Selfishness

The root of all sin. Evils basic ingredient. Selfishness- evils’ conduct can be traced back to this source. You may find this odd for you haven’t thought much of it for you may say it is not murder or any other heinous act, it is only simple selfishness but doesn’t the mighty hurricane begin with a puff of wind. All evil embodiment have this common denominator. You say what of subtle selfishness that harms no one. All feelings have degrees of presence, if you have a short defect that harbors small ill to yourself or to another you not damned, but it is a defect. Look to the universe-it is an expanse of infinity. Our purpose is in it, if you believe in anything believe we are here for purpose, the earth is here and the remaining universe is forever. Our purpose on earth is here on earth, purpose afterward is forever’s plan.

The reason we are here is to negate all defects before going forward in forever. We are family of humanity struggling together, individuals each, independent but consolidating for progresses sake. It is plain we cooperate together. We are not created the same for various reasons we may not understand now. Some more able to accomplish are indebted to humanity for support. The Ten Commandments are God’s Law to man. God telling humanity when it was ready (or ready enough) that He is Creator of the universe, Father of all things. Not to worship anything else nor to use His Name in worthless diatribe. Yes to be selfless in all that one can, to honor father and mother, to love neighbor, respecting his life and all he possess. To be perfect in this way, to go the whole route is the true meaning of progress. When after the trials needed to squelch totally selfishness it would be time for advancing new levels of the conscious.

I can tell you what selfish is not, and that is selfless attitude. Do not confuse personal interest with selfishness. Man has the right to make for himself a comfortable livelihood and retirement for not he would be dependent on others and that would be selfish. You don’t need to give your possessions away to someone who doesn’t need them. To give to a person only to make yourself impressive is not pleasing to God. Only if the gift is from the heart is it genuine and benefit your souls’ progress. Either you’re master over the influence of matter or you are its slave. See this metaphor of selfishness versus personal interest: you eat to gain strength after nourishment is satisfied, everything is good. Selfishness is the same as over feeding, becoming susceptible to sickness.

If you believe to aid a person who is in mortal danger a good thing or believe that a person is in his right not to help a fellow human in such a crisis, that is to say numero uno is priority. If you are putting yourself at risk to save another human being, do you say to yourself how much of numero uno could I risk. I am for the self-first but ponder-should I risk the self for this person I do not know no matter what. You have this choice. So you who believe in the self-first may or may not want to put yourself in harm’s way, but to lose the self as primary goal would allow you to step up and make the decision to go to someone’s aid. If it looked futile and it would be sure that harm would befall you in going to the person’s aid, could this be viewed as a personal interest issue and self-preservation would prevent you from going forth which is understandable. In war is it not the selfless soldier who puts his life at total risk to save the lives of his comrades in battle. If you knew in your heart that there was a God would you not view a life’s situation the same, that the body is unimportant and the soul everything. Selflessness is everything and selfishness is nothing.

According to spiritism the underlying motive of selfishness is the soul’s attachment to matter. Study all of human ills you will find that at the bottom lies selfish motive. To eradicate the ills of society it is pertinent to subdue the selfish condition gripping it, for it makes matter master of weak souls. We are all enchained to matter in this world and to fight our way out of this gross entanglement whether our own suits of matter or the influence of matter around us it is our purpose through many existences to dissolve its clutches. Guilt! You don’t need it if you know the truth, it starts somewhere for me and you, by taking baby steps.