With Sacrifice and Without Sacrifice - (836)

Attitude Towards Sacrifice

Being very honest we don’t like sacrifice most of the time. Mostly because it can hurt or produce some discomfort, especially at the beginning.

We can even silently within ourselves protest as to why sacrifices are needed. We may not even be able to find something that we can start to sacrifice, we may think that sacrifice is all about the big things, like moving to a foreign country, and teach Gnosis to foreign people in a foreign language or adopting a very rigorous and demanding regimen of practices etc. We then think sacrifice is not for us.

We may tend to avoid sacrifice and we may stay just as we are for a long time not making any sacrifices. It evens feels good to just dream about one day making a sacrifice or to make plans about making sacrifices in the future. This may seem like bliss or pleasure to us and it may feel very comfortable and we may feel happy and content on some level. Though…it has a price and sometimes this prices is sadness and disappointment.

What it is like without Sacrifice?

After a while without making any sacrifices our inner life becomes sad, because we end up stagnating. We feel incapable of sacrifice, we can feel far from the masters and the missionaries who are making sacrifices, we can feel as if we are not doing anything. Though the major benefit that can come to us being in such a state is the understanding that sacrifice is like a spark that ignites something new in us, in other words it is something that propels us to new stages.

The protest of why sacrifice necessary changes as we understand that that is what we need to move to a new or higher level. It is the necessary spark to jump us to the next octave.

Sacrifice is like an Igniting Spark

Sacrifice is like a spark that sets something into motion and also maintains what has been set into motion. It keeps the momentum of the new movement and gives life to the new.

It is what brings the death of the old and the birth of the new. It is what transforms as sacrifice is transmutation, it is about losing something inferior to gain something else superior. It is not about giving up something or releasing something to get nothing. This is what we always forget when we feel the pinch of sacrifice.

Conclusion

It seems like every birth begins with sacrifice. The Gnostic movement for example was born and maintained with tremendous sacrifices. Well in short it is a law, so that for something new to appear in us or in life the law of sacrifice must enter into operation.

If we want to go ahead we have to find what is stopping us and work on the sacrifice of it, which is the transmutation of it. If not we end up staying as we are and that can become a burden that is very tiresome, disappointing, saddening, self-deceiving and stagnating.

Everyone can sacrifice something. In general sacrifice starts here and now where we see something stopping us, it can be something physical or psychological. We all have the sacrifice in front of us and it is something that we work on and do gradually or do in an instant’s decision.

The most supreme sacrifice is one’s life. This sacrifice can be made in many different ways you know, not just in giving the life in our body so that the life of another will be spared.

Is sacrifice really that hard? So many others have made the sacrifices that we need to make in our life and within ourselves. All those before us have survived and have been happy, the same will be for us.

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