were inducted into the army and honor was gained only by warfare.

The habit of competition and warfare among the Mongols made Genghis Khan’s method of “meritocracy” work. There was a constant reorganization of power depending on success in combat. Discipline was extremely tight; so tight that in general even poor and defenseless people were safe on the roads within the Empire. Lapses in discipline were punished by death, even for small infractions. This was a reign of pure terror.

Earth has not produced many examples of pure evil, Genghis Khan included, although the Ra group said that he did graduate in service to self, so his polarity must have been 5% service to others or less. He attempted to do positive things. He promoted trade and his civil governance was productive of peace, although a cowed and intimidated peace. It can be said that this policy was merely useful in keeping his subjects under complete control. He himself believed he was serving the common good.

However, he accepted as given that force and intimidation ruled and fear was the key weapon. His idea of diplomacy was to let a city know that they had a choice: either they could surrender or they could be destroyed. He was an excellent terrorist and he promoted men who were able to follow his example. In the battles for northern China especially, he often slaughtered vast, innocent populations even though they were not offering any resistance. This wholesale slaughter was of such proportions that the language of some areas changed from Iranian to Turkish. In some cases in China, so much destruction occurred that no records remain.

No autobiography of this figure remains. He was a leader bred in poverty and hardship, and he is said to have been very distrustful by nature, although once he accepted a subordinate ally, he was capable of maintaining the alliance. His life was warfare and he died while on a campaign. He instructed his followers to bury him in a secret place. They did so, killing anyone who knew where he was buried and anyone who tried to find out. A probably mythical story tells of his followers diverting a river so that it passed over his grave, in order that the grave could never be found or disturbed. His grave’s location has not been discovered to this day.

Idi Amin Dada Oumee

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! 35

 

The negative polarity tends to manifest in groups of people who interact to form complex and dark dramas. Sometimes the service-to-self machinations of figures like politicians, religious leaders and military commanders make such a tangle that it is difficult to select just one person involved in the drama as an exemplar of service-to-self polarity.

The history of the Roman Empire is such a tangle. Is Nero worse than Caligula? Not really. And take Pope Alexander VI, secularly known as Rodrigo Borgia, whose secular papacy was a scandal. Yet it was not worse than the machinations of his entire, extended and multi-generational family of poisoners and connivers.

The run of various Inquisitions in Italy, Spain and Portugal from 1184, when the first medieval Inquisition was called, through 1834, when Spain finally ceased the Inquisition in its American colonies and in Europe, is heinous—with its claims of saving a person’s soul through forcing the person to confess its sins and then to die, when the sin is nonexistent—and yet no one person can claim all of the burden of guilt for creating the cruel killing machine of innocent people.

The waning days of any empire are a good time to look for service-to-self polarity cropping up in individuals eager to gather power, and for our second villain, we look at the life and times of Idi Amin.

The empire that was waning in Africa at the time of his birth around 1924 in the West Nile Province of Uganda was the British Empire. In 1894, the British Government declared Uganda its protectorate. Uganda regained its independence in 1962, with Prime Minister Milton Obote attempting to consolidate all the different ethnic groups in the country by abolishing all the country’s “kingdoms” and declaring himself the President.

Amin’s childhood was short on education. He never could write, and could read only with great difficulty. His father was a poor Islamic farmer. His mother was said to be a self-proclaimed sorceress. He was a powerful fighter, holding the heavyweight boxing championship of Uganda from 1951 to 1960. Amin found employment in the British Army, joining the King’s African Rifles in 1946. He rose in 1961 to the commissioned rank of Lieutenant, the highest rank ever given any man of color in the British Army.

That year he led troops to northern Uganda to put down an outbreak of cattle-stealing. His methods included torture, beating people to death and burying them alive. He got away with the abuse because all of Uganda wanted only to move on and unify the land so as to achieve independence from British rule.

Obote, first the prime Minister and then the President of Uganda, saw a useful ally in Amin. Amin responded by putting down another mutiny at Jinja in 1964. He was Uganda’s connection to the Israelis, acting as a conduit for weapons procurement. When Obote and Amin got in trouble for smuggling gold, things soured. They plotted, each against the other, and in 1971, Amin staged a bloodless coup, accusing Obote of corruption and crimes against the state.

Amin promised the Ugandans all the right things. He claimed to be only a humble man who was concerned for his beloved country. As soon as Amin was accepted as President, however, he executed a large number of army officers he believed were still loyal to Obote. He cleared the country of all British people who formerly were involved in Uganda’s governance before independence. Their property was given to his military cronies.

In 1972, Amin decided that he wanted to make Uganda a true black man’s country. He expelled 80,000 Indians and Pakistanis. He completed the pattern of separation from the British rule by breaking off relations with Israel and allying Uganda with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Amin continued his campaign to eliminate Obote supporters and rival tribes, eventually killing about 300,000 people, including Uganda’s Cabinet ministers, the Supreme Court members, diplomats, teachers, bureaucrats, clergy, doctors, bankers, tribal leaders, executives, members of the press and many ordinary citizens.

