Oddly enough, it works in both directions.  Even though developing spiritual consciousness brings forth Unselfish Love, Unselfish Love also brings forth spiritual consciousness.  In fact, one of the main things that develops spiritual consciousness, is developing your Unselfish Love for others, feeling Unselfish Love, and practicing kindness, caring, giving and harmlessness. So most importantly, the teachings have the potential to stimulate and inspire the reader to do what it takes to actually manifest in their lives, these true spiritual qualities. 

         If such a spiritual change takes place within you, then all the people you come into contact with as you walk through your life, will be better off from having known you, and then they too will have the opportunity to change, and spread the beauty of Unselfish Love to others still - and on and on.  Like multiple ripples in a pond that go on and on from throwing just one rock, your Unselfish Love can make you a part of, and a vehicle for, the Universal Spirit, as it moves through you, us, and thus throughout the world.

SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE VS. GOODNESS

         I’d attained a good deal of spiritual knowledge from all the reading I did as a teenager.  But I was finding out that most of it was more of an impediment to my growth than an aid.  An early course by the elder monk Enoch burst the bubble of my intellectual wisdom. Just as I was thinking to myself about how much I already knew, and how I could really probably skip many of these courses, Enoch started his lecture like this:

         “Many people place too much importance on spiritual knowledge itself, and don’t concentrate first on the basics of simple goodness, such as the virtues of Unselfish Love.  Knowledge is meaningless without this.  Using imagination and visualization, we can make a ‘mental illustration’ that clearly demonstrates this.

         There is an ancient technique that can help you perceive, understand, and contemplate the value and impact of a person’s character.  We’ll use this technique to compare the value of knowledge, as opposed to goodness.  Here’s how it works: Think about a person’s qualities and traits, and then imagine what the world would be like if it were entirely populated by, and run by, billions of identical duplicates of that one person.  Keep in mind that if the entire world is populated by ‘so and so’s’ duplicates, some of them will also be in powerful political positions.  There is an old saying, ‘Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’.  Having power tends to nurture the darkness within people.  Even a little separateness and selfishness is like a dormant cancer that can grow unchecked when fed by power.  Some people behave well when they’re ‘held in check’ by lack of wealth, lack of a position of power, and constrained by society’s moral standards and laws.  So when you imagine a world full of ‘so and so’s’, you need to consider what they might become if they were also in all the various positions of power - police, judges, head officers of giant corporations, presidents, kings and queens?  You get the idea.  The overall feeling and image you get of an imaginary world populated by any given individual, will give you invaluable insight about them.

         So for our knowledge vs. goodness contemplation, let’s think about what it would be like in two different imaginary worlds.  In this case, we don’t actually know the people involved, but we can still use the technique to help us understand the comparison.  Let’s say the first world is entirely populated by duplicates of the one person with the most, and greatest spiritual knowledge on Earth.  Keep in mind that this person, is still basically selfish (as most people are).  Thus they may be nice and friendly when things are ‘going their way’, and when nothing is required or asked of them.  But these ‘clones’ aren’t Unselfishly Loving, and have spent their time and energy more on acquiring spiritual knowledge, instead of focusing on developing, and practicing, kindness and harmlessness above all else.  Thus their world is full of people that aren’t particularly kind, are definitely not harmless, happy, etc., and likewise, the population is definitely not self-sacrificing when another person is in need.  Yet they are all ‘egoed out’, each person thinking they are very wise and ‘know it all’.  So world #1 is still full of inequities and injustices of all kinds, still has children starving to death needlessly, still has torture, wars, and all the other evils, problems and destruction, that go along with a ‘look out for #1’, ‘dog-eat-dog’ world.  I know those of you here don’t want to live in that world, and many other people don’t either (yet isn’t it virtually the same as the outside world is that we have now).  So how useful is great spiritual knowledge alone?

         For our second imaginary world, let’s think about what the world would be like if it were entirely populated by duplicates of one REALLY ‘good’ person.  Someone with little knowledge, but with a ‘good heart’.  Someone who is compassionate, kind and harmless, and really cares about others.  And they also have an attitude of ‘live and let live’, regardless of what others believe, think, and do (as long as they don’t hurt someone else).  That’s not too  much to ask is it?  Now, wouldn’t this world be an incredibly better world than the one that people live in now?   It would obviously be a beautiful, happy place - no starvation, no hurt, no war, no economic or physical enslavement, and no infringement on freedom. 

         So even in regard to the practical aspects of day to day life (and the condition of the world in general), isn’t it obvious that the virtues of kindness and giving, are far better (and truly ‘spiritual’) than any spiritual knowledge?  And just imagine an entire world populated by Unselfishly Loving ‘enlightened’ beings - it would be paradise, Heaven on Earth.

SPIRITUALITY REQUIRES MORE THAN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE

         All people have some knowledge about ‘God’, and goodness.  Everyone was raised with the beliefs and examples of whomever raised them, and even if they were abused, and raised by satanists, or atheists, they still learned about the concepts of God and goodness.  But as they grow up, many people gain further knowledge of these things.  Some read books about it.  Some join religions and learn their spiritual and moral teachings.  But the  problem is, there are a lot of people out there who have a great deal of spiritual knowledge,  yet they just aren’t ‘spiritual’.  They don’t think or behave as a ‘spiritually conscious’ being would.”

         “Why, Enoch?  How can someone learn all these things, and not really change?”

         “Let’s use an analogy in which ‘water’ represents Universal Consciousness, Unselfish Love, and true spirituality.  Just like the old saying that you can lead a camel to water, but you can’t make him drink, you can lead a ‘spiritually dry’ person to the spiritual ‘water’, give it to them, point it out and say,  ‘Water’, but you can’t make them drink.  Many ‘spiritually knowledgeable’ people already have knowledge about this ‘Water’, and they know where it is inside them.  So when you point it out to them, they will usually say ‘I know’ (as if they really have it within them).  Sure, they ‘know’.  That’s the problem.  They only ‘know’.  They can hear you tell them about the water, and show it to them -  and they recognize the water.  They may even be able to tell other people about the water.  They may even ‘preach’ about it.  All because they have the knowledge of it.  But what have they done with the knowledge of water themselves?  They’ve developed a ‘spiritual ego’.  They impress themselves and others with their knowledge.  But they are still spiritually dry.  Just having the knowledge of the water is not sufficient.  They must ‘drink’ it in somehow, become one with it, and simultaneously share it by giving it all away for others.  Just sharing the knowledge of water to those in the middle of the Sahara who need a drink, does no one any good unless you actually have the water to share also.”

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