Now let’s see if we can see the world we live in, possibly with a different light on it. Maybe we can change our perception of the world. We said all of our lives, everything we have observed, we judged it as to whether it gave me pleasure, gave me attention, gave me approval, or gave me a sense of importance or on the other side of the coin. So everything we look at we judge it immediately.
Now, if we could see that the world is one great initiation building. You know something about initiations, some of the great teaching centers of the world have used initiations. And Man has considered to have something when he has passed the initiation. Now in the initiation, there is 3 degrees to it. The first degree is you’re welcome. You know, like all of us were born into this world somebody sent like congratulations cards, and all this good stuff. Didn’t you Jean?Or did you not let anyone know where you were. But everyone wants to come see the new baby and all this, you’re really welcomed into the world.
And then for several years, you are taught all the customs, and the ideology of the people.The second degree of the initiation is to be taught all the traditions and the ideas of this particular teaching organization, whatever it may be. Now this is all very nice, you sit it in a nice room that looked like this, it’s air conditioned with soft chairs, much better than we have here, and you’re given all these beautiful things, and you take these vows you know, to always uphold them you know, and never release them to anyone else and so forth and all this good stuff. And then they tell you now we have to change the setting A little bit for the next degree and if all you people will go in this little room while we change the setting.
So you get in the little room and the room has had water poured on the floor, and the heaters been running in there, and it’s pretty steamy, but you’re only gonna be there a minute why they change the setting you know that’s all right. And unknowing to the candidates, about half of the members in there are part of the degree team. You know just about half of them. And they start all sorts of little things going on. You know, maybe you take it as one branch topside, I don’t ever have any.. (inaudible) and so forth you know, and inside somebody starts this noise you know. And pretty soon you’re carried away in the (inaudible) and you’re taking one side or the other, and make an all manner of noise, and somebody commits some kind of vile language, and this has been said out here….or maybe they even find fault with the organization thats putting on this beautiful initiation. And then somebody comes and says we’re sorry there’s a little delay. And this goes on. And then everybody’s getting tired you know you’re standing in there like this, you’re hot you’re uncomfortable, and crowded, and then somebody begins to criticize that. And then one of the officials who is late to arrive and he is dog drunk, and he comes in, (inaudible)… uses foul language and pretty soon you’re involved in every conceivable kind of contention and fight that you could ever see. You know, cause everything everything went haywire at this particular day while you were there. But if you should ever catch on while you were in there, that all of this is a big show for you to respond objectively and see what’s going on instead of judge it with your usual approach of this is pleasurable, this is giving me attention. This is giving me approval, The first few degrees, you got all those you know? So in this one, you would see it then unbeknownst to you, one wall of this thing is glass and it’s a one-way mirror. People sittin’out there can see what’s going on, and they have speakers going out so that they can hear it. And if you should catch on, they obviously see it. And some guy comes and calls you out very roughly, and you probably think you’re going to be strung up by your toes, you know because things are getting rough in this place. There’s even been a murder in there. I saw a guy get a whole shot right through him. I stuck my finger in the hole (that’s while they served me dinner). But, uh nevertheless, you know you took on all manner of violence (inaudible) just a little while before you said that you would always uphold the law of the land that you live in. And here now you’re taking a vow never to let this out because it will reflect on the organization. You know, you cross yourself all over the place. So when all of this terrible things are happening, you get called out, then you’re welcomed with all glory, that you understood and saw this was a big joke going on in there. And now you’re about to get to sit in one of the air-conditioned chairs and watch the rest of them in there. And you know it’s hilarious fun. It’s like waking up from a nightmare.
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