The army’s size was greatly increased. Military law superseded civil law. Parliament was dissolved and soldiers were set to run the country’s bureaucracy.

Naturally, in such a reign of terror, the economy crumbled. A security apparatus, which at its height employed 18,000 agents, was created to deal with the chaos. In 1975, Amin declared himself President for life. He ruled by decree and provoked U. S. President Jimmy Carter into saying that Amin’s policies disgusted the free world.

He is best known for his role in a hostage situation in Uganda. When pro-Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Air France airplane and forced it to land at Entebbe, Amin negotiated with Israel on the guerrillas’ behalf. He was humiliated when Israel’s Secret Service rescued the hostages. In response he murdered over 200 Ugandan senior officers and government officials and expelled all foreigners—again.

Amin became increasingly erratic, giving himself titles and decorations until he had to wear extra-long tunics in order to attach them all. Things fell apart for him when he attacked Tanzania, a territory which borders Uganda to the south, hoping to divert notice from the failure of the economy. The ploy failed. In 1979 Tanzanians took the capital and Amin fled with his four wives, some of his thirty mistresses and 20 of his 54 children. The Saudis supported his comfortable retirement with servants and every convenience. Amin died in 2003 of natural causes. The “wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” was no more.

The toll to Uganda: a death toll of over 300.000 people in eight years; an annual inflation rate of over 200% and the agricultural, industrial and commercial forces of his country ruined and broken. When interviewed shortly before his death, Amin said he pored over the Koran a lot and was happier than when he was President. He never expressed the slightest regret for his actions.

Adolf Hitler

Questioner: What becomes of people like Hitler who seem to have caused a lot of trouble on our planet?

I am Latwii, and am aware of your query, my sister. When such an entity is successful in pursuing the negative polarization to the degree which shows a great desire to serve the self at least 95% of the time, shall we say, then an entity is also able to achieve that known as the graduation in the negative, or service-to-self sense, and is then able to choose a planet of fourth-density negative vibration with which to join its vibrations in a social memory complex of a negative nature. The entity to which you have referred, the entity known as Adolf, was not able to achieve this effect in his consciousness, and did suffer some depolarization and was unable to make the graduation during its previous incarnation, and has been undergoing a process of healing for some of what you call time within the middle astral planes of your planet.36

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the son of an illegitimately born customs official named Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Poezl, his doting mother, in Austria. He had six siblings, plus a half-brother and a half-sister from one of his father’s two previous marriages. Only Adolf and one sister, Paula, survived early childhood in his immediate birth family.

The family name of Hitler was chosen by his father, Alois, in 1876. It was the family name of Alois’ stepfather, who had died long before he was conceived. However the recording clerk was not told this. So Alois became Alois Hitler. Adolf Hitler used “Schickelgruber” until he was in his thirties and discovered that it was not handy to have a name that looked somewhat Jewish.

It is hotly disputed to this day whether or not Hitler carried Jewish blood. With two world wars’ destruction between the present day and normally kept civil records, the truth of that will probably never be proven. However Hitler himself was concerned that he might have Jewish blood, and so he turned his father’s birthplace into a target range later in his life. The place was completely obliterated, records, buildings and all, down to the ground.

Hitler had enough artistic talent to go to school in the technically and scientifically oriented Realschule, which had a drawing course. He did not do well in school and quit at the age of 16, but afterwards, living on a small inheritance from his father, who died in 1903, he spent six years in Vienna, working as a sidewalk artist. By 1909 his money had run out and he slept in shelters for the homeless provided by Jewish philanthropists. It was during these years that he developed his unreasoning prejudice against all things Jewish, in spite of his being fed and clothed by them—or perhaps because of it.

He fled Vienna when troops were being called up in 1913 but the draft found him anyway and he served in the trenches for almost four years, until being wounded in 1916 by inhaling poison gas.

Healed from his war injuries, Hitler was recruited by the faltering German government to do intelligence work, infiltrating a right-wing group called The German Worker’s Party. The group was small and disorganized but Hitler liked the tone of its sentiments and proceeded to take it over. He began making impassioned speeches in which he blamed all of Germany’s woes on the Jews and the Communists. In 1920 the group came out with a program for repairing Germany’s fortunes which included revoking civil rights for Jews and expelling Jews from Germany if they had emigrated into Germany after World War I began.

The Versailles Treaty which had ended World War I had left Germany’s economy in a shambles. Germany had agreed to pay reparations for all damages done by them: a humiliating kind of defeat. The German war machine was dismantled. German citizens were confused and unemployed, desperately poor and ready to blame a scapegoat. Hitler’s demagogue-like speeches seemed to cheer them up. What a simple solution! Eliminate the Jews and all Germany’s troubles would disappear.

