Be thou awake to thine sheep which have gone astray and are on their own seeking to reunite with thine flock of consciousness.
And to transform thine sheep, so shall you elevate thine inner meanings .. ennobling all personal values which produce the purer motivations of character righteousness and the sublimity of moral choice allowing loyalties to growth actualization to strengthen thee.
And as you endeavor to raise upward thine personal sheep of authorship, so shall you learn to care for all My sheep according to the values you place upon them.
You can realize your own values in thine own selfhood by discovering your personal meanings and your individual motives of all choices.
You can best discover values in your associates by discovering their motivation. If someone irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct. If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.
This is to grow in the understanding of self, and to mature within the tapestry of your consciousness.
In the mind’s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times—a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them. And if you would only perceive their meanings, values, and vision in you, so shall you findeth love for every creature.
You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor’s motives and sentiments .. and of your own motives and sentiments, as well.
Michael Of Nebadon
Uversa Revelatory Commission
