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What Is the Brotherhoods’ Way of
Helping People?
Q: We’re all
wanting to bring some kind of balance into our lives, hopefully to get
toward Initiation, but some people may have a very one-sided view of life.
How do the Brotherhoods approach someone to balance
him out?
A:
When you study under one of the schools originally founded by a Brotherhood, you keep moving closer toward the center of
the extremes. It sometimes takes many years to actually get
to that point, but that is what they are up to. To get your attention in the
first place, to get you to do anything, They must first offer something that
interests you and is more in line with your usual way of doing things. If you
are an exceedingly practical type of person, a hard-headed businessman who’s
into construction or something like that, and somebody comes to you with an
approach to wisdom couched in flowery terms and lovely spiritual thoughts,
you will probably say that these people are too far out, that that is no way
to make a dollar. But where somebody promises you
that they can show you how to make more money, increase your efficiency, and
so forth, then as time goes by you can find out that certain cosmic
principles work. They start putting other things in your path-things that you
don’t have much experience with, and that begin to
sound quite idealistic, but useful and valuable to you. Bit by bit, They
begin to lead you toward the centerline of balance. It seems indirect, but it
works. That’s the way with all instruction. It’s a modern way of doing things. You get children into a
school and you start giving them story-books and get
them to learn something without their realizing it. (01-1986)
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