The Impersonal Life

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====== The Inner Life ======
== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JUNE 1934 ==
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not exchanging service, they are exchanging material warmth. When two monkeys pick off each other’s fleas, they are not exchanging service, they are exchanging palatable fleas.

But when two business men are exchanging service because of the money each hopes to gain by the transaction, they are human to the extent that they are able to recognize an impersonal medium such as money. The actual transaction is no more than an exchange of fleas, nor can the Rotary and other Business Clubs gloss over the fact. Only the intelligence exhibited is human.

If a man graduates out of the animal and human methods of exchange and enters the Kingdom where economic systems no longer cause grief, it will be because he renders service not in exchange for service or fleas, but because he recognizes that his service is demanded by a Cosmic Scheme, and his service constitutes his relation and his obligation to a Cosmic Whole. And until money is seen as the symbol of this impersonal, universal service to a Whole, it will remain as mischievous and destructive as were the well-meaning entities that have delivered me for many months.

When man has accomplished this, he will no longer be human. He will be in the consciousness of a God, and will wield the attributes of a God; and the Kingdom of economic freedom will descend from heaven to earth.
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==== WHEN LOOSED FROM SELF ====
FOR MORE than once when I
\\ Sat all alone revolving in myself
\\ The word that is the symbol of myself,
\\ The mortal limit of the self was loosed,
\\ And passed into the Nameless, as a cloud
\\ Melts into Heaven; I touched my limbs—the limbs
\\ Were strange, not mine—and yet no shade of doubt
\\ But utter clearness, and through loss of self
\\ The gain of such large life as match with ours,
\\ Were Sun to spark—unshadowable in words,
\\ Themselves but shadows of a shadow world.
\\ —From Tennyson.


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