Introduction
We may spend much time and effort working on ourselves so
that we don’t feel the harshness or pain of having to make a sacrifice, or
simply we may just not want to make a sacrifice, that is give something up that
proves very painful and difficult to do.
Moment of Comprehension
After much struggle and comprehension the moment arrives that
you realise that really to progress something must be given up or sacrificed.
In other words something inferior must be given up to make way for something
superior.
Suspension and Depression
It always happens that the longer we delay making this
sacrifice the more in suspension we hold ourselves, and to be held in
suspension for too long is very dangerous, especially on our morale. Depression
easily follows the state of being held in the state of non-progress.
Not Accepting Sacrifice
Our whole problem before this moment was that we fought and
fought against this idea that we had to give this thing up, we fought and
rebelled and rejected the idea that a sacrifice had to be made and we even felt
it far too difficult to make that sacrifice. We all the time thought that we
could have this thing and still make progress or that having it wouldn’t matter
or that it really does not need to be sacrificed because it is just too
pleasurable and furthermore that it can not be sacrificed even.
When we think that things do not have to be sacrificed we are
wrong, because sacrifice is going on all around us all the time. Just like
Master Samael says petrol is sacrificed in the engine of a car to make it move
and coal is sacrificed in the engine of locomotive to make the train move.
Oxygen is sacrificed to allow us to breathe, animals and plants are all
sacrificed for us to eat and continue living.
This is sacrifice in action
because the human being is a very important organ of the Earth and so nature
makes a sacrifice whereby an inferior creature is sacrificed to allow a
superior creature to continue existing so as to continue the life of the
planet.
Pain of Sacrifice
We may have the idea that pain is not part of the work on
ourselves and generally it is not and working on ourselves makes us happier and
heals much of the psychological pain that we feel. However, just sometimes we
can not avoid making sacrifices that cost us some difficulty or pain.
The real
message of this post is that really at times we have to make some sacrifices
that hurt but are for the better, they lead us to the superior. So pain of
sacrifice is sometimes unavoidable but suffering is up to us.
True Sacrifices
True sacrifices are held true because behind them is a solid
logical and noble reason. There are of course useless sacrifices where
something was sacrificed to only lead nowhere. When we sacrifice something it
is always to attain something superior. This superior thing of course has to be
wanted by the person and has to be understood by the person making the
sacrifice that it is much better for them and others.
Conclusion
So in conclusion the point that wanted to make with this post
is that just sometimes we have to sacrifice things in order to be truly able to
dissolve the ego. We need to give up things and we need to bear the pain and
difficulty of it. The difficulty or pain of it can be made very bearable by
fully understanding that we are sacrificing something to gain something
superior and that something superior will elevate us to much happier, peaceful
and enlightened state or level of Being.
“Master Samael says it so wisely in that for something to be
born, something has first to die”, and sometimes that which has to die has to
be sacrificed. This can not be avoided.
End (274).
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