Hitler, an Austrian, had become a German patriot and army man, although he was not granted German citizenship until 1932. He felt that the civilians who made the Versailles pact had stabbed Germany in the back and given away much more than they should have. So did other German right-wing parties, who vied for prominence. Hitler played politics well, eventually managing to unite the small parties under his leadership. In 1921, he was introduced at a convention as The Fuhrer of the National Socialist Party.

Hitler took a detour from his career by unwisely judging that his small party had enough popular support to get away with a coup of the Weimar Republic in 1923. His proclaimed revolution ended quickly with a death toll of 12. Hitler was imprisoned, receiving a five-year sentence, of which he served less than a year.

Hitler wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf while he was in prison, and its sales of over ten million copies, through the years, resulted in his receiving generous royalties, upon which he never paid taxes. His tax debt of half a million Reichsmarks was waived when he became chancellor of Germany.

I have heard a good many rumors about Hitler’s supposed occult activities. It has been said that he was sophisticated in magical principles. However, while those around Hitler were certainly involved in occult studies, Hitler himself had a fairly simplistic view of what he was doing. He advocated “Positive Christianity,” in which Jesus was reinvented as a fighter against the Jews.

He simply felt that Germany’s blond, blue-eyed “Aryan” stock was the purest and best of all possible pedigrees. He did not want the Aryan blood weakened by its mixing with any other race. This eventually manifested, in the latter days of World War II, in an attempt to create children of the Third Reich by having his Secret Service troops have unprotected sexual relations with as many approved Aryan women as they could manage to accommodate.

Hitler’s appeal seems based on the wounded pride of the German people. They loved to hear him promise them that all would be well as soon as those pesky Jews were removed from society, along with communists and whoever else was on Hitler’s bad books at the moment. The nation was in a huge depression. Inflation was rampant. Hitler and his party managed to come into power, by legitimate means this time, in 1933, amidst the most complex of political maneuverings.

As Hitler took power, the Nazis made use of paramilitary violence, anti-Communist hysteria and sweeping propaganda. Communist groups were arrested, put to flight or murdered. The right of habeas corpus was suspended. Rather quickly, Hitler maneuvered so that all other powerful German players were isolated from their power bases or taken down in purges by murder.

In 1934, Hitler chose, rather than having elections, to pass a law declaring the presidency “dormant.” His law transferred all powers as head of state and commander of the military directly to Hitler. Hitler now had a supreme rulership which legally could not be challenged. The drowsing German populace was mesmerized.

Hitler dealt with the massive unemployment by declaring that good German women must stay home and occupy themselves with “Kuchen, Kirchen und Kinder.” They were to take care of the home and children and do good works at church. This took a lot of people out of the workplace and the men once again began to find jobs. Everyone was poor, but there was stability and a sense of doing the right thing.

Hitler then turned his attention to rebuilding the German military, ignoring the Treaty of Versailles. In 1935 he reinstated the draft. From 1936 to 1939, Hitler’s troops reoccupied the Rhineland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. He made alliances with Italy’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, and Japan’s Saburo Kurusu. He required that Austria be unified with Germany and annexed that territory. He occupied Czechoslovakia and declared Bohemia and Moravia a German Protectorate. Then he invaded Poland.

The United States was insulated from all these happenings by a vast ocean. All those small countries had been claimed by first one conquering army and then another for centuries. Even Britain decided that discretion was the better part of valor and let Hitler have what he wanted, hoping that he would leave them alone.

However, in 1940, Hitler went too far, as far as the British were concerned. His forces rolled through the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium on their way to France. France surrendered, and the British evacuated the defeated forces with a motley armada from Dunkirk. The Battle of Britain began.

Not content with attacking all of Europe, Hitler decided he needed the Soviet Union as well. In 1941 he sent three million German troops to attack Russian soil. When Japan attacked the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941, Hitler then took on America as well. Looking at the rapid-fire acceptance of so many enemies at once, it is easy to see why Hitler’s grand plan fell apart. He did not have the personnel to man his dreams of empire. Several of his own army subordinates attempted to assassinate Hitler because they felt he had gone mad. The attempts failed. Hitler reportedly took his own life when the Americans were entering Berlin at the end of the war.

Following through with his “final solution” to Germany’s problems, Hitler systematically set up camps for killing undesirable people: primarily Jews, but also gypsies, communists, disabled people, Poles, homosexuals, Protestants, Catholics, prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anti-Nazi clergy and many other categories of people. In all, the Hitler regime killed about 11,000,000 people, of whom about 6,000,000 were Jewish. It is estimated that Hitler’s forces eliminated about two thirds of the European people of Jewish heritage.

Unlike Genghis Khan, who did succeed in graduating in the service-to-self polarity, Hitler did not. His negative polarity was greatly weakened by his belief that he was “doing the right thing” for his fatherland. He saw all the mass extermination as the needed means to the end of saving Germany. He saw himself always as Germany’s savior.